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

Gustav. I lived in Opelousas at the time and it tore the town to shreds. Couldn't leave the house for days because of trees and powerlines in the road. No power for a couple of weeks. A pine tree fell about 5' from our house. It was awful.

Isaac. I had to work through Isaac, drove to work through tropical storm force winds. Luckily I lived close to work at the time.

I don't remember it because I was young, but Andrew.

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Why would someone lie about something like this?

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Seriously? Everyone loves to bullshite about Katrina and how bad things were for them.

Not property damage on the same scale - but I was very young and living in a suburb of Washington DC during the big snow of 1981-82 (which was at the time - the worst they had seen in 100 years). That January - My father was about 100 yards back on the bridge when the Florida flight crashed into the Potomac River.
ETA: Was REALLY young for the 1979 one. We were stuck in the house for a few days and lost power for long enough that we were all sleeping in the living room around an old cast iron stove. My Dad jumped out of a 2nd story window into a snow drift to start shoveling out from our doors.

Both are mentioned here.



The tornado that hit downtown Fort Worth in 2000 hit THREE of my prior residences and was on a line for where I was currently living at the time. My roommate was at work in Sundance Square when it hit and they lost a fair chunk of the front structure of the building.



There was 200 tons of glass on the streets of downtown FW.






Video from several newscasts

Andrew, Gustav.

Those 2 were way worse than Katrina for me personally.

Moore Tornado, 5/20/13

Andrew was scary

I lived through the Tuscaloosa tornado of April 27, 2011. One of the students who died in the storm was a family friend of one of my roommates.

And technically Hurricane Opal because she was still a Cat. 1 when she reached north-central Alabama on the night of October 4, 1995.

Andrew

19 hurricanes, was about 60 yards from driving into an F4 tornado at night, not a direct hit but was nearly struck by lightning and felt some effects, sounded like a 45 being fired by your ear.

Never been in an earthquake or dealt with a volcano.

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

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When I was about 8 months old a tornado missed our house by 50 yds. It hit our farm's shop and tossed a combine 500 yards into field. Our employee was on the toilet at the time it hit and he didn't have time to go anywhere and hide so he just hugged the toilet and survived without a scratch.