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

[Twintery]

I obviously could be very wrong.

No, no, the OP has a feeling apparantly.

But she obviously could be wrong so we should all breathe a sigh of relief

'We' are not tucking overdue.

Large scale natural disaster have and are happening.

The OP just doesn't seem to think those people count.

FUCKING not tucking.

Stupid, polite auto correct.

Where has she said they don't count?

I think you might be seeing something that just isn't there.

Goodness me, it clearly needs spelling out.

There are natural disaster happening around the world on a grand scale.

The OP, however, doesn't seem to register these, because for some reason she thinks we're overdue one.

So what other interpretation can there be, than she thinks those disasters and loss of lives don't count, in the overall tally of disasters...?

If Yellowstone blows we are screwed aren't we?

lljkk - doom-monger, your autocorrect is still off! (like fishmonger)

I do wonder sometimes about the number and frequency of natural disasters - there have been some spectacular ones this century alone, many of them in the last decade.
Seems to me that they're already on the increase - are you, OP, expecting something along the lines of Armageddon?

I am completely at your ignorance of the Japanese tsunami, with resulting nuclear power stations causing massive radioactive contamination as well - do you live in a cave?

Nope. I don't see this thread the same way you do.

Thanks for spelling it out for me though JapaneseMargaret

• thought you'd be on here, hope all is well! Is it safe to eat fish there?

One could add the bushfires that have been rampaging over half of Australia on and off for the last 4 or so months, admittedly not entirely natural disasters, but still pretty fucking scary. What about the ice floods in northern USA/CAnada? They're a bit unusual, I would have thought.

I do think the OP is after some kind of apocalyptic event like The Flood though. Which isn't as unlikely as it might have once seemed, given the state of Somerset.

So what are all those events, if not large natural disasters?

Hi Thumb

Yes, I eat the fish and have not grown two heads yet!
Admittedly I wouldn't buy fish that was labelled "Fukushima"...

Not that there is any fish from there in the supermarkets as the fishing industry has not recovered up there
So many people have lost their livelihoods

Anyhow, can't be chatting - I have a massive earthquake due right under my house and need to start worrying about it...

Of they don't count to the OP if they did she wouldn't be waiting for a real natural disaster.

There are lots of natural disasters which are statistically 'overdue'.
There is also an increased risk from natural disasters in terms of frequency and intensity due to climate change.
Even with all the natural disasters mentioned on this thread which have happened recently, it is still likely that the world is going to suffer another one soon. Of course the term 'due' is inaccurate.

Not sure what to post really.

No, not meaning Armeggedon.
Dont think it was the aeroplane disaster.

Still mean overdue though.
I feel like large natural disaster is overdue, and coming within the next 3 months.
If I am wrong, I shant be posting again like this.

I thought about posting in chat, but chat disappears in 3 months.
So am bracing AIBU instead!

Interestingly, I read something recently about helium 4 leakage at Yellowstone, suggesting that the super volcano could go off at any time!

Spooky reading this last night and then the plane crash this morning. Feels pretty disastrous that a modern 777 plane would drop out of the sky.

I think you've just set yourself up for more upset op

Was nodding along semi-agreeing with you, not that we're overdue, but that the world does seem to be in chaos natural disasters wise at the moment, and I'm sure it won't be long before another event hits unfortunately , however, by saying you want this thread to remain for 3 months so that, what?, you can come back and say "ta da!!!" when everyone else will be worried about drive ak : food / water / whatever it is that has happened...

That's like playing bingo with people's lives

I'd retract that last post if I were you

*survival not drive ak (!)

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think the OP knows about the earthquake/tsunami in Fukushima but doesn't necessarily automatically call it an earthquake as it was more known as the tsunami there. (Because it was more publicised as a tsunami, than earthquake)

Does that make any sense?

Anywho, threads like this petrify me so I'm off to start my end of the world hoarding and sit in a corner with a tinfoil hat and rock back and forth.

No, it wasn't "publicized" more as a tsunami

It was the fifth most powerful earthquake ever to have hit the earth.

Am not even going to begin to engage with the OP after that last post...

Actually where I was at the time, yes it was. Same as the Boxing Day tsunami is known as the Boxing Day tsunami not earthquake.
Yes they both started as earthquakes in their respective regions however the days that followed the media made more of a fuss of the damage that the tsunami did more so than the earthquake itself, which in itself was abhorrent. please don't patronise me, I was only making a suggestion.

Yes OP I was defending you, but your last post is not helping our cause.

backs away slowly from thread

Shhhh.....look its stopped raining. ( trying to change to subject)

There's a wonderful (from a purely entertainment perspective) new series on one of the various documentary type channels about potential cataclysmic natural disasters called "Evacuate Earth". They seem to be looking for incredibly unlikely but just about possible disasters and extrapolate the worst possible scenario if everything goes wrong that could possibly go wrong.

The couple I've caught have involved Rabies suddenly mutating to become airborne and even more infectious than it is (Zombie apocalypse type scenario) and a giant (bigger than the biggest we've seen) comet hitting the moon at exactly the right angle so all the ice fragments go into orbit around the earth and make it rain for hundreds and hundreds of years & put every inch of the earth under water.

I'm never sure if they made these as a sort of wry comment on the prepper mentality that seems to be growing in the US, or they are really serious!