Sad times indeed. One has to wonder how can those intent on inflicting pain on other be handled?
No one knows when a person might flip from being rather passive to aggressive.
We can only react after the event. It is up to the parents, schools and society to instil proper moral and ethics into the children.
Show them the correct way to treat people
Those events would be heartbreaking. I can not imagine my home being inundated, ruining all my possessions and damaging my home to such an extent.
How long does it take for people to recover from such events? Certainly months, plus the is a fight with the insurance companies. Many of whom will fight to make the policy null and void over a technicality or breach. 
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I agree, drying your house out after a flood would be heart breaking. My house is unlikely to be affected by natural disasters directly, flooding is very unlikely.
During the 2019/20 bush fires it got within 30km of me and I found ash and burnt gum leaves in my garden but it would have to come a lot closer for me to start filling the gutters with water, However the escarpment, which is only a few ks from me, hasn’t burned since the 1960s so it is well possible.
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Yes! We have been through an earthquake, 2 tornadoes and one hurricane.
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This is devastating. 
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Wow. Was the earthquake strong or mild?
What is the difference between a Hurricane and a Tornado?
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Personally I have been in three earthquakes, one in Iran, one in Afghanistan and one in Sydney. The one in Afghanistan was pretty severe and sent us running own the stairs of the mudbrick hotel we were staying in, we moved into the earthquake proof hotel nearly opposite the same day. The Sydney earthquake I slept though even though it did crack the wall at the back of the place I was staying in.
There is definitely a feeling of helplessness when they occur waiting for them to stop
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Yes, I think it would be horrible to see the water creep up and invade and destroy your home and everything you worked for
To be fair, we didn’t hear many cases of insurers not paying out. I think the government, the media and the public were very much behind the victims so the insurers did pay out millions
The problem was that they pushed up the premiums sky high for the next year so it was very hard for people in the area to afford insurance at all
It’s a difficult one because it is very likely the area will flood again, although they’re working on flood prevention
The government intervened and worked with the insurance companies to create a scheme called Flood Re to help people in areas of high risk to get insurance at affordable rates
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There are very few natural disasters, but, and this is a big BUT, I lost one house completely due to a direct lightning strike which was rebuilt. Not content with the direct lightning strike, the weather decided to hit the house with a tornado that started its life off as a water spout. That tornado cost my insurance company around £75k to sort out all out. Then feeling somewhat uncomfortable with the location, we decided to move a crown flown 2 mikes inland and a little further east. Since that moving day we have been feeling more settled and happier👍
I am glad things have settled down now.
I do need to ask - a crown flown 2 mikes - means 
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The shortest distance between two points, jus as the crow flies straight to where it’s going.
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Strong enough that it shook our entire house in the middle of the night. The bed shock and I woke up startled. I ‘think’ it was in a rector (?) level of 6 but not absolurely sure. It was all over the news the next day.
We were hit by the big Fiona hurricane just last year. Luckily we have an insulated brick home so we were safe . A few big trees were down but that’s about it. Some people completely lost their homes. Some had it really bad. 
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Wow. Lucky you have a house solid enough to withstand powerful winds.
So sad when pictures emerge of the devastation of houses being completely blown away.
The only remaining thing being the concrete slab.
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Hi
We have floods on a regular basis.
Natural disasters have clearly been on the increase with droughts, floods, windstorms, and thunderstorms unheard-of by previous generations and myself when I was young. The biggest disaster caused a death toll of 180 two years ago. The infrastructure is still destroyed and the whole region will never be as habitable as it used to be.
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We were flooded out in 2000, in Woodford, Essex, the River Roding burst its Bank and the water in our House was upto my waist, three streets had to leave their homes, we went to my In-laws with our Cat.
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Heart breaking. Were you able go back there to live or was the place condemned?
Well, we had to go back there to claim on the Insurance and tidy up, we had £20,000 damage.
Two elderly Ladies in their 90s died, as they could not get them to leave their homes. We only stayed another year and moved, we had been living there for 20 years, apparently the River Roding had burst its Banks once before, before we moved in. We had Rescue men on Canoes to save us and our Pets.
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Did you move to avoid another flood? Were many possessions lost?
Sad about the two elderly ladies. They did not want to leave their home of many years. So sad.
Yes Brett, we didn’t want to go through that again. The two elderly ladies lived next door to each other, they were lovely, but they were too scared to move out and tried staying upstairs. Lots of things we lost, including old LPs with their original sleeves, record player, all carpets, furniture etc.