All the news about Hurricane Irene made me think of posting this thread. What kind of storms and natural disasters have you experienced personally?

Nothing much happens in Nova Scotia. There was a 7.2 earthquake off the coast that generated a tsunami back in 1929... but I've never felt one myself. We get a few hurricanes every year, but they're nothing like the ones down south.

The only one I remember that was pretty bad was Hurricane Juan back in 2003. Most of the damage was just to the trees that were ripped up everywhere. We lost power for 8 days and it took us a couple days with a bunch of the neighbours helping to finally get out of our driveway. The storm passed in the middle of the night so we didn't get to watch the epic tree snapping and mini tornadoes on the eye wall.

And we have big snowstorms here occasionally, but haven't seen one of those in awhile. :<

Do you have any stories you want to share?