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Post by Whirlwynd on Jun 4, 2015 19:43:09 GMT -6
I think I've already asked about this in the "Getting to Know You" game, but sitting here in the library's tornado shelter waiting for this massive storm to pass by has me curious. What kind of natural disasters do you have to deal with where you live? Do you make plans in advance for dealing with them? Living in the Upper Midwest the biggest threat was tornadoes and severe thunderstorms, but there never really were that many while I was living there. We still had tornado drills at school and work. Snowstorms were another thing but except for the once in a lifetime storms (like this one - I was taking a train home from Denver at the time and we got stranded because there were 14-foot snowdrifts on the track) Wisconsin was very well prepared. Most people saw them as mere inconveniences. |
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Post by pilotobvious on Jun 10, 2015 9:46:42 GMT -6
Ahh, my part of Ohio is actually considered to be a part of (the new) Tornado Alley.
The funniest part, though? I live in what I would call "The Donut Hole."
Areas around us always get way more damage from lightning, hail, strong winds, and tornadoes. And these are areas like 10 minutes away from my town. But my place? Nah, we never get anything overly severe. I think in my almost 20 years here, we've had two rotating funnel clouds in our town. One was when I was three, and we were eating lunch. My dad looks out the window and sees it and is like, "baah, that'll be nothing." (And it was nothing.)
Then, my sophomore year in band, we had a tornado warning, so we had to seek shelter. We were in the choir room for an hour against the wall. But nothing happened with that either.
We also get a fair amount of snow that we are never prepared for. We're so inconsistent with school closings. At the beginning of winter, if it snows an inch, we'll cancel. But if it's in the dead of winter and we get maybe 3-4 inches, nah. We have a lot of backroads in our high school district so school closes more often for us than city kids. We always run out of salt for our roads.
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Post by pilotobvious on Jun 10, 2015 9:47:28 GMT -6
That also reminds me that a lot of my friends and I would be outside or sit on our roofs to watch a storm roll into the area. Probably not the safest thing... but super surreal.
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Post by funnybunnyjay on Jun 10, 2015 12:25:39 GMT -6
I live in Maryland and here we don't really have any big issues with natural disasters. Tornadoes and earthquakes are rare, but thunderstorms seem to hit my house pretty often. The power in my house going out seems to happen every now and then, and my brothers and I always play card games whenever the power goes out, but since there are no lights it becomes hard to see what's on the cards.
I don't even remember the last time I had to make plans in advance to prepare for a storm lol.
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Post by Whirlwynd on Jun 12, 2015 16:10:03 GMT -6
That also reminds me that a lot of my friends and I would be outside or sit on our roofs to watch a storm roll into the area. Probably not the safest thing... but super surreal. Dad used to take us out to watch storms too -- I still remember the first time I saw a wall cloud when he pointed it out. Now I'm like "Dad put the camera away and come down to the basement!" funnybunnyjay I didn't know Maryland got earthquakes at all! Still don't know what to do if there is one. I've actually been through one, but I didn't know it. It was minor, and the plant I was working at had gigantic presses that shook the floor constantly -- no one on shift even noticed. |
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Post by universalfiction on Jun 18, 2015 16:26:37 GMT -6
I live in Washington State and there are rarely any disasters here and it feels like the safest place ever! There are really strong winds that can kill the power sometimes, but the biggest "problem" we have here is rain (but I love the rain so I'm like yesss).
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Post by Whirlwynd on Jun 18, 2015 17:11:17 GMT -6
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Post by Kiyoko on Jul 1, 2015 5:44:12 GMT -6
Being in Oregon we don't really have many natural disasters... though everyone is waiting for "the big one" since we're overdue for a shift of the Cascadian plate out in the ocean (aka giant tsunami that will most likely make my hometown completely underwater .-.).
Last "major" storm we had was like back in 2008 and it was just hurricane winds that knocked down a bunch of trees and electricity+phone lines x0x
Northwest. Safest place evar. But we're also in that aspect the most unprepared >3> We don't get no fancy earthquake-safe buildings/bridges or 'nado shelters here. Do fishing boats count as safety-floatation devices? :3
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Post by letzshake on Jul 1, 2015 20:46:03 GMT -6
Tornado sirens go off so much here that I barely take them seriously which is probably not very good >.>
I have nightmares about tornadoes all the time for some reason. The most serious warning that I've ever been in was during school one day, right at the end of the day, where the doors starting blowing open and stuff. No damage or anything though. Tornadoes are fickle creatures.
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