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What natural disasters/events have you guys been through?

Bushfires in 1983 which killed about 70 ppl and in 2009 which killed about 160. Fires came to within 500 m in 2009, were a few miles away in 83
 
My *** has survived the 3-4 ****s I take every day for 40 years.


It's good to be regular.
 
A few really big hurricanes in Taiwan when I was there mid 2000s.

Forest fires, but the only big one I've been around was in Yosemite, the whole valley was filled with smoke.

1993 winter, 10 feet of snow at our house.

2011 summer in jackson hole was crazy because of the flooding. We had more water in the river for longer that year than I had ever seen. Multiple large scale landslides. Our portion of hwy 89 was closed for a month. One landslide completely changed the river, and made the biggest wave I have ever seen in a river. Then it collapsed and was one if the most dangerous things I have ever run in a river.

The salt lake tornado.

A huge windstorm in Davis county a few years ago. It was like a war zone. So many trees had fallen. I spent two weeks cutting trees and moving them to the dump from in laws homes. This was the largest scale disaster I had seen. The entire section of bountiful and centerville was like a bomb went off. Streets and sidewalks were torn up from trees falling, nobody had roofs. I watched a trampoline fly 300 yards through the air and land on a home. Sections of roofs were coming off and taking out trees, trees falling on homes. It was awesome to behold.

And the inversion in salt lake city. That is a disaster.
 
I can't remember what year it was but it was in the early 80's. I was a kid and I woke up for elementary school and just hear treefall after treefall. It was very early October and we had gotten well over a foot of snow overnight. I didn't know why the trees were falling until I left for school (In Utah there's no such thing as a snow day). They hadn't shed their leaves and the snow was sticking to the leaves and weighing the trees down so much they were snapping. It was a surreal winter. On the playground at school we had several little huts built out of the fallen branches on the edge of the playground (on that side of the playground, on the other side of a high fence, was the Jordan River where the Jordan River Parkway is now, but at the time trees grew right up against the fence). At recess there were petty warlords who controlled these little huts. Anyway, it was pretty fun. I like extreme weather. If there's a forecast for something out of the ordinary I definitely cheer for it to be a record breaking or life altering event.
 
Hurricane Mitch in Honduras in 99. At that point in time it was the biggest and deadliest hurricane to hit that part of the Caribbean. We got something like 20" of rain in a 24 hour period. For three our for days straight. I remember after the storm broke, we walked outside and entire villages on the hills around were completely gone in mudslides.
 
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I can't remember what year it was but it was in the early 80's. I was a kid and I woke up for elementary school and just hear treefall after treefall. It was very early October and we had gotten well over a foot of snow overnight. I didn't know why the trees were falling until I left for school (In Utah there's no such thing as a snow day). They hadn't shed their leaves and the snow was sticking to the leaves and weighing the trees down so much they were snapping. It was a surreal winter. On the playground at school we had several little huts built out of the fallen branches on the edge of the playground (on that side of the playground, on the other side of a high fence, was the Jordan River where the Jordan River Parkway is now, but at the time trees grew right up against the fence). At recess there were petty warlords who controlled these little huts. Anyway, it was pretty fun. I like extreme weather. If there's a forecast for something out of the ordinary I definitely cheer for it to be a record breaking or life altering event.
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You are a deconstructionist. You like destruction in the way of a better construction.
 
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