Which Disaster Worries/Scares You Most?

[Ginger]

The object of this isn't to solve anything, or really HAVE a purpose, other than "which one is the scariest"- base it on your own experiences, or ones you rather dread.

[Barbwire]

Fire is my biggest worry, probably because I have seen what it can do first hand. When I was 7, our house burned to the ground 2 weeks before Christmas. Not only did it destroy our house, it deeply affected my psyche for many years. I still have nightmares about fire around Christmas time each year.

[Lynn]

I have been through 2 tornadoes and one fire. I would rather go through another fire. If I had to choose. The fire thank god just burned out the kitchen. Tons of water and smoke damage.

[Heidi]

I also voted FIRE, but TORNADO comes a close, close second!
Fire, because of its destructive properties and tornado because of its destructive and unpredictable properties.

Here at home we had a tornado spawned from the Katrina hurricane. I saw the news that it was directly south of me and moving north. I called husband at his power plant (1 mile to the north of our home) and told him I was scared and coming to the plant. I left so fast I forgot to put my shoes on!
He, two other employees and I hid in a turbine room and watched the tornado pass just a few miles away. It didn't do any damage in our county but the next county it took out several large chicken barns and a home.
SCARY! I'll take earthquakes ANY day! At least your feet stay on the ground...
Heidi

[Jane Hurl]

Can I vote twice? I have very different reactions to "worry" and "scares me".

In the "scares me" department, definitely tornado. So unpredictable and so deadly.

In the "worry" department, hands down it is overpopulation and the havoc that it wrecks worldwide. One day we self-satisfied North Americans WILL pay for not helping underdeveloped nations more than we do. Unless something changes (and it ain't on the horizon), there is only ONE world for us all to inhabit and they WILL arrive on our doorsteps. I fear that the hand that's knocking on my door will not be looking for a donation, but will have a gun in it ... or will carry such disease that we won't be able to cope.

[Ginger]

My idea of helping some of these nations is sterilization, but then, that could apply to us yanks, too.

There's plenty we can do in our own home, on our own soil, before we go to these other countries to "help". *coughIraqcough*.

Like not breeding.

[moonrize]

How about BUSH. He's gonna get us bombed for sure.

[Ginger]

But Sally- I DID include him- I said "dopey", didn't I? :razz:

[Nito]

I would say the current bird flu..

Who sees a quarter of the earth dead cause of this? that'll be such a struggle to live.

another fear is FLOOD. where would we all go?

[CarolU]

I worry that the fundamentalist Christian soldiers will take over our country 'for our own good.' The stuff at the Air Force Academy scares the beejeesus out of me, when religion starts controlling our military, we are all in trouble.

[motorgypsy]

Humans have a bad habit of fearing the wrong things. I bet before the volcano leveled Pompeii the population would have said they were most worried about taxes or shark attacks.

[Jane Hurl]

My idea of helping some of these nations is sterilization, but then, that could apply to us yanks, too.

There's plenty we can do in our own home, on our own soil, before we go to these other countries to "help". *coughIraqcough*.

Oh, yes, Poni. Sterilization, for sure. I'm a huge advocate of that as, obviously, "regulating" births hasn't worked (witness China and the bazillions of babies [most often girls] who are murdered at birth). But, to set the record straight, when I was talking about "helping" other nations, I wasn't thinking along the lines of what Bush has done "for" Iraq. I was thinking more along the lines of sharing the wealth.

[dana]

alot of good points already pointed out. but of the natural ones i have to say fire is the biggest. has always worried me around horses and 6 years ago, friends of mine had their worst fears happen.

they live out where god lost his overshoes. drive is over a 1/2 mile long and surrounded by swamps on three other sides. have to go past the house to get to the barns.
they awoke one morning at appr 3am to find their barn on fire with all their female lipizzan horses in it, their driving team and donkey.
barn had been completely redone, fire marshall said without a doubt he found accelerate right down the middle of the alleyway.
completely destroyed their dreams of raising more lipizzans. you can't imagine the sight when i drove in the next day. and it had to remain that way for 4 more days until the fire marshall finished his investigation. don't know how they held up for those four days.

dana

[NikiGA]

Human-created. We just keep on screwing with each other as well as Mother Nature.
I might have a different point of view if I lived in an area prone to natural disasters. And I am not sure why terrorists would want to attack a bunch of fat hillbillies?!

:lol:

I would say this area has a greater chance of being hit by a meteor than a bomb. Either way, I don't spend much time waiting to see which one happens first. ;-)

[DebbieS]

We have lots of forest fires here every year, and they are scary. Luckily, we moved out of the woods a bit. We can see them, just not surrounded by them anymore.

Tornados scare me more. We had a microburst here a few years ago - that was bad enough. 100+ mph winds. Took our roof, our hay shed, ripped our camper apart (with my parents in it - they were okay), numerous other things were ruined. I can't imagine a tornado! That would probably be much worse.

[pnalley]

I have always been terrified of Tornado's

With fire a close 2nd

Thanks SO much for reminding me of all the other stuff I should worry about!

I think I'll go have an alcholic beverage! Then I can worry about sirosus (sp?)

[LynnG]

Man-Made........automobile accidents due to wreckless or careless drivers whether because of fatigue, too much alcohol, not paying attention/on a cell phone while driving, or excessive speeding.

this could happen to anyone of us on a highway..one second here, next second gone.
:evil:

[DebbieS]

Lynn, this is true. Sometimes when I fly, I get a little worried, even though plane crashes don't happen very often. It's just the though of putting your life in someone else's hands (and the gravity thing).

