I've been through a few earthquakes, although they've all been pretty mild, comparatively speaking.  I think the worst I can remember was maybe a 6.0...had stuff swaying but no appreciable damage to anything.  I haven't actually been in a wild fire, but I've seen some on the mountainsides above the cities here in Utah and driven through parts of Utah where there had been fires that jumped across the interstate...blackened terrain on both sides of the highway.  I've been in what would be considered blizzards out here, but would be pretty mild compared to a good New England blizzard.  Been in a flash flood...it was raining so hard I didn't have any idea how deep the water was.  I went to move my car into the carport, since I was the only one home at the time (all my roommates were at work), and when I opened the door to look out to see my car, it was raining so hard I couldn't even see the end of the driveway, and I was so thoroughly drenched by rain by the time I got to my car that I had absolutely no idea I was wading.  The next day, you could see the 'high tide' line that came right up to the bottom step of the house, and channels of matted grass around both sides of the house where the water had flowed around it.  We were really lucky...one of our neighbors had a below-ground-level garage (on a split-level house), and all they could do was open the garage door and the back door to the garage and let the water run through so it wouldn't back up in the garage and run into the house.  Driven through snowstorms that were so bad that you couldn't see any boundary between the road and the open terrain around it...only way I stayed on the road was looking for the reflectors on the posts and making sure they stayed on the right side of the car.  That was nerve-racking, because it was a full carload of people, and we were hell-and-gone from anywhere (somewhere north of Laramie, Wyoming).  If we'd gone off the road, there's no knowing how long it would have been before anyone would have found us.  And I was the only one who was awake to worry about it.

But, yeah...in terms of natural disasters, I've gotten off pretty easy.  Only been one freezing rain storm in my lifetime (it was a doozy, I think it was a good two weeks before things thawed out enough to feel like a normal winter again).  Been through a few severe windstorms (wind gusts pushing close to 100 mph), those were days when I decided that I didn't care if I was expected at work or not and just hunkered down to wait out the wind.  Never been near a tornado, much less endured one.  And the only time in my life that I spent any appreciable amount of time living near the coast, I was in Sweden...they don't really get tsunamis in Scandinavia...

Several earthquakes both here in the UK and in Greece. One time in Greece I was in the bath and just stayed there until the building stopped shaking & my bathwater stopped sloshing around.

First one here, early 1980s, woke up to find dearly beloved hanging out the window in his underwear counting... turned out he thought someone had dropped a nuke on Manchester! (Cold war stuff.)

One typhoon in Hong Kong. The rain was going sideways.

And that's about it for wild weather/natural disasters.

I dunno I go to sleep and by the time I wake up the following morning it’s all over! Oh well more slow dancing for Harry. Just to let you all know I’m off to Alton Towers over the weekend so probably won’t be posting much until Monday.

Have  Fun Harry..i have to look up Alton Towers...

Leaving Nic hanging are we? :D

Nic  can navigate  around, he can pull  harry around with him, or break off for a bit.

everyone else, post as you will , the Ball has  about an hour  to go.

Well i was teasing :P

yeah..its good  though, helps  me work in some of the reaction rolls., helps  fill out the  environs a bit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...eI&start_radio=1

ok? had  A;exa  on, and she offered me  a 'new playlist' some somegs i never ehard of..some newly  imagined.. when i heard the singer, i thought of Lirg..so i had to put it up

 if you use  your game imagination,  you can see  things that might be on earth... on stations.. and when the Fleet attacks.. i like it!!!

 i was gonna give alexa a hug..but..well.. she just a dot..sooo...

Stick close to me in a disaster...I will survive like a cockroach or a twinkie!

all sorts of quakes including 9.2
several volcanic ash fallouts (in 2 states)
a steam furmarole that went active (lava tube filled with super hot steam)
ROCK AVALANCHE, SNOW AVALANCHE
many blizzards
2 floods
an ice jam flood
2 forest fires
2 haboobs (in Arizona)
a derecho
3 flash floods
2 tsunamis
a tornado
1 hurricane
several electrical storms
a stampede of sheep
stuck in native clay mud with tide coming in
pelted with concrete debris
1 civil riot (in west Berlin when it was west Berlin)
and droughts
also been on a ferry that nearly flipped over in heavy seas

I am waiting the mine cave in and the asteroid impact.  Yeah I am bullet proof

 Damn Nikki wow.............. you sound indestructible too me damn girl.

fight to the finish cuz I eat me spinach!!

I'll get my post in tomorrow to Hack, not feeling good tonight.

take care of yourself, Zob.

so, a few minutes ago ( thanks to local news).. we got to see the   space station fly over  , ..a  bright  yellowish  dot, movign pretty  good, got to keep it in sight for about  3 minutes.

Neat!

Remember seeing it over Crewe with my daughter who said "Isn't that Venus?" I pointed out that Venus didn't move that fast and wasn't rectangular anyway!

alright  folks, i  will post in  both threads  for now... If  people are goignto the Condos...posted in the condo thread.

 if you are going esle where on etna..use the Enta  tread, but preface where you are going

if any one goes back to the ship..any thread there  may be used, but  enter on the Hnager dec first.

 Question where people informed of possible lights out after the ball or was that something else, wondering if Meari and Sam would head to Condos for that and of course other people involved with Lights out. Not sure if Meari is a member yet but she will try too tag along.

it  hasn't been broadcast..but  those familar know hwere the   pregame talk will be

I gave a response to Hack btw then ill move myself along to the condo.

  Hey!!!!   120K!!

  alright folks!

 1....3 points anywhere..But..no more then two in any one  spot

 2...make changes  and send  me a PM

 3...put 120K at the bottom of your sheet

 4...you have 8-8-21 to  claim the bonus

 5.... again, Thank you all for making it the best game of its  kind on the site!!!!

its kinda weird to think its been almost 2 irl years since we were on Etna.

its  funny how things  work..sometimes  its  a dice  roll..sometimes its  an action during   a jump off or even shore leave? Sometimes its  something that was happening off board that i checked  and  and brought to  'the Admiral's  attention'

We FINALLY got a decent rainstorm!  Not sure how long it's supposed to last, but it's been raining pretty steadily for over an hour now.  It's not the first rain we've had in weeks...but the rain we've had has been sporadic, at best, and usually rained for anywhere between twenty minutes and an hour and then blew over.  I'm hoping this keeps going for another couple of hours.

But it's a big enough storm that the National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch for the area.

Now, we need about five more like it...two to three days apart...

 Flash floods, can also happen if the ground is  so dray and hard, the water  doesn't have time to seep in?