Humor: Natural disasters 8 Articles

by Leo B. Joseph

"Batten down the Hatches" the headline read, borrowing the nautical phrase. Again late fall in the northeast had promise of being costly. Two years prior my little house barely survived one of the worst storms in the passe...read more

by Gary Davis

Every June the same thing, tornado watches and warnings. Every year I tell myself the same thing, "Not one tornado has ever hit where you live". Every year I don't listen to myself. As soon as the "watch" comes on the s...read more

by Lisa Hunt Warren

In New England, where I live, we are fortunate enough to have many hurricanes that at first threaten to come barreling up the East coast go out to sea instead. When they don't go out to sea they sometimes follow a path ov...read more

by Karen Williams

Gone With the Wind No More I for one am tired of living in a bull's eye target for hurricanes, and I bet a few other folks would second that emotion. I did not move to Florida to have my roof blown off and to interact w...read more

by Paul Curtis

SUPER VOLCANO My wife and I sat down one Sunday night to watch, what we thought was a nice little medical drama on the BBC about a Super Eruption which we quite innocently believed to be about an epidemic of teenage acn...read more

by Gina Barr

The rain had come, along with beads of hail and the arsenal from heaven beat upon us as we threw our hoes and ran for the house. The garden would wait. The planting would wait. My brother, Bill (who is fat as an unt...read more

by Dean West

Living in England, I have learnt one thing; we have mastered the art of making mountains out of molehills. The slightest bit of rain or wind, and we expect a gale-force storm. In comparison to America, a continent which co...read more

by Yossi Ginzberg

I think that everyone is at times egocentric and convinced that the whole world revolves around them, and while it is a self-esteem booster to think so, it is possible to take it too far From time to time, I used to t...read more