Have you been through any natural disasters before?

[Alyx Vance]

Well I know that when there is major flooding and you live on elevated ground; landslides and mudslides become a worry.

Well yea but this hill is rocky, as in rock walls. This thing is stable as can be.

Also I've been through an ice storm, it froze my yard for a while (until spring). I utilized it and ice skated.
It froze everything in a couple of inches of ice and when it started to thaw the ice chunks that fell from the tree almost busted our roof.

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[Igloos]

I remember when my dad used to own a home by the Appalachians close to Ashville NC and the ice storms there were something terrible. It wouldn't stop snowing there until mid-May. I like it though.

[Port]

Nope, there's never any natural disasters in Denmark.

[Igloos]

Nope, there's never any natural disasters in Denmark.

My grandparents live in DK (close to Køpenhagen) and I've been there only once, it's either really chilly or humid and rainy like Seattle. Denmark is almost like a "perfect" country.

[Alyx Vance]

I remember when my dad used to own a home by the Appalachians close to Ashville NC and the ice storms there were something terrible. It wouldn't stop snowing there until mid-May. I like it though.

It wasn't good at all because people died during that storm

[Sentry]

Hurricane Charlie, Hurricane Katrina, Several tornadoes, Title wave, Several forest fires. R.I.P. Cypress tree that was over 2000 years old.
I live exactly next to big tree park in FL. When that tree set a blaze it was pouring ashes all over Sanford.

[Alyx Vance]

^ That guy has seen some natural hell.

My aunt had a tree cut her trailer in half before.

[Igloos]

Hurricane Charlie, Hurricane Katrina, Several tornadoes, Title wave, Several forest fires. R.I.P. Cypress tree that was over 2000 years old.
I live exactly next to big tree park in FL. When that tree set a blaze it was pouring ashes all over Sanford.

SWEET JESUS
I feel a bit more fortunate compared to some of you.
Sentry, are you on the west or east coast of FL? I always thought the hurricanes hit the west coast the hardest because many come from Mexico and the tropics.

[Sentry]

SWEET JESUS
I feel a bit more fortunate compared to some of you.
Sentry, are you on the west or east coast of FL? I always thought the hurricanes hit the west coast the hardest because many come from Mexico and the tropics.

I'm in the direct center in Sanford.

[Alyx Vance]

I'm glad that I live in a decent spot, the only thing I have to worry about up here is a forest fire because I am in a wooded area. If the one exit is blocked I'm forgeted unless I make a run for it.

Which I then fall off a rocky cliff like wall and plummet downwards hitting trees and then ultimently being skewered by a rock or sharp tree limb.

[Igloos]

I'm in the direct center in Sanford.

Isn't that right above Orlando?
Also it's a double whammy for central FL as if there is a hurricane on the east coast, it could go to the central part of the state, but not make it to the west coast.

[Sentry]

During the 2 hurricanes I talked about, They lasted a couple weeks.
We were without power or water for a while. We were living off of canned foods and chips.
I didn't do anything but hide in my room playing with puzzles or something because all my hand-held games were dead.
My neighbors tree also fell down into the street killing someone in a car.

[Alyx Vance]

During our icestorm we had a wood stove so we had warm meals and warm drinks when the power went out. We also had heat.
For fun we'd talk and just play with what we had. That or we'd walk outside and skate on the yard for a bit and then go inside and warm up. I slept in my sleeping bag as an extra precaution to keep me warm in the event the fire went out. Which happened often.

[Igloos]

During our icestorm we had a wood stove so we had warm meals and warm drinks when the power went out. We also had heat.
For fun we'd talk and just play with what we had. That or we'd walk outside and skate on the yard for a bit and then go inside and warm up. I slept in my sleeping bag as an extra precaution to keep me warm in the event the fire went out. Which happened often.

That doesn't sound too bad at all.
During Sandy there were 3 restaurants actually open during the big power outage here in NYC which were 4 blocks away from where I live. It was mainly only tourists who were inside these restaurants. We used to have a gas stove until my parents decided to get a fancy electric poo stove.

[Alyx Vance]

It wasn't bad at all as long as that flame blazed on, main problem being is that at night it would go out unless someone stayed up to stoke the fire every now and then.
It went out almost every night so the mornings were always cold but it wasn't a big deal at the time considering by that point I had been living with that wood stove for about 7-8 years.