Have you experienced/witnessed any type of natural disasters?

[alnortedelsur]

An earthquake when I was a teenager back in Caracas, Venezuela. But it wasn't a really strong earthquake with destruction and dead people or anything like that (it was like 5.7 in Richter scale, if I remember well), but strong enough to be heard and felt. Me and my elder brother were very scared and ran downstairs to get out of the building (I lived in a third floor). There were several other neighbors outside of the building who did the same.

[Celestia]

Living in South East Texas comes with a lot of hurricanes. (hurricane Katrina, Ike and Harvey were the worst for us) Growing up, my parents home was flooded at least 3 times. Power would be out for a week or so and streets would remain flooded for almost a month at a time. Miserable experience for sure.


Glimpse of hurricane Harvey :

[Rostos vilmoskörte]

2004 one?

Yes and 2010/11

[Aspirin]

Yes and 2010/11

You mean 2010 Chile and 2011 Japan tsunamis?

[Rostos vilmoskörte]

You mean 2010 Chile and 2011 Japan tsunamis?

No , in Thailand.
They have many tsunamis but the west don't write about them as it's not always devastating like in 2004.
Last one i experienced barely touched Thailand because Singapore took 90%

[Aspirin]

No , in Thailand.
They have many tsunamis but the west don't write about them as it's not always devastating like in 2004.
Last one i experienced barely touched Thailand because Singapore took 90%

I didn't find any information of any tsunami near Thailand in 2010 or 2011, not even small ones. Thailand is far from any tsunamigenic zones like the one who caused 2004 tsunami. Maybe you mean earthquakes, becuase they can be felt in Thailand, and Singapore too.

[rothaer]

Interesting. Did she escaped on second/third floors of one of the tourist hotels on the island? Ko Phi Phi was one of the most devastated areas by 2004 tsunami in Thailand together with Khao Lak area in the north. In both these places casualties were very high, especially between tourists from Europe (mostly Scandinavians and Germans).

True, and hundreds of corpses laying around that had been alive the day before were very impressive to her.

She worked and lived as a diving teacher at the beach and there was basically nothing but a hut with the ground floor. So when I heard for the news and could for a day not contact her via her cell phone I thought the chance would be really high that she is simply dead. I remember well when I went to sleep and thought, wow, incredible, now your sister is likely dead and it all seemed so unreal, but this is likely exactly the way it is when it well happens.

But this had happened: I don't know if you have seen a pic of Koh Phi Phi so you know the topography. She had been in the lowland somewhat away from the beach and then heard an incredible noise when the wave came and crushed things - thinking it was a strom or something. So she run away to an house were there was a store and into that store. The water level rose quickly and entered the house and soon filled the whole floor till there was no air into it anymore. She had taken a last breath and was then under water. She then crushed a small backward window and dived out from the store. She then was the taken away from the water, hold her self at one or another palm tree and eventually the water calmed down, maybe also fell down again, I'm not sure, and she then with some others went or swam to higher terrain that was above what the water level had been at its maximum. She had a lot of smaller cuts from glass and shit that had been transported with the water, maybe also from that window she'd crushed but she had no serious injury. She said that by far mostly Thais died because they simply could not swim (pretty weird when living on Koh Phi Phi), something that was unseen for European turists except for small children.

[Roy]

No, but the city in which I was born and attended school (Wrocław) was horrenduously ravaged by the Millennium Flood in 1997. The very place where my block of flats was though remained unaffected.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997...European_flood


Little tornadoes (still locally very restrictive) have become something not out of ordinary in Poland in recent times btw. I think it's a result of global warming.

[Ellethwyn]

Yes, growing up in the 90's in southern California, i experienced a few earthquakes. One time in a grocery store, and everything flew off the shelves. Another time it happened in the middle of the night. I pretty much slept through it until i got woken up by my books and book shelf falling on me.

When i moved to the high desert in Nevada, there was a flash flood. The river flooded my neighborhood. We used sand bags all around the house to stop the water. It was crazy.

[Richmondbread]

Living in Virginia we get hurricanes right often and also quite a few tornadoes. About a few years ago we had a dozen tornadoes all around our city, one almost hit the center of town but went right over the James River. One tornado killed a man in the next county over.


During Hurricane Irene in 2011, I saw a tree fall in our backyard and destroy our fence . I saw trash cans picked up and they were thrown against our house. We've had several hurricanes where we lost power for at least 14 days.