Uh.. I'm only 15 and most of these don't compare to the others, but they were memorable and some were very scary.
1) Ice Storm of 1994. - HORRIBLE!!!
2) Tornado Outbreak of January 1999. - Very scary days.. January 17 and 21.
3) Tornado Outbreak of April 2, 2006. - My parents were in Caruthersville and it was horrifying.. the hail was huge at my house and I was alone with my little brother and the sirens. AHH!!.. 2 dozen killed that day.
4) Flooding of November 2001. - 10 inches of rain in a day. Water EVERYWHERE!
TIE)
5) Ice Storms of December 2000. - Trees down. One went through the roof. 2 inches of ice.
5) Tornado Outbreak of March 1, 1997. - Flooding and hail in West Memphis.. but lots of damage elsewhere.
6) Memphis Derecho of July 2003. - A very overlooked disaster, IMO, devastated Memphis for days. Trees were down everywhere.. it looked like an F1 tornado had raked all of Shelby County.. and Desoto and northern Tunica counties as well. And Crittenden.
7) Hurricane Katrina Remnants and Aftermath, August 2006 - 60 mph gusts and a few inches of rain. Trees down.. it was mostly the aftermath of seeing all the evacuees in my town that made it so bad.
8) Hurricane Rita Remnants, September 2006 - Gusts to 60 mph, tornadoes, and a few inches of rain.
9) Snowstorm of January 2000 - 8 inches of snow. Snow in Mississippi is not that common so it was a doosy.
10) Tornadoes of April 1998. - Tornado 3 miles from my house.. and an amazing wall cloud.
What are the 10 worst natural disasters you've been in?
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1) Memphis Derecho......I live right on the river and it remains the most intense winds I have ever seen...even after being in the path of Ivan as a weakening C1 hurricane...this was much more intense...it looked like an eyewall. Funny thing was, I actually thought it was huge national news after it happened but, after the power returned, I discovered that noone cared about Memphis. We did get the federal disaster area money, though. A picture...not my favorite one though which is the one with every single utility pole down laying across Germantown Parkway...I can't find it though.
2) 1994 Ice Storm...2 people in adjacent neighborhoods to mine lost their homes. Power losses of up to two months for some.
3) Hurricane Ivan (as a weakening Cat 1) ....billboards, signs, and trees down....what you would expect from such a storm
3) T.S. Katrina- not much by the time it got here...trees down, power outages
2) 1994 Ice Storm...2 people in adjacent neighborhoods to mine lost their homes. Power losses of up to two months for some.
3) Hurricane Ivan (as a weakening Cat 1) ....billboards, signs, and trees down....what you would expect from such a storm
3) T.S. Katrina- not much by the time it got here...trees down, power outages
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All we know is falling, i realize you are only 15, and probably didnt read storm2k forum rules, but profanity is not allowed on this web site. I know that the words on your poster name is from a song but it is very offensive to take Gods name in vain. Please remove it. Now, on topic; Iv experienced a f-4 tornado in nebraska,francis and jeanne in 2004,wilma in 2005.
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Hmmm...not sure I have ten.
1. 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake: I think it was a 7.1 on the Richter scale, 6.9 on the moment magnitude...regardless, it really did a number on the bay area. Still gives me the creeps to think that I had been on the cypress structure some 15-20 minutes prior to the quake.
2. Oakland Hills Firestorm: Huge, huge fire burned through some of the most expensive neighborhoods in SF area. My house itself was burned to the ground--all that was left was a chimney and a refrigerator that had literally melted into the foundation. A number of our neighbors/friends died...have nightmares of it from time to time.
3. Hurricanes Erin and Opal: Oddly enough, I feel like Erin was scarier. Sure, Opal's surge was devastating, but the winds of Erin were simply relentless. I was young at the time, so maybe my memory isn't so great of the events, but I became bored with Opal and slept through half of the storm. We were on Navarre Beach for Erin, but headed a bit inland to Gulf Breeze for Opal--probably a smart move on our part.
4. I don't recall the name...I want to say it was Lothar? Anyway, it was one of the European windstorms in the year...2001, I believe. I was with family in Bordeaux, and the winds gusted around 70-80 mph, which did some damage. Paris and the Normandy areas were totally smashed though. Nothing like Katrina or Andrew, but those storms that hit the UK/western and northern Europe can be quite formidable.
1. 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake: I think it was a 7.1 on the Richter scale, 6.9 on the moment magnitude...regardless, it really did a number on the bay area. Still gives me the creeps to think that I had been on the cypress structure some 15-20 minutes prior to the quake.
2. Oakland Hills Firestorm: Huge, huge fire burned through some of the most expensive neighborhoods in SF area. My house itself was burned to the ground--all that was left was a chimney and a refrigerator that had literally melted into the foundation. A number of our neighbors/friends died...have nightmares of it from time to time.
