Probably a flash flood or something along the lines of the Japan Tsunami... Drowning freaks me right out, being sweapt away by a wall of water is even scarier.
I've gone through the opposite, sort of. 2010 Queensland Floods. I've seen pictures of flooding in a major city near where I grew up, but I'd never been in one. Brisbane isn't a city that you would expect to flood, nor would you expect the areas hit to be flooded either. The scary part was my commute to and from work put me in the path of the water as it came down from Toowoomba. I remember seeing news crosses showing the major road that I travelled daily totally under water, here is the McDonalds I drive by.
Anyhow, where I live we were fairly safe, water level was getting close, but the loss of power and isolation was terrifying. The news said that it was over, but what if it wasn't. What if the water went up a few more feet.. I don't think I'm scared of a certain type of weather, just the isolation that comes with an event like that. The worst thing of all was the loss of power and conservation of phone battery to make sure we had some form of communication.
Fun thing happened while watching the news during the floods this plane is on top of a roof more as a sign (and it's opposite the McDonalds I posted about before). It was just above the waterline and when the news helicopters were surveying the damage, they had to tell viewers that it wasn't a plane floating away (airport is near this area). - All in all, not an amusing thing to live through, and it really makes you dislike the media organisations as some didn't want to help those stranded, just wanted to take footage.
I understand that reporting helicopters may not be equipped to help, but if you are going to report on a thing of this magnitude, have some sort of backup plan if you see someone needing assistance. I think this was the flood where they left someone to come back for them with help and when they got back they couldn't find the person.
Probably a flash flood or something along the lines of the Japan Tsunami... Drowning freaks me right out, being sweapt away by a wall of water is even scarier.
I've gone through the opposite, sort of. 2010 Queensland Floods. I've seen pictures of flooding in a major city near where I grew up, but I'd never been in one. Brisbane isn't a city that you would expect to flood, nor would you expect the areas hit to be flooded either. The scary part was my commute to and from work put me in the path of the water as it came down from Toowoomba. I remember seeing news crosses showing the major road that I travelled daily totally under water, here is the McDonalds I drive by.
Anyhow, where I live we were fairly safe, water level was getting close, but the loss of power and isolation was terrifying. The news said that it was over, but what if it wasn't. What if the water went up a few more feet.. I don't think I'm scared of a certain type of weather, just the isolation that comes with an event like that. The worst thing of all was the loss of power and conservation of phone battery to make sure we had some form of communication.
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That would be my second choice and is why I never lived along the coast line or rivers.