Any personal experience of natural disasters?
Discussion
After watching a 4 part series on Netflix
any one have any real world experience of anything major?
We were present for a 6.7 Earthquake in 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEdNPr7jgmU
proper alarming going from asleep to thinking a steam train was passing through the bedroom.
The earth and everything else in the villa shook or fell over(only a few broken items luckiy)
The pool emptied a fair bit also.
after shocks for a few days afterwards , that you heard before the feeling of the ground shaking.
We spent the rest of the night in the hire car all the houses around people dragged chairs and mattresses outside to rest.
certainly left a mark in my mind for a while afterwards.
any one have any real world experience of anything major?
We were present for a 6.7 Earthquake in 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEdNPr7jgmU
proper alarming going from asleep to thinking a steam train was passing through the bedroom.
The earth and everything else in the villa shook or fell over(only a few broken items luckiy)
The pool emptied a fair bit also.
after shocks for a few days afterwards , that you heard before the feeling of the ground shaking.
We spent the rest of the night in the hire car all the houses around people dragged chairs and mattresses outside to rest.
certainly left a mark in my mind for a while afterwards.
My cousin and her husband were in Thailand when the tsunami hit. They had been on a taxi tour and had stopped at a remote beach. They were enjoying the scenery when their taxi driver went bananas and told them to get in the taxi otherwise he would leave them there. It was only as he was driving them to higher ground they looked back and saw the beach where they had been was completely inundated with water. We had an anxious 12 hours or so trying to contact them to find out if they were OK.
I was in Thailand for the 2004 tsunami - I was in the north though and didn’t know what what happening at first. Could have been an ideal time to “disappear” though and know of a couple of people who effectively did.
I was also in Florida when Irma hit in 2017. Never experienced anything like it and it was all a bit surreal. Rather than stay in our property I checked into the Hyatt on IDrive which was like a whole little village. The aftermath was strange but I was pleased to be able to get a flight back quite easily with Virgin to the UK when they started coming back online.
I was also in Florida when Irma hit in 2017. Never experienced anything like it and it was all a bit surreal. Rather than stay in our property I checked into the Hyatt on IDrive which was like a whole little village. The aftermath was strange but I was pleased to be able to get a flight back quite easily with Virgin to the UK when they started coming back online.
I was in Penang at the time of the Tsunami. My Gf thought i'd farted when the earthquake rumbled and we were in bed, many hours later on we were all stood on the beach watching this wave come towards us not knowing what the heck it was.
We were so far away it was reasonably gentle there in comparison, maybe a few killed, but not many. I remember the fishing boats all perched inland by the road the next day and the beaches covered in dead fish.
I've actually got it all on an old camcorder disc somewhere.
We were so far away it was reasonably gentle there in comparison, maybe a few killed, but not many. I remember the fishing boats all perched inland by the road the next day and the beaches covered in dead fish.
I've actually got it all on an old camcorder disc somewhere.
Lived in California as a kid, just across the bridge from San Francisco. House on the side of Mt Tamalpais (convinced it was spelled different in the seventies) much of it on stilts including the decking where we played. Regular earthquakes, seemed like most days. Brother and I would stand lego men on the balustrade and see who would 'win' by theirs not falling. One day aunt and mum came rushing out and grabbed us both in. Was a big one apparently, but if it had really been bad, we'd have joined the lego men down the mountain with the house most probably.
I experienced a 6.2 quake in Maracaibo once. We were in bed at night when things started bouncing about. Having spent my earlier working life as a geologist I was naturally very interested. That didn’t last more than four or five seconds. After that I was just praying for it to stop. Four floors up in a block of flats is not where you want to be when the ground turns to jelly. I have never felt so helpless in all my life.
I've been in a few.
I was in Houston for both Hurricane Ike in 2008 & Harvey in 2017.
Anchorage 2018 for a 7.9 earthquake. Incredible feeling.
Close shaves.
Spent 2 weeks on the Piper Alpha & left 4 days before it blew up.
In 1990 I had a business trip to Hong Kong.
Business Class ticket (yay) & the travel agent gave me a choice.
British Airways to Kuwait then a connecting flight.
Singapore Airlines to Singapore then a connecting flight.
I'd recently flown BA Business (ah, the good old days) & hadn't flown flown Singapore Airlines so decided to give that a try.
Turned out this was the day that Saddam invaded Kuwait & BA149 was held & the passengers held hostage.
I was in Houston for both Hurricane Ike in 2008 & Harvey in 2017.
Anchorage 2018 for a 7.9 earthquake. Incredible feeling.
Close shaves.
Spent 2 weeks on the Piper Alpha & left 4 days before it blew up.
In 1990 I had a business trip to Hong Kong.
Business Class ticket (yay) & the travel agent gave me a choice.
British Airways to Kuwait then a connecting flight.
Singapore Airlines to Singapore then a connecting flight.
I'd recently flown BA Business (ah, the good old days) & hadn't flown flown Singapore Airlines so decided to give that a try.
Turned out this was the day that Saddam invaded Kuwait & BA149 was held & the passengers held hostage.
I was at Butlins in February when it was a bit windy, they closed the resort and asked if people could go home early that would be great.
Packed our bags thursday, had dinner watched the shows and left at about 10pm. Bit of a result as no traffic, straight through the Dartford tunnel as opposed to hitting it in a friday afternoon!
Turned the kids trampoline upsidedown as a precaution too
Thats my best effort in experiencing a natural disasters.
Packed our bags thursday, had dinner watched the shows and left at about 10pm. Bit of a result as no traffic, straight through the Dartford tunnel as opposed to hitting it in a friday afternoon!
Turned the kids trampoline upsidedown as a precaution too
Thats my best effort in experiencing a natural disasters.
Closest I got was this year, not anything major but the day after landing in Tampa, I was watching NFL around 9pm in my condo and suddenly a big red ticker appears on the bottom of the telly with "Tornado warning has been issued for your county, please take immediate shelter, danger to life" etc. Then they cut away from the game for a few minutes to the live weather radar and basically explained a thunderstorm a few miles away was showing signs of rotation and there was a chance of a tornado developing.
Florida is no tornado alley, so I wasn't too worried but it was definitely an "err what do I do" moment. Warning was cancelled 20 minutes later when the thunderstorm fizzled out.
Florida is no tornado alley, so I wasn't too worried but it was definitely an "err what do I do" moment. Warning was cancelled 20 minutes later when the thunderstorm fizzled out.
seabod91 said:
While not a disaster, I was awoke by the 2008 earthquake that hit Lincolnshire. The most surreal thing I have witnessed.
It was surreal for me too, I was still up at the time, but I’m afraid I was very, very drunkOne of my mates and his wife were also woken, she accused him of waking her up by having a w
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