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Was in northern California for the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake which was 6.9. While I was about 120 miles from the epicenter, Santa Rosa is built mostly on a dry lake bed with very unstable soils that suffer from liquefaction during a strong shake. Very little damage there, but the place sure pitched and rolled with the S-waves!

We were on the bridge that collapsed in Genoa, Italy, a few years back about ten days before it went down. I had a really uneasy feeling about it when we were crossing, which normally I don't experience. Was very glad when we were across it.

 
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Nothing very big, but it was unexpected when we had our little earth quake in the North East last year. Never been involved in one.
 
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Northridge quake..it was like 4am
It shook so hard literally got rolled out of bed

The city was without power and after it stopped it was pitch black. All you could hear was car alarms going off everywhere.

Surreal.

A few hours later Big Bear quake hit..
 
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ackatch said:
Convince me that Creed isn't the best character in The Office.

I don't think anyone can.
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Litmus test. Can he make you lol without speaking? Then yes.

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Alswelk said:
I was driving east towards my hometown on Highway 20 when the 2008 Parkersburg tornado happened. I saw it but, like an idiot, kept right on driving.
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I found mail and office documents from Parkersburg in my pasture after it. I'm probably 100 miles from there as the crow flies. Just an absolute monster of a storm.
 
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Die4Cy said:
I found mail and office documents from Parkersburg in my pasture after it. I'm probably 100 miles from there as the crow flies. Just an absolute monster of a storm.
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A friend of mine, his wife and young daughter rode it out in their basement in Parkersburg. Listening to him tell the story, it's amazing none of them were seriously hurt. The house was completely blown away.
 
Three that I can think of:

The October 1997 snowstorm in Omaha. Maybe 8-9" inches of wet, heave snow + trees with most of their leaves + mostly above-ground power lines = 11 days without power despite living in the center of Omaha. Pioneer life is not for me.

Last August, we had a 4.something earthquake which did absolutely zero damage other than rattle some dishes but was more than enough for me. My wife was freaking out and I was in the middle of a work call with clients.

We evacuated because of the Sunset Fire last Wednesday. It was very scary getting out, and several hours where we weren't sure if we were going to have a home. We were very fortunate the winds had just died down. If it had happened a few hours earlier, it might have been a very different story.
 
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Back in the 70s a big April blizzard came through lost power for nearly 2 weeks my cousins moved in with us because the generator ended back up at our house because we milked and the other 2 farms had beef and hogs pre confinement days.

A tornado came thru the farm did some took the windows out of the 1st floor of the house and drove a chunk of 2x4 through the back window of our car. This was also in the 70s.

A couple of yrs ago that December tornado took 3 roofs off some outbuildings but no damage to my folks house other than a piece of corner trim got pulled loose. Luckily no one ever got hurt in any of these.
 
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