3. Hurricanes Erin and Opal: Oddly enough, I feel like Erin was scarier. Sure, Opal's surge was devastating, but the winds of Erin were simply relentless. I was young at the time, so maybe my memory isn't so great of the events, but I became bored with Opal and slept through half of the storm. We were on Navarre Beach for Erin, but headed a bit inland to Gulf Breeze for Opal--probably a smart move on our part.
4. I don't recall the name...I want to say it was Lothar? Anyway, it was one of the European windstorms in the year...2001, I believe. I was with family in Bordeaux, and the winds gusted around 70-80 mph, which did some damage. Paris and the Normandy areas were totally smashed though. Nothing like Katrina or Andrew, but those storms that hit the UK/western and northern Europe can be quite formidable.
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I'll try and get 10 on here...
1] Hurricane Kate 1985 - I was 1, so I don't remember much, but I know that this was the nastiest weather Tallahassee has had since I've been alive.
2] Hurricane Dennis 2005 - The weather wasn't bad... but the 12' storm surge in the Apalachee Bay was amazing... this should probably be #1 on my list. My parents lost both vehicles, but many others around them lost everything.
3] Hurricane Earl 1998 - Another surge that was memorable... I believe it was 8'.
4] Hurricane Opal 1995 - Surge, yet again. I think it was 6-8 feet at our house. Luckily, we're on 18' pilons...
5] 1993 Superstorm - Amazing storm... strong winds, heavy rain, storm surge [4-5 feet or so]... but the thing I most remember about this storm was the SNOW! Yes, we had flurries at the coast here, just south of Tallahassee.
6] The 1998 Florida Wildfires... this was probably the most frightened I've ever been... I thought the entire damn state was going to burn to the ground... we had thousands of acres in Wakulla County charred because of these fires... I can remember helicopters scooping water out of our canal to try to put out fires that were within 1/2 mile of our house and the coast... amazing sight to see.
7] December '05 F1 Tornado... I was driving to work and lo-and-behold I hear "tornado warning!" on the radio for Wakulla County... "tornado expected to be near Crawfordville in 15 minutes"... "hmm", I thought to myself, "I'm about 15 minutes from work in Crawfordville... this should be interesting". Well, I never saw the damn thing, but as soon as I got to work, I look out the window, and there it is, going across the highway less than 2 miles down the road... I'd say I missed it by a minute or two. A few people lost their house in a rare Wakulla County tornado...
8] Hurricane Erin 1995, Tropical Allison 1995, Tropical Storm Beryl 1995 - I think all of these were in '95, too... I group them together because we got similar effects from each of these... nice, windy and rainy weather, with small storm surges [3 feet or so]...
9] Remnants of Tropical Storm Allison 2001 - Caused some pretty bad flooding in the Tallahassee area [N FLA/S GA]... I think a few FSU students [might've been only 1] drowned.
10] Can't think of a 10th right now... but I know one is coming.
1] Hurricane Kate 1985 - I was 1, so I don't remember much, but I know that this was the nastiest weather Tallahassee has had since I've been alive.
2] Hurricane Dennis 2005 - The weather wasn't bad... but the 12' storm surge in the Apalachee Bay was amazing... this should probably be #1 on my list. My parents lost both vehicles, but many others around them lost everything.
3] Hurricane Earl 1998 - Another surge that was memorable... I believe it was 8'.
4] Hurricane Opal 1995 - Surge, yet again. I think it was 6-8 feet at our house. Luckily, we're on 18' pilons...
5] 1993 Superstorm - Amazing storm... strong winds, heavy rain, storm surge [4-5 feet or so]... but the thing I most remember about this storm was the SNOW! Yes, we had flurries at the coast here, just south of Tallahassee.
6] The 1998 Florida Wildfires... this was probably the most frightened I've ever been... I thought the entire damn state was going to burn to the ground... we had thousands of acres in Wakulla County charred because of these fires... I can remember helicopters scooping water out of our canal to try to put out fires that were within 1/2 mile of our house and the coast... amazing sight to see.
7] December '05 F1 Tornado... I was driving to work and lo-and-behold I hear "tornado warning!" on the radio for Wakulla County... "tornado expected to be near Crawfordville in 15 minutes"... "hmm", I thought to myself, "I'm about 15 minutes from work in Crawfordville... this should be interesting". Well, I never saw the damn thing, but as soon as I got to work, I look out the window, and there it is, going across the highway less than 2 miles down the road... I'd say I missed it by a minute or two. A few people lost their house in a rare Wakulla County tornado...
