Well at the age of 8 and a half I was in Homestead, FL and road out Hurricane Andrew with my family in our house, we rebuilt and stayed for another 6 years before moving north, then around the year 2000 or so we had an Ice Storm up here that snapped a branch off the tree in the back yard that proceeded to rip the power lines and meter box clear off the house, it took a week to restore power, then somewhere are 05-06 I was staying in town when we got flooded, I had to wade thru waste deep water (I'm 6 foot tall) to get out to the street at a higher elevation, and it ended up getting 2 to 3 feet higher before it was over, then while I was at work one night in 2011 we had some tornadoes hit that make it quite hard to get home that night from all the downed trees and power lines, here are some pics from the day after
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.216480361699132.67823.100000115105736&type=1&l=a64c764acf the pic of the road is at the beginning of my street, the house with no roof is just around the corner just before you pull into that mess (less then a half mile drive away, 1/4 mile line to site from where I lived at the time), those folks actually got interviewed by one of the Atlanta news channels, the house ended up getting completely demolished and they built a new house on the site. then a year later or so, we got a good strong wind storm, that I got some video of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F6ZoBW2tdI
it was some of the strongest winds I've seen in a long time that weren't part of a big storm, probably not as bad as yours from the sounds of it, but seeing those trees sway like that sure had me worried.
so I think earth quake (which apparently I slept thru, the one time we had one that could be felt), Tsunami and Volcano are about the only natural disasters I haven't experienced first hand
