to feel like the world is overdue a large natural disaster?

[Twintery]

I obviously could be very wrong.

By the 'world' you clearly mean Europe.

Tsunami, Katrina, Fukushima, Phillipines, Christchurch.

We are heading into a long term drought again if that helps? Or will that not kill enough people to count.

Fucking he'll so people live a sheltered existence.

And so what if it is?

Worrying about it won't stop it. If it happens, it happens.

^^ possibly slightly unfortunate post to follow the drought comment. My post was a direct answer to op's question rather than a response to other comments!

I think we're overdue a polarity flip though aren't we? That would shake things up.

wasn't the boxing day tsunami over 200,00 people ? Some of the droughts and famines have killed millions in Africa, some of the hurricanes that hit Hawaii took large numbers - seriously think we are not overdue!

California is well overdue for a massive earthquake. Guess where I'm going later this year?
I hope it doesn't happen at any time, obviously. There have been far too many natural disasters over the past few years.

I've been unusually worried about a large scale nuclear disaster happening. Similar to the one in Japan that is still causing issues and will continue to, but even worse and more widespread :(

when in Japan? I dont remember one recently.

ffs

Are you aged about 6, or just plain ignorant?

It's strange but I've been thinking about this too. All the dogs in our suburb of Sydney, Australia have been barking nonstop for two days. They never do it like this and it's very odd.

there seemed to be a cluster of biggish disasters a little while ago. perhaps we are in a lull of less disasters. these things do not happen every x.y number of years.

when in Japan? I dont remember one recently.

Are you just on a bit of a wind-up, or are you actually trying to upset people? Or just socially inept?

La La La La La

fingers in ear and head in the sand

seriously, if a big industrial disaster is coming our way, there's not much you can do to prepare and there are much better things to worry about.

Perhaps stock up on tinned food/dried and maybe buy and learn how to shoot a crossbow so you can defined your stock of tinned food. Just in case it all gets nasty after the disaster.

The thing is, there are plenty of people in the world - even the developed world - who have a ready and live civil defence kit packed and good to go at a moment's notice and disaster/evacuation meeting-points agreed with family members, because they realistically have to. We do.

I know this thread is probably supposed to be a bit light-hearted(?) but at the risk of coming across like a right misery, it's pretty wide of the mark and more than a little ignorant.

I agree JapaneseMargaret.

OP, do disasters only count if they happen to people like you? I am actually pretty bloody annoyed by this.

Some super cranky people on this thread.

Here .

at this thread...

There's a Malaysian airlines jumbo jet just fallen off the radar over Vietnam - that do you for now, OP??

Well yes I am cranky.

Being cranky is the only suitable response when some writes something so self absorbed and uninformed.

You know those 50,000 people the OP needs to be effected? They are actual people not just numbers for the OP to read about.

And yes, I know it's not a natural disaster but I am literally living every day with the fact that another massive earthquake is due any day where I am. Two, in fact.

I could start a thread about that.

I mean I know the airline news is not a natural disaster...

You really have no idea, OP, to be so blasé.

"I could be wrong" no shit?

The awful thing is you are probably right

Dunsborough, I take it you've never known somebody to disappear in a tsunami (my colleague, scuba-diving in Thailand), nor flattened by falling masonry in an earthquake (my grandmother's best friend, aged 23 at the time).

No, guessing not.

Thanks for the wine, though.

If the OP had asked something along the lines of, 'I wonder what the next major natural disaster will be and when', or something along those lines, that would be fine. Everyone speculates.

But to say we're overdue a disaster is just embarrassingly stupid and, yes, will piss people off.

You might be overdue a plague of locusts or whatever, but the rest of the world is doing just fine on the disaster front unfortunately...

Oh calm down.

The OP was just wondering - not hoping!

I know she's not hoping.

She says she thinks we're overdue.

I disagree.

Um, this is AIBU...?