Worst thing to ever happen to your town
Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:20 am
I thought it would be interesting to see what you think is the worst thing to ever happen to your town.
I think mine would have to be the fact that the cow that had BSE originally came from here. The first one that shout down the borders. Now noone wants cows from around here.
Now how about everyone else.
I think mine would have to be the fact that the cow that had BSE originally came from here. The first one that shout down the borders. Now noone wants cows from around here.
Now how about everyone else.
Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:28 am
Hmm...Los Alamos is around for a pretty solom reson, but the worse thing in my lifetime?
The fire. Something like 400 families lost there homes. Even five years after, we still have black tooth picks instead of trees on our montaions..
The fire. Something like 400 families lost there homes. Even five years after, we still have black tooth picks instead of trees on our montaions..
Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:28 am
Now noone wants cows from around here.
No one wants cows from anywhere right now. *shakes head*
We rent out our farm to people with cattle (the pastures) and... yeah. Apparently their cows are "big expensive pets". *nods*
Black Friday hit Edmonton, that was pretty bad. 18 people died. Red Deer? *shakes head* I don't know...? I know the flu hit Red Deer badly... in the begining of the 20th century... but it hit badly everywhere.
Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:35 am
(This is Wellington) I'd say:
- The Waihine day sinking was bad (super storm, passenger ship sunk)
- 1981 Springbok Tour protests (one of the more bloodier with the police beating teens with long style batons)
- The Waihine day sinking was bad (super storm, passenger ship sunk)
- 1981 Springbok Tour protests (one of the more bloodier with the police beating teens with long style batons)
Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:00 am
Hmm... the L.A. riots, maybe. And the '94 earthquake.
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Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:06 am
This past spring, five Lacrosse players from my high school got in a really bad car accident while making a Wawa (a convenience store...like 7 Eleven or Sheetz) run before a game. There's a really steep wooded road near the school, and a phone company van didn't see the car comming as they made their turn.
They were all pretty severely injured...thankfully they're all still alive, although two of them are still in pretty extensive physical therapy.
I graduated class of 2002, so I didn't know any of them personally, but I knew older siblings of two of them. It was so awful being three hours away and having to rely on the local newspaper's website to get any information.
There were probably worse things to happen in the history of my area, but this was the worst I could come up with.
They were all pretty severely injured...thankfully they're all still alive, although two of them are still in pretty extensive physical therapy.
I graduated class of 2002, so I didn't know any of them personally, but I knew older siblings of two of them. It was so awful being three hours away and having to rely on the local newspaper's website to get any information.
There were probably worse things to happen in the history of my area, but this was the worst I could come up with.
Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:25 am
When I was living in Edmonton that would have been the Big Tornado and I lived it.
Here at the edge of no where... part of husky refinery blew up a few deaths, other then that not much happens here in this small place.
Here at the edge of no where... part of husky refinery blew up a few deaths, other then that not much happens here in this small place.
Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:48 am
When I was living in Edmonton that would have been the Big Tornado and I lived it.
Here at the edge of no where... part of husky refinery blew up a few deaths, other then that not much happens here in this small place.
Thats what I mentioned "Black Friday".
I was only two when it happened though. And apparently I slept quite happily in the basement.
I've seen pictures though, and... I saw the destruction at Pine Lake when the Tornado hit there. The Pine Lake tornado ripped out part of a field of canola from my farm... so... it's frightning stuff.
Tue Nov 02, 2004 5:36 am
Probably the school shooting.
Or maybe the 1937 flood... the Ohio river flooded it's banks, badly. Half of my city was underwater. It crested almost three miles from the riverfront.
Or maybe the 1937 flood... the Ohio river flooded it's banks, badly. Half of my city was underwater. It crested almost three miles from the riverfront.
Tue Nov 02, 2004 6:14 am
Well, nothing yet but soon :
Nuclear Waste coming to Yucca Mountain.
Nuclear Waste coming to Yucca Mountain.
Tue Nov 02, 2004 6:54 am
Hmm...probably the Vancouver Anti-Oriental Riots of 1907. Or if you're looking for something more recent, there's the tragic death of a police officer due to some street racers, some vicious murders, some earthquakes, some bad politicians (*ahem* won't go into that)...nothing you don't see elsewhere. At least I don't recall anything worse.
Tue Nov 02, 2004 7:39 am
Nothing....Oh, it got built.
Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:54 am
SARS, Mel Lastman, the NHL strike.
Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:56 am
Erm... Hurricane Hugo was pretty bad here.
I was pretty young when it hit here (SC) but I do remember having to go to this one place and standing in line with my dad and a ton of other people trying to get ice.
I don't really remember how long we were without electricity but it was probably +1week.
Thankfully the neighborhood that we lived in wasn't really damaged all that much.
Also another bad thing that happened here (in the state) that I can think of was that whole incident where that mother (forgot her name) in Union tred to say some black guy stole her car with her 3? kids in it... but it turned out that she had actually pushed the car into a lake and watched her kids drown.
Those are the only extremely bad things I can remember happening. (besides the daily shootings, car accidents etc)
I was pretty young when it hit here (SC) but I do remember having to go to this one place and standing in line with my dad and a ton of other people trying to get ice.
I don't really remember how long we were without electricity but it was probably +1week.
Thankfully the neighborhood that we lived in wasn't really damaged all that much.
Also another bad thing that happened here (in the state) that I can think of was that whole incident where that mother (forgot her name) in Union tred to say some black guy stole her car with her 3? kids in it... but it turned out that she had actually pushed the car into a lake and watched her kids drown.
Those are the only extremely bad things I can remember happening. (besides the daily shootings, car accidents etc)