Natural disasters

[Sidelle]

You haven't lived til you've survived a hurricane (Andrew 1992), tornado (Texas panhandle 2010), volcano (Mt. St. Helens, WA 1980) and major flood (Wilkes Barre, PA 2011).

I was pretty small during St. Helens volcanic eruption but I do remember that it looked like nighttime in the middle of the day. Like a snowstorm of dirty snow.

My latest was the Northeast Pennsylvania flood of 2011 when I had to evacuate my home. We got lucky, no flood on my street but a few blocks away shit was destroyed. I have 2 friends that lost everything.

I was far enough away from both the hurricane and tornado that it wasn't too big of a deal but at the time it was still scary and a little exciting. Particularly the tornado in Texas because I was worried enough to hide under the sink in my motel room bathroom. I was making a cross-country trip at the time.

If you've been through something like this, please share your story. :)

[iruinedyourday]

once the power went out and I couldn't play EQ. I almost died. It was the worst 34 minuets of my life.

[Sidelle]

It's like a beacon how urgently you're asking for this:

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view7/3184495/epic-kick-in-the-balls-o.gif

[radditsu]

You haven't lived til you've survived a hurricane (Andrew 1992), tornado (Texas panhandle 2010), volcano (Mt. St. Helens, WA 1980) and major flood (Wilkes Barre, PA 2011).

I was pretty small during St. Helens volcanic eruption but I do remember that it looked like nighttime in the middle of the day. Like a snowstorm of dirty snow.

My latest was the Northeast Pennsylvania flood of 2011 when I had to evacuate my home. We got lucky, no flood on my street but a few blocks away shit was destroyed. I have 2 friends that lost everything.

I was far enough away from both the hurricane and tornado that it wasn't too big of a deal but at the time it was still scary and a little exciting. Particularly the tornado in Texas because I was worried enough to hide under the sink in my motel room bathroom. I was making a cross-country trip at the time.

If you've been through something like this, please share your story. :)


Oh you are an older lady than me. I can dig it.

83 represent

[iruinedyourday]

It's like a beacon how urgently you're asking for this:

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view7/3184495/epic-kick-in-the-balls-o.gif

XD lmao no, I have only been in many not so terrible earthquakes :) But I imagine my childhood self would LOVE to be in a tornado or hurricane, but the adult, home owning self would hate it.

[radditsu]

Also you have horrible luck.

[quido]

You should sin less.

[radditsu]

You should sin less.

Cussin an drinkin. Jesus hates that.

[iruinedyourday]

Actually wait! Closest thing that I lived thorugh was a wild fire that burnt down my entire town. This house in this image was my best friend at the times house, Patricks! Fun fact, his father was a super smart engineer, he had the first pair of 21 inch computer monitors I had ever seen, when my parents were shopping for som kinda mac piece of crap.

Anyway, this guy was against insurance of all types, so he built his home to be fire proof, or to be as fireproof as humanly possible. I guess during the fires he was terrified that he put effort into protecting his house from the neighbors house catching fire, he never expected ALL his neighbors houses to catch fire.

He surrounded it with iceplant, used metal framework, tile roof etc and holy shit, it fucking worked!

Well, here is a picture. Life in laguna beach after that fire was like living in the world that the Terminators came from, it was both awesome and terrifiying.. no wait it was just totlay awesome cus I was like 11 and I didn't give a fuck about things.


http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/allreq012712/s_a09_31028095.jpg

The ash in your volcano story reminded me of it. The city was covered in 6 inches of that grey snow. I ran home from school and grabbed our family dog, stayed at a friends house wondering how I would connect with my parrents. During the blaze my father got home, to get insurance papers and whatever he could. He was smart enough to check the answering machine and found out where I was and they came and picked me up.

We stayed at my grandmothers house south of Laguna that night. During the drive down my dad would joke about the dumb shit people grabbed from their homes in a panic, he pointed out some dudes car that we could see into that had an empty wine box container in it and we had a couple laughs.

The next morning we walked to the grocery store to pick up a few things since we didnt know how long we would be quarantined from the city. While walking with my parrents (who never walked anywhere, they must have been in shock) I turned around excited and shouted, "haha omg you know what I just realised?! WE COULD BE HOMELESS RIGHT NOW! LOL!" and my parents just kinda looked at me like I was an asshole.

I remember when I came home I looked at the hill above our house, and a wall of fire was traveling DOWN the hill at a pretty steady pace, that kinda blew my mind, so much heat and fire that it was traveling DOWN hill... I dont know how normal that is in a wild fire but it kinda blew my mind.

In the end our house and 3 of our neighbors houses didnt burn down. We were very lucky. Although, most homes that burnt down, had been rebuilt to be 10x better by the time I was in highscool into bigger and more modern kick ass houses with pools.

