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lionoferebor
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Apr 1 2016, 3:02pm
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Rain, Flooding, Tornadoes...Oh My!!!
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It's 10:45AM here but it looks to be about 6:30PM. The clouds are dark, it's pouring, and thunder is rumbling. Currently there is a tornado watch until 2:00PM...fun times.  I won't be surprise if a flash flood warning is not issued within the next hour or two. So yeah, I live in area prone to tornadoes and flooding. There is also the occasional hurricane, but we live far enough inland that the storm has usually weakened by the time it reaches here. So, what is your area prone to?..i.e. tornadoes, flooding, earthquakes, etc.
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Gianna
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Apr 1 2016, 4:19pm
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We had a nice little thunderstorm yesterday and a big one last week. I love storms, thunder is amazing. Our area did get a small tornado last year - one barn lost its roof - and I believe there was a hurricane watch last year as well but nothing came of it thank goodness. We're in southwestern Ontario so we don't get much violent weather.
I hope you're all okay.
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Sarahbor
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Apr 1 2016, 4:33pm
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That's no good 
I live in Maryland so we're not really prone to anything except high taxes (I think I'd prefer the tornado!), but I went to college and grad school in states prone to tornadoes. I was walking home from class when a storm system suddenly blew over; I could see these dark ragged-edged clouds descending and the rain and hail started up, so I ducked into the library until it was over. Another time it was only 6pm but it looked like the middle of the night with all the clouds. The whole campus was closed and the "air raid" sirens were going off nonstop. Yay Tornado Alley 
Actually we do get the occasional hurricane remnant here in MD; I can remember at least 4, but they were all weak category 1s. One of them still blew over our ash tree though, and we lost power for 3-4 days each time.
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Annael
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Apr 1 2016, 4:52pm
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we get some good gales, and then there's the occasional earthquake
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but for us a strong gale is one with 40-60 mph gusts. Maybe every 10 years a storm with 100 mph gusts that does really serious damage (like blowing away a major bridge, which has happened twice). So far the biggest earthquake I've ridden through is a 7.1. They say we could get a 9.0 anytime, but I don't lie awake thinking about it.
Tornadoes terrify me. I wouldn't want to live in tornado country. But I'm sure people don't understand how I can live in earthquake country. I guess the answer is that mountains are in my soul, and the two usually go together.
Which reminds me: we also have volcanoes, one of which has erupted in my lifetime.
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Apr 1 2016, 6:33pm
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Heavy rain, high winds, moderate earthquakes, the occasional tornado.
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Although our tornadoes are midgets compared with North American ones.
We also have a volcano on our back doorstep which, eventually, will erupt again. We're good for a while though.
Your post reminds me of a time when I worked at the local newspaper and I was helping report on a flood in the central city. One photographer was standing on a footpath that ran above and alongside a stream (which was in flood) when the footpath collapsed beneath him and he tumbled into the stream. The reporter he was with said that all she could see of the photographer was his arm holding the camera above the water, "like the Lady in the Lake rising with Excalibur". 
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Sarahbor
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Apr 1 2016, 6:45pm
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I was downright terrified of them as a little kid, because the tornado scene in the Wizard of Oz always freaked me out when I was about 5 years old. So much so that I didn't even want to drive through Kansas on road trips because I was afraid of twisters! I wasn't scared of the witch or the flying monkeys, I was scared of that flipping tornado!
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Starling
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Apr 1 2016, 7:33pm
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Thankfully.
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Otaku-sempai
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Apr 1 2016, 7:50pm
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Here in WNY, we are mostly subject to heavy rains and in the winter, heavy snows.
The only 'earthquake' that I've experienced in this region was actually caused by a mine collapse that was felt as far away as Rochester (where I was working at the time).
I did experience several mild quakes during my tour in Misawa, Japan back in my active service days (in the 1980s).
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Apr 1 2016, 7:58pm
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Wow, this really is 'opposite day'.
