Too many hurricanes to remember. The worst was hurricane Hazel in 1954, with major damage throughout Eastern North Carolina. More recently, we experienced Fran and Floyd. Fran was mostly damage from downed trees, due to saturated earth because of heavy rainfall in the weeks preceding the hurricane. Floyd produced major flooding all over eastern North Carolina. A neighboring town had just raised their reservoir dam by eleven feet, which would increase the lake surface area from around 700 acres to around 2,200 acres. They closed the gate on the dam a couple of days before hurricane Floyd, and the water from rainfall overfilled the lake and ran over the dam in one night. Wherever you went, fields were filled with water to the point that it appeared there were lakes everywhere. Whole housing developments were destroyed from flooding. I was lucky to be living at the top of a small hill, which allowed me to escape any damage.
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anyone been involved in a natural disaster?
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Memphis gets a lot of tornadoes. One went right over my house and tore up the subdivision right next to ours. It killed a family and tore off the roof of our local high school.
A handful of tornadoes destroyed a good chunk of my small town back in the 90s. Did a decent amount of damage to my parent's house (I was a child at the time) and the power was out for the better part of a week.
I've seen a few tornadoes around the area over the years and hid out in the basement through a couple dozen warnings, but that was the big shebang that really hit. It didn't feel too disastrous at the time.
I've seen a few tornadoes around the area over the years and hid out in the basement through a couple dozen warnings, but that was the big shebang that really hit. It didn't feel too disastrous at the time.
a tornado that hit Houston, TX in 1992 wrecked my house pretty bad...I was about 4 at the time and remember being on the highway and just watching it go by and destroy my house and being deathly afraid that it would come towards our car and we'd have no possible way to get out alive. We, of course, made it out fine...but it's an awful young age to stare death in the face.
In my late teens I experienced a tornado firsthand come through the industrial park where I was working. It roared through not 100 yards from the building I was in. Blew out several roll up doors in my building, and took out the roof of the next door building along with several trees. That was not a fun experience.
And since I grew up in eastern Virginia I've been through plenty of hurricanes large and small through the years.
And of course we had the 5.8 mag earthquake last August, the epicenter not 30 miles from my house.
And since I grew up in eastern Virginia I've been through plenty of hurricanes large and small through the years.
And of course we had the 5.8 mag earthquake last August, the epicenter not 30 miles from my house.
Too many tornadoes to count, including the bad one here in 1998 that actually traveled up the road we lived on. Couple weeks ago, I was caught out in the hailstorm part of a storm that produced tornadoes within miles of where I was (driving home from the doctor).
We've only had one tremor here so I can't claim earthquakes.
We had a really nasty flood a few years back now. That one completely ruined finals week. Several cars were flooded on campus, stuff got washed away be the river, we lost our Taco Bell because it became part of Atlantis, etc.
Ice storms can be bad once in a while, nothing too crazy.
Hurricanes can give us a bit of grief too depending on where you live. My grandparents live at the beach in NC and I've been at their house during 2 hurricanes. If you think tornadoes are no fun, try living in a boarded up house with no power for a few days.
We've only had one tremor here so I can't claim earthquakes.
We had a really nasty flood a few years back now. That one completely ruined finals week. Several cars were flooded on campus, stuff got washed away be the river, we lost our Taco Bell because it became part of Atlantis, etc.
Ice storms can be bad once in a while, nothing too crazy.
Hurricanes can give us a bit of grief too depending on where you live. My grandparents live at the beach in NC and I've been at their house during 2 hurricanes. If you think tornadoes are no fun, try living in a boarded up house with no power for a few days.
Two avalanches, if that counts. Surprisingly, the small one we mostly took as a joke that could easily be ridden out, landed us about 10 feet away from a 100 feet drop to some pretty nasty rocks.
