Ever been affected by a Hurricane, Tornado or Tsunami?

I have experienced several hurricanes in my lifetime but not a big one in many years. It looks like Hurricane Danny may be heading our way and while it may do some damage the truth is many in the Island wish it passed straight through us. We have been suffering a drought since May and now in some regions the rationing has reached 6 out of 7 days of the week and people are tired of it.

Anyways, I remember Hurricane Georges in 1998 and we didn't have electricity for like 3 weeks. Even for me, that's too much AM radio lol.

So, have you ever experience one of these unfortunate phenomenon? Please share.

I live in U.S Atlanta GA and the closes thing we had here is just mainly Hurricanes but not that bad, just heavy thunderstorms, gust and winds and that's about it. No Tsunamis and very little Tornadoes. Edit: I will say that Hurricane Katrina back in 2005, was by far the worst Hurricane mainly heavy rains and that's about it here in Atlanta GA.

Seen a couple of small tornadoes. Small being relative because to me at the time they were the biggest anything in motion I'd ever seen.

We had a flood here , but it was only for a day.

Only good thing we have here , disaster proof homes and streets.

Nope, nothing.

Nope. I was in couple sandstorms in Iraq.

A tornado ripped through the part of cottage country me and the family were staying in 1994 or so. Literally had to pull over as we were trying to drive away from it and it rocked the car slightly to its side before passing by entirely. Was pretty frightening and a bunch of windows were broken and trees were felled, only one fatality, a handicapped woman that lived in the area everybody called "Mama Sue".

A few weeks ago I was staying in a truck stop near Davidson, SK and there was a tornado watch/warning in the area.

Got a shit night sleep that night.

I was in a hurricane off the East Cost when I was in the navy. It wasn't my best experience.

I live in California, so no, I've never experienced any of those disasters.

@micha_93:

What about earthquakes?

That I have experienced =/

I sure hope that storm goes right on Puerto Rico and stays there for a while, cuz Puerto Rico was hit with a drought this year and it needs that rain.

I live in Florida so we get hurricanes, we havnt had one in a long while tho which saddens me. I like storms and Hurricanes, just no level of Hurricanes higher than a 3. Category 4 and 5 is when they do lots of damage.

There was a tornado that hit downtown ATL in 2008.. I vividly remember that.

I've been in Heavy downpours where my city streets were flooded to almost waist deep :)

One tornado near-missed my dorm in Oklahoma City. Shattered every piece of glass at the other side of the building.

Funnel cloud in Miami, Florida (near Homestead) plus one waterspout offshore.

Funnel cloud not far from the University of Illinois.

Earthquake 5.2 magnitude in Aomori Prefecture, Japan

Earthquake 4.0 magnitude near Marysville, California

The last earthquake I experienced was the 5.8 magnitude in New York 2011:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/5-8-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-virginia-shaking-felt-new-york-white-house-pentagon-evacuated-article-1.950226

Typhoons?

Tropical Storm Alberto 1994

Typhoon near the east coast of South Korea 1995; mainly the flooding part.

A few typhoons in the Philippines. Most people there don't give a crap unless of course, it's a direct hit like the one that destroyed my wife's family business back in 2013.

Blizzards?

It's a way of life at the lake-effect country in New York. Spent six winters. Called it quits after 2013-2014.

Let's see. I've been through hurricane Ivan, Dennis and Sandy. Apart from a tree being blown down, none of them did any major damage, thankfully.

@micha_93:

What's it liked?

*crosses fingers*

I live in Minnesota, so hurricanes and tsunamis are already checked off the danger list. Tornadoes aren't as common here as in Kansas, Oklahoma, or Texas, but we get the occasional tornado in the summer months. I've never been affected by one though, or even seen one in person.

nope,I live in a city where only floods are the major threat...it happened recently on early 2013,I was at home...god awful sleeping with mosquitoes flying through my ears everywhere..good thing I am smart enough not to go anywhere because of the great darkness around,by that it means the city's power is down for about half a month,and I have to use a home made raft to get around in the daylight.

