What extreme weather event have you survived in your life?

[Anonymous]

For me, multiple floods and hurricanes, Harvey being one of the most intense and destructive.

To put it into perspective, this is what we were dealing with (see video). It's been years now and construction still rages on to raise bridges and overpasses, to lift houses in certain areas so they are at least 4-8 feet above the ground, complete demolition of certain areas that can no longer be built on because of the risk of total annihilation, and several businesses/apartments/homes are just now being rebuilt after being demolished. There was so much trash and debris from homes and trees after this storm, it was unbelievable and with no way to remove it, we all basically lived in a dump of our own lives for about 4 months straight, some without power for a good portion of that, before slowly they got to your neighborhood and started clearing things away.

[abc3643]

I've been through a couple of hurricanes (Hurricane Belle 1976, Hurricane Irene 2011), but the scariest was not a weather event, but a natural disaster and it happened 29 years ago today: The Northridge Earthquake, M 17 JAN 1994.

Thank God the earthquake happened at 4 something in the morning on a holiday (MLK Day), so not so many people died... but several dozen did.

I was messed-up for a while being hypersensitive to sounds like I heard during the earthquake and aftershocks.

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https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/earthquakes/northridge

On January 17, 1994, at 4:31 a. m. PST, a magnitude 6​.7 earthquake centered in Northridge struck the southern California area. Known as the Northridge Earthquake, it caused at least 57 fatalities (a subsequent study put the death toll at 72, including heart attacks) and injured thousands. The earthquake caused up to $20 billion in damage costs, plus $40+ billion in economic loss, making it the co​stliest earthquake disaster in U. S. history.

[SaoirseS]

Tornadoes, high winds, and floods.

[Nikki1989]

Earthquakes, floods and fires.

[Dav1dTh0ma389]

The worst would have been an F0