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Today’s question:
QUESTION: Besides an Earthquake, have you ever experienced a natural disaster? If so – when, where and what was it?
Talk about it….
Years ago I lived in Portland, Oregon for about a year and a half.
One day, the wind was blowing at 72 MPH and knocked down
the cherry tree that was in the backyard.
That little incident put an end to our homemade cherry pies.
Yes, two times that come to mind. When husband was transfered to North Carolina for the A-6 Lines @ Cherry Point Department of Defense. Alameda Naval Air Station had Closed.
First, hurricane/tropical storm while we lived on the Beach Rental. It was horrible, the winds the sounds we had to evacuate. Then, Hurricane Bertha. I had to fly the childen back to our home in Caifornia and fly back to my husband as our home had been damaged, our home we had for a year near Cherry Point. The flooding was devestating, but he described the sound to me. Why I’m very surprised Asheville has been so devestated by Helene. It’s hard to see watching it now, but we were all safe then thank God and on our Way to Dept of Treasury in Denver. Nothing like these poor souls are experiencing now.
In our U-Haul driving thru Texas we were in a Diner and a Tornado siren went off. Steve said, lets go. We did and we beat it. Very frightening, hail, loudest thunder I’d ever heard.
No… not natural.
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My closest call was being inside Sun Valley Mall in ’85 when that small plane crashed over Santa’s Village.
Me too.
My marriage. Never occurred to me to call FEMA. Next time. 😝
Three fires that came way too close to totally erupting like the one today near YVR just behind Boundary Oak golf course… have been 3 in that same area over the years ….rule 39 per Gibbs, there’s no such thing as a coincidence…… lots of bikers up in that area … kids, etc. Anybody hear of anything credible as to how it started? When you have the helicopter 75 ft away from your house getting water from hole #15 at the golf course it’s gets your pucker going
One time I ran out of Grey Poupon.
When I was a young teen, we were smack in the middle of a tornado up in northwestern Wisconsin. We were in a cabin on a lake, my dad came in, put us all in a room and threw a mattress on us. It was rather short, the time we were under cover, and when we went outside, found a huge tree landed on the corner of our cabin (moderately crushed the corner and popped a hole in the roof. All the boats at the dock were strewn about the lake, on the water and off. Trees were felled all over (I recall a pic of my brother standing next to one, with a diameter probably of a couple feet). We were “trapped” in this place for a couple days, meaning we could not leave to go to town. It was pretty wild, as a kid, to see all damage/impact.
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This was years before the “next ice age” and a couple decades before “global warming” and maybe a few before “climate change” would have been the cause. Back then, it was nature, at some of its most midland awesome.
Yes. In September 1996 I was on a business trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico. Hurricane Hortense wasn’t supposed to hit Puerto Rico, but it changed course. I was unable to get a flight out so had to ride it out in my hotel room. It was only a Category 1 hurricane when it hit Puerto Rico. I would hate to experience anything stronger than that, because my experience with Hortense is that a Category 1 is very intense.