I had to evacuate from my apartment because of the Sonoma county fires in 2017. Luckily my home wasn't damaged.

I've come close to around 3 tornadoes getting close to town, we didn't even go to the basement! xD
And I'm still living!

I've spent my whole life living in areas where hurricanes come through. We've evacuated a few times, but we've been very fortunate not to have had much damage when we came back.


I hope everything works out for you, ok.

I've lived in the Southern US my whole life in the direct path of hurricanes, and there was only one time in my lifetime I remember leaving. Everything was fine when we came back. For the most part we just waited them out in our house. The power goes out and you shove a towel under the door, then you pretty much just spend a week or so eating crackers from the pantry in the dark 'till it blows over. It's loud outside the whole time but it's not that big of a deal if you have a decent house.

No, not really. Last time I ran from a disaster it was just a false alarm.

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I have, once.
Small story, I was like a toddler. We were supposed to go down to a neighbor's storm shelter, (The story varies, some people say they locked us out others say they went out on vacation beforehand to visit family, idk) but couldn't. So we were prepping to go to ours. (It was a tornado) well...idk if we got down but been through a storm.

[humor] im now deathly terrified of high winds.
areas i live in have windstorms.
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Nope, not yet luckily.

I'm glad that you are all safe and sound.

Fire, flood, and storm damage.
(Different times, different places.)