Natural Disasters- What Can't You Handle?

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Snow/blizzard, flooding, mudslide, earthquake, tsunami, tornado, hurricane, wildfire, volcano?

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I mean am I actually square in the middle of these? If snow a blizzard while indoors is about the only one I can handle.

Sharknado or Earthquake

Tsunami would be pretty scary

The water shows up so fast and so much of it, there is nothing you can do about it if you didn’t see it coming ahead of time

Tornado.

Agree about tsunamis. I don't think I could outrun one.

Earthquakes are kind of fun. Like a mild roller coaster. Been through several. My sibling lives a few miles inland from the recent Humboldt quake and they didn't have any damage, surprisingly. I had a few ceiling cracks after a big shaker in 2014 near Napa, but my house made it through the 1906 earthquake that took out most of the town so a little shaking won't hurt it.

Flooding affected two of my cousins in Houston and it was very hard on them and their families but they were able to salvage some things and still had a house to remediate. But 7 years after Harvey, the cousin in Bear Creek still has yet to recover any gov't payment for the terrible decision to flood their neighborhood.

Wildfires, I moved to SE TX partly to get away from them. Hate them for the amount of destruction they cause. And weeks of breathing the smoke is miserable. But I could probably survive after everything I learned in the aftermath of so many big fires in norcal.

Hurricanes are scary and also exciting. I watched my fence blow half down in Hurricane Beryl and then go back up and right itself when the wind changed direction. I'd probably hate them more if I had lost power for over a week like my family members did just a few miles away.

Volcano eruptions frightened me as a child. There was a TV special about the Mt St Helens disaster that talked about a man who was too close to escape to safety. I was so sad for him. I have family living near Scapoose OR and they can see the volcano from their yard. That's a little too close for me.

A direct hit from an EF-5 tornado would be pretty tough to handle. Chances of survival would be low unless you’re underground and even being underground wouldn’t guarantee your safety.

There were people in the Hackleburg, AL EF-5 tornado on April 27, 2011 who sought shelter in an underground shelter and they were still killed.

Fire scares the shite out of me.