What would you rather go through?

Question

1: hurricane

2: tornado

3: earthquake

4: tsunami

5: huge whirlpool while your in the water.

and tell me why

i would rather go through an earthquake any day. all you need to do is go outside and find a clearing where nothing can drop on you and if the earth splits under you, it is an easy obstacle, PICK A SIDE.

i think it would be better than something that throws things up in the air and land in random places and destroy tons of property and can even bring great suffering like a tornado or hurricane, having a huge wave come at you and possibly wash you out to sea or make everything go under water. and it is defiantly better than a whirlpool which scared the c**p out of me cause it can suck you under water and until it lets go of you you have to wait to get back to the surface, you don't know how far down you are, you need to get away from the whirl pool so you don't get sucked back in but if you cant see through the water that would be tough. so yea give me an earthquake instead of the others and ill be happy.

Answer 1

I'd rather take my chances with a tornado than fall through a giant crack in the earth. You do realize that often the cracks happen too quickly to "pick a side" and you fall in anyways, right?

Answer 2

lol interesting question....i really hope i go thru NONE of these!! but if i hv to choose i would say earthquake for the same reasons u said.  

Answer 3

You don't know much about earthquakes. No way to tell when one will happen. How do you get to that clearing? The earth is shaking violently. There is no way to get to a safe place in time. Earthquakes can only be dealt with in the now. Hurricanes tornadoes tsunami can all be predicted. So you have time to make plans. Earthquakes come with no warning at all. By far you picked the worse one as the safest.

Trust me a 7.0 earhtquake makes everthing else you mentioned seem like nothing at all. Imagine. It's 3:30 am and you have children sleeping. Then BAM! the world is shaking so much you'd have to hold on to walls just to try to stay up. No warning. No electricity. No phone. No one knew it was coming. A 7.0 earthquake is very possible and even the best construction can fail under its force. The most powerful force known to man. When Southern California has it's  "Big One" you  will see more destruction then you have ever seen in your lifetime.

Your words. I  would rather go through an earthquake any day. all you need to do is go outside and find a clearing where nothing can drop on you and if the earth splits under you, it is an easy obstacle.

Those are not the words of someone that knows anything about earthquakes. Period. It would be ignorant of you to advise anyone to follow that plan in the event of an earthquake. So you may have been in many but you still seem to know nothing about them. I did not assume. I deducted based on your fantasy that you could somehow find a clearing at the time an earthquake strikes. Those words coming from someone who has been in an earthquake are hillarious.

Answer 4

Earthquake. You didn't specify how serious the earthquake was, and most earthquakes are so minor you can't feel them. Since those earthquakes can't be felt, there is no damage.  There can be an earthquake going on right now where I live, I just don't know it.

Answer 5

I will do what I can to avoid them all, and throw in ice age,  volcano, nuclear war, widespread drought with starvation, major flood,

I have lived through tornado, and while it was scary it did not cause the devastation of a major earthquake in an urban setting. Earthquakes can bring big buildings down even before people can get out, particularly when the building construction is faulty.

I have lived through hurricane, and while it can be a big problem, many hurricanes are not the big bad wolf we think. In Cuba they could have a lot of loss of life, but everyone is ordered to evacuate low areas and go into the mountains, The do it,  They do not even have to choose sides.

I have survived whirlpool / rip-tide, and for sure it was the worst 2 minutes of my life, but I came out uninjured.

Volcano, on Kamchatka was peppering an area only 50 metres away with boulders the size of cars, molten boulders. and there was a volume of sulfuric gas moving down the hill. Now that is not something anyone would choose, but we survived it.