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ok so there's yet ANOTHER hurrican coming towards my storm magnet of a state (fl) and i started to think, out of all the natural disasters out there, i.e. hurricans, earth quakes, floods, tornado, giant monsters mutated by radiological waste, which one would you rather go threw (if you HAD to go threw one)??

i'd go for the monsters, at least its dif

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i count myself very lucky to live in a part of the world that experiences relatively few natural disasters.

the most you might experience here in ireland is perhaps the tail end of a hurricane from across the atlantic. we're not near any fault lines so no earthquakes, no volcanoes, never gets hot enough for a drought, and you don't find tornados on this part of the globe. the occasional flood, but nothing in comparison to other parts of the world

i've experienced severe flooding whilst living in holland though, and it's not nice. approximately 75% of the country in actually below sea level and is protected by a network of dams & dykes built along the country's coastline.

one year (1995-1996-ish) the rhine and it's tributaries burst it's banks & 250,000 people had to be evacuated. dead animals floating about, peoples livelihoods being washed away before your eyes..... no thanks

i did experience a minor tremor in near san francisco a few years ago though. unlike vanize i was outside. my uncle and i were drving down the road when next it felt like we were driving over bumps in the road (like an irish road with potholes ) and next thing i could see the tarmac ripple ever so slightly in front of us. it was scary but exciting, though according to my uncle it was "no big deal"

i would LOVE to experience being in the eye of a hurricane though.... is it really as eerie as they say?

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thanks!



that'll keep my blood flowing for a while.

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Actually, you do have faults running through Ireland, but none of them have been active in a while.

Sorry, I am a geologist by trade, and faults are one of my favorite subjects.

With that in mind, I wouldn't mind experiencing an Earthquake, but I want to be outside, away from tall buildings. Vanize is right, the ground doesn't just shake. *Geology Geek Moment* There are three types of waves with most earthquakes...one type moves the ground back and forth, another actually rolls the ground...think about two people holding a rope and moving their hands up and down....you get an S shape...that's what the ground does...*GEOLOGY GEEK MODE OFF*

I'm fascinated by tornadoes, and wouldn't mind seeing one...but don't want to be IN one....

I'm also fascinated by volcanoes, but want to view one from a safe distance. Some volcanoes are "safer" than others...Hawaiian volcanoes aren't super explosive, so you can watch them fairly close. Volcanes in and around the Pacific Rim tend to be quite violent...the volcanoes in the Pacific NorthWest would be very unpredictable with regards to how and where the main part of the eruption might go. Look at Mt. St. Hellens, for instance. Volcanoes down in Central and South America are also quite violent...as are the Italy volcanoes. (GEEK mode slipped back on...sorry).

Hurricanes...so long as they aren't HUGE...flooding...I hate clean up after flooding...let's stick with the geological disasters and tornadoes.



Fryed, stay safe....I wish you were in Daytona...so you could check on my grandmother...

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and i wasn't aware that we had any fault lines near ireland, thanks for letting me know. more trivia, excellent !

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what are we defining as natural disaster, does something have to get ruined? because i'd quite like to see a water spout, but on account of them being so far out to sea, it doesn't affect much...

Volcano would be the another one, but i also love storms - electrical storms, wow! I was in one Belize where the lightening lit up the whole sky and the thunder sounded like a steam roller on your roof Hell, I'd settle for any ol' example of big nature!

I knew about the fault lines, they're all over the UK, in fact I remember there was an earthquake last year (?) here that everyone was talking about, but i slept through it.... when i say earthquake, it was more like a minor tremble compared to the biggies, i think it was only newsworthy because it was noticeable - well not to me...

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and i wasn't aware that we had any fault lines near ireland, thanks for letting me know. more trivia, excellent !



You don't have active faults that I know of, but you do have faults. Nearly every place on the planet has faults somewhere.

And...While lots of Media types will say fault lines....most of us geologists say faults. There is something called a fault line scarp, which is the topagraphy break caused by movement on the fault. I don't mean to be a stickler. . .just pointing out a nuance in professional language and media misconceptions...

ANYWAY....Faults in Ireland, yes. If you have Mountains there, you'll more than likely have faults. I've not studied the geology of ireland, but I'm making an educated guess.

I'd love to study the geology there, though.

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you don't have to be out at to sea to see a waterspout - anytime a tornado is over water you get one.



I've seen waterspouts:



while I was out surfing in the gulf of mexico.



out my neighbor's window - I lived across the street from them and they had a lakeside house. When hurricane Alicia hit us in 1983, we were over at their place for a while(trying to help them save as much furnature as possible after 4 foot waves started breaking through what had previously been their panoramic window. In the lake (which isn't really that big) we could see not 1, not 2, but 5 waterspouts!!! Big hurricanes spawn sometimes scores of simultaneuos tornadoes (often doing much of the devastating swaths of damage attributed to a hurricane), and there they were dancing around the lake - for the most part all moving in different directions. That was one of those things you realy can't appreciate at the time because of all the wind and water and everyone contantly trying to make sure everyone else is ok and save as many valuables as possible (funny but everyone chooses to save the photo albums first - maybe that isn't so odd now that I think about it).



Later you can reflect and think, "did I really see that!?!?". You have to double check with others to be sure.



But I tell you what else - it is absolutely amazing to see entire families run out of their perfectly safe house into 120 mph winds to go help a neighbor in trouble.



People aren't always nice to each other, but when you really need help, generally you can count on getting it.



Then the friggin looters come through the next day and try to clean out the houses of everyone who had the good sense to leave before the storm hit and all those good feelings disappear

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