What is your Countries Worst Natural Disaster?

@jennybianca (12912)
Australia
September 13, 2007 7:51am CST
Our country of Australia has bushfires, droughts, floods & storms. Our worst disasters are by far the big bushfires we have in summer. The worst one I can remember was in 1983, when a firestorm ripped through our state & Victoria killing 75 people. It cause millions of dollars worth of damage. Some of our bush fires develop into firestorms and they are so bad. What is the worst kind of natural disaster than your country has?
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@gharinder (2044)
• India
13 Sep 07
well jenny hello! In India the worst kind of natural disaster is the floods, during summer season India witness floods in different states especially in the east and west regions. on the second will be the earthquakes.
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
14 Sep 07
Floods can destroy so much, not just land & the crops, but homes & peoples livelihoods too.
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• India
13 Sep 07
My countries worst disasters are drought and floods, last year we have last of floods many villages are rooted out and many people become homeless and suffered from diseases.
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
14 Sep 07
These floods are a terrible event. I hope some of the people in your country have managed to recover.
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@paule4129 (968)
• United States
13 Sep 07
hurricane Katrina and 9/11 new yor world trade bombing but that was unatural
@mizrae (587)
• United States
13 Sep 07
The area surrounding the gulf coast in the U.S. has had many hurricanes over the years with many deaths and much destruction. We've also had our share of earthquakes and of course, the volcano erupting on the West Coast. Anyone of them could claim the title of being the worst.
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@kyle930 (763)
• United States
14 Sep 07
The worst natural disaster in America has probably been huricane katrina. We have a lot of natural disasters here: floods, tornados, fires, severe storms, and huricanes, but Katrina was very bad especially because of how poorly it was handled by the government, they were spending too much time on anti-terrorism and did not do what was neccessary to help the victims of the huricane until it was too late.
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
14 Sep 07
Yes, I remember Hurricane Katrina very well, & the slow response to help people.
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@Fishmomma (11377)
• United States
13 Sep 07
The United States is a very large country with many natural disasters. My area has had several major earthquakes and fires. Sadly, each year many people lose their lives to fires set by careless people and each summer millions of dollars are spend on putting the fires out. I will admit some happen and nobody knows how it started. Many of states have to deal with flooding and you will see people in trees and on top of their homes. The last few years some areas have received a very large amount of water. Some of my friends in Texas have had a very hard year. Some of the other disasters are Tornado and Hurricanes. Basically, if you live in the United States there are many different climates and weather conditions.
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
14 Sep 07
Yes, I guess the US is so large, & covers a wide diversity of climates & geological structures, it is likely you are going to get a variety of natural disasters.
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@faith210 (11224)
• Philippines
13 Sep 07
Hi jennybianca! I have seen those news about natural disasters in your country especially the bushfires. It is really horrific when i saw those kind of news and it is sad to see how much damage done in the properties and in the lives of those people involved. Here in our country, we have earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, typhoons, floods and drought which also leave us with so much damages and what's worst are the deaths that came to be because of the natural disasters. I did experience one worst scenario which was in 1991, when a volcano near our area which was dormant for so many years became active and then erupted. This has claimed many lives and have left so many damages. Our city that time became a ghost city wherein almost all the people left their houses and moved into different towns who have offered shelters. Our homes were covered with ashes and volcanic debris. I am just glad we have survived that and I hope that we will all overcome every natural disasters that come our way. Take care and have a nice day.
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
14 Sep 07
What is the name of this volcano? That must have been very scary to be so near it.
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• United States
14 Sep 07
I can't speak for the whole of the U.S.A but as far as where I live in Georgia it is hurricanes, floods and wildfires.
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
15 Sep 07
A nasty combination. I don't know which one is worst.
@applsofgld (2506)
• United States
14 Sep 07
I will have to say it was the Hurricane Katrina in 2005. We are all still recovering from that terrible storm. We've also had some bad fires and other hurricanes to also do great exstensive damage.
@wisedragon (2325)
• Philippines
14 Sep 07
typhoon - the Philippines gets about 20 typhoons a year
Here in the Philippines we have lots of typhoons (the Pacific version of Atlantic Hurricanes), flooding, lots of volcanic eruptions, lots of landslides, and occasional earthquakes. Which one is the worst? Hard to tell because so many people die every year from all these calamities. Personally I've been lucky so far but I remember when I was in college I underwent the toughest driving challenge. I was driving from the province back to Manila, through the mountains, going as fast as I could because the typhoon was right on our tail. Trees were falling right after I passed them! Whew! Thank God we made it safe.
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
15 Sep 07
That would have been extremely scarey. I have never experienced a typhoon, although we do get hurricanes in the north of Australia.
• Canada
13 Sep 07
we are very lucky here in canada. we dont get natural disaster very often, but our real man made disasters are our politiations,they are destroying our country more and more every day
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@mizrae (587)
• United States
13 Sep 07
You did have a disaster, but not a natural one. I saw a documentary regarding an explosion that nearly wiped out a whole town somewhere in your country. I don't remember the exact date or anything, but I DO remember that it was bad.
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
14 Sep 07
I can see your pint here. Even if Politicians are not a natural event, they still cause a disaster!
@guss2000 (2232)
• United States
2 Jan 08
I guess for us, Hurricane Katrina would be the worst. That's for southern U.S. I don't think the east coast has had much natural disasters, that I can remember anyway.
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
2 Jan 08
Hurricane Katrina sticks in my mind as one of worlds worst natural disasters,along with the Tsunami in 2004.
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@guss2000 (2232)
• United States
7 Jan 08
I forgot about the Tsunami. That was an awful thing too.
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@CatsandDogs (13963)
• United States
13 Sep 07
We have several ones that have happened here just as you do in your country. Brushfires, hurricanes, droughts, floods, earth quakes, tsunamis and storms that cause fires. There was one earth quake in California which a bridge collapsed and killed a number of people including the buildings too that collapsed. Then the south coastal borders with hurricane Katrina which do incredible damage which they're still recovering.
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@izathewzia (5134)
• Philippines
28 Nov 07
Our country's most disastrous and worst natural disaster is earthquake and flood. It kills a lot of lives and damages a lot of properties. So everytime it visits our country, we are all in mourn because of the havoc it leaves us.
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
28 Nov 07
Earthquakes are terribly scary & unpredictable. I know floods are just as bad in terms of damage, but sometimes these can be predicted.
@johndur (3052)
• Pasig, Philippines
29 Dec 07
in my country there is a lot of worst natural disaster that has occurred, there is earthquake,typhoons,landslides,floods and hurricanes.but the worst that i can remember is the earthquake that rock the whole country and has claimed lives of about three thousand with a strenght of 7.1 in richter scale.it was one of the strongest earthquake that has hit the land for the last 100years and it was really devastating.i was so lucky to have survive it and i thanks God about it.
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
29 Dec 07
Earthquakes are so devastating, & I am sure pleased that you survived that terrible one. Must have been very hard for all the people who lost loved ones & their homes.
@johndur (3052)
• Pasig, Philippines
3 Jan 08
yeah i really am so lucky to have survived it and i too pity those who lost their love ones and their properties but we have to accept that there's nothing we can do but pray when disaster strikes us and hope that we can survive it.
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@Sir_bobby88 (8231)
• Singapore
22 Dec 07
I think it will be the sars outbreak , beside that my country is a peacful little country yea