What weather threat most endangers you?

[mvd]

I couldn't post this as a poll at Level 3, but it might be better as a regular topic anyway. Include earthquakes as an option.

Being from Southeastern PA, there's flooding, but I am on higher ground. Biggest threat would probably be from tornadoes, though that's just a moderate risk. It's humid here, but that's more of an annoyance than threat.

[northzax]

1. radioactive wind

from the nukes exploding over the white house, I wager.

actually, probably a massive heat and humidity wave.

[mvd]

6. There's a nuclear power plant a few miles from me

I'd say that's the biggest threat of any. And the Repukes want more - just like in the 80s. :grr:

[billyskank]

2. In my opinion that is the best thing about Britain

Its weather is so blessedly middle-of-the-road. It never gets particularly nice in the summer, and it never gets particularly harsh in the winter, and most of the time it's sorta dull depressing grey rainy shitty kind of weather. I'm really learning to appreciate that now.

[miss_kitty]

7. well except for the hurricane

wasn't that 87? and what about the flooding last spring and the last few years?

granted it's not THAT bad...

[miss_kitty]

8. Earthquakes and pyroclastic flows

Shake rattle and roll

[billyskank]

17. Yeah hurricane

A hurricane in Britain means a load of trees get blown down and half a dozen people get killed. That's bad news to be sure, but it's far from catastrophic.

The flooding is bad, I'll grant you that. It's because the fucking property developers will insist on building on flood plains.
:dunce:

[tjwmason]

11. Agreed - but it may not stay that way

Some of the climatologists looking at global warming suggest that a shift in the Gulf-Stream (which is what keeps us nice and warm in winter) may well be upon us shortly. :scared:

[SOteric]

40. Actually, the UK has the highest frequency of reported tornadoes

per unit area in the world.

http://www.torro.org.uk/TORRO/severeweather/tornadofaqs.php#faq4

[SOteric]

42. Deleted.

Wrong spot.

[WeRQ4U]

3. I lived through the huge flood in Grand Forks, ND in 1997. Was wicked.

But....Tornados and massive thunderstorms where I live now.

[XemaSab]

4. Floods resulting from a breach of Shasta Dam

Big Earthquakes.

Volcanoes (Shasta and Lassen).

Wildfires.

All of the above at once. :(

[supernova]

5. Hurricanes and ice storms

The Carolinas get the occasional hurricane. As far inland as we are, they can still be Cat 3, but it's usually the flooding.

Truely nasty Tstorms with gale-force winds and lightening snapping power lines and trees.

In the winter, Ice Storms are fun with the same results, no power and downed trees.

[BamaGirl]

9. hurricanes, tornados, and floods

Hey, but snow or earthquakes!

[no name no slogan]

10. #1: tornados. I've been in a couple already

A tree fell on me and fractured my skull in the first one. I was two years old, and it is my earliest memory. And it's scary as hell.

#2 would have to be blizzards. Up here in MN, we get at least one big one a year that shuts down everything for a day. Thankfully, being a lifelong Minnesotan, I also know how to survive in case I get stuck in one. It just comes with the territory, I guess.

[Coventina]

12. We sometimes have t-storms with hurricane force winds & more rarely

tornadoes

[Left_Winger]

13. My region is prone to hurricanes

Luckily we have not had a big one since 1989 (Hugo). Some flooding and the rare tornado.

[sarcasmo]

14. In Western Michigan snowstorms and flooding is about all we have to

worry about. The rare Tornado, but that's nothing compared to a Hurricane or Earthquake.

[Radio_Lady]

15. Earthquakes (9.0 is not just an "IF" but a "WHEN" in WA and OR)

Getting my three-day survival kit updated from 2000.

[WCGreen]

16. tornado's and Blizzards.....

[KitchenWitch]

18. Tornadoes, Severe Thunderstorms

We have had severe thunderstorms that have caused just as much damage as many tornadoes.

In the winter - blizzards and sub-zero temperatures.

[Left Is Write]

20. There was a wild storm that ripped through

while I was home in July...can't remember the date, but it was a Saturday, and my folks had just left for their health club, so I'm guessing it was around 10-ish A.M. when it hit St. Cloud before heading for the Cities.

The sky was black...and then it turned green. It was the first storm in years that really scared me, and I'd forgotten how a green sky could make me feel. It cured me of my "back home storms" nostalgia, at least temporarily.

