Where I live we have lots of tornadoes but they rarely do any damage thankfully. We also had a big flood from a river that overflowed. In the winter we usually have lots and lots of snow. But other than that we don't have a whole lot of natural disasters going through here.

@maxon @malfoya:
True, I've forgotten Pompeii and snow storms. But hurricanes and floodings? Haven't heard of that in my lifetime. Only flooding I know was in the one of '53 in Zeeland (Netherlands) and parts of Belgium.

We sometimes get floods and it is horrible,not for me but for those who live in dangerous places.Some people get missed/die Also ,my country is on 'North Anatolian Fault'' so we got 2 big earthquakes within 12 years.Other than that,the other day we had a storm.It all happened in a second,I was having maths exam in the big hall then all the windows shut down,things fell down the roof,2 trees collided.The bridge traffic between Europe and Asia was stopped for while.All those were really scary!

We have flooding in the UK quite commonly- in 2007 it was particularly bad and the government almost evacuated an entire city.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_Kingdom_floods


As it was, many thousands of people across the country were evacuated and/or made homeless, and several lost their lives. I would call that a pretty bad disaster!

We had a hurricane where I'm from in Norway. It closed down all sea ways, loads of roads, roofs fled of building, one was even smashed, people I know was evacuated because they drove out on a bridge way and their car ended up in the sea. Nothing for the world news, but it definately happens

Well There was a 4.0 Earthquake today, just 14 miles from where I live..... During School....

i live in earthquake country.
i really do think that earthquakes are the scariest natural disaster. of course, theres no denying that volcanoes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, etc. are all scary as hell, but at least with those disasters, you have a chance of seeing it coming/going. you have a certain degree of time to react to it properly, or avoid it entirely. a quake cant be predicted, there isnt a whole lot you can do to prepare for one, you never know if one is just starting or ending, and the magnitude of it is always up in the air. theres no real "safe" place, even desks/tables can collapse and crush you. it just leaves you feeling rattled and afraid...

particularly the quakes that happen at night. nothing is freakier than waking up to the sensation of every single thing (including you) moving around when, up until then, nothing had been moving at all.

I live close to three of the places that were hit by the Alabama tornadoes last year.

I love that you posted this on Friday the 13th. Was that intentional!!??

My city gets a tornado once every 25 years, on average. We had a big flood one year. We get hurricane remnants - that's after the hurricane has left a coastal state like North Carolina. The only earthquakes here are minor, like 3.0 or less. I guess mining produces stronger shaking.

Here we get a bunch of constant earthquakes that are too small to feel, then a few a month that are feel-able.
And we've also got tsunamis to worry about because our bay is shaped like a "C".
And then there's the threat of hurricanes because we're in the middle of the Pacific!
And we get a tornado or water spout on the island like once every 30 years, but they're always weak.
And then there's the occasional flash-flooding we get because we get about 130 inches of rain a year (about 3250 ml.).
And the weather likes to change every half an hour.
And sometimes it feels so cold even though it never gets below 50 degrees Fahrenheit-and I'm really well adjusted to cold!
And then there's the fact that we're just about directly in the path of a dormant volcano.
I've just noticed I live in a very strange town

I live in North Texas, which has experienced every type of weather disaster except a direct hit by a hurricane, and that's only because we are more than 250 miles inland. There is a saying that if you don't like the weather, wait 15 minutes and it will change. Last month we had tornadoes that wrecked neighborhoods and tossed truck trailers around like toys. Last summer we had an unrelenting heat wave and drought and a couple of years ago record snowstorms for an area that rarely gets more than a dusting of snow. We even had a few small earthquakes for an area that never had them before thanks to fracking, a process of extracting oil and natural gas from shale deep underground that involves pumping large amounts of liquid underground.