Oh noooooes a tornado!

Sammi

Sammi

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    What kind of natural disasters do you get in your area? How do you prepare for them?

    Here in Kansas, the big one's tornadoes. You can have a preparedness kit for stuff like that but we don't because we're lazy. Best we can do in case of emergency is go to the basement and hope someone will let us in their apartment because I live on the top floor...

    We also get thunderstorms a lot during the summer, and the occasional snowstorm during the winter. That's about it.

    How about you?
     
    We have had a earthquake once... first thought was that someone ran against a closet, but suddenly i shook and soon we knew it was an earthquake...
     
    I only thought Kansas got Tornadoes in the movies. D:

    Anyways, here in NC we get lots of Thunderstorms and Hurricanes. We occasionally get a Tornado.
    Also, during the winter we sometimes don't get snow, but when we do it's either small, or it's massive knock out the power snow.

    I have a bad tendency to prepare for a storm after it's already started. :(
     
    In California we get earthquakes, and if the weather is bad we can sometimes get floods, droughts and wildfires. Not at the same time of course.

    Best you can do in the case of earthquakes is have a kit ready with some flashlights, drinking water, a blanket, and food. The others are kind situational and are usually not that intense/widespread that everyone needs to be prepared for them or you get enough of a warning to do something about them.
     
    We dont really get Natural Disatsers very much. We have Tornado and Flood watches sometimes and last year had an earthquake and occasionally a hurricane, but not much, luckily.
     
    None. We had a freakish incident of that east coast earthquake, and we had a hurricane (if you want to call it that) and tornado (again, if you want to call it that) once, but we really don't get natural disasters. We get flood warnings all the time, but they don't happen in the area of the state where I live.
     
    We have typhoons in our area in the rainy season. I don't recall if we have any frequent earthquakes in there, though.
     
    In my area, we get a lot of flood/tsunami warnings during some seasons (mostly the rainy season). So it's always best to have a place somewhere high and keep some stuff there just in case. (Me and my family own two houses; one in the lower part of town near the water, and one in the higher part of town.)
     
    My area doesn't really get any natural disasters. I mean, I say that, but we've gotten both a tornado and a few earthquakes in the last couple years. But they aren't common in Ontario and for the most part, they don't do any damage at all. (Though the tornado we did get a few years back was only like 10 minutes north of my neighborhood and took out a few houses, iirc.)

    There aren't any natural disaster drills or anything in the schools here, so I don't consider any of the disasters we have had to be native to the area. I remember when I lived in Vancouver, we'd have earthquake drills since it's on the West coast but we never did anything like that in Ontario. :P
     
    Well, when you think of California, you think of earthquakes. Yeah, I get those quiiiiiite often where I live. Usually we get small quakes like up to 5.4 or so, sometimes less. Big quakes are rare, the recent big one was back in 2010, when a 7.2 hit the Mexico border (close to where I was). in fact, it be two years tomorrow

    You can't really prepare for an earthquake, because they're so unpredictable. Although once every 6 months or so, the CA government organizes a statewide earthquake preparedness drill (called the "Shake-Out" or something like that) where the whole state takes cover, use emergency procedures, and evacuate during and after a huge quake. Those can give us an idea of what to do when "the big one" happens again.

    In terms of weather & stuff. We get rain after a huge dry spell, which creates flash flooding and slippery roads. Tornadoes are a huuuuge rarity, but we get excited for them. haha.
     
    Primarily we see Tornadoes considering Oklahoma is in Tornado Alley and one of the most prominent Tornado areas in America if not the World. Albeit the closest I have been is probably a mile and a half away from one, and we got in the bath tub. Now we just go either across the street to my neighbors safe room, or next door to our other neighbors storm shelter.

    Other then tornadoes we usually get flooding a couple times a year, we get wildfires especially this summer due to major drought conditions in west OK and North Texas, and last year we have some major earthquakes for this region of the country, since that was the first time I have ever felt one. And apparently we had one today.
     
