radio question of the day: 07/31/06

Have you ever been involved in a natural disaster? ex: hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, floods, etc............

When I was a baby I was in a hurricane and there have been tornadoes around here when I have lived here but thankfully none have hit me. Plus we get the outer bands of hurricanes sometimes.

2 Hurricanes ...
the most older was 10 years ago and was Awful! ...really awful...

Actually, no, I haven't!

(knock on wood!)

Not yet

Last Sept the weather service called it a wind shear as no tornado was spoted. I had posted some of the pictures back then. We lost only 5 trees on our 5 acres. My one neighbor lost 34-one which pulled the electric line down and another pulled the electric meter off her house. She was trapped but ok due to darkness and the power line. I was at home it got so windy/dark that I could not see 20 ft outside my easy windows. DH was driving home-calf pens were blowing across the road but he was close and didn't want to be be in vehicle. He stopped in driveway, leaving vehicle outsie and ran into his workshop which has the first floor walls over one ft thick. It was over in a matter of 15-20 minutes. No power of course but no damage to house either. We were worried about the big dead tree in front yard but were told later that because it was dead is why it was ok.
One time several yrs ago we had a terrible snowstorm. Most people bolted from work when the ok to leave was given-us women stuck around to push each other out of the parking lot. I carpolled with 4 other women at the time-the driver that week had the Bronco but as they had closed the hwy due to conditions we went through town and made it to the drivers house. We stayed there for about an hour or so then her hubby came home and drove 3 of us to another house where my car was. I made it about 200 ft before I got stuck. We got the car out and my coworkers hubby broke a track for me to follow. I couldn't get in driveway due to it being all plowed in so I think a shoveled for quite a while to get in the driveway. DH was stuck at friends house in Green Bay and didn't make it home until about 8 hrs later!!

We have had several good size earthquakes here 5+ on the Reichter scale-cracked some walls moves pics. -many people don't realize northern NY sits on a major fault-last one was 2 yrs. ago-have small ones frequently. Also I 've been thru the major ice storm here & we had a straight-line wind storm that knocked trees down all over/power was out for a week-I've been thru several hurricanes,too.

I've slept through a tropical depression as well as the first bombing of the World Trade center.

I can sleep through anything.

Not really, there's been tiny earthquakes recorded around here, but none of disaster porportions, and there's been tornadoes in the vicinity, but not directly overhead And I don't live in the areas hit by the floods lately....

Yes, a lot of hurricanes! The worst one was in 1992 when Hurricane Andrew a Category 5 hit South Florida. South Miami got a direct hit, I know they got their power restored on Halloween night. The Hurricane hit on August 24th so they went a long time without power. (I lived in North Miami so I only went 3 weeks without power)

The last couple of years we had a few hurricane hit us, but last year we had 2 direct hits. The first one was Hurricane Katrina, and at the time she was just a Category 1. I was without power for 5 long days in 90+ degree weather. I was lucky to sleep 2 hours a day. The second one was Hurricane Wilma a category 3, she did most of her damage in North Miami and Ft. Lauderdale. (I live in North Miami) I was without power for 2 LONG weeks and without a generator.

Here's a couple of pics of Hurricane Wilma. This was how it looked in front of my house. The big tree from my neighbor came down and you can see the pole leaning. The pole next to it broke in half, and the power lines were down.


This is how my neighborhood looked after the hurricane.

Nothing major - *knock on wood* (Ouch, my head!)

Been through small earthquakes and tornadoes have been around us (most notably the November 6 one about a mile to the southeast)...

We've had the outter bands of a hurricane hit our area twice. Other than that, not really. We had a horrible storm hit where I lived in NY once. I don't remember if we actually got a tornado, but a lot of tornado like damage done. I thought the hail it dropped was so cool.

been through one bush fire when we first moved to this area a few years a go. Almost another one this past summer. Summer is a nervous time for us where I live.

no, fortunately.

I grew up in Nantou, Taiwan which was the center for both typhoons and earthquakes in the east Pacific.

I remember there was a year there was a typhoon after an earthquake which resulted in landslides and thousands of deaths. People blamed the president of Taiwan saying that his works had defiled the heavens and angered the gods.

I am so grad I live in College Station right now. Nothing ever happens in College Station.

We had an ice storm a few years ago. There was so much icing rain that trees lost a lot of branches (we had to cut down a few of our trees afterwards) and power lines fell, which means that we were without power for two weeks - in the middle of winter!

I was in Hurricane Andrew. We lived in Florida City at the time and we rode it out in our house. I'll never forget that. Horrible.

Tornado for me!

Yes, I have seen quite of a few tornado's when I grew up in texas. We had a tornado come really close to our house...it was visible from the house and caused a tree to come through our living room.

I've been through minor tornadoes that never got really close and floods that only made it so that we couldn't get to town growing up. The only biggie was the unexpected blizzard that we had in 1993. I'm sure a lot of southern state people remember that one. If you didn't have enough food on hand or had electric heating in my neck of the woods you were up the creek without a paddle. (Can you tell I'm southern? )

Anyway, we were fine though because we had a wood heater and plenty of food. We did house a lot of family for about a week though that weren't so well equipped. I remember my brother drove our tractor several miles to go get my sister, her husband and their cat because it was the only vehicle that we had that would grip the road with all the ice. Memories...