Have you ever been through a natural disaster?

I have never been through one, but i have seen a tornado off in the distance. They look scary...

I have been in a few hurricanes. We had Charlie, Jeanne, and Francis all in a 2 mth period. A lot of houses are still tarped because roofing companies couldn't get supplies and time to do the work.

I've been through a handful of hurricanes. I've also been through some pretty good blizzards. But never lost power during the blizzards. What did you do to pass the time? How did you stay warm?

Yeah, howabout hurricane Katrina? It was terrible. I lost everything. My house, cars, clothes, you name it. My house had water up to the roof. I didn't stay through it but I had friends who stayed in my house during the storm and they had to climb in my attic and bust a hole through the roof so they could be rescued. My dad stayed in his house as well and he had to do the same thing,bust a hole through his roof. He tried to save his dog but couldn't.It's terrible. If there's anything you wanna know, just ask me or otherwise I could go on and on and on about that hurricane.

I have been through two hurricanes. The first one was Frederick, and then last year, we were hit very hard from Hurricane Katrina. I have also been through a very bad snow blizzard many years ago. It was pretty bad too. I guess after awhile though, you just kind of get used to these things happening and try to prepare the best way you can.

I lived threw Hurricane Charley on Friday August 13th 2004. He came right threw where I live at 175mph + winds It was one of the most horrifying things I have every been through in my life. We had no power anywhere for 14 days. It was interesting to say the least.

When I was a little girl living in California, we had a minor earthquake. I have been living in Florida for the past 4 years and went through all the hurricanes that happened.

yes,when my hot got burnt in 1993 it was terrible

I live about a quarter of a mile from the beach. I've been through around 10 hurricanes,. They are horrible. I think it's because you feel so helpless. You can't do anything but sit and wait for whatever is going to happen to happen. The biggest hurricane I went through was Hugo and we didn't have electricity for 5 days. Now, that was bad!

Yes! I grew up in Oklahoma and tornadoes were common. Very unpredictable and I have seen them take out a town in the wink of an eye. I lived in Alaska and earthquakes were the happening there. I grew accustom to those and was prepared for the emergencies that might happen. I had to drive through blizzard conditions from Indian AK to Anchorage, AK. It was a two lane road and there was the ocean on one side and the equivelant of a lake on the other. I prayed all the way and tailgated the lights in front of me. If they dissapeared then it meant to stop where I was and then go in the other direction. Scariest thing I ever went through. I now live in Oregon and I will not live in Alaska in the winter again. Now that I think back, I have experienced some wild things in my life! Great discussion!

Yeah.. i have seen tsunami that is the wores thing i ever experienced,it took so many lives from our area

I have expeience every type of major weather storm except huricanes. In Edmonton, Alberta on July 31, 1987, I left 2 hour before the largest tornado to hit Edmonton in Alberta History. However living in a Tornado zone I have been trap many times by tornados and large hail.

I have been through several tornadoes, a lot of severe flooding, and a blizzard that closed the entire town for almost a week. I have felt an earthquake but it was several hundred miles away so it didn't do any damage where I lived.

I have experienced....earthquakes. But wasn't enough to do any damage. Just enough for rocking chairs to move. I have also expierenced tornados (not fun,not even with a 5 mintue warning), blizzards, a couple floods and my lastest as of last year...Hurricanes.

I have been through two hurricanes. The first one was Frederick, and then last year, we were hit very hard from Hurricane Katrina. I have also been through a very bad snow blizzard many years ago. It was pretty bad too. I guess after awhile though, you just kind of get used to these things happening and try to prepare the best way you can.

this is an excellent question. you definately get a + from me =) this summer our town had a HUGE flood. the park down the street was under water . it didnt come far enough to our house, but the houses down the block had there whole basements flooded. and our city was practically floating, it was nuts, but we got some really good pictures of it from the one bridge that overlooks the city. oh and when i was little there was a huge blizzard, 5 feet of snow, when i went outside it was up to my nose.. lol

I too, grew up in So. Cal, so earthquakes were more of a pleasant diversion from schoolwork than a natural disaster. However, there was a *huge* snowstorm in Washington when I was in college. I was trying to fly out of the SeaTac airport and almost every single airline was grounded. I was in that airport for 12 hours, standing in long lines for most of that time. Uggghh.

i must say that i am lucky we don't encounter natural disaster in singapore, so i haven't been through any.

I lived in Florida with it was hit with 4 hurricanes in one year. Talk about being wow'ed!!!

i've been through something similar to what you got through. it was the ice storm of '98 (in quebec canada). everything froze over, businesses were closed for weeks, some communities lost their electricity for 3 months, because the storm actually wrecked the power 'gris' which was too old to withstand this kind of ice storm. my family was lucky enough to only be out of electicity for a week, but it was NOT easy! almost every night we drove (slowly) to a local bookstore that extended their opening hours on a generator to give people like us somewhere warm to go, get a coffee or a snack, and perhaps read a book in a well-lit room, rather than by candle-light, shivering lol other than these trips, roads were too dangerous to drive farther, and anyway, nothing was open! gas stations were even closed, so we had to conserve what little gasoline was left in the car's tank before the storm hit ;) anyway, we made the best of it, by listening to a scratchy old transistor radio, reading whatever books we'd bought at the shop on our nightly treks (during the daylight hours), and basically loafing around the house, bored, wearing full winter coats, layers of sweaters, double socks, you name it :) we even celebrated my birthday with a candle stuck in a cupcake my mom had found left over in her deep freezer! :)