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Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
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Darkstone
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Apr 1 2016, 8:07pm
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My first one a few months ago.
Thought it was Lily the dog bumping my desk.
(She's a big dog.)
Supposedly going to be a lot more with all the fracking going on across the border in Oklahoma.
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lionoferebor
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Apr 1 2016, 8:16pm
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We also have a volcano on our back doorstep which, eventually, will erupt again. We're good for a while though.
You seems way to calm about this.
Although our tornadoes are midgets compared with North American ones.
We get some monsters here in the States. A huge tornado hit my hometown several years ago. Destroyed a lot of property including two schools. We lost several young people that day. Fortunately, my family and our homes were unharmed and untouched.
It was one of those tragedies that was picked up by big news media like CNN and Fox News. The President even came to assess the damage and meet with the victims.
As horrible as it was the out pouring of support and aid was beyond words. There are A LOT of amazing people in this dark world we live in.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Apr 1 2016, 8:28pm
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Floods, tornadoes, blizzards, avalanches, rocksldes
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Well, no avalanches or rockslides down here on the plains, but an hour west of here they happen. Also the pine beetle has been something of a natural disaster. We don't usually have earthquakes, but several years ago they tried pumping waste between the layer of oil shale, and that triggered some earthquakes.
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Sarahbor
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Apr 1 2016, 9:21pm
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Made me think of insect pests; we've got the brown marmorated stink bug here, and a few summers ago there was a population explosion and I spent plenty of time squishing them and vacuuming them off the porch. Thankfully their numbers have crashed since.
As for earthquakes, my mom felt plenty growing up in California. I've never felt one, but there was a biggish one where I live a few years ago though I happened to be a little ways out of town at the time and didn't feel it. When we came home all the drawers were open and stuff had fallen off bulletin boards and the cats were going nuts! At the time it happened, we were at my sister's university and she got a generic "warning" text from the system (about the earthquake as we later found out, but they didn't say that in the text). We turned on the car radio and the first thing we heard was "DC is being evacuated..." and we immediately thought "oh **** there's been a terrorist attack" (we live near DC), but found out later it was just because of the quake. People in CA must laugh at this.
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Ataahua
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Apr 1 2016, 10:20pm
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I was taking a taxi to the airport and we somehow got onto the topic of the mountain, and she said, "It'll blow in about 12 years' time."
Me: "That's ... awfully specific."
Her: "Well I moved here 8 years ago and visited the museum and saw an exhibition that said the mountain erupts every 240 years, and it's been 220 years since the last eruption, so..."
Me: "I don't think it works that way."
BTW, isn't Yellowstone overdue for an eruption?
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Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
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Sarahbor
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Apr 1 2016, 10:38pm
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Yellowstone is overdue for an eruption, and the San Andreas fault is overdue for a major quake.
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N.E. Brigand
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Apr 2 2016, 12:43am
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There have been a number of small earthquakes centered in an area about 30 miles east-northeast of Cleveland in my lifetime, the largest of which (5.0) happened the same week as the Challenger space shuttle exploded in 1986, but I was in a noisy school cafeteria and didn't notice it. (There is now some suspicion that some of these earthquakes were caused by "deep waste disposal wells.")
The only earthquake I've ever felt, 5.8 on the scale, happened more than 300 miles from here: the August 2011 earthquake near Richmond, Virginia, which Wikipedia says was felt by more people than any other earthquake in U.S. history. It closed the Washington Monument for more than two years.
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Apr 2 2016, 1:12am
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Earthquakes, droughts and dust storms
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Plus occasional flood, landslide, massive wildfires
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Apr 2 2016, 7:52pm
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A Japanese woman I worked with
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was horrified by the strength of our earthquakes here in Christchurch. She said she has experienced hundreds of earthquakes, but never anything like ours, and equated one of our 4's to 6 at home. Maybe it is something to do with the extra super duper vertical acceleration we tend to go for here.
I suppose we need something to be proud of. 
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