Tied between Hurricane Sandy (I was literally in Connecticut and the winds were still bad) and a recent-ish (March 2023) wind storm here in Kentucky. 70mph winds. Very fun. A McDonalds got can opener-ed. Power was out for 3 days, and we were some of the first. Worst winds in a couple of decades.

Climate change in general.

Weather getting worse and worse

Global Climate Change / Anthropocene Extinction event.

definitely the Tubbs Fire. You can see where my childhood home used to be in the wikipedia image! Fortunately, we didn’t live there at the time, we were a couple neighborhoods over, but it was still quite scary, the air was horrible, it lasted forever, and we had to evacuate for a while to my grandma’s house to the south. Fortunately the worst of the damage to our home was holes melted in the fake grass from raining embers, and a persistent smell of smoke, and nobody i knew got hurt.

someday, i want to live somewhere that doesn’t have to worry about ‘fire season’.

I’ve been through some significant droughts, which are probably worse overall that the few minor floods and forest fires.

Hurricane Katrina. We were on the outskirts of the storm and were inundated with evacuees. The city was closed for a curfew. Got stuck driving far from home to sleep at a friend’s house. Spent the next 3 days cutting trees and cleaning debris at all of our family and friends houses. No power. Hottt. Wake me up when September Dnds was real to us.

I’ve seen the aftermath of various larger ones,but that is kind of my job,so it doesn’t count.

And I got married on the day on the day my wife’s hometown was hit by the Central European summer floods. We didn’t notice much, though,thanks to fabulous staff at the venue.

I experienced a few local ones, though - an avalanche, a thunderstorm in the alps that had torrential gusts of 180km/h and killed a few people (and we were in a very exposed spot-that was fucking scary) - one person died a mere 800m away from us (but we didn’t know and would not have any means to get there in time anyway, as it was 600m vertical rock between us and he died on the spot).

Have been through hurricanes, but the most severe natural disaster I’ve been in was a flood around 1980, it rained steadily, not so hard but without stopping, for over 2 weeks and the storm drain system just slowly got overwhelmed and the streets started filling up, my mom’s house was pretty far above street level and far from the river and the bay but still got flooded, people were getting out on boats in what had been streets but now were streams. I was you and remember getting out but don’t remember how we returned.

The August 2020 derecho that tore up a lot of the US Midwest. I lost power for 4 days, there was extremely hot weather, and I had a menial labor job at that time. it was hell

When I was little we had a bad storm that knocked down turns of trees and took out the power for like a week.

More recently, various wildfires in California. We fortunately didn’t need to evacuate, but we were ready and could see the flames cresting the hills of the state park from our house.

Both major freezes in the last 5 years in Texas.

Perth hailstorm of 2011. Every car was pockmarked for about a decade after, and some lawn chairs fell over. In the grand scheme of things, not that big

2010 chilean Earthquake and tsunami (8.8), and the 2016-17 forest fires too

Chile has an extreme propensity to natural disasters, but Chileans have learn to deal with them so they aren’t that bad, like after the 2010 8.8 quake there was an 8.5 or so in 2015 that caused little damage because lessons were learned, consider that quakes over 6.0 happens every year or two in chile, also we have floods, forest fires? Volcanoes, landslide, etc.

My grandma felt the 9.5 Valdivia quake (biggest earthquake recorded in world history) and shortly after started working in the ministry of infrastructure, she always says she had to type “devastated area” a lot lol, my mom also felt her fair share of quakes too, and my parents were just away from Santiago (the city where we live) when a enormous flood hit here and caused a ton of damage, and we’re not talking about the natural disasters that happened in other areas of the county, like more quakes, floods, forest fires and volcanoes…

Yeah, if you want to safely-ish experience natural disasters, come live in chile! Lmao.

The Witch Creek Fires in San Diego in 2007. I didn’t receive the reverse 911 call and ended up fleeing my building after it was already on fire.

I live in tornado alley