But apparently family heirlooms are more important than that, so my parents say. I never agreed :)

Was that a good story, Sid? :D

[Infectious]

Hurricane sandy, NJ. Live 2 blocks from the barnegat bay which flooded my house and ripped down my fence. I lost everything in my house cause I couldnt come back to my house for over 2 weeks due to natural gas leaks.
Also made and still makes me alot of money considering I own a carpet business. Blessing in disguise!

[Sidelle]

Lol great story (and pic).

[Sidelle]

Lol great story (and pic).

Hurricane sandy, NJ. Live 2 blocks from the barnegat bay which flooded my house and ripped down my fence. I lost everything in my house cause I couldnt come back to my house for over 2 weeks due to natural gas leaks.
Also made and still makes me alot of money considering I own a carpet business. Blessing in disguise!

Thank gods for insurance, right? :D

[radditsu]

I once got flooded with at least a 35 foot rise in flood bwater. We lived in a house on 11 foot stilts on top of a hill next to a river. Motherfucker got to the 2nd floor. The way the hurricane hit it was pushing all the baywater up the river and creating a massive floodplain. But thats hurricane livin

[Ahldagor]

Hurricane Ike. Loved it. I'm a sick bastard that likes it when neighbors act neighborly and commune.

[Infectious]

Thank gods for insurance, right? :D
My homeowners only covered hurricanes, not super storms(wtf?). Only money I recieved was from fema. Fema only covered the sq ft of my house, not my possessions. Who made out was people who owned rentals, with other peoples stuff in their properties.

[Greegon]

Ive watched that japanese + boxing day tsunami footage a lot does that count

[Tenlaar]

http://media.nola.com/tpphotos/photo/2012/02/10628619-standard.jpg
http://news.nick.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/main.jpg
http://blogs.kxan.com/files/2012/02/Harrisburg-IL-Tornado-damage-AP.jpg
http://media.nola.com/tpphotos/photo/2012/02/10628616-standard.jpg
http://media.lehighvalleylive.com/breaking-news_impact/photo/harrisburg-ill-tornado-dbd4ae4fae296aab.jpg
http://www.ob.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/IMG_2168.jpg
http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2012-02/107190260-29093120.jpg

Some choice shots of the damage after a tornado that ripped through the town I live in a couple of years ago. My family was insanely lucky, you couldn't stand in any of our yards and find a direction to look where you couldn't see destroyed houses.

It's ok though, FEMA said it wasn't bad enough for any aid.

[Sidelle]

Actually wait! Closest thing that I lived thorugh was a wild fire that burnt down my entire town. This house in this image was my best friend at the times house, Patricks! Fun fact, his father was a super smart engineer, he had the first pair of 21 inch computer monitors I had ever seen, when my parents were shopping for som kinda mac piece of crap.

Anyway, this guy was against insurance of all types, so he built his home to be fire proof, or to be as fireproof as humanly possible. I guess during the fires he was terrified that he put effort into protecting his house from the neighbors house catching fire, he never expected ALL his neighbors houses to catch fire.

He surrounded it with iceplant, used metal framework, tile roof etc and holy shit, it fucking worked!

Well, here is a picture. Life in laguna beach after that fire was like living in the world that the Terminators came from, it was both awesome and terrifiying.. no wait it was just totlay awesome cus I was like 11 and I didn't give a fuck about things.


http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/allreq012712/s_a09_31028095.jpg

The ash in your volcano story reminded me of it. The city was covered in 6 inches of that grey snow. I ran home from school and grabbed our family dog, stayed at a friends house wondering how I would connect with my parrents. During the blaze my father got home, to get insurance papers and whatever he could. He was smart enough to check the answering machine and found out where I was and they came and picked me up.

We stayed at my grandmothers house south of Laguna that night. During the drive down my dad would joke about the dumb shit people grabbed from their homes in a panic, he pointed out some dudes car that we could see into that had an empty wine box container in it and we had a couple laughs.

The next morning we walked to the grocery store to pick up a few things since we didnt know how long we would be quarantined from the city. While walking with my parrents (who never walked anywhere, they must have been in shock) I turned around excited and shouted, "haha omg you know what I just realised?! WE COULD BE HOMELESS RIGHT NOW! LOL!" and my parents just kinda looked at me like I was an asshole.

I remember when I came home I looked at the hill above our house, and a wall of fire was traveling DOWN the hill at a pretty steady pace, that kinda blew my mind, so much heat and fire that it was traveling DOWN hill... I dont know how normal that is in a wild fire but it kinda blew my mind.

In the end our house and 3 of our neighbors houses didnt burn down. We were very lucky. Although, most homes that burnt down, had been rebuilt to be 10x better by the time I was in highscool into bigger and more modern kick ass houses with pools.

But apparently family heirlooms are more important than that, so my parents say. I never agreed :)

Was that a good story, Sid? :D

Oh yes, that definitely qualifies as a natural disaster. Thx for sharing even if parts of it made me laugh (lol sorry).

