Which natural disasters have you experienced?

[retromike22]

Earthquakes:
I remember the Northridge Earthquake of 1994 quite well, as I was on the top of a bunk bed. The Chino Hills Earthquake of 2008 was quite a roller since I was very close to the epicenter. Multiple minor ones, probably 8 or 10 that I can distinctly remember. I think the most damage my home has experienced is picture frames on walls and things on bookshelves falling.

Wildfires:
Several, including one in 2007 where the ash covered enough sunlight that everything had a reddish tone and it felt like we were living on Mars. It also rained down ash which was pretty surreal.

[TDAS04]

Blizzard and flood.

[Lief 🗽]

I've definitely encountered blizzards. I suppose I've technically encountered hurricanes, living in NYC during Sandy, but nothing really happened beyond loud winds and a lot of rain up where I live. We would pretty often get thunderstorms and tornado warnings when I was growing up, but I've never actually seen a tornado.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Had one tornado less than a half mile from my house in 2001. Likely had at least one other a little later but it was on the other side of town. Obviously remained inside on both occasions.

Blizzards beyond blizzards.

Sandy and Irene especially Irene affected my area.

That baby earthquake in 2011 that caused no damage but everyone felt it. (5.8 but centered down in Virginia)

I guess you can decide what accounts. Definitely the middle two

[SWE]

Blizzard

[Mr. Smith]

Earthquakes are a part of life in California, a good sized one hit the Bay Area last Summer.

Lived through Sandy, though like Smilo it really wasn't much in my area.

And I drove through a wildfire that engulfed the Sierra foothills just east of Sacramento...some jacka*& committed arson on that one.

[ElectionsGuy]

Flood, Blizzard, and Tornado.

[ilikeverin]

Blizzards aplenty, tropical cyclones (Sandy, and I managed to be visiting my brother in DC during Irene), and tornadoes

[Sopranos Republican]

Plenty of blizzards (Vermont.txt), and hurricane irene hit pretty hard in August 2011, left a bunch of towns underwater. Also a tornado warning sometime in the summer of 07.

[free my dawg]

One time, while I was on the phone with someone from Peterborough (which is about 70 miles/an hour and a half away), we both felt an earthquake. Turns out it was all the way in Maine (magnitude 4 if you're wondering).

A bunch of blizzards and ice storms, though Irene wasn't pleasant. One of 17 houses that still had power in town.

[Türkisblau]

Earthquake: The great VA Quake! I think my chair wobbled a little bit.

Flood: Lived waterfront during some frightening water levels rises during some nasty storms that came around here. When I camped up in the Jemez Mountains we had an insane flurry of rain that came through and drenched us, miserable night.

Tornado: My area in New Mexico had a  small tornado that ripped some stuff in the yard up while I was outside. Pretty frightening.

Wildfire: I don't think I can list how many we had in NM...

I'm just happy that none of these were really all that severe (except probably the wildfires)

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Blizzards and hurricanes.  Hurricane parties are friggin awesome.  I'm always very excited for a hurricane. 

[moderatevoter]

Earthquake, Flood, Blizzard, Hurricane, and Tornado.

[Hatman 🍁]

The worst natural disaster I've experienced was the 1998 Ice storm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Ice_Storm_of_1998

As cold as it gets here, we're not really prone to natural disasters. Sure we get blizzards, but we're not close enough to a large body of water to get enough snow to be considered a natural disaster.

I've been through earthquakes too, but they're usually minor. The most recent one I can remember was this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Central_Canada_earthquake

There was also a tornado on the Quebec side back in 1994 that was memorable.

[MaxQue]

Not much, but I have memories of people here doing collections to send to Montreal area during the 1998 ice storm.

Like Earl said, yes blizzards, but not dangerous enough to call disaster.
I have got the random, harmless earthquake.

The most memorable thing here was a hail storm in 2013, which dagamed houses and cars in a few streets around me.

[retromike22]

Wow there's actually a tornado warning in Oklahoma right now.

[Sumner 1868]

The 2001 Seattle earthquake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Nisqually_earthquake

[kcguy]

Minor things.  Nothing especially noteworthy.

Earthquake.  I was in my basement a few years ago when an earthquake hit Oklahoma.  Never felt a thing.  But I was in my bedroom, two stories above grade, during one of the aftershocks, and I think I felt that.  Then again, maybe it was a dream.

Flash flood.  A flash flood in 1998 left 11 dead here in KC.  I was out that evening, and I had to do a lot of detouring to get home.  I remember local residents out with flashlights in one neighborhood, directing people through the side streets that weren't flooded.

Blizzard.  I'm not really sure what constitutes a blizzard.

I moved to Virginia over New Year's weekend.  Most of the roads were good, but the stretch of I-70 from Kansas City to Columbia was near white-out conditions.  While I mostly beat the storm, my furniture didn't.  It arrived 11 days behind me.

Also, a couple years ago, we had a sudden snowstorm that dumped 10 inches in 3 hours.  It took me 3 1/2 hours to get home from work, a distance I should have been able to walk in well under an hour.

Hurricane.  I lived in the Roanoke Valley during one hurricane--Dennis or Floyd, I think, I don't remember which--but Roanoke was far enough inland not to feel any real effects.

Tornado.  When I was 7 or 8, the house across the street (a rural county highway) from us lost its roof to a tornado.  I don't really remember much about it.  Fortunately for us, that house was on much higher ground than ours, so we didn't have any significant damage.

Ice storms.  Plenty.  The worst left me without power for 48 hours.  I was one of the few people who actually made it to work the next day.

Explosion.  In 1988, an overnight fire at a construction site led to a dynamite blast heard 50 miles away.  I was only about 15 miles away, but I slept through it.  (I seem to be able to sleep through a lot.)  Someone in my Spanish class lost her firefighter father in that explosion.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Several hurricanes, and I have been caught in a flash flood while driving.

[Illuminati Blood Drinker]

Other: Umm....a rainstorm? My grandparents live in NW Ohio and they survived a tornado, does that count?

Man this is hard. #californiaprivilege (I thought about making it "#fresnoprivilege", and I shouldn't have to explain how unspeakably dumb a phrase "Fresno privilege" is).

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Blizzards, (minor) earthquakes, floods and Bush's second term.

[traininthedistance]

Albany gets lots of minor floods because large portions of our combined sewer system are operating at well beyond the limits of their design life and capacity.

The worst natural disaster I've experienced was the 1998 Ice storm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Ice_Storm_of_1998

Ugh... my family in Northern New York was without power for over a week and we knew people in slightly more isolated territory who went nearly a month without it.

Ugh, CSOs.  There's a good case to be made that fixing them (along with general sewer system upgrades) is the most pressing infrastructure need we have today.

It always amazes me how little publicity this gets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Water_Tunnel_No._3

[RR1997]

Flood, Blizzard, and Tornado.

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(Normal Midwesterner)

[The Dowager Mod]

Several earthquakes in Japan, remember my dads car covered in ash from mt st Helens, snowmaggedon in Milwaukee in 2010, hurricane Gloria, saw a wildfire near I-70 in Colorado once and I live in Texas so yup seen a tornado or 2.

[IceSpear]

Blizzard and hurricane. Earthquake only if you count very minor ones.