yea, I can relate to your story. Thankfully, we do not have tornados here in Sothern California. However, we do have some fun earthquakes. You just had one small town, we had a sizable portion of suburbia distroyed in about 5 minutes in 1994. I was just a small child at the time, but I remember vividly being dragged out of the house by my parents (my mom is a geologist, and knows how to get about a 30 second warning before the main shock comes through. 'P-waves,' if any of you are familiar) and watching the land ripple down the street. The noise was like 100 frieght trains coming through the yard. The nice thing about having a parent obsessed with geology is the fact that my house was bought not because it was a great deal, but because it was biult on solid bedrock . We only had a few minor cracks near the doors and windows, but my grandma's brick (#1 rule of SOCAL: Don't build anything with bricks) chiminy fell into her living room, a few parking structures collapsed, and some freeway over passes fell down (I live really close to this one, and I got to hear it fall ). This is also leaving out all of the houses that were further damaged in the aftershocks, or sliding down the hillsides because thier ground was destablized in the quake.

The day after the quake, we went around the city, looking and photographing the data. Even though I was only 7, all I could say was 'wow.' Even today, those areas feel strange because they have all been rebuilt, and I still have vivid images of the distruction that was once there. I hope your town rebiulds and comes back to life, but just be glad you don't have big earthquakes :P.

Extra reading: These are pictures similar to the ones I have of the local areas. My favorite is #14.

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Hmm...Oddly I haven't been in any natural ********s yet.

EDIT: Why does it censor dis-as-ters? (Without the hyphens.)

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That's weird AshTR that it censors ********s. Me I never was in a natural dis-ast-er. I do have a friend out in Oklahoma and I worry about her sometimes because that's Tornado Alley where she's at.

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I seem to remember a PSP Dis-as-ter team who claimed to have a downgrader that hadn't come out yet.

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yeah that is weird that it censors ********s. It doesn't censor shit or anything like that.

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That's probably why then.

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What??? I asked for them to make something that censors cus words, did they do it, or does it just censor disastor8

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