What is the worst disaster to ever strike where you live?

[Glongpre]

Nothing major. There was some flooding, but like basement flooding.

Cool story (I think so),

I was sleeping over at my friend's house when I was younger, and we had the flooding that night. We slept in the basement on some couches and I woke up first and I was surrounded by a lake! It was about an inch from the top of the cushions. Good thing I don't sleep in for very long.

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

We've been pretty fortunate- only one Tornado in all the time we've lived in Barrie, Ontario, and it didn't go near us. We also get the occasional ice storm shutting everything down but never more than a day unless the Ontario summer blackout a few years ago counts.

 

[AWAR]

AK shots fired by terrorists at a nearby police station and 2 bombs gone off in nearby houses (5 - 10 blocks from mine)

 

[The Funslinger]

A reality show in which randomers from across the country competed for our votes so they could win a cottage here in my village.

It got cancelled after the black family, the gay couple, the lesbian couple, and the interracial lesbian couple had all been up and they couldn't play the controversy and "let's make this village look as bigoted as possible" cards anymore.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

None that I can recall.

Here in Arizona, we get these things...

... yearly around this time. I've driven through one once and that was enough for me.

Good ole monsoon season.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

Uh, I don't know?

I honestly don't know (partly because I'm bored, partly because I am sniffly and partly because I'm going on holiday for three weeks to a country in which I have no connections with aside from my mother and father).

Those of you imaginative or bored enough, what would be the worst disaster that could hit Northern London?(Wood Green/Hornsey to be specific)

 

[SilkySkyKitten]

Nothing really. Woodbury, Minnesota is a relatively... quiet place. Nothing really happens here, and nothing really bad has ever happened here.

Now where I go to college (Grand Forks, North Dakota), on the other hand, has had some pretty nasty floods over it's time. Especially one back in 1997 that nearly decimated the entire town. Anyone who was alive and lived there at the time probably has a tale or two to tell about it, I've found.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Arguably the worst thing to ever happen here was The Wurzels.

Actually, there was a massive flood in 1607, which they reckon was caused by an earthquake off the coast of Ireland, so a giant fuck-off tsunami shot up the Bristol Channel and flooded everything. That or a storm surge, or maybe both; it's hard to really tell because all the contemporary sources just say it was god's fault.

Besides, The Wurzels are fucking awesome.

 

[teebeeohh]

Our government...
No,seriously, i'm not trying to be snarky or anything, but Hungary is sitting in a particular part of the world where basically no natural disasters happen. Ever. Closest we ever got was the red-sludge incident, when some factory had a malfunction in their waste disposal and this thick, toxic red goo flooded a large part of the country. (yep, you read that right. We're not too big to begin with).
But even that wasn't as destructive as the massive cunts who've been making decisions about the nation for the past decade or so.

That's why I dislike political jokes. I've seen too many get elected.

isn't your government right now made up of racist pricks who try to censor everything?

well Obama visited this week and they basically locked down the whole city so getting to work was a *****. And in general, being the capital and a major cultural center means every other weekend half the inner city is closed off for something which can be annoying but nothing really serious, Germany is pretty stable in terms of natural disasters.
if we go outside my lifetime, probably WWII. You just can't beat 4 1/2 years of bombing

 

[ZephrC]

Definitely Mt. St. Helens. I lived in the Naches Valley, right where White Pass (where most of the ash blew from the mountain) finally widens out a bit. We got about 7 or 8 inches of "ash" that was the consistency of sand.

I was only 2 when it happened, so I don't really remember it, but apparently Mt. St. Helens was actually quite dramatically visible from our house before the eruption. You can't see it at all now.

 

[Wolf In A Bear Suit]

Well historically, the Famine I guess, but I don't live in a disaster prone area. Literally no natural disasters of note, and although we can get fairly bad floods, I live on a hill so it's not such a big deal. Pretty nice place to be honest.

 

[Darks63]

When I lived in Detroit I lived through the great east coast blackout of 2003 and in Phoenix we had a really epic sandstorm in 2011 one that nearly buried the city.

 

[absulute]

Uhh, I dunno, Ricky Gervais was born here?

Haha, I'm jk, I'm actually a fan.

Oh, Kate Winslet was born here. Disaster.

 

[puff ball]

well for me here in Florida that would be hurricanes all the really deadly ones all happened before they started naming them, because they built a huge canal system to prevent massive inland flooding, with the worst one occurring in 1919 around key west. the worst i personally can remember would be during the 2004 hurricane season we were technically hit by 4 named storms Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne. with Francis and Jeanna landing two miles and three weeks apart basically right over my house. it took 2 weeks to regain power after Francis and we lost it again when Jeanna struck luckily it didn't last as long that time. that was the worst i can remember since i was only three in 1992 when Andrew hit.

 

[TehCookie]

When I lived in Detroit I lived through the great east coast blackout of 2003 and in Phoenix we had a really epic sandstorm in 2011 one that nearly buried the city.

I think the economy is the worst disaster to strike Detroit.

I still say people are the worst disaster in my city.

Spoiler: Newspaper is semi-old but still funny

Flint is so terrible, the lack of murders is front page news.

 

[Resetti's_Replicas]

I'm pretty fortunate, Hurricane Sandy was the worst my area saw.

 

[unindexedsearchengine]

Our government...
No,seriously, i'm not trying to be snarky or anything, but Hungary is sitting in a particular part of the world where basically no natural disasters happen. Ever. Closest we ever got was the red-sludge incident, when some factory had a malfunction in their waste disposal and this thick, toxic red goo flooded a large part of the country. (yep, you read that right. We're not too big to begin with).
But even that wasn't as destructive as the massive cunts who've been making decisions about the nation for the past decade or so.

That's why I dislike political jokes. I've seen too many get elected.

isn't your government right now made up of racist pricks who try to censor everything?

As accurate as your assessment is, I'd like to point out that our government is always made up of racist pricks who try to censor everything. The only difference between the two dominant parties is their name, and nothing more.

 

[Joccaren]

Depends on what you count as where I live.
In my local area, and the main city we're counted as, this is the worst I know of:

Basically, an Earthquake that may have toppled a chair or two at its epicentre.
In areas very close to my own though, and the state/country as a whole? The Ash Wednesday/Black Saturday fires. I don't remember which was worse, but there are pictures of Fire Engines running away from a wall of fire reaching up to the clouds, and most wouldn't have made it as the fires were too fast. You'd hear that there was a bushfire approaching from a few Km away, 10 minutes later your house would be a pile of ashes. Incredibly lucky they didn't make it to my area, those fires were evil.

 

[Sunrider]

I live in a pretty small city. In terms of "world-wide", it's a REALLY small city, even. We've never had a huge flood or a massive fire or anything like that, so I'd say the worst we've ever had is a storm that took out power for a few weeks here and there, and fucked up a couple of forests and roads close to them, and this wasn't a local event, but rather a nation-wide thing. Sweden isn't very large.