What's YOUR region's natural disaster of choice?

[Moysturfurmer]

Well I'm in California, so earthquakes and brush fires for me.
Goddamn Santa Ana winds. I have to pack up my laptop before I sleep just incase I have to evacuate in the middle of the night. (bigass fire inching along.)

[Marie]

Fireants

[Ilaekae]

People like me.



...and carpenter ants...

[fionkell]

Bushfires. It's coming up to that time of year again; the months of haze and smoke when the sun turns red. Most of you guys get snowstorms for Christmas, I get burninations :p

[talmir]

Iceland. Earthquakes and storms here.. We can take pretty much anything.

[OLSEN]

None at all really, it's all fine over here. You people can come too.

[dogfood]

Wonton, arrogant ignorance.

[Blue]

Clouds






*shakes fist at the sky*

[Qitsune]

The worst we get here are icestorms, big nasty icestorms. Could be much worst.

[S.C. Watson]

Well I'm in California, so earthquakes and brush fires for me.
Goddamn Santa Ana winds. I have to pack up my laptop before I sleep just incase I have to evacuate in the middle of the night. (bigass fire inching along.)

[EDIT] Moysturfurmer, I *do* hope that you weather the fires safely. Santa Anna's not withstanding, those things are scary as all hell.

I *LOVE* the Santa Anna's winds. God, I miss them. They're not to blame for the fires, though they do fan them.

I'm guessing you've got to living down near L.A. someplace if you're getting those. I used to live in the Ventura/Oxnard/Hueneme area.

The Santa Anna's and the smell of the citrus in the early morning. Beh.

Anyway, living up here in the North now, our distasters include, but are not limited to:

Wind Storms (up 100mph+ at times)
Earthquakes (Still part of the Ring of Fire)
Tsunami (I'm assuming those Tsunami evacuation signs aren't there to attract the tourists....).
Loggers
Tourists
Drug smuggling
and stupid politicians...

I think that about covers it. :)

[Prometheus|ANJ]

We don't have much earthquakes here in Sweden (just some very very small ones), but we recently had a nasty storm that took down a lot of forest (which is one of our national resources). Sometimes we get a meter or so of snow.

We also have some man made disasters, like algae blooming and occasional radioactive fallout from russia (I couldn't eat anything from my garden that year).

[CCThrom]

Here in New Jersey, I think our biggest disaster is too many cars... and out-of-staters that feel compelled to make comments about our car problem. We know, ok?


Sometimes there's small-scale flooding, but nothing like what's been going on down south.

[DavePalumbo]

I have to say ours is being next to New Jersey. ZING! Ooooooh...

[egerie]

qitsune beat me to it. But it's pretty tame around here. I'm just waiting for the water to rise tho... Growing in the mountains, I get a little skittish thinking we're only 23m above sea level. :$

[LaPalida]

ICESTORM! :teeth:

Wake up one day, get outside your home and then you have to climb over trees and skate to the bus station. No wonder Canada is home of Hockey!

http://www.ncf.ca/~ek867/icestorm.jpg

http://www.windupradio.com/icestorm98/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Canada_ice_storm

BTW. Alot of that happened overnight!

[Qitsune]

Woot, I'm not the only one from Montreal, I tried starting something int the local artist groups without success.

At the time of THE Ice storm, I was in Granby, weeks without phone and month without electricity, half the maples dead (everyone there makes maple syrup.)

[madster]

Tourists. Damn things keep coming back year after year...
Only thing makes 'em tolerable is they leave us their money...

~M

[Prehistoric]

. . . . . . . . Microsoft.

oh, and the occasional earthquake, and a couple of active volcanos (one of which gets a little uppity sometimes).

:x

[_Mario]

Oktoberfest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktoberfest)

[Muircheartach]

Iceland. Earthquakes and storms here.. We can take pretty much anything.

Don't forget volcanos, avalanches, floods, and the occasional lightning

[Badger]

Pubs that sell stella artois.
-B-

[jfwalls]

I guess about every 7 to 10 years a Hurricane comes close to us. I would say tsunamis, but where I live the town is 1600 feet above sea level. The thing I fear the most are the rich people who want to build resorts and tourist attractions.

When I lived in Cleveland Ohio it was snow. Piles and piles of annoying snow. It was always nice when it first fell. However, after a few days it turns into piles of dirty shit. Then you have to wade through inches of dirty, salty slush that makes everything look like crap. Oh yeah, then there's chipping the ice off the car every morning.

[Lady Medusa]

Snow.
Cold, wet, icky... dull :(. I hate snow. Spechally near the end of the winter, when the whole town is just a big puddle of half melted snow whit ice under.
But if we had a winter whitout snow, I'd totally freak out.

We don't really have any natural dissasters here. Attleast not as long as I can remember

[Tully]

Hurricanes this time of year. They're usually pretty weak by the time they get this far north, but there have been a couple that have done some pretty serious damage. Coming up on ice storm season too!

Halifax is too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. I wish I lived in Vancouver. I like rain.

[madplanet]

Stupid people and mosquitoes. They're kind of linked.

[CCThrom]

I have to say ours is being next to New Jersey.

Here's the short version:

...so God says I've created this perfect utopia, it's called Pennsylvania! And Michael says But Sir, so much goodness and bounty in one place, won't everyone be jealous and the people become soft and lazy? And God says Naahhh... just wait'll you get a load of the obnoxious, loud-mouth bastards I'm putting right next door. :P

[K-17]

Bushfires in the summer. A landslide in the winter tore out the gate, once. More recently, another one diverted all the rain water from the gutter straight into my grandma's place. We had to bucket it out and shovel out the dirt.

