Natural Disasters

hurricanes
tidal surge
water spouts
tornados
earthquakes - no mountains here but there are fault lines in the Gulf

I don't know of any area without the potential for some type of natural disaster. Natural occurrences are out of our control and the disasters that most concern me are the man-made ones...like oil spills.

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Floods
Blizzards
Tornadoes

(All of them have directly affected my household in the past few years)

Fires
Lightning
We have even had very light earthquakes here. I never felt them, but some people have.

And you said natural disasters so that would rule out other very real threats such as chemical spills, contaminated water, disruption of food supplies and power outages.

Nothing (so far), thankfully.

Where I live is seismically stable (the last earth tremor I remember feeling was 25 or 30 years ago; it happened across the Irish Sea in Wales, and was only enough to rattle a few glasses on the table here); hurricanes peter out long before they reach here; it doesn't get particularly stormy at any time; it hardly ever snows (despite being about the same latitude as Hudson Bay in Canada); there are no dangerous creepy crawlies; it's never really gets too cold...nor too hot, for that matter. Mostly, it just rains (though rarely enough to cause even minor flooding).

And there hasn't been a recorded tsunami here in 300 years, and even that wasn't particularly destructive. As far as I know, the only real cause for concern in that area nowadays is the potential for a future collapse of the Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canaries, which some claim would create a mega-tsunami. It's widely considered a pretty unlikely event but, were it to happen, it appears the bulk of the wave would be directed towards North and Central America instead of Europe (which is good for us, though obviously not for all of you over there).

I think here in Central CA it would have to be flooding and monkeys (local government causes more problems than disasters here). Of course, if you go due west for around 70 miles earthquakes take over.

Northern California - nothing ever happens here. I am on a very quiet bay - however the Japanese tsunami hit south and north of here and did some damage on the coast - the water here didn't even ripple.

Earthquakes - we don't even feel them here but they are all around. The little ones are good as they release pressure and help keep us from 'the big one' everyone is anticipating.

Have been within 50 miles of here all my life and been through 2 earthquakes - 1 that was pretty bad but that is about it.

Biggest deal around here is usually when one of the refineries across the bay has a leak or fire - it's nice and windy though so can't smell it here.

When I hear the horror stories about what is expected for California I think I should move but I don't know where I would go - so I guess I will go down with it if it ever goes ...

Kurt: "rock slides (my aunt had a rock hit her car while driving down the cannon, almost killed her)"

what was she doing driving down a cannon- lucky that is all she got hit with was a rock.

(sorry couldn't resist)

I'm waiting for a meteor to smash my house to pieces.
Other than that, see ya at the beach homies.

Pretty 'lucky' in Australia ... the main natural 'disasters' are hurricanes, floods, bush fires,
droughts... and morons.

No earthquakes or bad tornados etc, but idiotic morons run
rampage through this country

Nothing too serious but good ol' winter storms in lovely Canada.
I heard some cities close to mine get tornadoes, but thank God we've never had one in Calgary.
I've never experienced an earthquake in the 12 years I've lived here so I'm not sure if that's a possibility.
Oh yah and our province does get forest fires in the summer but only the mild smoke ever reaches our city. Thank God again for that.

Oh yah and in regard to your natural danger quote, I'd say horrible drivers in Calgary. There's lots of them here.

If there's lots of horrible drivers then everyone have to drive carefully

We are located in Southern California, so not only are we known for earthquakes but now we had a tsunami warning on the coast!!

I live in Oregon and apparently we are on the Cascadia fault line. Small earth quakes happen here, but we never feel them. However, if a 9.0 earthquake hits, we would be dealing with major devastation here. The Madrid fault line back is another concern along with all the huge fault lines in California. You can't predict the future though. Whatever happens...happens...

Pretty lucky here in South Australia - we had a small earthquake here last year - first one I've ever felt here.

We have just come out of a drought that lasted for years. We have bushfires out in the hills. But right here where I am, we're pretty good here!