What are the 10 worst natural disasters you've been in?

[Jim Cantore]

Here are mine

1. The Blizzard of 1996 (30.7")
2. Hurricane Floyd (60mph winds, Major Flooding)
3. The Presidents Day Blizzard of 2003 (18")
4. The Great Blizzard of 2006 (13" 50mph winds, lightning)
5. Hurricane Isabel (50mph winds, 2 foot surge, heavy rain)
6. The heatwave of 1995 (95-104 degrees)
7. The Blizzard of 2005 (12.5")
8. The Ivan and Jeanne Floods (major flooding in the Delaware)
9. The Flood of 2004 (5" of rain an hour not far from me)
10. Remnents of T.S Allison (4" of rain, nasty flooding)

Other Notibles

The Drought of 1995
The La Nina of 1999


Ones I dont remember

1. The Superstorm of 1993 (70mph winds, 12" of snow, icestorm)
2. The Perfect Storm (massive beach erosion)
3. Hurricane Bob (Not sure of the conditions, est 50mph winds)

Ones Locally but not in my immediate area

1. The Mid Atlantic Flood of 2006 (Yes i named it)

[HurricaneHunter914]

1. Hurricane Charley (80+ mph winds and 100+ mph wind gusts)
2. Hurricane Frances (60+ mph winds and 80+ wind gusts)
3. Hurricane Erin (Heavy rains and power outages)
4. Hurricane Jeanne (40 mph winds and 60 mph wind gusts)
6. Hurricane Wilma (Some roof damage and 50+ wind gusts)
7. The Central Florida Drought of 2006 (Yeah I decided to name this one)
8. A Tornado in Sanford (Don't remember much, but heavy rain and winds)
9. Hurricane Floyd (Dumped rain)
10. Hurricane Fran (Dumped rain)

Living in hurricane alley you get alot of hurricanes.

[Extremeweatherguy]

1. Hurricane Charley (80mph+ winds and 100mph+ wind gusts)
2. Hurricane Jeanne (60mph+ winds and 75mph+ wind gusts)
3. Raleigh Blizzard of 2000 (24"+ of snow in my area within 12-18 hrs.)
4. Hurricane Frances (45mph+ winds and 69mph+ wind gusts)
5. Tie for Hurricane Erin and Rita (both had 60-70mph gusts in my area)
6. Tie with Orlando hailstorm of 1992 and NW Houston hailstorm of 2006 (both created widespread hail damage)
7. Supercell in Missouri (nickel sized hail, vivid lightning, and 60mph gusts).
8. Supercell in Oviedo, FL (dime sized hail, 50-70mph gusts).
9. Tropical storm Gabrielle (40mph+ gusts for many hours)
10. Tie for the other many severe storms, tornadic storms, and 1"+ snow/ice events I have been through.

**I will update this in the future if I forgot an event**

[Audrey2Katrina]

1. Hurricane Katrina (not even a close second on the radar)
2. Hurricane Betsy (flooded out 9th ward--AGAIN)
3. Hurricane Andrew (AT the Intercoastal/Morgan City area near La. landfall)
4. Hurricane Camille (Closer in than downtown N.O., but not nearly what MS got.
5. Probably the 1980 US Heat wave... est. death toll as high as 10,000 nationwide.
6. Supercell storm/flood of May 3, 1978 ... approx 18 inches fell in about 4 hours. Massive flooding.
7. Supercell storm/flood of November 1989... second "once in a century event within about a decade. This time some areas got close to 20" again, in 3-5 hours of rain.
8. Hurricane Georges
9. Supercell storm/flooding of April, 1981... third (actually second chronologically) 100 year storm.. about 13-15 inches--closed schools, massive street flooding.
10. Hurricane Audrey... listed this far down because we only got outer bands as it moved inland... but lots of wind and localized flooding. On a "National" scale, it was actually no. 2 on the list... killing up to 500 people, depending on sources.

Hopefully there will be no "new" entries on this list any time soon.

A2K

[Valkhorn]

Here's my list:

1) Hurricane Katrina - 100mph sustained with gusts to 135 in Hattiesburg where I live. Massive tree damage, and I got to hear what the sound was like when siding gets ripped off of my building by wind alone.

2) The superstorm of 1993. I was in Meridian at the time, we got only a half foot of snow but it was the only time I've ever seen a Heavy Snow Warning posted for my area.

3) The arctic blast of Feb. 1996. Its not usual to see an entire weekend below 21 degrees in the deep south. In addition to the thunderstorms roaring the night before when it was around 32 degrees and raining.

4) The surprise snowstorm of Dec. 1997. This was a low that surprised everyone as it came out of the gulf and gave central MS up to 8 inches of snow. Not even forecasted, it was sure an interesting thing to wake up to on Sunday morning.

5) Andrew in 1992. This was the first funnel cloud I ever saw. Pretty remarkable sight.

6) August of 2000 (I believe it was) parts of Hattiesburg got 8 inches of rain in less than an hour. Massive localized flooding and I almost needed a boat to get to class. Thankfully the water drains away fast here.

7) March of 2002 - I was in Boone, NC for something and one morning as a front moved through the winds were sustained at 55mph for almost an hour. That was almost impossible to walk to my car in. And it was about 30 degrees out so it was brutal with the wind chill.

