Disasters you have been in or near?
 

ONE KILLED AS A NEVADA MUD SLIDE FLOODS LAKES AND DESTROYS HOMES - NYTimes.com

With the news of the tragic mudslide, I was thinking about my own experiences near one. All it really did for me was scare the hell out of the East Coast relatives who knew I had been working at the Bower's Mansion concession stand when the 5/31/1983 mudslide came down about 1/2 mile north of where I was. I also had about an hour detour to get home.

The first thing I knew something was wrong was when I looked up at the nearby telephone poles and saw how tight they had become.

Our non-TV home is in Ringgold, GA.

2 years ago a tornado took out the entire fast food row at exit 248 of I-75, the high school, several homes and businesses and killed 6 people.

It missed our house by about 2 miles.

TET Offensive Vietnam February 1968.

The World Series Quake -- 18th floor in San Francisco. Building rocked and rolled. Several quakes with less impact. More than one fire (land, forest and house).

A couple of tornadoes and monsoons when I was a kid; some true blizzards and sand storms; a couple of mudslides near home but none affecting me directly.

The Feb.2007 tornado that badly hit The Villages, ruined my house (took 5 mos. to complete) 2 hurricanes (6wks apart) in Vero Bch.2004 (had to evacuate).

Sorry to hear about that. We toured that area when they finally let people who did not live there view it. A very sad sight. We had moved from Palm Harbor in 2005 partly because of all the hurricanes with their accompanying tornadoes had put the bulls eye right on Palm Harbor in 2004. They all went elsewhere except just for a little brush of the high winds from one of them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Frances

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_At...rricane_season

Two wildfires in San Diego county that destroyed homes through our city and into La Costa.

The 2007 tornado in The Villages, which decimated my CYV neighborhood, three hurricanes in TV in 2004, the blizzard of '78 in Boston, two black-outs in New York City (1965 and 1977) and a lightning strike at my home in TV. Except for the tornado in 2007, none of these events equal the heartbreak the citizens of WA now face.

On March 11 2011 my husband and I traveled from Conn. to Honolulu to visit our son and his family. After traveling all day all I wanted was to go to sleep in our hotel room before starting our adventure in Hawaii. Well, that night the sirens were blaring and we were on a tsunami watch. Thankfully we did not need to evacuate and our son's family was also safe. Our daughter-in-law's family lives in Japan and they were also safe. Said our prayers that night for us and the unfortunate souls in Japan.

I have been evacuated in a boat from a flood, been in a tornado and a hurricane but in my opinion you have everyone here beat. My husbands was there too!

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Katrina for sure.

Andrew destroyed our former home in Dade County and destroyed our sailboat in Rye NY where we were at the time.

I was living in downtown Boston during the blizzard of '78. Two days after the storm I had to walk about three miles to a bank to withdraw money to buy food.
I know three miles doesn't sound like much but try doing it over three feet of snow.

Thank you and your family for your sacrifices.