Reply #50: tornado vs earthquake

[Bertha Venation]

I've been in several huge quakes and countless medium and little ones.

I've been three miles (as the crow flies) from the path of an F5 tornado that killed seven people and leveled a town.

During that tornado we sat in the basement and wondered if we'd find our roof and our cats. All we had was hail damage: a broken window, some punched siding panels, and a car that looked like someone had taken a ball peen hammer to it.

Big earthquakes scare me, and Northridge terrified me, but I'll take any earthquake over a tornado, any day of the week.