Other than Katrina, have you lived through other devastating natural disasters?

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There should be several responses since natural disasters aren't that uncommon

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If so, which one(s)?

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Every other hurricane that came through here, although I'll admit my closest brush was with Katrina.

I get hit by a little hurricane (Irene) in New Jersey - actually a TS by landfall, but they thought it was a big deal.

I also got hit by earthquakes in California and also in New Jersey (which was just a few days before Hurricane Irene).

Tornadoes have hit near me, but not affected me directly.

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That was man-made, not natural, baw.

The Great Baton Rouge Snow Storm of 2014

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But not all are on the level of Katrina or Camille

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betsy was pretty frickin bad

That was a great week. Between that and the bomb threat we had maybe 2 or 3 days of class for the first 2 weeks.

We didn't even lose power

Probably the closest would be the tornado outbreak here in Alabama back in April 2011.

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Thankfully my town was not hit but while it was going on we walked outside and you could see debris (mostly chunks of insulation) flying by overhead. We found all sorts of debris from places as far away as Tuscaloosa, Concorde, and Hueytown all over our town afterwards despite being as much as almost 100 miles from where the debris was from. In my yard we found pages from a bible, a cell phone bill to a business in Tuscaloosa. My neighbor found a child's shoe in their yard.

I was in Tuscaloosa a couple weeks before for A Day when a big tornado came through (obviously smaller than this one) and it passed about a half-mile away from the apartment I was in. It's a pretty crazy sight to see.