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Message: [QUOTE="browndog319, post: 3209084, member: 7185"] In 2011, I was in a tornado, a hurricane, and an earthquake. The earthquake was nothing too crazy. If I remember correctly, it started in DC and we felt it in the Philly suburbs where I was working. It was weird. We were all just in the office and suddenly we were like “was that a train? what was that?” It wasn’t a massive one but it was a little frightening because you didn’t know it a big one would follow it... The hurricane was Hurricane Irene which was pretty bad - so much flooding where I lived. Nothing compared to Sandy a year later... but at this point it was the worst I’d been through hurricane-wise. The tornado was in St. Louis and I was there on a work trip. I was in the airport hotel and the tornado sirens started during our meetings. Weird sound if you’re not used to it. Everyone I was there with tried to make me feel like it was no big deal, it happens all the time. Then the hotel announcement sounded and said they would send people to escort us to the tornado shelters. We had to go down 9 floors in the stairwell to the tornado shelter. We were down there for an hour. When we came back up the damage was terrible - it had blown out windows in the airport right across the way. I’ve never been so afraid in my life. I don’t want to live through another tornado. But I don’t want to go through a bigger earthquake either, because those look pretty awful. [/QUOTE]