• lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      I saw reactor 4 building explode on live TV and immediately fled the city. If the winds hadn’t blown out all that radioactive material to the ocean (where US sailors actually got radiation poisoning on a ship east of Fukushima) but had instead blown it south, Japan’s economy would have totally collapsed.

      • Drusas@kbin.run
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        2 months ago

        By “the city”, do you mean Tokyo?

        It was a very bizarre feeling when I finally managed to get to Tokyo and everything was so…normal. I’d been trapped in Fukushima for eight days with minimal food and water at that point. Lost eight pounds. Worried constantly about radiation. Had no clean clothes. What would normally have been a two hour bullet train ride from there to Tokyo ended up taking two days as the route south was still closed when a path to the west opened up.

        Then eventually I got to Tokyo, feeling like a haggard refugee, and everyone was going about their lives as normal. Very surreal.

  • plactagonic@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    Slow one but- several years of drought and then bug infestation of some of our forests.

    It affected badly planted forests (monocultures) but still it is sad to see bare places you remember covered.

    There are several of these man made disasters around here but this one is most visible.

  • HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    Tied between Hurricane Sandy (I was literally in Connecticut and the winds were still bad) and a recent-ish (March 2023) wind storm here in Kentucky. 70mph winds. Very fun. A McDonalds got can opener-ed. Power was out for 3 days, and we were some of the first. Worst winds in a couple of decades.

  • copymyjalopy@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    The Witch Creek Fires in San Diego in 2007. I didn’t receive the reverse 911 call and ended up fleeing my building after it was already on fire.

  • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl
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    2 months ago

    2010 chilean Earthquake and tsunami (8.8), and the 2016-17 forest fires too

    Chile has an extreme propensity to natural disasters, but Chileans have learn to deal with them so they aren’t that bad, like after the 2010 8.8 quake there was an 8.5 or so in 2015 that caused little damage because lessons were learned, consider that quakes over 6.0 happens every year or two in chile, also we have floods, forest fires? Volcanoes, landslide, etc.

    My grandma felt the 9.5 Valdivia quake (biggest earthquake recorded in world history) and shortly after started working in the ministry of infrastructure, she always says she had to type “devastated area” a lot lol, my mom also felt her fair share of quakes too, and my parents were just away from Santiago (the city where we live) when a enormous flood hit here and caused a ton of damage, and we’re not talking about the natural disasters that happened in other areas of the county, like more quakes, floods, forest fires and volcanoes…

    Yeah, if you want to safely-ish experience natural disasters, come live in chile! Lmao.

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      God damn. You make Chileans sound like the Fremen. Living in the most inhospitable planet in the galaxy and it hones them into a deadly society of warriors.

  • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    94 Northridge Earthquake.

    Seemed pretty shitty at the time, but having seen the shits that happened in the time since, I got off easy.

  • Funbreaker [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    The August 2020 derecho that tore up a lot of the US Midwest. I lost power for 4 days, there was extremely hot weather, and I had a menial labor job at that time. it was hell

    • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      It wasn’t just the Midwest. I lived in West Virginia (in a city) and I had no power for seven days. And yeah holy shit it was 100 degrees every day and maximum humidity. 300 year old trees were scattered around like nothing.