I live where I've experienced . . .

[Bertha Venation]

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. . . a tornado, three hurricanes, two mammoth snowfalls (dunno if they were technically blizzards), and an earthquake. If you don't already know, can you figure out where I live from this?

What have you experienced where you live?

[HereSince1628]

1. I've experienced...tornado, drought, blizzard, flooding and a Koch/A.L.E.C. takeover

of state government.

We call the first 4 weather. The last one we call disaster.

[pipi_k]

2. Natural phenomenon count here...

A bunch of hurricanes

tornado

earthquake

blizzards

a couple of ice storms

minor droughts

Without looking, I really couldn't tell where you live, as there are large areas of the country where all of that sort of thing happens.

Although now that I recall, I do know where you live from a previous post about a boat trip...

[RedCloud]

3. I'm guessing California.

But NOT Anaheim. (Although that was my visual clue)

[Bertha Venation]

12. A good guess, but no.

I live in Southern Maryland and work in Washington, DC.



(And I'm a native So. Californian, born in Santa Monica, grew up in Huntington Beach.)

[Smuckies]

4. Ive experienced a revolution and sandstorms

Gotta love being an expat in Egypt

And tornadoes from growing up in Central Illinois. Traumatized by them...still have dreams about them several times a month

[Bertha Venation]

13. Damn. I'm sorry.

We were four miles as the crow flies from the path of an F4 tornado in So. Maryland in 2002. I guess I exaggerated a little -- but sitting in the basement during the most frightening weather-related experience I've ever had didn't feel like an exaggeration. I kept waiting for the sucking feeling as the roof peeled off.

I can understand how tornadoes would leave you with nightmares, Smuckies.

How did you come to live in Egypt?

[Smuckies]

17. I can remember hearing the "freight train" sound

During a tornado warning in the 1990's. I was only like 8-9. Funnel cloud right above my house, and the sirens were blaring, yet it was so quiet. It was so eerie. I never got over it and im 21 now.

I study Arabic and political science in Cairo and want to work in the US embassy in Cairo after I graduate. As long as its safe by that time.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

15. I can relate.

I am on meds due the one that I was lucky to live through. EF-5.

[SCantiGOP]

5. somewhere near DC?

[Bertha Venation]

11. Yep. Live in So. MD, work in DC.

[Art_from_Ark]

6. I've experienced more than 1000 earthquakes (including some really big ones),

I've seen a few typhoons pass through, there was a devastating tornado just a few miles away from me earlier this year (and another one just down the road a few years before that), and last year I was regularly checking web sites for reports on nuclear fallout from the crippled reactor complex 100 miles to the north of me.

[revolution breeze]

7. Earthquakes in 3 states, multiple hurricanes and tropical storms

4 tornadoes, a blizzard, and a couple of ice storms. Almost forgot dust storms in the desert.

[Denninmi]

8. Bertha, I too am guessing the D.C./Baltimore area.

Here in Michigan, we have blizzards, ice storms, thunderstorms, tornados, drought, floods, wind.

We have had 3-4 minor earthquakes I can remember. Never strong enough to cause any damage. The strongest one was a 6 something centered in SE Ohio but felt here, it was a shaking vibration like having a heavy truck go by your house.

[Bertha Venation]

14. Yep.

During the August 2011 earthquake that hit Virginia (felt very well, TYVM, in Washington, DC, and at our house in So. MD), Mrs. V. said that at first she thought it was a really big truck approaching from down the road -- then her desk chair rolled across the hardwood floor. But I can only laugh because it didn't scare her.

I didn't know that earthquakes happened anywhere else but on the Pacific Rim before I moved to the DC area. I'd heard of little ones here and there around the country, but now that I live away from So. California, my eyes are being opened.

[Kali]

9. 20 + years of drouth

[OriginalGeek]

10. not all at the same place

but I've been near tornadoes, been in hurricanes, got out of school for ice storms/heavy snow.

Never experienced a quake or a volcano though.

[AsahinaKimi]

16. Actually lived in several places...

and from them experienced the following;

Earthquakes
Mud Slide
Flooding
Massive Snowstorms
Thick Fog
Ice Storm
Dust storm

[rrneck]

18. Tornados, earthquakes and floods. nt