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SoCal: Earthquakes. Even a 3.2 has me running out into the street screaming real high pitched like a little girl, my arms waving over my head. I'm sorry, but where I come from, it's terra firma.
Tornadoes? Just something to chase after in your car. Earthquakes? No warning...no nothing; no way!
You name it, we got it. We're famous for tornadoes, but also have drought, wildland fires, floods (records set in May 2015), the blizzard in conjunction with the ice storm on December 27th took down so many power lines we were without electricity for several days; even have earthquakes now. No wonder the National Weather Service Service Storm Prediction Center is up the road in Norman. (But they have it worse, we just watch the tornadoes form up and march northeast from SW OK.)
Three years ago, we had a terrible ice storm. Not small round hail, but odd shaped big ice particles combined with high winds.
This south east Montana storm was wide spread, and took out over half the roofs on homes, and did a lot of damage to vehicles. We had to have a new roof, fortunately the insurance company covered all but $500. Also dented the F-150. Was worth about $9,000 at the time, and as we had bought it for $6,000 2 years earlier when you could not give a big vehicle away due to high gas prices, damage was $4,400. Took the cash, as a few small dents on a pickup used for dump runs and to go shopping when we will have to bring home larger items, as the paint was not hurt, and you only see it when very close a $1,600 investment in a pickup is not bad. Have a standing offer to take it off our hands for the $6,000 we paid. Runs like a new one with low mileage. Our barn has a metal roof, and it has a few dents on it but paint O.K. and get several thousand dollars from the insurance company. Only way you can see the dents is to get up on it.
That is an example of what I think is a bad storm.
Wildfires (including the haze/smog), just about every drought. Not entirely natural disaster though, as the drought only inside the drought (some people burn the forest). For real natural disaster, flood. Or severe thunderstorms in higher lands (where flooding is uncommon), not long ago a severe thunderstorm cut down the power for 13 hours
Strong extra tropical storms can be bad news for anyone at sea. Otherwise, not much to worry about here.
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