[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

You know, each part of the country has it's dangerous situations - California has earthquakes, the entire middle section of the country is tornado alley, and up here in the Mid=Atlantic and New England States we are prone to blizzards....... Your section has to deal with hurricanes (and tornados)....... we learn each year and deal with it if we need to..... you did a good thing in preparing ahead of time - I'm sure some were not as smart as you

[Howlin]

My first husband was from New Hampshire; I don't see how you all stand all that snow!

As for earthquakes and tornados......yowzer. Warn me, please!

[sissyjane]

Amen---I will NEVER forget the Loma Prieta earthquake! Unfortunately those of us in California do not have a warning before our earthquakes! The entire ground,structure,and everything in it shakes and bounces while you just try to hang on and pick up the pieces after it's over. ( but you still have after-shocks that go on for EVER).

[uglybiker]

You know, each part of the country has it's dangerous situations - ...

Yeah. Here in Arizona we got all that killer sunshine and the low humidity really dries your skin out.

And in the winter, it sometimes gets down into the 50's! Brrrrr!

;-)

[HiJinx]

You know, each part of the country has it's dangerous situations - California has earthquakes, the entire middle section of the country is tornado alley, and up here in the Mid=Atlantic and New England States we are prone to blizzards....... Your section has to deal with hurricanes (and tornados).......

I've lived in all those places (CA, OH, MS, TX, KS, MA) and more, and dealt with my fair share of bad weather. That's why I'm in Arizona now, with naught but drought or thunder ~n lightning to worry about!

Seriously, prayers out to everyone who has found themselves in Izzy's path tonight.

[Colorado Doug]

You know, each part of the country has it's dangerous situations ....

It rained 5 plus inches in 45 minutes a few miles up the creek from where I live. It barely rained at all here but a 6 foot wall of lumber (tree branches, etc.) came down the creek. Pretty soon, as the water rose, hundred year old cottonwoods were coming down the creek too, each of them slamming into my bridge, the steel ringing with each impact. Before long my pastures were going underwater. I had two horses on one side of the creek and two on the other, water engulfing all their dry land except for a few feet. Trees started jamming against my bridge and my fences. I used telephone poles for cornerposts but pretty soon all the logs snapped one like a toothpick. The log jam took my telephone pole, along with 700 feet of fence down the creek. Then the bridge went.

[Colorado Doug]

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The horses on the side where the fence went down, freaked out. One of them wanted to come across the creek to me. I had to throw rocks at him to keep him from going into the torrent. Another telephone pole pulled out of the ground on the other pasture but the fence held. At least my 4 month old foal and her mother were secure and had six feet of dry ground left. The levy that I had build upstream was protecting them but was eroding badly. A couple hundred tons of boulders and river rocks filled in my stream bed. I have countless trees, tree limbs and bushes piled against my remaining trees that didn't wash out. My disintegrated bridge is 500 feet downstream with my lawnmower and a few other things. No, I don't live in North Carolina. This freak little thunderstorm happened to me last week, here in Colorado but I sure can sympathize with the hurricane survivors.