Comments on: Natural Disasters

By: sacha

sacha — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:57:24 +0000

i am soo sorry i can’t even imagine what it would be like to live somewhere where that would happen, i totally sympathy everyone who had to live through that peace out love everybody bye

By: Kate Scott

Kate Scott — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:26:32 +0000

Janelle, I’m so glad you’re okay. One of my friend’s family wasn’t so lucky, unfortunately. Their whole neighborhood was demolished by the fires. It’s horrible when these things happen.

Living outside of Boston, we do get blizzards occasionally and some hurricanes though luckily very few tornadoes and earthquakes, which scare me to pieces. Ironically, we’re supposed to be hit with part of Noel tomorrow, so lots of flash flooding and high winds. Sigh.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:19:41 +0000

I live on an island off the coast of SE Florida. In 2004, Stuart, FL had the eye of Hurricane’s Jeanne & Francis come right through. We had to move to my Mom’s place for months as our condo was being repaired. In 2005, we were hit with the backside of H Wilma. Luckily, this year was very quiet.
In August 1992, I lived in the middle of Wisconsin, we got hit with a tornado that stayed on the ground for 21 miles!! It came within 1/2 mile of our house!! We were very lucky. It didn’t get a lot of air play because H Andrew hit Homestead,Fl that same night!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:00:57 +0000

Janelle,

I can’t even imagine what you go through in CA. I live in Southern New Jersey and we have to worry about the nor’easters. We will get a few major snowstorms and ice storms. I do not even tackle. If schools are closed, I stay in my house. Then we deal with the flooding when that all melts.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:16:31 +0000

Here in the Chicago suburbs we get tornadoes. In grade school our team (in central Illinois) was the Tornadoes because one had knocked down the entire town. Of course, this was decades before I was there, but the twisters are still pretty bad out there.

And of course, the snow storms in the winter!

By: ev

ev — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:09:52 +0000

Wind storms, ice, the occassional tornado or edge of a hurricane, but in upstate NY it is mostly snow. And unlike most other areas of the country, when snow melts, my house is still standing.

I will take the snow and icky ice any time over hurricanes, tornado alley, fires and earthquakes. Although we get the occassinoal one of them too. NY is also on a fault line.

I am glad that everything came out ok for you Janelle.

By: Fedora

Fedora — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:52:50 +0000

We’re in Northern CA, and mainly have the earthquakes as possible disasters–yippee! I’m very thankful not to have to worry about snowstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding (at least not much) and all those other worrisome things…

Stay safe, everyone!

By: Tina

Tina — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:51:10 +0000

Living outside of Philadelphia we have the nasty nor-easters to worry about. LOTS of snow or torrential downpours. I love the snow but the past couple winterstorms have been terrible ice storms. When that happens you’re house-bound for days. YUCK!

By: erin

erin — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:39:41 +0000

Janelle its so good to know you and your family are OK. I live in NY on Long Island so we have to deal with a couple of things every year. Flooding during heavy rain storms, hurricanes in the summer–and the weather forecasters say we are due for a big one, Nor’Easter’s. All of these bad enough on their own but when you throw tides into the mix it can ALWAYS make a bad situation much worse. Thankfully we haven’t had anything too bad lately. Hope everyone had a fun Halloween!

By: Estella

Estella — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:25:51 +0000

that should have been southwestern