Which weather or earth event scares you the most?

[mvd]

For me it is tornadoes. Frequency seems to be increased in SE PA and especially south Jersey. Each significant severe weather day I fear hearing the emergency alert and possible destruction. I do live in an area that escapes many of the worst storms, with the Limerick tornado in the 90s being an exception.

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	Tornadoes
	10 (53%)
	Hurricanes
	2 (11%)
	Earthquakes
	2 (11%)
	Fires
	1 (5%)
	Floods
	2 (11%)
	Blizzards
	0 (0%)
	Ice storms
	0 (0%)
	Excessive heat or cold
	1 (5%)
	Regular lightning/thunder
	0 (0%)
	Other
	1 (5%)
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[Thunderbeast]

1. Living near ground zero in Cascadia impacts my answer

Also on the slopes of a volcano.

[Earth-shine]

2. Sea level rise - more than just floods

[Lucinda]

3. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[highplainsdem]

4. Tornadoes because of the devastation and the lack of time to prepare.

[Upthevibe]

5. Having lived through the Northridge Earthquake

in '94 and I had been through tornados, hurricanes, and flooding in Tx., I'm going with earthquake on this one.

As my bed literally bounced all throughout the hardwood floors of my bedroom during that quake, I "knew" I was going to die. It was a happy time in my life (I was in my 30's and had just started working on finally obtaining my college degree). For some reason, a calm came through me and I actually said out loud, "so this is how I die. That's okay. I'm happy." I believe in a higher power and felt that was happening - meaning why some kind of calm came over me.

Anyway, after it was over, we literally had to crawl out of our condo (there was broken glass everywhere including a fish tank with all the water and deceased fish). It was dark (4:31 a.m. on January 17, 1994) so we needed to see the glass and needed to be down on the ground.

During the event, I had that calm feeling. But after that, with all of the after shocks and realizing how close to death I felt I'd been - I definitely had PTSD. I now have an earthquake bag right next to my bed with necessary items such as tennis shoes, flashlight, a little cash on hand, jeans, a shirt, a jacket, and a couple of other items.

That's a time in my life I'll for sure never forget.

[lastlib]

12. (stick a small first-aid kit in that bag...

word to the wise.)

[Kaleva]

6. None of them

Not saying I wouldn't be very apprehensive if actually caught up in any but I've come to accept that climate change is going to increase the frequency and severity of many of those listed. They will become "normal".

[Tikki]

7. Cloud burst rain and no-can-see-through fog...

when I am on the road..

There hasn't been a significant earthquake in this part of So. California since 1994.

Maybe drought or fire or a landslide (if it ever rains again) nearby.

Tikki

[haele]

8. One can build for most earthquakes.

Tornados, tsunamis or wildfires - now they scare me.

Haele

[wackadoo wabbit]

9. Excessive heat will come for us all /nt

[rurallib]

10. Well they all scare me.

Probably have much more familiarity with tornadoes than anything.

[wnylib]

11. Tornadoes because they can come up suddenly

with no time to prepare and very little time to reach shelter. I have had a few very close calls with them, close enough once for the pitch blackness (at noon), the hail, and the roar, but not a direct hit, fortunately.

Was also in a house fire in the middle of the night, so that is scary, but we all got out ok and I did not develop a fear of it happening again.

Flash floods and hurricanes usually have some warning time. I have not lived in a forest fire area, but know that it would be terrifying. I have lived through a few really bad blizzards, but had advance warning and stayed home. Would be really bad to be on the road, far from shelter, and without blankets or a means to avoid being buried.

So, in the end, tornadoes scare me most.

[csziggy]

13. I voted for tornadoes because they are the most unpredictable

And I live in an area where strong earthquakes are pretty much non-existent. (Some years ago there was a ~3.0 quake out in the Gulf - I didn't feel it up here near the Georgia line.)

I've only had one tornado come close - I heard a LOUD rumbling down in my bottom thirty acres, where the swamp is. By the time I got the weather warning it was about ten miles away. Tracing the path it took backwards, the rumbling must have been that tornado forming.

I've lived through a number of hurricanes and tropical storms - those a expected here in Florida. Even when I lived in a mobile home, they didn't worry me too much.

The closest I have ever coming to dying from a weather event was walking across the ridge from my barn to my house. Out in the open field in the middle, suddenly my hair - very long, almost to my waist) started standing on end. I RAN as fast as I could back to the house. Just as I closed the door, lightning struck a tree at the top of hill near where I'd been walking. That kind of thing happened again - I was standing on my deck, felt the electric prickle, went inside and closed the door. Again, lightning struck just as I was safe inside, striking a pine tree about 100 feet below the house.