By that mean, who here has experienced a major disaster first hand (i.e. you were there as it happened)? would you be ae to post details of your experience maybe if it is not too hard?
For me, it was the 2003 canberra bushfires.
I remember that i was watching a documentary on an outbreak of a nasty disease that started in a school somewhere in the U.S. (can't remember the details as I was kinda focusing on other things later that day), and i rember that it mentioned that sooner or later there would be another major diease outbreak. (this was around the time of the SARS epidemic, so i found it kind of ironic)
Sometime during that show, i lpeeked outside through the blinds, and realized that it was very dark for 3PM in january (the middle of summer here). I then saw all the nasty smoke in the sky. It was around then that I turned on the radio. I heard that there was a nasty bushfire around.
It was around then that we (me and my parents) started to follow the standard bushfire percautions, filling bathtub with water, wet towls at the foot of the doors, getting on the roof, clearing the gutters of leaves and keeping the roof wet.
I then remember going inside to switch stuff off (I think that is what i was doing), it was around then that we lost the power. I then went back outside, and the fire was much closer. It was comming up over the big hill that is about a kilometre behind our house. I remember that it sounded like a jet engine, the smoke was thick and coloured red by the fire, there were electrical arcs (either from static electricity from the smoke or from burning electrical transformers), and it was extremely hot and hard to breath without something over your mouth.
Once the fire reached the top of the hill it became less intense (fires, especialy in australia as they tend to use the eucalyptis haze above the trees, do not go downhill as well as they do uphill) and start to die down as it reached the bottom of the hill. After it died down, you could see just how much damage it had done to the trees, and that there were still spot fires burning on some other hills as well. Even as the smoke was clearing, it was still think enough that permitted looking at the sun without any pain, allowing one to watch it set.
That night i dont remember that much of, but it was hard to navigate the house with the power out. I cant remeber what we had for dinner but it must have been something basic.
The next day, i remeber that quite a few of the people in our street got together for a small breakfast/lunch at my next door neighbour's house. There was not that much happening. though, the person that ran the corner shop just down the road was giving away all his icecreams for free, as they would be unsellable even if the power came back because they would have melted before the freezers got cold enough. I then drove to the shops with my mum to get some ice to keep the stuff in our fridge and freezer cool. As we were coming back, we saw that the electricity was being restored in some places. Not long after getting home, our power supply came back.
I dont realy rember that much after that.
So, if you want to, post your experiences with a major disaster, be it natural or human.
For me, it was the 2003 canberra bushfires.
I remember that i was watching a documentary on an outbreak of a nasty disease that started in a school somewhere in the U.S. (can't remember the details as I was kinda focusing on other things later that day), and i rember that it mentioned that sooner or later there would be another major diease outbreak. (this was around the time of the SARS epidemic, so i found it kind of ironic)
Sometime during that show, i lpeeked outside through the blinds, and realized that it was very dark for 3PM in january (the middle of summer here). I then saw all the nasty smoke in the sky. It was around then that I turned on the radio. I heard that there was a nasty bushfire around.
It was around then that we (me and my parents) started to follow the standard bushfire percautions, filling bathtub with water, wet towls at the foot of the doors, getting on the roof, clearing the gutters of leaves and keeping the roof wet.
I then remember going inside to switch stuff off (I think that is what i was doing), it was around then that we lost the power. I then went back outside, and the fire was much closer. It was comming up over the big hill that is about a kilometre behind our house. I remember that it sounded like a jet engine, the smoke was thick and coloured red by the fire, there were electrical arcs (either from static electricity from the smoke or from burning electrical transformers), and it was extremely hot and hard to breath without something over your mouth.
Once the fire reached the top of the hill it became less intense (fires, especialy in australia as they tend to use the eucalyptis haze above the trees, do not go downhill as well as they do uphill) and start to die down as it reached the bottom of the hill. After it died down, you could see just how much damage it had done to the trees, and that there were still spot fires burning on some other hills as well. Even as the smoke was clearing, it was still think enough that permitted looking at the sun without any pain, allowing one to watch it set.
That night i dont remember that much of, but it was hard to navigate the house with the power out. I cant remeber what we had for dinner but it must have been something basic.
The next day, i remeber that quite a few of the people in our street got together for a small breakfast/lunch at my next door neighbour's house. There was not that much happening. though, the person that ran the corner shop just down the road was giving away all his icecreams for free, as they would be unsellable even if the power came back because they would have melted before the freezers got cold enough. I then drove to the shops with my mum to get some ice to keep the stuff in our fridge and freezer cool. As we were coming back, we saw that the electricity was being restored in some places. Not long after getting home, our power supply came back.
I dont realy rember that much after that.
So, if you want to, post your experiences with a major disaster, be it natural or human.
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