Okay just about 2 minutes ago I was caught in a little earthquake..I think it was 5.7 or something like that, anyway it scared my half to death! Living in southern California we have to watch out for that...What natural disasters have you been in?

Hurricane Andrew, back about 10 years ago? I think it was. Didn't even directly hit Baton Rouge where I was living at the time, but we went without water for 5 days (lots of bottled water being given out yay) and without electricity for over 3 weeks. Alot of the really nice old oaks in our neighborhood got torn out by the roots and ripped up HUGE chunks of the electric lines. Fortunately only 1 house got hit by a tree falling....though it was totally obliterated.

Mothers Day hailstorms from about 5 years ago. They were pretty scary compared to other hail storms I had seen. Oh and there was the crypto sporidum (sp?) outrbreak that contaminated Sydney water for a few months, that was kinda nasty.

Cyclone John.
Category 5.

England has no bad weather in this respect but whenever we get anything worse then a flurry of snow we all panic.

Something like a 7.0 earthquake back when I was about 10 years old.

My family lived in the city of Key West at the time, Naval Housing. My grandmother was so worried (as it was where it was predicted to go), so we fled to my aunt's house in Kendal Park.. The eye went right over us. It is one of the very few memories I have of being young - since then, natural disasters don't scare me. I've been in four different hurricanes, Andrew and George were two of the worst. I've been in two earth quakes (One when I was visiting my uncle in SoCal, and another when I was in Japan). Went through quite a few tornado messes, generally being missed by no more than a few houses.

It's kind of frightening to walk out of a bathroom (where you've been barricaded in for several long hours), and seeing A) the living room was knee-deep in water, the couch was no longer in the living room - it was two floors up, with a hole in the ceiling to note it's trajectory, C) the deep end of the pool was filled with sand, and D) as far as the eye could see there were many, many piles of rubble that once housed families. More grave-markers. It was somewhat humorous, during the eye, we all fled to the garage (the bathroom walls had given out, thankfully the wall across the hall from the bathroom gave first, keeping the bathroom from collapsing in on itself), and went outside for a few moments. Our group of eight grew to about fifteen in a matter of minutes. >.>

Andrew wasn't fun. But I'd so do it again.

As a side note, I went TO Key West for George, simply so the eye could pass over us. I viewed them like thunderstorms by then - pure amusement. It was four kids and about five adults, and we wandered down Duval Street during the Eye. Someone was trying to open a bar. I thought it was hysterical.

Yea, I love them, they're so nuts

I survived my father's snoring once...

7 Tornadoes, one F4, 5 F3s, one F2. Tropical Storm something, dunno what. Three Blizzards (54", 36", and 29"). And hundreds of bad storms.

Yay Chicago/summer in Missouri?

It's fun going to Orlando for hurricanes, too. The streets are worse than Key West - terror alone is extremely amusing. DRUNKEN terror is insanely entertaining.

We had...um...a 5 or something in a town like half an hour from here, couple buildings collapsed, we only got a li'l tremor. Most unusual for Britain.

Oh, and while I was staying at my grandma's down in Selsey (near Chichester) a whirlwind went down the road right in front of the house.