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[karaz]

There have been a lot of Tornado sightings around here lately, which is a bit unusual for the Mid-Atlantic region (and pisses me off because we don't have a basement). Yesterday some local radio personalities were talking about which natural disasters they've experienced and are most afraid of experiencing. They settled on being snowed-in as the

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[restless_jedi]

If course, all of that is nothing next to the risks of the internet exploding.

(Virtual disaster is the most frightening!)

[karaz]

Virtual disaster is most likely too! It's always occurring somewhere. >.>

[furiosity]

Flood, because I CAN'T SWIM. D:

[karaz]

I don't swim very well this is why a Tsunami frightens me. It seems like most floods give a bit of warning. Tsunami's give very minimal warning and there's usually no where to go either. D:

[furiosity]

Yeah, but I live nowhere near where a tsunami might strike. :P

[karaz]

I did say regardless of where you live... :P

[karaz]

I knew you had tornadoes there, I didn't have any idea what sort though. Ice storms are ridiculous here, they inevitably cause widespread power outages. We've had a few since I moved here and one actually left us without power for 4 days. Very cold, very unhappy. Floods (unless accompanied by surge/hurricane) do a lot of damage here but rarely does anyone die. It's usually the guy who insisted on driving across the flooded bridge or road.

I agree about the snowstorm, though the radio people were talking about power outages too. I don't care, I'd rather be cold and miserable for a few days than to be burnt. I can barely tolerate the tiny scorch I occasionally give myself via the oven or iron. I'm trying very hard not to imagine being sanded alive.

[dreambastion]

And I happen to live next to a volcano - yay!!

I guess technically I should have checked volcanic eruption, too, but St Helens isn't that close to me and when she was active a couple years ago she wasn't overly vocal about it, so... yeah. I do live right by Mt Hood, but thankfully she's a very polite, quiet volcano :)

[karaz]

The good thing is that geologists are all over volcanoes, they can usually tell when something is going to happen. Though the increase in seismic activity around the NW would make me a little wary. The good news is that if it's only lava, you can pretty much outrun it.

[lurkitty]

I was living in Portland once when St. Helens went up. I was studying ceramics at the time and we made glazes out of the ash. It made a beautiful brown/black glaze at cone 10, but was hell on the finish of your car.

[dreambastion]

I've only been up here 5 years and St Helens was active a few years ago - you could see it from Gresham, where I was working, but it wasn't nearly enough that we had to worry about the ash. It would have been awesome to have some for a project like that, though :D

[tracy]

I've been in some heavy snowstorms, but I dunno if I'd call them severe. I love snow, in any case. :D

And the earthquake was tiny, barely enough to wake me up (I thought I was just drunk, still, lol).

[karaz]

I grew up in the north. I really thought I had experienced heavy snow storms. Until I went to Lake Tahoe a few years back. They had about 9 feet of snow in under 3 days. Ski slopes had to shut down! Entire homes were buried. It was crazy.

My earthquake experiences were pretty much the same. Thankfully.