Have you experienced a natural disaster like an earthquake, hurricane or flood?

@Tanya8 (1733)
Canada
October 17, 2006 4:07pm CST
I've only experienced minor earthquakes. Has anyone gone through a very scary experience?
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@magnel (2263)
• India
21 Oct 06
Oh yes... last year our town experienced a very bad flood... once in many many years... its become a day that we can never forget in our life...
@magnel (2263)
• India
21 Oct 06
During this flood the water level went upto more than 12 feets... the buses were fully drowned...
@deepukj (160)
• India
26 Nov 06
i too have experienced minor earthqakes...when i was in 7th class it happened and i paniced...
@scottology (1208)
20 Nov 06
once upon a time, it snowed and the ground was covered in snow and this was very scary for the people
• United States
20 Nov 06
No, thank God. I think I'd be so terrified if I ever had to go through something like that. When I was in the 6th grade, I almost experienced a tornado. It was in the next city over, but it was enough to scare me for life almost.
@Phlamingho (7824)
• Denmark
20 Nov 06
Yes a minor earthquakes in Malaysia. Didn't know it was an earthquakes until I saw it in the news the next day though :-D
• United States
20 Nov 06
I've been through several minor floods, but big enough to clear out our whole basement.
@manzician (4727)
• India
14 Nov 06
Yes
@ksharma (838)
• India
20 Nov 06
i was Tsunami victim
@Signal20 (2281)
• United States
14 Nov 06
Couple of hurricanes & tropical storms in Florida the last few years. Minor earthquake in Illinois years and years ago, couple tornado warnings-but luckily they were always the next town over, but close enough to scare the crap out of ya lol.
• India
20 Nov 06
Yes!. as I was at Andoman and Nikobar on duty while I was in Army when SUNAMI take place. It's very hard to erase memory of those days from mind and hear.
@sjaber1 (184)
• United States
14 Nov 06
Nope can't say that I have though I have been in some crazy tropical wind situations. Flattened my gazebo.
@cujobyte (47)
• United States
14 Nov 06
In the winter of 1998 there were huge ice storms that paralyzed the north eastern US and Canada. I was living in Maine at the time. We lost the power, phones. We had a wood stove in the basement so we had to drag our mattress down cellar and sleep down there. We had no power for 13 days. That's the craziest disaster type experience I've had. But I can't complain. It was nothing compared to the bad hurricanes that smash through the south eastern US or the natural disasters that have occured around the world. We count ourselves lucky that we just had to get buried in ice for a couple weeks.
• United States
17 Nov 06
Like an idiot, I didn't evacuate before Hurricane Rita hit S.E. Texas last year. It came through overnight where I live. My husband slept right through it. Even my dog, who is normally terrified in thunderstorms, slept through it. But there I was huddled in a corner, being terrified with all the wind and possible tornadoes outside howling around. Maybe it was scarier for me because it was night. But I don't think I will ever stay through another hurricane again if I can help it.
• United States
17 Nov 06
Like an idiot, I didn't evacuate before Hurricane Rita hit S.E. Texas last year. It came through overnight where I live. My husband slept right through it. Even my dog, who is normally terrified in thunderstorms, slept through it. But there I was huddled in a corner, being terrified with all the wind and possible tornadoes outside howling around. Maybe it was scarier for me because it was night. But I don't think I will ever stay through another hurricane again if I can help it.
@plasma (673)
• India
11 Nov 06
We both are lucky then that nature didn't show up it scary face to us. :)
@the_vicar (1477)
• United States
11 Nov 06
I have been through hurricanes and tornadoes but never an earthquake. I had relatives in the Alaskan Earthquake many years ago and they had terrible stories about it. So, I would say earthquake is worse. We had hardships after the hurricane...no water or electricity, but the ground opens up in an earthquake.
@ksharma (838)
• India
14 Nov 06
yes,i'm a tsunami victim...it was terrible
• United States
11 Nov 06
I have only heard of tornados coming close but, not actually experience and natural wonders, thank God.
@rracers89 (3246)
• United States
11 Nov 06
flooding rain - flood waters
We have had a lot of flooding rain and I live along the delaware rive in PA. I live up high on a hill so I didnt get flooded out but our whole town has been 3 time in 5 years.
@joelabew (181)
• Ghana
11 Nov 06
yes i have