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Posted: 5/14/2002 5:54:59 PM EST

Take your pick or add one IDGAFF[:)] I think Hurricanes because you never know were the hell they are going to go.

Sgtar15

Posted: 5/14/2002 5:56:52 PM EST

[#1]

Mt St Helens or the like.

An entire mountain kaboom !!!

Posted: 5/14/2002 5:58:07 PM EST

[#2]

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Take your pick or add one IDGAFF[:)] I think Hurricanes because you never know were the hell they are going to go.

Sgtar15

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But really you can track a hurricane and it does move quite slow to allow you to get out of it's path. No disputing it's power though. I would think the worst natural disaster would have to be one that comes out of nowhere, an earthquake or a tornado.

Posted: 5/14/2002 5:59:33 PM EST

[#3]

the birth of liberals!!!!

Posted: 5/14/2002 5:59:34 PM EST

[#4]

Water related weather events kill more people annually than any other natural phenomenon!

Floods, monsoons, etc.

Eric The(So,'Other')Hun[>]:)]

Posted: 5/14/2002 6:03:03 PM EST

[#5]

Eric, already said it flooding is definitely the worst.

A monsoon several years ago hit India and it killed over 10,000 people, and to think we go crazy when 10 people are killed in a hurricane.

Posted: 5/14/2002 6:09:09 PM EST

[#6]

That whole Planetary Extinction, Giant Comet Hits the Earth Thing is right up on the top of my list.

KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES!!!

Posted: 5/14/2002 6:13:24 PM EST

[#7]

Quoted:
Mt St Helens or the like.

An entire mountain kaboom !!!

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In the immortal words of Elmer Keith - "Hell I was there!"

Posted: 5/14/2002 6:26:03 PM EST

[#8]

I vote for the earthquake.
It's capable of multiple damage causing problems.

It can cause the ground to shake to shambles and anything standing on it;
It can cause a volcano to finally blow its top;
It can cause great tidal waves;
It can cause fires indirectly from the other problems.

Pretty good for one disaster...

Posted: 5/14/2002 6:31:32 PM EST

[#9]

SUPER-Volcano... like the one under Jellystone

Posted: 5/14/2002 6:34:37 PM EST

[#10]

Before I knew of the Super Volcanoes I would have said Tornadoes or Earthquakes. But with that Super under YellowStone, I know that the penultimate disaster will be that one. Dwarfing everything in the past by several thousand orders of magnitude.

Ben

Posted: 5/14/2002 6:34:56 PM EST

[#11]

Asteroid impact. Kinda puts everything else into pespective.

Posted: 5/14/2002 6:36:16 PM EST

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Asteroid impact. Kinda puts everything else into pespective.

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That's tellin' 'em, Steyr! [;D]

Posted: 5/14/2002 6:44:49 PM EST

[#13]

well I don't know if you would consider it on your "natural" disaster list, but I would consider viruses as the worst. Just looking at the 1918 flu epidemic, 21 million people died. Who knows what deadly virus is around the corner waiting to strike.

Posted: 5/14/2002 6:46:30 PM EST

[#14]

Supernova.

Posted: 5/14/2002 6:48:18 PM EST

[#15]

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Supernova.

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To be bad for sure but our sun won't achieve such a feat. Still gonna do us in, just not as spectacularly.

Posted: 5/14/2002 6:56:27 PM EST

[#16]

Well, I live in Southern CA so wild fire, earthquake, and tsunamis are some of the things I have to worry about.

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