[Slash]

http://www.marinbi.com/arthropoda/p_camtschatica.jpg

King crab. Wonderful taste.

http://www.kabb.no/images/Kjell%20Magne%20Bondevik.jpg

Prime minister. Awful taste.

[Wertle]

tornados tornados tornados, though nowhere near as bad as Kansas and Oklahoma and such.

Also, we apparently have ridiculous allergy issues here, though I am unaffected (so far)

[DavePalumbo]

...so God says I've created this perfect utopia, it's called Pennsylvania! And Michael says But Sir, so much goodness and bounty in one place, won't everyone be jealous and the people become soft and lazy? And God says Naahhh... just wait'll you get a load of the obnoxious, loud-mouth bastards I'm putting right next door.

hahahahaha

[Idiot Apathy]

Utah here, Salt Lake Valley. Going to have the biggest earthquake ever... and soon they say, the whole valley is going to sink into the earth and then there will be like dinosaurs or something from another crappy tv show.

[mollyduker]

Idiot Apathy- That would be horrible! What about my precious Alta?? And Snowbird? Wow, now i'm scared.

We get big T-Storms and Tornadoes. I love the HUGE thunder storms where the rain comes down so hard you can't see. Especially when I have soccer practice during it. Its SO fun.

[Steph Laberis]

Hurricanes, once every 6 or 7 years.

Nor'easters every winter (how bout that three footer last year?)

Occassionaly we have really high surf, from either of the above disasters, and beach homes/businesses/fishing boats get washed away. "The Perfect Storm" is about a Nor'easter we had back in the early 90s.

There's also the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant. If that thing ever goes into meltdown we are all screwed...

[Advocate of Fate]

Clouds


*shakes fist at the sky*

yeah, that and Acorn storms. those things sting, man.


fuckin squirrels.

[Idiot Apathy]

Idiot Apathy- That would be horrible! What about my precious Alta?? And Snowbird? Wow, now i'm scared.

Nah, don't be, you'd have much bigger and crazier slopes to ski on. Some probably below sea level!

[CaptainInsano]

Los Angeles

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v678/ParkerD/arnold.jpg

[Interceptor]

Snow.

[Steve the Dawg]

Hurricanes this time of year. They're usually pretty weak by the time they get this far north, but there have been a couple that have done some pretty serious damage. Coming up on ice storm season too!

Halifax is too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. I wish I lived in Vancouver. I like rain.


Vancouver is no cup of tea. It's not rain it's a freaking downpour of baseball sized globs of water! Besdies rain there's the twenty minutes after a hockey game, fires in the interior(The Okanagan and valleys), fires in Burns Bog(near Burnaby and Delta) and of course Gastown.

[ArtbyWard]

Some places in my country are 7 meters below sealevel. I guess that says enough :bashful:

We have good prevention though.

[peterhurman]

Pubs that sell stella artois.
-B-

ill second that. whole towns in the uk have been devestated. wiped off the face of the earth leaving only vomit, half eaten kebabs and passed out teenagers.

[CCThrom]

Stella Artois... *shudder* and it's starting to infect us too... worse than Mad Cow Disease...

And whats even worse, most of my fellow countrymen have NO IDEA they're even at risk! After all that Coors Lite they think Stella Artois is "the good stuff" :nohope:

[MarkHarchar]

Rednecks. Definitely Rednecks.

[Floris Didden]

About two-thirds of my country is below sea level. Take a guess what our natural disaster would be ...

[~Lover~]

Erm... rain... very uh, interesting. The damage it does = ruins a few limestone statues... hmmm....
~Lover~

[Mavrick71]

Well, I live in West Virginia so I'm going to go with... hillbillies...

[scumgrinder]

Mexico City... earthquakes and tap water

[Moysturfurmer]

Ok I'm back. Freaking fire inched up to within 100 yards of my house. Made me pack up EVERYTHING, then decided not to burn my house down. Asshole weather.

[mollyduker]

I'm from Missouri. We are the orignators of the redneck!

[Bruce Pluto]

Hello folks,

Well my regions natural disasters, but not of choice are hurricanes. Rita being the last to forge strait through this area.

As of this writting my home came through OK. The wooden fence around the back though was a total lost and the front part of a storage shop was torn open. Lost a couple of big trees too, but we came out well considering the neighbors. No power and just getting the water back in service now.

I hope I will be able to get back to doing some art soon. But for now its on hold.

thats about it, Bruce
PS: staying with the INLAWS in Houston and with 15 people in the house getting to the computer ain't easy :nohope:

[ElvisMcVegas]

Fire Ants, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Flooding, Brush Fire, Rattle Snakes and Monarch Butterflyes

[Snowsfall]

Snow and ice I guess, but once we(Syracuse) got this freakish storm that was something like a wind funnel of some sort on labor day a bunch of years back. Knocked all our trees down, tore up the gas line, didnt have power for about a week, fun stuff :)

[phade]

I guess about every 7 to 10 years a Hurricane comes close to us. I would say tsunamis, but where I live the town is 1600 feet above sea level.

Might as well add volcanic eruptions to the list. On the Big Island they're active, and while rare, flows have destroyed property in the past . . .

[waronmars]

drought, and people who hose leaves off their driveways

[pieces_of_eight]

Well, I'm from planet earth, and, in all honesty, I'd have to say my region's natural disaster of choice is:

Dubyah.

Mind you, the "of choice" part of this matter is rather contestable.