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[Big4Jerm3]

in Korea. Floods, winds, etc.??

[mnhnhyouh]

There is no wind in Seoul.

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[poet13]

Spent some time as Project Officer for FEMA. Been in a bunch. In Korea, only ECC.

[Young FRANKenstein]

In Korea, none.

In Japan, earthquake. It hit the Niigata region in 2006 while I was there. It was bad enough to take out the shinkansen tracks for several days, and "trapped" me in the region.

In Mexico, hurricane. I was far from the epicenter, but still the wind and rain was pretty bad...

[blurgalurgalurga]

We got pulled off the mountain once, doing a tree-killing job on the west coast of BC, because there was a tsunami warning. They figured the roads would get washed out.
So, we went to town, got drunk at the peeler bar, and walked down to the wharf to watch the big waves. Tsunami never came, which is why I'm not dead I guess.
Ah, youth...

[mnhnhyouh]

I have been close to the center of a cyclone (hurricane) on a couple of occasions in Queensland when I was a kid.

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[n�fara]

I was on Jeju for Typhoon Nari back in September, but it wasn't so bad on my part of the island. At least if you were indoors.

[ReeseDog]

Hurricane Andrew. 101st Airborne Division dustoff.

[VanIslander]

the brunt of typhoon Maemi on Geoje Island: two people dead on my street and a local ferry terminal destroyed, cars on rooftops, power out for four days

ah the memories

[Lekker]

Worked on a cruise ship. Was in the Caribbean when a hurricane rolled through. 70-80 foot waves, pretty sick, litterally. Everybody was puking left and right. We had to go to Cuba to get out of the way.

[Pyongshin Sangja]

6.8 earthquake hit Seattle on Feb. 28th, 2001. I was in the airport drinking a Budweiser when the ceiling came down. After that, Korea was a breeze.

[ajgeddes]

Tornado in Florida in 1993(??) and it ripped the roof off of our hotel. My dad, sister and I slept through it strangely enough, but we woke up early in the morning to my mom sitting in the closet with eyes the size of loonies. It was funny.

[yeremy]

I've been caught in a blizzard (twice) on the NYS Thruway (not a good experience) and once spent eleven hours drinking coffee and chatting in a diner because it was impossible to drive.

I was in the path of a hurricane that was reduced to a typhoon in the Boston area. Windy but not a problem. A lot of people flooded the supermarkets and bought up all the beer, candles and snacks.

I was in Palo Alto when the 1989 Loma Prieta Quake hit, which was pretty freaky. Later that year, during Thanksgiving, I drove to the surface of the epicenter, which was some 11 km underground and hiked to the epicenter. All of the trees had been knocked down like some bizarre crop circle. I remember there were small cracks in the forest floor, too. I would not have wanted to have been there at the epicenter at 5:03 on 10/17/89. When I got home that night I had only lost one mug which had fallen out of the cupboard during the quake. One of the things I learned from that experience was not to try to rush home after a natural disaster, which is what everyone else within the shake zone tried to do. It was the biggest traffic jame, which must have been nearly 50 miles long, and it took me two hours to drive 26 miles to get home that afternoon.

I was working in an elementary school north of Seattle in 2001 when the 6-something earthquake hit. I don't recall that it was as strong as 6.8, but what difference does it make. It was pretty strong. I was very surprised. I hadn't known that Seattle could have been hit by a quake that strong. A lot of us were wrong about that. Everyone ran outside and counted their blessings. It was one of the rare times that those elementary school kids were quiet for a change. Luckily the school was not significantly damaged and we were back to normal the next day.

I've also been caught in the Tule Fog in Northern California, which freaked me out more than being in an earthquake, where I had to slow down to 20 mph, roll my driver's window down and hope that no one drove up my tailpipe without seeing me. California's Central Valley highways always have Tule Fog roll in every year and it causes huge highway pile up and even fatalities. Not a good thing.

I was here in Korea when a typhoon raised the level of the Han River by about 9 to 10 meters, in 1995 I think. I was also visiting Korea in 2000 when there was a big typhoon and flooding in Gyoungsangbuk do. The river near my mother-in-laws house nearly flooded over the bank and a tiny bridge. The hidden blessing was that it brought the fishing birds out of hiding and I spent a couple of days watching the egrets fish. I tried to sneak up closer to one but it was too observant and elusive hence it always flew off to another part of the river whenever I got within several hundred yards.

Ah, yes, I was also in an ice storm, rather my wife and I were inside sleeping, when it hit in the Rochester, NY area in 2003. The power went out in my sister's house and neighborhood. I had to literally chip my car free of several inches of ice so I could open the door and turn the engine on to utilize the heater to help defrost the entire car. I have never seen an ice storm like that ever. When morning came and the sun came up, it was rather beautiful but it was rather nasty outside when it happened.

[esetters21]

In Korea; absolutely nothing. Back home in the U.S.; too many hurricanes to name, but the ones that actually affected me the most were Fran, Charley, and Floyd. They caused extensive damage in my area and to my home.

[waynehead]

Bunches of hurricanes, but I grew up in north carolina.