[KitchenWitch]

21. I remember that storm

It was frightening....especially since I live in a split level with no basement...we hung out in the bathroom that is under the stairwell.

[Left Is Write]

25. I put the kids in the basement, in the one room without windows.

I went upstairs to call my dad (my cell phone didn't work well in the basement), because I wanted to make sure they'd made it to the club before it hit.

I told him I was upstairs looking out the front windows, and he literally ordered me to hang up and get the hell downstairs. I'm lucky he had a flashlight on his desk, because the power went out as soon as I got downstairs and the kids were pretty scared.

[no name no slogan]

26. Yes, that one was SCARY

I was at work in DT St Paul, and we could hardly see a 1/4 mile in either direction. It was dark as night, and you could see the wall clouds right above our building. At least one of them looked like it was starting to form a funnel. THAT was some scary stuff.

[Left Is Write]

19. Probably earthquakes.

I live in the general Boise area - the Treasure Valley in southwest Idaho.

We get very little in the way of snow here. That's up in the mountains (the five winters I've been here, there has been only one day each with enough snow for a snowman). There are sometimes ice storms, but nothing that's impeded daily activities longer than a day or so.

Tornadoes? They've been known to happen here, but it's very, very rare.

No hurricanes.

There's been a couple of earthquakes since I've lived here, but so mild I didn't even feel them.

We've had droughts, but again, pretty mild compared to elsewhere.

[billyskank]

23. Don't wanna be a pedant but

are earthquakes weather?

:hide:






(Of course I wanna be a pedant. I love it!!!!!) :crazy:

[KitchenWitch]

24. See the OP

Earthquakes, although not really weather, were included in the query.

YOU PEDANT! :P

[billyskank]

28. So it is!

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[KitchenWitch]

30. Now that is a little over the top

:rofl:

:hi:

[billyskank]

32. No, it's fully justified

I'm always doing shit like that! :D

[Left Is Write]

27. The OP said to include earthquakes.

I'm sure they come under the heading of "natural disasters" if not specifically weather.

[billyskank]

29. Yeah.....I knew that!

:banghead:

[Left Is Write]

33. Then why are you banging your head against a brick wall?

We all agree that earthquakes aren't technically weather, but they are included at the request of the OP.

No headbanging necessary. :)

[billyskank]

34. I am banging my head because

I didn't know that. I went off on a half-cocked pedant trip without fully reading the original post. Believe me, I do this shit at least once a week!

[no name no slogan]

36. And I thought it was just "Metal Health" driving you mad

:headbang:

[Left Is Write]

47. Oh. But if you didn't...

would you still be you? ;)

[mvd]

39. Yep, I know it isn't strictly weather, but..

I wanted to make an exception for a couple of the common natural disasters.

Everyone stay safe and have a great weekend!

[alarcojon]

22. Tornados and flooding

Wisconsin has been hit by several powerful tornados over the years; luckily none have come through my neck of the woods, but it could happen. Also, we live close to a river, so if it floods we could lose our basement.

[liberaltrucker]

31. Tornadoes

and where I live in West Central Alabama, the occasional weakening hurricane.

[scarlet_owl]

35. Tornadoes. I do live in a trailer park.

[alarcojon]

37. I have a lot of family in Quito, Ecuador

an area prone to earthquakes AND volcanic activity:



Legend has it that the patron saint of Ecuador once said that Quito will be destroyed neither by volcanos nor earthquakes, but by bad government. If you look at the merry-go-round of presidents of Ecaudor recently, it's hard not to agree.

[BiggJawn]

38. Tornado, Blizzard, and Earthquake.

We're famous for the first 2 and they keep telling us that the New Madrid Fault is gonna come "unlocked" some day...

At least they USED to tell us that until Baghdad Bob got ahold of FEMA and is trying to do it like he did IAHA...

[huskerlaw]

41. Tornados

we typically have a couple nasty ones a year. The past 2 years, we've lost one town/year. But only like 3 deaths total. I'd take tornados over nearly any other natural disaster any day.

[BikeWriter]

43. Texas hurricanes and tornados

[SmokingJacket]

44. Snow and ice.

Upstate New York.

[SOteric]

45. Tsunami, earthquakes, forest fires, lahar, volcanic activity & mudslides

[ceile]

46. tornados and floods, hurricanes in some areas.