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purple hayes
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 Posted: 09/07/04 - 09:45 Post subject: Natural disasters
How many different types of natural disasters have you lived through and what were they?
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MechEngDropout
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Posted: 09/07/04 - 09:48 Post subject: Re: Natural disasters
| purple hayes wrote: | | How many different types of natural disasters have you lived through and what were they? |
Canes... that's about it.
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jrjo
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Posted: 09/07/04 - 09:49 Post subject:
Does it need to be "declared" a natural disaster by the President to count?
Somehow blizzards in Wobegon don't qualify. 
37" of snow in '91 was a bit... disasterous 
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andydp
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Posted: 09/07/04 - 09:50 Post subject:
Well, back in 1984 or so there was a slight tremblor here in the Northeast. That's one.
Back in 1957 we were coming back from Italy via France on the SS United States and the ship sailed through a hurricane - that was fun...
We've gone through a few hurricanes up north but by the time they get to our area they're usually downgraded.
We have gone through two blizzards latest one was in 1994. Thirty one inches of snow in about 24 hours. Followed by lots of drifting and the like. Fortunately the snowblower was working.
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kristin31
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Posted: 09/07/04 - 09:51 Post subject:
Three.
A tornado, blizzards (although I don't remember the worst of those; I was only a few months old, but I can recall others) and now hurricanes.
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elkid
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Posted: 09/07/04 - 09:52 Post subject:
I was in a restaurant that caught fire when I was little. A few hurricanes at the shore. A major flood in NJ in my teens.
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Maddies Wench
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Posted: 09/07/04 - 09:54 Post subject:
A tremor
3 hurricanes on land
1 hurricane at sea
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MechEngDropout
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Posted: 09/07/04 - 09:55 Post subject:
| elkid wrote: | | I was in a restaurant that caught fire when I was little. |
Hardly natural, don't you think?
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gretriever
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Posted: 09/07/04 - 10:03 Post subject:
Four tornados, one tremor, numerous blizzards, and twice in winter being outside with a windchill of minus 80.
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elkid
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Posted: 09/07/04 - 10:04 Post subject:
| MechEngDropout wrote: | | elkid wrote: | | I was in a restaurant that caught fire when I was little. |
Hardly natural, don't you think? |
Not a natural disaster, but naturally a disaster. 
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mickeyvw98
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Posted: 09/07/04 - 13:38 Post subject:
There was a tornado one town over... My parents had problems with wind the day before and after but not the day of the tornado. It destroyed quite a bit in the town though.
We've had several blizzards but nothing a few days off from school couldn't fix. 
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MastrBrewr
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Posted: 09/07/04 - 13:43 Post subject:
I survived a natural disaster last night after eating some Taco Bell. 
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rolling rock
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Posted: 09/07/04 - 14:10 Post subject:
earthquake 
hurricane fran 
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cherylpf
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Posted: 09/07/04 - 14:15 Post subject:
Tornadoes, one in particular resulted in a tree on my house
Blizzard (I'm told)
Tropical storm Allison
and a smallish earthquake that I didn't actually feel because I was too busy riding in the back of a pickup truck
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gretriever
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Posted: 09/07/04 - 14:36 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | | and a smallish earthquake that I didn't actually feel because I was too busy riding in the back of a pickup truck |
But I thought you were supposed to feel the earth move.
First time this month - I'm due. Open that door to the penalty box.
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