Natural disasters at your place?

[diddi]

Last year I got flooded in at home for 9 days, and on sunday a 12600 acre bushfire came to within a km of my place. Its all a bit much really!

How has Mother Nature treated others around the world?

 

[royUK]

My sympathies, I have family in Oz.

UK is suffering as well

BBC News - UK floods: More flooding fears as storms forecast

 

[TinaP]

In the past 5 years, I've had a flash flood at my house, a 5.1 mag earthquake centered 15 miles away, tornadoes within 15 miles, blizzards, freezing rain, temps over 100F and under -10F, and a derecho. I should move, but it's the only excitement in my life.

 

[Joe4]

It has been a rough winter here in the States. Lots of unusually cold weather and storms. Us Northeners are used to it and are doing okay, but Southern places not used to the snow and ice are having a harder time of it, like the city of Atlanta that was brought to its knees a few weeks ago by a few inches of snow, and are getting an ice storm now: Southeast shivers, slides under winter storm - CNN.com

One eerie but cool thing I experienced for the first time this year was "thundersnow". It is a pretty freaky thing to drive through after dark. You don't except to see lightning when driving in snowy white-out conditions.

 

[TinaP]

One eerie but cool thing I experienced for the first time this year was "thundersnow". It is a pretty freaky thing to drive through after dark. You don't except to see lightning when driving in snowy white-out conditions.

Yep, we had thundersnow here too. Scared the bejesus out of me. An unbelievably bright flash (amplified, I'm sure, by all the white snow) followed by an earth-shaking rumble. Then again, I don't think I'm that far away from Joe4.

 

[Joe4]

Then again, I don't think I'm that far away from Joe4.

I actually experienced it driving along Route 90 just south of Buffalo, right next to Lake Erie.
They say that it is very rare because the air is usually not humid enough for thunder/lightning in the winter. I guess it needs just the right combination of mixed weather fronts and a big body of unfrozen water to pick up the needed moisture. Hence, I guess the Great Lakes is one of the most common places for such occurrences.

And I know that Ohio is on Lake Erie too!

 

[diddi]

never seen or heard of thundersnow, but sounds intimidating if you are driving. aus. has been unseasonally hot this summer with many days over 100F in a row, and hence the fires (particularly in the southern part of the continent. we are relatively free of earthquakes here as we lie near the centre of a continental plate.

UK floods getting airplay on aus. news services. thames has broken its banks I see. get those Wellies out chaps!

 

[bradhog]

I am lucky there no natural disaster at my place.

 

[schielrn]

In the past 5 years, I've had a flash flood at my house, a 5.1 mag earthquake centered 15 miles away, tornadoes within 15 miles, blizzards, freezing rain, temps over 100F and under -10F, and a derecho. I should move, but it's the only excitement in my life.

Gotta love Ohio weather. Can be 60F one day and two days later it can be back into the single digits.

 

[Joe4]

Gotta love Ohio weather. Can be 60F one day and two days later it can be back into the single digits

I think you can say that for pretty much all of the Northeast!
I can remember having temperatures in the 70Fs and snow in the same week here in NY.