Mastodawn

How many of these disasters have you experienced?

Hurricane/Cyclone

Flood/Flash Flood

7.5%

Wildfire

4.2%

Volcanic Eruption

1.3%

Blizzard

8.1%

Extreme Heat

10.4%

Extreme Cold

7.6%

Extreme Drought

4.8%

Earthquake

7.6%

Ice Storm

7.6%

Sinkhole

0.6%

Tsunami

0.4%

Typhoon

Derecho

1.7%

Avalanche

0.4%

Landslide

1.2%

Mudslide

0.9%

Extreme Hail

4.2%

Extreme Wind/Gale

7.7%

Nor'easter

3.4%

Dust Storm

3.2%

Limnic Eruption

0.1%

Killer Fog

1.7%

Subsidence

0.7%

Government Extremes

7.8%

Poll ended at Mar 13 at 3:59pm.

Susanna the Artist 🌻Mar 12

@kimlockhartga I didn’t check “volcanic eruption” but I did visit an active volcano, Sakurajima, that had steam puffing out the top.

@superflippy oh, did you find that unsettling?

Susanna the Artist 🌻Mar 12

@kimlockhartga Not really. It had been so long since it actually erupted it was just kind of cool.

Mar 13

@superflippy Just enough of a thrill. I am frightened of exploring a caldera, even a long-extinct one, except Yellowstone, because it's so big you can't even tell that you're in it.

@superflippy @kimlockhartga

Billy Smith Mar 13

If you live anywhere connected to the North Atlantic, then you have had the indirect effects of the volcano's in Iceland. :D

Mar 13

@BillySmith @superflippy Correct.

Theramansi 🏳️‍🌈🦁✊🏽💉'd Mar 12

oops , I should have checked Derecho - Tulsa-June 2023

@Theramansi those scare the BeJesus out of me: no warning.

Theramansi 🏳️‍🌈🦁✊🏽💉'd Mar 12

@kimlockhartga Tulsa used the tonado sirens to warn eveyone. Many Tulsa nieghborhoods were without power for days. Took three days for us to get it back.

@Theramansi Tulsa folx are tough. Not just storms, but that special kind of heat that will make me pass out, and I live in the South!

QCATOPR

@kimlockhartga Nine. I sure pick ridiculous places to live.

@timjclevenger All the places are ridiculous now. We have snowstorms at the beach and hurricanes on top of mountains.

🐞_𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐢𝐕𝐀_🐞Mar 12

@kimlockhartga I experienced 7 here..

Hotter, even more cross Bunny Mar 12

(laughing so, so, SO super casually)

Ha, ha...killer fog. Good one. Sure am glad that's probably not real at all. At all.

Catherine is not complacent Mar 12

@HCBunny @kimlockhartga had to creep off the highway and settle into a truck stop parking lot. Literally could not see more than a foot in front of the car.

@CatDragon @HCBunny exactly. That's how we get those sudden pileups with like 100 cars.

Hotter, even more cross Bunny Mar 12

OMG. I thought, like, TOXIC fog. Like fog that makes one sick? Why I thought that, I don't know. Maybe because it's pretty much always foggy here.

@HCBunny @CatDragon I think that is actually a thing too. In some ways that could describe the asphyxiation cloud that can form over a body of water when toxic gasses bubble up to the surface (a rare event).

Hotter, even more cross Bunny Mar 13

ALLEGEDLY 😬

@HCBunny oh, it's real. You don't want to experience it.

Hisses with Geese 🌱Mar 12

@kimlockhartga I chose Killer Fog because the “tule fog” in Cali Central Valley gets so thick there are car/truck pileup accidents & related deaths yearly.

@dasparky that's definitely a qualified example.

Tim Chase Mar 12

@kimlockhartga left wondering a few technicalities

• how large hail needs to be to get called "extreme hail"? (largest was baseball sized, 2.9 inches/7.4cm)

• if it's an active but blurbling volcano, does it count?

• does the periphery of a hurricane count?

But getting 10 does seem a bit excessive 🤔

Catherine is not complacent Mar 12

@gumnos @kimlockhartga I counted hail that wasn’t giant but did destroy the screens on two sides of the house.
Was a bit windy too.

@CatDragon @gumnos Destruction of any kind counts. Hail always scares me, especially prolonged hail, because a tornado could be hiding right behind it, wrapped in rain, so you can't even see it. I just go ahead and take cover if I see hail.

@gumnos I think all that counts. I've seen a lot if damaging hail, but never big enough to break my windshield.

Xyphoid process Mar 12

@kimlockhartga I thought I could check Killer Frog. But it says fog... :(

Paul_IPv6 Mar 12

gack. way more than i would have thought if you'd just asked. guess i'm lucky to be mostly intact. ;)

@paul_ipv6 Perhaps we are lucky, that you made it through.

i got 14/25....

@paul_ipv6 that is a lot!

Paul_IPv6 Mar 12

you probably shouldn't take advice from me on where to live, i guess. ;)

Catherine is not complacent Mar 12

@kimlockhartga 16. We moved a lot.

@CatDragon wow! Yeah you moved a lot. You had to get used to a new place, new lingo, new popular food dishes, and often new names for things.

panu Mar 12

@kimlockhartga
Maybe a blizzard? Not sure, though, what counts as one. I mean we do have lots of snow and strong winds here every winter.

Also, what's extreme cold? The coldest I've been outside (and working) was -38°C.

@shadowdancer I'd say the -40 range is extreme. Also, I think of blizzards as whiteout conditions, the plows can't keep up, and you end up crawling out of a window (a storm window, no less) so you can come around and clear the front door at the top of the steps.

king toot uncommon

🏴Mar 12

@kimlockhartga I didn't see "haboob" but I think it may be a subset of derecho

@capn_b a worthy addition. You are right. Remember when they were unheard of events?

king toot uncommon

🏴Mar 12

@kimlockhartga I remember when the word was weird enough that everyone was making boob jokes!

@capn_b We argued about the dumbest stuff imaginable.

Fish Id Wardrobe ⁂Mar 12

@kimlockhartga i didn't tick "extreme wind" because, well, UK here. my idea of extreme wind is kinda tame.

@fishidwardrobe You have had some unusually strong storms in the past decade. That extratropical cyclone in 2017, and all those storms in Wales this past year.

Я⊛ḶḶ model ‽‽‽Mar 12

sharknado is conspiuously absent from this list

@saltywizard 😃😄😁

@kimlockhartga I vividly remember the Mt St Helens eruption and aftermath

@starlily It was stunning.

Lee Hauser Mar 12

@starlily @kimlockhartga Yep...I was under the eastern edge of the initial ash cloud. Quite an experience.

Mar 13

@lhauser @starlily yikes!

Anthony C. Bartman Mar 12

@kimlockhartga not many, but my mom thought I was a disaster when she gave birth to me. Thankfully, she's not in my life anymore.

@rommix0 oh my goodness. That is hard to hear, but I'm glad that you felt safe in sharing it. I hope you have a nurturing figure in your life. I've seen what a lack of love and care can do to a person.

Anthony C. Bartman Mar 12

@kimlockhartga To be honest, the only person who was the nurturing figure (and my worst enemy) is myself. That's just reality as people have always underestimated me in real life.

Thankfully I've found people on here I can safely call friends. There's that.

Also I agree. Experiences like that would tend to fuck anybody up.

@rommix0 I am so glad you've found your people.

Anthony C. Bartman Mar 12

@kimlockhartga I'm glad I did too.