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Scary Natural Disaster

What natural disaster scares me the most?

Well, fortunately, I haven't experienced many natural disasters first hand. I remember one fairly big hurricane which struck when I was eleven, but that didn't scare me. It was way cool, because they closed school and we lost the power so at night we were sitting around by candlelight.

I was in an (extremely minor) earthquake. That did scare me, though, partly because I had never experiencd anything like it. It actually struck at about 3 o'clock on a Saturday morning. I first noticed the rattling sound of my bedroom window, and I tried to explain it by saying that it was a suddenly strong wind. Then, I realized that it wasn't just the window, but my entire room including the bed that I was lying on had begun to shake. The wind couldn't do that. I was going through a phase where I had been reading quite a bit about paranormal things and I couldn't help wondering if this was it. I was having an actual paranormal experience.

Oh Well. That's the closest I've ever come to being scared by a natural disaster.