Hurricane Isaac hit while I was living across the river from New Orleans. Other than power outage, no major damage in the area I lived, but a town about an our north west called Laplace got wrecked.

I have never been affected by a hurricane, tornado or tsunami. because the place I live in makes it really hard to be affected by any of those The last time a tornado hit the place I live in was 1987 which was like 5 years before I was born.

@Master_Live said:

I have experienced several hurricanes in my lifetime but not a big one in many years. It looks like Hurricane Danny may be heading our way and while it may do some damage the truth is many in the Island wish it passed straight through us. We have been suffering a drought since May and now in some regions the rationing has reached 6 out of 7 days of the week and people are tired of it.

Anyways, I remember Hurricane Georges in 1998 and we didn't have electricity for like 3 weeks. Even for me, that's too much AM radio lol.

So, have you ever experience one of these unfortunate phenomenon? Please share.

Worst I've been through was hurricane Ivan, and I was without power for a little less than two weeks. Honestly, by that time I'd gotten used to no power. Then the power came on and I was like, "**** yeah!!"

Anyway, I've been lucky in that I've never suffered any major damage to home/property/body because of a hurricane.

Not in jolly old England.

To my dismay, no I haven't; the weather is way too timid in here :(

The most "extreme" weather I experienced was two years ago when it rained and hailed nonstop for over a week and the temperature almost hit 0 C'. Some areas actually got submerged but not because of the extremity of the weather, but because how underdeveloped they were.

The damage depends on what quadrant of the hurricane you're at. If you're at a quadrant where the winds and storm surges are towards you, then you'll see a lot of damage. If you're in a quadrant where the winds and surges are away from you, you won't see much except maybe cloudiness and some wind.

He may have been at the quadrant where the wind direction is coming from land and out to sea. Too dry and no storm surges.

We know a hurricane will do major damage anytime it approaches a coastline. But, ol Shotty was obviously referring to the area he was at even though he could have worded it better.

No. Happenings like that aren't so common here in Austria. ;)

Luckily, this is the only tsunami to have affected my life. Nor hurricanes nor tornados either. Vive la Mediterranea!

we've had floods and earthquakes in Malaysia. but only in some place

I don't live in hurricane or tsunami areas (Indiana), but tornadoes come through here from time to time. I've not see one, but I would love to see one...from distance of course.

No, but leftover storms from a hurricane hit my area a few times. Blew apart my shed once.

In 2011 I lost power from about Sunday to Thursday from Hurricane Irene. But worse than that was later that year, a few days before Halloween I lost power - and with it heat - from a snow storm. Power was out for a little more than a week, and pretty much the entire state of Connecticut was without power If I remember correctly. The reason why so many people lost power was supposedly because the snow was early in the year and the trees still had the leaves on them, and the leaves weighed down the trees when they froze from the frozen rain, causing the branches to fall down on the wires. Because of the hurricane my grandmother had bought a little generator for her house - it was strong enough to provide some heat, light up the kitchen and keep the refrigerator running - and my cousin's husband and a friend of his hooked up the generator after the snow storm, but they put it too close to the house, so eventually one day, in the morning, after my uncle and three of my cousins had spent the night at my grandma's house, the alarm went off and they had to evacuate and be taken to the hospital because of the carbon monoxide levels, they were treated and everyone is okay now.

Ha, Danny died :(

No big rain for you!

Now waiting for a new baby:

You're also not too far from a major earthquake zone though. Earthquakes can alter the flow of major rivers and lakes or bust up dams.

There were a few consecutive years where hurricanes came through my area and knocked out the power for a week or so. The most memorable one was hurricane Frances in 2004 (in which we made it out lucky compared to many others). I've also seen plenty of water spouts but have never been affected by them.

Suffered from the horrible flood in 2004. Everyone was using boats for transport, many houses drowned in the flood etc etc.