How has Mother Earth treated you?

The only two things I lived through were Hurricane Isabella and Snowmeddgon , thew huge snow storm a couple of years ago. With the Hurricane we lost our power for a week but no one was hurt. It was in September so it wasn't too hot or cold. As for the snow storm? We had so much snow Everything stopped. After a week I could finally try to get to work. Well, some of the bus routes had detours because the plows hadn't got to the smaller streets. It took about a month for things to get back to normal.

I have been through several big earthquakes and I know that if it is my time to die there is nothing I can do so I become an observer knowing that. When Mother Earth takes over we have no more control than ants.

Mother Nature has been remarkably kind to me. I've never had any of those things happen to me. I do remember Hurricane Carla http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Carla If you look at the storm track, between the white (Category 1 hurricane) and the first light blue (tropical storm) is Austin, and the eye of the storm was still intact when it crossed Austin...

Here in my country normally floods and heavy typhoon are the big problems of most families. Just last Monday we have a early morning earthquake and it really wakes me up.

hi marguicha considerating I am living in southen California now for many years I have not had a bad confrontation with a shake, rattle and roar now for five years, but night before night I felt my bed shake from side to side for about thirty seconds and my roommate never woke or felt it. It was not over a three at most on the earthquake scale.we get some many tiny tremors you get used to it but four and a half yrs back I was in Tustin then and we had one lasted a long long minute with me sitting in my desk chair frozen there as it scooted me back a nd forth. my books were tumbling ovv the book case and nothing outside peeped no birds no animal sounds, really weird. the epicenter was only ten miles away this was close to a 5.so Mother nature has been very kind to us in Ca this year,I am a happy camper now after a month off line my computer is rebuilt and I have a new to me ued LED monitor. I am back in business.

Hi marguicha... My land is a land of flood. Many villages are already flooded on this rainy season. Days ago, continuous rain filled my town and we had lots of problem even i wet almost on my way to my college in the morning. So, here in my province, flood is a common disaster every year. Have a nice time.

Thank God, i have never been through any of them.

I think Mother Earth have treated me fairly well! except for some storms[very scary ones]when we used to live in the country and my father was not there[ I was about 7 or 8 then] the other one was when I was living in Salto Uruguay in my grandmother's house...I was 14 then and the Uruguay river flooded...we lived close to the Marina and our house was flooded the army trucks pick us up and took us to a big colonial old house![ we were lucky as other people had to live in tents] there were many people living in there! but grandma as usual kept on cooking our dinners and I felt safe all the time knowing she was there looking after us...after we did our chores for the day we spend the time playing cards until we moved back home a week later to me it was a time of learning how so many people who don't know each other can live together in times of need.

Hello! I live in a very seismically active country and I have felt many earthquakes. We have many earthquakes every year but most of them are not strong and we just feel the shaking for a while. The last big earthquake that I think it was the strongest in my life was the one in Athens in 1999. Fortunately I was safe but everything in my house fell on the floor from the shaking and many buildings in the city collapsed. Besides earthquakes I haven't experienced any other natural phenomena and disasters. In my mind, tornados and floods are much more dangerous than earthquakes!

Once I was the who faced the natural disasters lead by the destruction of human beings on nature. The destruction has finally resulted to have a flood in my living town. I and my family members was little lucky becuase nothing happened to us or nor to our houses. The only thing that happened was the water was raised up to my half of the legs. Many people who owned a weak house was washed away and many of the animals like hens and their houses was washed away. Really I was too lucky. We was safe from it becuase we have our houses on a raised platform. So that water did not entered much as compared to that of a lowered ground.

I haven't been through such an experience myself. Still, I remember that when I was quite little (11 years or so) I went to the seaside with my aunt. When we got back, I could see from the train villages that were flooded. The houses were destroyed, the roads were covered with water. It was so desolating, so sad... And I can only imagine how those people feel when they see everything they have worked for their entire life gone...