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Have you ever been in a natural disaster?

Be it Tornado/Cyclone, Earthquake, Severe Flooding, Bushfire, Tsunami, Extreme Heatwave, Prolonged Drought, Volcanic Eruptions, Avalanche?
This Gusman has experienced no natural disasters
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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
we’ve had all but tsunamis, volcanoes and avalanches in Oklahoma. Tired of it. Hailstones the size of baseball, the biggest I’ve witnessed is golf ball size and yikes it sounded like someone was up on the roof beating it with a baseball bat every time one hit. We’ve also had microburst storms, don’t let the name think they are harmless. Had two within a year and the second one caused just about everyone in the area to have to get a new roof, new fence & haul off trees and broken tree limbs. It took over a year for the city to recover. Then we had a two-year drought with record heat waves, wild fires like crazy, bees were dying for lack of flower nectar. Lakes got 10-15 feet low & farm ponds dried up. Then a couple years later the rains started back up & we had record rainfall. 27 inches in the month of May alone, so we were having floods in all the low places. So many F-4 and F-5 tornadoes we lost count, some areas had 3 that took almost identical paths. Our homeowners insurance and automobile insurance increased greatly due to it.
Gusman · 61-69, M
@cherokeepatti You ever thought about moving to somewhere quieter?
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Gusman I saw my first tornado when I was 2 years old living in NW Missouri. Saw the second one when I lived in central Nebraska, there were 42 tornadoes that day in central NB. Lived in Topeka, KS when an F-5 tornado hit hit, caused the most $ amount of damage of any tornado up until then. The side of the tiny village where my grandpa used to live in MO got hit by an F-5 tornado about 15 years ago. Seems like anywhere you live something is going to happen.