Have you ever seen a tornado? Or felt a proper earthquake?

[CiaoBe]

Both fascinate me.
I felt a TINY earthquake in the UK many years ago. Woke me up from a sleep and felt the wardrobes shake.

Thought it was a dream till next day but I can't imagine what a proper earthquake feels like. To have the actual earth move under you.

Also I have a morbid fascination with tornados. They terrify me but I would absolutely love to see one in real life.

I've felt a couple of earthquakes, both in the UK. Lots of tornados as I used to live in the Midwest.

Earthquake in Nicaragua - had just stayed overnight in a hotel half fallen down due to a recent earthquake before we got there. Was right on the coast when we experienced it - jumped out of bed, put on my crash helmet (good plan I thought) and husband and I just stared at each other before running outside. No major damage but was really concerned about a tsunami (we were a few metres from the Pacific) - although the owners of our room didn't seem that worried. A few further after shocks. Bit of an experience!

I’ve never seen a tornado but I was in the understairs cupboard during one if that counts?!

That’s the one 😉
I’m up at the very end of the village, tucked away.
I drove past St Giles this morning, never seen so many roofers and scaffolders!

There we so many roofers and fencing companies posting on our local pages last night 🤣

I'm the other side of the whammy.

It's so nice to see the whole community pull together.

It was mad windy last night when I went to bed! Seemed to have settled again this morning.

Yes to earthquakes. I live in an area where they're not that uncommon and we had a whole month of them a few years back. I couldn't relax properly for ages afterwards. I'm always quite amazed at how much stuff can sway but not collapse!

Also the earthquakes never seem to feel as rocky outside as inside where everything is swaying. I was outside for one and I thought some scaffolding had collapsed as there was a big crashing sound.

We had an earthquake about16 years ago in South Yorkshire. I was woken up by the picture rattling against the wall. As we back on to a railway line I thought is was a long train going past. We get the occasional train in the middle of the night. I then started to think that it was a very long train because the rattling went on for a long time. We then realised it was an earthquake.

I've seen waterspouts out at sea when we were on the beach at Great Yarmouth, and there was a small tornado ran through a village near where I live a few years ago. I happened to be driving through the village a few minutes after it had happened, and thinking WTF as there were branches, bricks and roof tiles all over the place. Someone's caravan ended up in my friend's front garden!

Yes, earthquake in the night when we were on a Greek island. Everything rattling and shaking. DH claims that he felt intense pain in his chest but it was only me running over him to get out of the room as fast as possible.

An earthquake in Egypt in June 2015. My glass of water was shaking and the glass doors were rattling in their frames - very odd!

My 8 year old is obsessed with tornadoes too. He wants us to go on holiday to Kansas in the hope we'll see one! He can sit watching Tornado videos on YouTube for hours.

I know what you mean regarding the morbid fascination. I feel the same way about Tsunamis.

3 minor earthquakes in the UK.

In December, we had an actual tornado where I live and we ended up with significant damage. As well as my roof and a back window being blown out, we ended up with roof from two doors down in our back garden. The chap over the road had a wall come down. Trees everywhere were felled and I never want to go through it again.

Yes, earthquake in Los Angeles in 2019. We were in our hotel room on the first floor, about to watch a film, and the couch started rocking rhythmically from side to side, the ceiling lights swung, and windows rattled. We jumped up and looked out of the window - the pool was slopping water across the paving and under all the sunbeds. It went on for about ten seconds.

There wasn't too much damage, although some sections of freeway collapsed in the local area. It was actually quite a cool experience, as we didn't have time to feel in any danger. Definitely glad to say I've experienced it, but I might feel differently if I lived in New Zealand and was being thrown across the room regularly!

@CiaoBe We were in Chile. 🇨🇱

Earthquake yes, in this country. I was a few miles from the epicentre and the house was properly shaking. I ran and stood under the bedroom doorframe and was having to hold on to stay standing. The banging from furniture against walls and the doors was so loud. So yes, can’t imagine how scary a bigger one must be. The simulator at the science museum is good.

I grew up in New Zealand so earthquakes were just a part of life - seeing the street/road ripple as I walked along was weird, being on the phone and it cutting out for a few seconds before instantly reconnecting, diving under school desk during exams, the dog barking seconds before we would hear the ‘roar’ of an earthquake starting.

In the event of a major earthquake at my inner city secondary school in the 80s we had to bring 2 cans of food per year to be stored at school in case we got cut off for 2-3 days, so they had a huge stockpile of food rotating; at work we had to keep trainers/sturdy boots, long-life snacks and a large bottle of sealed water at our desk to help with either being isolated from help or for walking amongst debris to find our way home; comprehensive first aid kits, pet food and medicines kept at home. All part of normal life living with earthquakes. I’ve been away many years now and relieved not to have this worry now.

Yes 2 - first in America, just a small one, the second whilst in Egypt. Also experienced sandstorms whilst in the Middle East, not nice at all.

Felt an earthquake in September 2002. The bed started to shake and 21 yo me ran into my DM and said "mum, mum. Supernatural forces are shaking my bed!". To which she said "it's just an earthquake" and went back to sleep. I was watching Casino on Tv...it's funny the things you remember.