The Kaikoura Earthquake in November 2016. Imagine lying between the rails of a railway track and having a freight train pass over you - our whole HOUSE was shaking like that.
And we were HUNDREDS of kilometers away from the epicenter.
Kaikoura Earthquake
To give some perspective, parts of the Kaikoura cost had 8m vertical displacement and others were displaced 5m north
We felt it some 700km away
Poland
I live in tornado alley
Balls of steel
Nah just too poor to move
I live nowhere near a tornado sector and watched a tornado pass a couple hundred meters from where I live…
Seems like everywhere has been tornado alley this year. Stay safe.
2011 Tohoku earthquake
I saw reactor 4 building explode on live TV and immediately fled the city. If the winds hadn’t blown out all that radioactive material to the ocean (where US sailors actually got radiation poisoning on a ship east of Fukushima) but had instead blown it south, Japan’s economy would have totally collapsed.
By “the city”, do you mean Tokyo?
It was a very bizarre feeling when I finally managed to get to Tokyo and everything was so…normal. I’d been trapped in Fukushima for eight days with minimal food and water at that point. Lost eight pounds. Worried constantly about radiation. Had no clean clothes. What would normally have been a two hour bullet train ride from there to Tokyo ended up taking two days as the route south was still closed when a path to the west opened up.
Then eventually I got to Tokyo, feeling like a haggard refugee, and everyone was going about their lives as normal. Very surreal.
Miharu. And yes the fear of radiation was constant.made me rethink my position on nuclear power to say the least.
Twitter 😂
That’s unnatural
Climate change in general.
Weather getting worse and worse
Climate change, shit sucks
Slow one but- several years of drought and then bug infestation of some of our forests.
It affected badly planted forests (monocultures) but still it is sad to see bare places you remember covered.
There are several of these man made disasters around here but this one is most visible.
The human race
2022 Australian floods. Woken up pre-dawn by a car alarm set off by rising flood waters. Thankfully I had the foresight to park up on the street, which was a higher level, because water was more than half way up the height of the wheels by then in my garage.
All the proper roads out of the area were flooded already before I left, but thankfully I could get out by driving through pedestrian areas of the university I live near.
That was a very anxiety-ridden day as I waited until I could go back to assess the damage. Luckily the water only reached about 3/4 the height of the garage, which is below the 1st floor apartments. My apartment is at the top of a very small (like 5 m vertical) hill, just enough that we got off safe when neighbours did far, far worse.
For any Americans, the 1st floor in Australia (and many other countries) is equivalent to the second floor in America (hence it being above the garage)
I hate that convention. No, I was using the first floor in the American way…sort of.
The apartment is on the side of the hill. The lowest level on which apartments are placed is at ground level at the front, but one storey up at the back.
Oh no way. My childhood house was that way. Both floors were ground floors
Pretty common in hilly areas in my country and especially my state. For my house, you have to climb about fifteen stairs to go in the front door and the back door is ground level. It’s a small one storey house.
The Baltic sea just had a once-in-a-century storm surge this fall. There was little danger since the baltic sea is rather well protected, but many local dikes weren’t up for the job, resulting in quite some damage (in general, the houses on my island were mostly unscathered).
Took us the better of two months to drain the water from the island, and in the meantime we had to hike along the more robust dikes to get to the harbor.
We also had to empty our lakes of saltwater to attempt and save our fire-bellied toads, as the Copenhagen Zoo is trying to preserve the species on the island.
First of all, dyke is not a good word to call lesbians. And also it’s unfair to expect them to build things against super strong storms, contuction is mostly a hobby for most of them. And third- oh you’re talking about dams.
Yeah, I’ve been bamboozled by this before. Found out that both “dike” and “dyke” mean “water barrier” but also can be slurs.
I guess it depends on context and audience, though, I hope the context is clear in this case. :P
Dikes or pair of dikes also refers to diagonal cutters. (Look like pliers with blades instead of jaws at the end) They are used for cutting sheet metal, also, wire cutters are also called dikes. Can also be used as a verb: Dike off the corner of that piece of steel, or, dike out that part of the circuit.
My wife is bi and it always messes with her when I say it. Just a trade term.
Glass fire in central California, I saw it the very first morning on my way to work (a Sunday), had no idea it was going to become as big as it did.
The worst was also the funniest. An earthquake hit while I was on the toilet.
Lol was there a table in there to get under?
No, but it didn’t matter anyway. That area wasn’t known for earthquakes. By the time my brain got out of “WTF?” mode, it was over.
Hurricane Irene in the Caribbean in, what, 2011? Luckily we were tucked up safely in a hotel with a concrete structure but it still scared the crap out of us.
We thought our windows and patio door were going to blow out and we used all the bedding and towels to stop water coming in under the door. It soaked up so much water that we couldn’t lift them in the morning.
Thankfully I think it dropped to a cat 2 (?) as it hit land, so damage wasn’t as bad as expected. Still, our hearts broke when we saw the damage to the island and homes as we returned to the airport a few days later. I don’t know how the locals deal with it every year.
A hurricane. Which is pretty mild for natural disasters, but some of my neighbours lost their roofs.
