The scariest earthquake I was ever in was in Texas. I didn't know they had earthquakes ever. The building started to shake. I thought there was something wrong with the building and worried it was about to come down. I was thoroughly calmed down when I found out it was just an earthquake! And I lived through the big '89 earthquake.
As far as i know, Texas only had earthquacks below five on the scale. The only disasters that we experienced were Ike and Harvey, two hurricanes and we knew days in advance that they were coming and do our preparations. I don't want to be anywhere near California when »the big one« finally strikes.
We all have our natural disaster we fear the most.
Those we ALL do. Tacos and hiking.Think you forgot tacos & hiking on that list
Pray that i never buy a house in California!!! - With my luck they will all erupt the moment i signed the contract. Bought the house in Houston in August 2008 and in September Hurricane Ike struck. Damaged the roof and the fences and the insurance ripped us off with »depreciation«.
What a bummer. Insurance companies can be real jerks. We learned real quick which ones were jerks, and which ones were good to their costumers after the camp fire.
We were entirely new to the country, so we took whatever insurance company was recommended to us by the bank. After the house was damaged by Ike, they first said that we must be in the contract for three months before we can even file a claim. Fortunately that was solved quickly by our banker who called them and told them not to duck with us.
Yay, duckies!!!!! 3 days!!!!!!!!!!
