Weather disasters and So.Cal. hurricane?

I heard that too.. I'm more worried about earthquakes.. but then I live on a hill.. and the storm surge would be bad.

I've lived along the Gulf Coast and in Oklahoma. I went through a tropical storm along the coast. Oklahoma has thrown almost everything at me. I've lived here for tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, blizzards, ice storms, droughts, 100+ temps for months on end, sub-zero wind chills, even the occasional 70 degree change in under a workday. The only extreme weather that hasn't immediately been in my area is wildfire. Oklahoma is not for the weather scared.

I've been too close to a fire for my happiness but not so close I had to evacuate. Had blizzard experience in upstate NY.
I accidentally drove into the outer bands of Gilbert because I wasn't aware of how big a hurricane could be and I wasn't watching the weather that close. Otherwise, I"ll agree with peatlejuice

Wow that would be awful.

We have 7+ months of winter here. That's it. That's the trade off for living in the dark and getting snow for 7 months, we have no disasters. I've been sort of close to wildfires in BC before. But never here.

My most dramatic weather experience was when a tornado blew the roof off of a hotel room my daughter and I were staying at in Tulsa, OK . The tornado formed so quickly, it never appeared on radar and we had no warning whatsoever. At first the National Weather Service said it was straight line winds rather than a tornado, but a few days later, they said it was indeed a tornado. Fortunately, my daughter and I had only minor injuries. I will never forget returning to the hotel room a few hours later accompanied by a fireman. I looked up and saw stars instead of a ceiling.

When I lived in Houston, I experienced Hurricane Ike. That was scary, but our house didn’t have any major damage, although we ended up replacing our roof due to the storm.

Since we moved back to Oklahoma two years’ ago, i’ve experienced many small earthquakes.

Not sure I can manage a proper link, but this is the strangest natural weather disaster I've even been through. We did not have power for 7 days.www.downriverthings.com/derecho-green-storm-of-1980.html

ETA: We were in Wayne county, MI. One of the hardest hit areas. Our 80 year old trees were all uprooted.

My mom was caught up in the Nashville floods in 2010 and lost everything upto 5 feet on the ground floor. Pictures high on the wall were the only things that didn't get wet. We managed to salvage most of the furniture, clothing and kitchen stuff but SOOOO much stuff was tossed. We still find items "missing" 8 years later. We also got so much help from total strangers that we paid it forward when a tornado struck close to home and we went to help with the cleanup.

At thirteen I was in typhoon Karen, the storm of the century with winds that broke the wind gauge at 215 knots. 90% of the island was damaged or destroyed. We had to move twice to different houses as the ones we were in started breaking up. The next day, when it was over, my sister, I and other children from the neighborhood were sent to shelter at the Naval Air Station barracks as we had not enough places to sleep. I woke up my sister by throwing up from the top bunk into her shoes. It was pure stress but the dudes in charge thought I might have typhoid so we were quarantined. I had PTSD and did not know it as it was not something we knew about back then.

Then there was Alicia in Houston and several other storms. Another time a tornado destroyed a block of houses two blocks away from us. Now in Central Texas we have undergone a drought that is still ongoing though at times it is not as bad as others. Most summers we are put on water rationing.

I guess if you live long enough, you get to go through a lot of this kind of stuff.

Really? I live near the beach in Orange County and I have not heard of this hurricane threat. Off to Google!