    I was born in Wisconsin and raised there for 10 years, so we had no natural disasters...the most common were probably Snow Storms, for we would have plenty of Snow Storm warnings. Now that I moved in Florida, now we have to deal with Hurricanes. Although we never experienced one yet, since we came at a lucky moment, we really have no idea what to do. Our plan of attack would be to pack everything up and go to a Hurricane shelter...or our home if we prepared our home by then. We were thinking of basements, but the idea left eversince we realized floods and tsunamis are always a possibility.
     
    We got a lot of tornadoes in Missouri, since it's in the middle of Tornado Alley. Personally I've never seen a real tornado, just very heavy windstorms. In St.Louis, we got a lot of thunderstorms.
     
    Hurricanes, hurricanes, and more hurricans. I live in Louisiana, so ever few years we get a pretty bad one. I think everyone can remember the pretty bad one in New Orleans that we had a few years back. :/
     
    Yep, used to live in Kansas and then moved to Arkansas.
    Tornados ahoy! The thing about Kansas though is that most people have a basement, but for Arkansas the ground is too swampy to build a lot of basements, so I feel less safe there when it comes for tornados.

    I'm in Georgia now and we don't really get much natural disasters, just a lot of nasty wind and rain from tropical storms over yonder, they haven't reached us in a long time.

    It's adorable when my housemate from California says she doesn't want die when we had a chance of one tornado. Ahhhhh.
     
    Bushfires are the disaster of choice where I live. It is the main reason I hate Summer and sunny weather. You just never know when some douchebag is gonna light a match in a forest and set the whole thing ablaze, taking down the forest and your entire suburb with it. It's really scary here some Summers.

    That said, we've only been evacuated twice, once in 1994 (which I'm too young to remember but was apparently incredibly traumatic lol) and New Years Day, 2006. I will never forget that day; it freaked me out so much. We packed up our stuff and raced down to my cousin's house and I thought I was gonna come back to find a pile of charred rubble where my house used to be.

    The scary thing is there's nothing you can really do to prepare for bushfires. The fire department here gives you a list of things you can do (just basic stuff like 'clean your rain gutters' and 'hose down your garden') and tells people in high-risk areas to keep a bag packed in the car just in case, but ultimately if a fire is hurtling for your house, the level of hygiene in your rain gutters is not going to save it from an inferno.
     
    Where I live, we don't get many if any natural disasters. We had a minor earthquake a few years ago but I don't remember that (it was that small). We sometimes get small whirlwinds but nothing bad. Tbh the disaster that is most prone to happen is flooding, which hasn't happened for ages.
     
    In my area, we get a LOT of tornado warnings, yet there are rarely ever any touchdowns. I usually stay put when something like that happens. (I don't really care what happens to me at this point anymore.)
    After some long, hard rains, some fields get flooded out in places, and on occasion, we get some small hailstones, but not quite enough to cause considerable damage.
    However, we've come close to disaster a few times: most recently (March 15), there was a small tornado that touched down several miles south of where I live. with hailstones falling for several miles around. Although we got hail, not much damage was done by it in my immediate vicinity.
    Also, on July 2, 1997, there was a tornado outbreak in my area, where one incident about 10 miles west of us took out several 345kV transmission towers (holding the Hampton-Thetford line) owned at the time by Consumers Energy (which has since sold off their transmission grid to Michigan Electric Transmission Company).

    Thankfully, none of these were as bad as the Beecher Tornado near Flint on June 8, 1953, which killed 116 (a record that was surpassed by the Joplin, MO Tornado last year).
     
    A Subway Fare Hike. I'm not even kidding. The people here in NYC seriously consider that a natural disaster (or at least a disaster lol).

    Realistically, mostly just thunderstorms, nothing serious really happens... except last year, where Hurracain Irene and that earthquake hit. For Irene, I just acted normally (it was really blown out of proportion how bad it was). For the earthquake... I updated my Facebook status. It came as a surprise, in my defence.
     
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