8] Hurricane Erin 1995, Tropical Allison 1995, Tropical Storm Beryl 1995 - I think all of these were in '95, too... I group them together because we got similar effects from each of these... nice, windy and rainy weather, with small storm surges [3 feet or so]...
9] Remnants of Tropical Storm Allison 2001 - Caused some pretty bad flooding in the Tallahassee area [N FLA/S GA]... I think a few FSU students [might've been only 1] drowned.
10] Can't think of a 10th right now... but I know one is coming.
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1. 12 years of Communist (Cuba)
2. Pre-Leslie 2000 (it poured like hell, my apartment flooded, water hip deep)
3. Katrina 2005
4. Wilma 2005
5. The Storm of the Century (Cuba, not a memory of it, I was 6 years old, but my parents and grandparents say it was horrible)
6. Irene (1999 Cuba [not much to talk about])
That's all folks, it has been only 19 years!!!
2. Pre-Leslie 2000 (it poured like hell, my apartment flooded, water hip deep)
3. Katrina 2005
4. Wilma 2005
5. The Storm of the Century (Cuba, not a memory of it, I was 6 years old, but my parents and grandparents say it was horrible)
6. Irene (1999 Cuba [not much to talk about])
That's all folks, it has been only 19 years!!!
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I have no idea why this topic suddenly made me think of this, but did anyone here experience hurricane Iniki? That storm has always fascinated me; powerful, rare, incredibly damaging, and yet I have found so little information on it.
Isn't it strange how some disasters seem to fade from memory, while others embed themselves in memetic, cultural knowledge? I wonder why this happens. If you'll allow me to wander off topic a bit, are any of you here troubled by how quickly we stop paying attention to things like disasters? For example, the tsunami of 2004: over 200,000 people dead, and not even two years later, you hardly hear of how the areas affected are getting on. Not to mention hurricane Rita which, as far as the media and the general public are concerned, pretty much never even happened--despite the devastation it wrought.
What are your thoughts? What differentiates an Andrew--which seems at times like THE hurricane--from an Iniki, a Rita, a Bob, etc? Is it really possible to rank, or to even assign a qualifier like "worst" to a disaster, when the experiences of such are so subjective?
Isn't it strange how some disasters seem to fade from memory, while others embed themselves in memetic, cultural knowledge? I wonder why this happens. If you'll allow me to wander off topic a bit, are any of you here troubled by how quickly we stop paying attention to things like disasters? For example, the tsunami of 2004: over 200,000 people dead, and not even two years later, you hardly hear of how the areas affected are getting on. Not to mention hurricane Rita which, as far as the media and the general public are concerned, pretty much never even happened--despite the devastation it wrought.
What are your thoughts? What differentiates an Andrew--which seems at times like THE hurricane--from an Iniki, a Rita, a Bob, etc? Is it really possible to rank, or to even assign a qualifier like "worst" to a disaster, when the experiences of such are so subjective?
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the worst storms I have been in
I was born in Syracuse NY in February during the blizzard of 1966.
Hurricane Kate 1985
No Name Storm in Upstate NY 1993. Tons of snow and power outages.
Tornado of 1995 in Clearwater beach fl f-0
Tornado outbreak 1998 Nashville TN F-2
Hurricane Frances 2004
Hurricane Jeanne 2004
Hurricane Kate 1985
No Name Storm in Upstate NY 1993. Tons of snow and power outages.
Tornado of 1995 in Clearwater beach fl f-0
Tornado outbreak 1998 Nashville TN F-2
Hurricane Frances 2004
Hurricane Jeanne 2004
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Thierry_Gironde wrote:I have no idea why this topic suddenly made me think of this, but did anyone here experience hurricane Iniki? That storm has always fascinated me; powerful, rare, incredibly damaging, and yet I have found so little information on it.
Isn't it strange how some disasters seem to fade from memory, while others embed themselves in memetic, cultural knowledge? I wonder why this happens. If you'll allow me to wander off topic a bit, are any of you here troubled by how quickly we stop paying attention to things like disasters? For example, the tsunami of 2004: over 200,000 people dead, and not even two years later, you hardly hear of how the areas affected are getting on. Not to mention hurricane Rita which, as far as the media and the general public are concerned, pretty much never even happened--despite the devastation it wrought.
What are your thoughts? What differentiates an Andrew--which seems at times like THE hurricane--from an Iniki, a Rita, a Bob, etc? Is it really possible to rank, or to even assign a qualifier like "worst" to a disaster, when the experiences of such are so subjective?
Yes. I feel that for the most part, disasters, even HORRIBLE ones, fade from memory quickly. Ones like 9/11 and Katrina will I do believe, always remain in the public eye, but other ones just fade away after there headlines in the news.
It's becoming a bit sad, actually.
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