8) Ivan - more than a threat than what actually happened here. We only got gusts to around 45mph when we were told we'd get wind to 100mph sustained. Probably this and Dennis were the reasons why I didn't prepare for Katrina like I should have.

9) Tropical Storm Bill - only for the fact that I had to drive through the whole thing on I59 and it was not fun at all.

10) February of 1990. Parts of Meridian got 8 inches or so of rain in a few hours and a lot of the city had flooding. I don't remember much from it but I do remember looking outside and it was as if the sky had the faucet going on full blast.

[Frank P]

Only two that really matters to me:

2005 - Katrina - lost everything I owned (and I had a plethora of STUFF)
1969 - Camille - lost everything I owned (only 17 at the time)

no need to bother listing anything else because they just pale in comparison...

[Ixolib]

Only two that really matters to me:

2005 - Katrina - lost everything I owned (and I had a plethora of STUFF)
1969 - Camille - lost everything I owned (only 17 at the time)

no need to bother listing anything else because they just pale in comparison...

Ditto for me. But I was only "12" on 8/17/69, and thankfully, Camille's surge left us alone.

Wish I could say the same for Katrina (except the "12" part!! )...

[wzrgirl1]

1) Hurricane Andrew
2) Hurricane Frances
3) Hurricane Jeanne
4) Hurricane Wilma

[wxwatcher91]

Blizzard March 2001- 40mph winds, 28" of snow
remanants of Floyd- 6 inches of rain in 8 hours, high winds- tree down
flood of 2005- 12" of rain in 12 hours, 16" in 3 days
Blizzard of 2005- 40mph winds, 14" of snow
Jan 2003- 30mph winds, 20" of snow

...uhhh a thundershower I got last week?

I might add more when I think of them...

[SouthFloridawx]

Superstorm of 93 in Pennsylvania... we got 2 feet of snow in western pa

Hurricane Frances

Hurricane Jeanne

Hurricane Wilma

Other flooding events in PA

That's all I can think of right now.

[vbhoutex]

In no particular order, remembering that 98% of my life has been lived on the Gulf coast.

Hurricane Camille
Hurricane Alicia
TS Allison
Hurricane Alma

A few very severe squall lines and tstorms. There is more, but I have to get to work.

[wxmann_91]

Only 1 - the Great Firestorm of 2003. But I think I had already explained it in another topic. Scary how it came within a mile of my mom's workplace.

[mvtrucking]

Katrina ,TS Allison & Mt St Helens eruption(1st one)

[beachbum_al]

Top Ten
I don't know if I can come up with the Top Ten

1. Hurricane Ivan (2004)
2. Hurricane Katrina (2005)
3. Hurricane Frederic (1979)
4. Tornado that hit Mississippi State University in 1990-1991. I was on campus walking from my class to the dorm when it happen. One of the scariest moments in my life.
5. Tornado in 2000 near Sylacauga, AL
6. Blizzard of 93 in Alabama. (College Days and it was fun being stuck at the Lake)


I am sure there are more but I don't remember.

[stpeteweathergal]

Lived in Pinellas County all my life but only remember experiencing...
Local flooding in 70's from TS, no school that day
Hurricane Elena
Tornado that destroyed my parents neighborhood in Pinellas Park, home sustained damage
No-Name Storm, I think in '93
Evacuating for Hurricane Charley
Hurricane Francis
Hurricane Jeanne

[x-y-no]

Well, #1 and #2 are easy ...

1. Hurricane Andrew (in South Miami, strong Cat. 3 at my location according to post-analysis)

2. Hurricane Wilma

3. The Blizzard of 1978 - was in northern New Jersey for that, so missed the absolute worst of it which was in New England

4. TS Dennis 1981 - 22 inches of rain in my neighborhood in less than 2 days, major flooding all over Dade County, especially the SW parts.


Been on the fringe of a bunch of others, but not really in them ... actually my scariest personal experience doesn't qualify as a natural disaster - TS Chris in 1988.

[Stephanie]

Okay, I'm going to show my age on a few;

Here are mine

1. The Blizzard of 1996
2. The Superstorm of 1993
3. The Presidents Day Blizzard of 2003
4. The Great Blizzard of 2006
5. The Blizzard of 2005
6. Major Icestorm that hit NY and New England around 1972. Some people were with out electric for a week. We had to use our fireplace for our sole source of hit.
7. Valentine's Day Blizzard, 1983.
8. Blizzard of 1978.
9. Hurricane Floyd.

[cajungal]

1) Andrew. But, it was not even close to being as bad as Homestead. We had winds above 100 mph though, wind damage, and no power for over a week.

2) Almost Katrina. We missed the brunt of Katrina by only 50 miles. If she would of passed 50 miles further to the west, we would of looked like the MS Gulf Coast.

3) Rita. While I live in the northern part of Terrebonne Parish, and did not get the surge. Less than 15 miles from where I live was covered with 8 ft. of water. Places that never flooded before.

4) Allison. 4 ft of water in my town. My home did not take any water, but many of our neighbors did.

[HurricaneHunter914]

You get alot of blizzards up there.

[Stephanie]

You get alot of blizzards up there.

Yes we have! That is our main source of weather "action" plus Nor'easters that can happen in the Fall and the Spring. '

We do get "remnants" of tropical systems and we get some decent thunderstorms which have brought significant flooding in areas nearby.