Natural Disaster

Did your house make it through the storm?

@akalinus Yes we were lucky. We only lost our fence and a tree.

@NJChicaa Those are minor issues. You still had a home and everything in it. That is the important thing.

It seems like there is much more of this type of thing lately. There is always something going on that upsets people's lives.

@akalinus when I had an earthquake I was outside the house, and walked like I was drunk.

@May2k8 A little shook up, were you? I bet that was an experience.

Three minutes is a huge amount of time for the shaking to go on. I was in one for 10-15 seconds of shaking and it was terrifying. You are lucky to escape the biggest damage.

@akalinus We had a pretty good one when we lived in Monte-Carlo, many of our books got out of the shelves, the quake caused a very loud sound when it happened.

I was in a pretty good earthquake in California. It seemed to last forever but the shaking was only 10 seconds or a little more. I ran to a doorframe in a building I was in and then ran outside the second the shaking stopped. It was not a major quake (5.6) but did enough damage.

@LadyDuck Wow, I bet that was scary. Why does a quake make noise?

You are very lucky. Those tornados seem to choose which houses to hit. One house might be totally destroyed and the neighbor's house untouched.

@hillhjill Yes, I don't know how it picks and chooses what to destroy and what to spare.

@akalinus Yes we were very luck and tornadoes do some weird things.

New Orleans was almost destroyed by a hurricane. Where do you live now?

@CarolDM I think that all they have there is a tornado once in a while. I love Tennessee. I spent a week there once and felt like I had come home but never went there before.

@akalinus Tennessee

I'm glad you were safe. A tornado passed directly above our house in NY state once. It was early morning and it sounded like a train ready to crash into our house. My husband tapped me on the shoulder and I just said that I hear it. Kids sleeping in the back of the house, it would have been awful if it hit.

Our house burned down and we lost everything three days before Christmas one year. I managed to get my kids and pets out. They were the important things.

Sounds like it was pretty safe in your area. Oh, by the way, the gorillas and apes were on Gibraltar, not Guam. When I mess up, I do it right. They both start with a G. Just saying.

@akalinus Yes, they do both start with the letter G. I'm glad you found where they were from. Yes, it was pretty safe. Lots of wind and rain, but nothing to really worry about as the homes weren't going to be blown away. Even the trees weren't a problem. Do you know that coconut trees bend but don't break? That's why you see so many different shapes of those trees like they've been bent while they were formed. Wind did that, but they won't break as other trees do.

Yes, it is a good thing. I have been in some pretty awful hurricanes that hurt my house but not me. I am thankful too.

The hurricane missed us but people were killed in the panhandle of Florida. Terrible destruction there from 155 miles per hour winds.

@Shivram59 Don't say that too loud. Just joking, I hope you are always safe.

I think you are lucky not to be where the Tsunami was. So many people were swept from this life.

@akalinus Of course,we are lucky.So far our area has remain unaffected by natural disasters.

I am surprised that so many people escaped natural disasters so far. What man-made disasters are you talking about?