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Originally Posted by flatbutt

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-us-storm-deaths-20221214-kd2gfecg4ref3c6ixbkuojdme4-story.html

Is there anything more terrifying than a tornado? It can drop on you in a heartbeat and erase an entire town in minutes.

All the best for the recovery of those effected.

Tornados are kind of like earthquakes, but worse. Rogue waves would be up there with them. Volcanos would be similar.

I think I find tornados a bit scarier than the rest, because they are essentially impossible to predict. They can behave in unexpected ways. And other than having a storm cellar, I don't really think that there's much that you can do to protect yourself. The fact that a tornado can erase buildings right down to the foundation is scary. Or it can destroy your neighbors homes, but leave yours standing (hopefully, you're not one of the "neighbors"). Finding unexpected items embedded in other items because they've been turned into projectiles is also terrifying.

Earthquakes, I lived in Japan and lived through several. We had a couple/few larger ones, but nothing that was ever that dangerous for us (my parents did lose all of their china that had been wedding gifts). I assume if I was in Cali, where there have been some that were huge and cost lives and property damage, I would probably find them scarier. We often had tremors, so my experience says that 99% are a little shaking and that's it.

Rogue waves are pretty scary, but really only if you're near the coast and low-lying.

Volcanos are pretty scary, but also only if you live near one.

Wild Fires are scary, but there's usually more warning/notification.