[Sidelle]

I once got flooded with at least a 35 foot rise in flood bwater. We lived in a house on 11 foot stilts on top of a hill next to a river. Motherfucker got to the 2nd floor. The way the hurricane hit it was pushing all the baywater up the river and creating a massive floodplain. But thats hurricane livin

Until I saw for myself in the 2011 flood I never realized just how much damage water could do. The entire time I was packing to head for higher ground my husband was apologizing for not getting flood insurance. We've since remedied that. We ended up being the lucky ones.

http://media.nola.com/tpphotos/photo/2012/02/10628619-standard.jpg
http://news.nick.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/main.jpg
http://blogs.kxan.com/files/2012/02/Harrisburg-IL-Tornado-damage-AP.jpg
http://media.nola.com/tpphotos/photo/2012/02/10628616-standard.jpg
http://media.lehighvalleylive.com/breaking-news_impact/photo/harrisburg-ill-tornado-dbd4ae4fae296aab.jpg
http://www.ob.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/IMG_2168.jpg
http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2012-02/107190260-29093120.jpg

Some choice shots of the damage after a tornado that ripped through the town I live in a couple of years ago. My family was insanely lucky, you couldn't stand in any of our yards and find a direction to look where you couldn't see destroyed houses.

It's ok though, FEMA said it wasn't bad enough for any aid.
Whoa... That is some disastrous shit right there.

[myriverse]

You haven't lived til you've survived a hurricane (Andrew 1992), tornado (Texas panhandle 2010), volcano (Mt. St. Helens, WA 1980) and major flood (Wilkes Barre, PA 2011).
I would gladly go through another Katrina rather than to go through a tornado, volcano, or earthquake.

[radditsu]

I would gladly go through another Katrina rather than to go through a tornado, volcano, or earthquake.

I usually sleep through hurricanes

[harnold]

I was once at the top of a tornado taking shits into it which were flung all across the country

[Thulack]

You haven't live til you have to take a canoe to get home from the bus stop after school. Living in PA have gone through: Countless floods(Lived 300 ft from a river for 15 years), Many Hurricane's(andrew,bob(i think it was) and a few others over the years), 2 Small Earthquakes(Large enough i felt them and was like "WTF"), and i saw a few tornadoes over the years(nothing as large as what you would see in texas i'm sure).

[Zadrian]

I lived in Galena, MD during Sandy. I lived in a cabin about 20 feet above the water. Thankfully the water never came up that high, but our dock was completely enveloped in water. Also, our satellite dish is hooked up to the dock, so it was pretty much covered, but surprisingly we never even lost service =p

I've had more run-ins with man-made disasters than natural ones. I would love to witness a tornado, though.

[myriverse]

I usually sleep through hurricanes
I slept in my car with my dog through weakened Katrina (by the time it reached around the Hattiesburg, MS area). Damn shelter didn't allow pets. Would do again.

[radditsu]

I slept in my car with my dog through weakened Katrina (by the time it reached around the Hattiesburg, MS area). Damn shelter didn't allow pets. Would do again.

I got family in Richton

[Doors]

God obviously hates you.

[Stormlight]

I live through four seasons every year: Summer, Autumn, Winter, and Tornado. A few years ago, my sister and her family were out of town, so when things started looking serious, my dad and I went to pick up their two large dogs and put them in my parents' backyard with their two smaller dogs. Conditions outside built to torrential rain and wind, then we lost the tv signal and finally power. Last we'd heard, a bad tornado was coming in our direction from the west, so we decided it was time for the storm shelter. Wrangling four wet, freaked out dogs into a shelter is not fun. Neither is spending over an hour with them in close confines. By the time it sounded safe to come out, it was still raining, and getting two large dogs out of a storm shelter when they don't want to go is even more difficult than getting them in while it's storming. We were lucky, though, because although that tornado dissipated, the same storm system spawned one that caused a lot of destruction in Moore, OK. I have a friend who lives two houses down from homes that were completely destroyed, along with the elementary school that was across the street. His house had a lot of damage, but not enough to be totaled by the insurance company. :\

[Sidelle]

Sometimes I wonder about the weather nerds that get to name hurricanes. Is it after an ex-girlfriend/boyfriend? Their mamas? Someone they secretly lust after?

Waiting for one to be named after me. :D

About Syria...

If these fuckers are killed by women they won't make it to paradise. I would so take advantage of that.

[FoxxHound]

Daaaamn Sidelle is older than I thought. That's sexy~

[iruinedyourday]

sidelle is a 10

[LostCause]

hurricane charley 2004 prob the craziest shit i ever been through.

[Zadrian]

Sidelle I forgot you were in PA. We should hang.

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1726175008/Ash-Pedreiro.jpg

[Sidelle]

LOL!