[Monty]

It was a toss up - between Tornado or fire -
I am staying up late tonight, because we are under Severe Storm Watch right now - which is really unusual for November!
Fire? How about stupid neighbors shooting off fireworks during a drought ?DUHHHHHHHHH! :mad:

[Ginger]

On the auto accidents- good point. Don't forget the ones who just have SO MUCH on their minds.... people can be so tired and overwhelmed, and still have to worry about health, bills, and others!

[motorgypsy]

Prime example of fearing the wrong things. Auto accidents, if I recall correctly, are the number one killer of kids and young adults. But what are their number one fears? Not autos - that's for sure.

[cowboy ed]

squirrels! you forgot squirrels! they are taking over! it is scary! :lol:

[finolover]

having been volunteer fire fighter on two depts at the same time...city and county....fire scares me most.....as long as you don't sleep you've got a chance.
the average time to get out of a burning house from the first flame is five minutes...a mobile home is three, also the first lung full of smoke and you can't get out!
in some cases the room fills with smoke, you awake set up in bed and the smoke gets ya before the flames ever do.

[PASOFAN]

Fire scares me, being burned really hurts! Then it would be global deseases.. Outbreak of something is scarry especially w/so many of us on earth...

[CarolU]

This scares me:

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7606.shtml

I know, I shouldn't read this stuff....gives me nightmares.

[reuben T]

I suppose i'd have to say, none of them! as one would find when obtaining enough knowlege/experience, "perfect love castheth out all fear."
Wind? That's been stopped dead when needed.
(There was occasion where a doctor and his dog team was trapped on an iceburg being blown out to sea, he prayed for the wind to stop, and it did all night till he could wave a makeshift flag and get the attention of someone 5 mi away on shore, the wind was never known to stop in that bay.)
Fire? A grass hut wouldn't burn with a torch when it wasn't supposed to. and reciently in MN a forest fire split and went around a man's house when he prayed for it to.
Water? on occasion rain has stopped when someone prayed for it to. or started when they needed it.
Desease? There's no such thing as an incurable desease. it's only the stupidity of greed that makes it look like there's deseases that can't be cured. it's a case of treatment being set up for certain deseases, the system comes to depend on the income from such expensive treatments, then along comes a ceap cure for said desease. If that cure was implemented it would wipe out the system, they'd have to rework their whole financial system, and loose a lot of $$ doing it. So the cure is suppressed, hidden, and they go on as if it was never found, looking for a "treatment" or "cure" that will make them more $$. One such find was that every organism has a base frequency at which it operates, from the smallest virus to the biggest animal. And when a maching frequency is generated and applied, it destroys that organism. It's simple to do, but was made illegal in human medicine long ago. It would have wiped out the whole med. system. People are curing themselves with it when they discover out how. I've been told the commen cold will disappear fast when it's used. It's supposed to work on parasites, AIDS, even cancer, (even though cancer's a little different field, there's other things that wipe out cancer very effectivly) I need to try it on the horses, will when I get one of the devices built. Same thing happened in the oil industry, which is why our vehicles don't get 10 times the mpg they're getting now. you can imagine what would happen to the oil industry if consumption dropped by 90%.

The casual observer dosen't usually see it, but to the person who dedicates themselves in service to their creator and observes his laws, nothing happens to them except what's for their good. Accedents still happen to them, "bad" things can still overtake them, but when it does they quickly come to realize there was some good purpose in the "bad" that happened, usually a charactor lesson they needed.
But for those not inclined to believe, or to depend on a living and loving creator, they have need to fear for what might happen, and likely will happen. I do expect some awfully bad catastrophys and deseases before too long.
It's just so nice to not be fraid of anything, not even death itself.

[cowboy ed]

carol, i wouldnt put much stock in that. just read closely and see who the author is "quoting". anybody can make this stuff up.

[Terry Wallace]

Oh c'mon Ed..we all KNOW you are ..... "chicken Little" ! ;-)

[motorgypsy]

Ed squirrels aren't funny. We have two baseball sized holes in the side of the house and the varments get in the attic and store their acorns etc. They just climb the side of the house. We've put two x fours over the holes and they just chew right through them. Kyle sits in the den with the pellet rifle but they reproduce so fast we can't keep up with them. Around here they've actually started fires that burned houses to the ground.

Rueben my 32 year old aunt refused medical treatment for a treatable condition believing faith would heal her. Guess she didn't have enough cause she died six months later. Guess it was meant to be cause it was her time????

[Jasfino]

That can go both ways. Hubby worked with a lady that got sick and went to the Dr. They found cancer all over her body and told her that she would only have at the most 2 months to live even with treatment. She decided not to go through the treatment. That nite after leaving the drs office, she told hubby that she went outside, fell to her knees, and prayed all nite in tears till early the next morning. She never went back to the Dr. That was 15 yrs ago. If you have enough faith, you can move mountains. She knows God healed her.

[RR]

Tornado.
Growing up in Wisconsin we have our share. I am sure Penny can back me up on that. I remember as a kid we were sitting in the house watching tv when the sirens went off. 5 min later, us under the pool table in the basement, it hit, and hit us hard. Not much notice at all. You would be suprised the kind of things that can really fly. Now I can't use the phrase, "when pigs fly". In Wisconsin sometimes they do.

http://www.bestanimations.com/Nature/Tornado-02-june.gif

[Ginger]

Glad to see there are rational people out there. I was sure we'd have the typical one or two, and wasn't disappointed, but yeah, I'm not fond of tornado, quake, chemical spill, or anything like that. There's always rumor of a terror attack here, as we were on USSR's map during the cold war (Allied, now Honeywell), but I don't know what ever happened to that, or how overblown it was.

I hope I set the poll to end in 3 days, I think I did, but I may have forgotten.

[finolover]

drought, famine and war got 2% ? :?:
WAR, good God ya'll.....what's it good for :?: :eek:

[Barbwire]

Absolutely nuthin'! Say it again, yeah!