I love this site and it has done a wonderful job of calming most of my nerves but I can't help but still be scared ):
Here's why: It's been raining here non stop, since feb. I've barely seen a full day of sunshine which is really strange to me.
There's been tornadoes everywhere.. we broke the record this year, am I right?
The Iceland volcano that erupted the other day.
The massive earthquakes ( which I know have been debunked ) but they just seem so frequent and powerful lately.
It's so many things put together and everything seems so out of wack. It's depressing me and starting to ruin my life, I hate going to work and have became fairly agoraphobic because I live in a constant fear/panic state. I've even had to see a therapist :/
I just don't know what to do anymore, honestly ):
Hi Miss Jayyy,
There is no doubt that this is is a big year for thunderstorms and tornadoes, but that happens. I haven't looked up what record years for tornadoes have been, but there have been many years with lots of them. In the early 90's, in Knoxville, TN, where ai lived at the time, we had something like 14 tornadoes in one storm. Six of them touched down, one of them just a few blocks from my house.
The Iceland volcano isn't the least bit unusual. Iceland is on the Mid Atlantic Ridge. It was created by volcanoes. The one erupting now is Iceland's most active volcano.
Earthquakes aren't increasing in frequency or magnitude. The most powerful earthquake recorded (we've only been able to record them since 1899) was a 9.5 in Valdivia, Chile in 1960. The deadliest earthquake in history was in 1556 (yes, that's 455 years ago) in Shaanxi Province, China. 830,000 people died in that one. We don't know its magnitude.
The reason it seems to you that more disasters are happening is that we have 24/7 news coverage worldwide, and you are looking for disasters because you think something is going to happen. Also, the media is hyping everything that happens because it sells.
There really is no reason for you to afraid. The world is still doing what it has always done.
It's been raining here non stop, since feb. I've barely seen a full day of sunshine which is really strange to me.
You should try living in Scotland were I live, it rains 24/7 and when the sun comes out people start melting like the wicked witch of the west. Joke obviously.
The great thing about science is, it's true whether you believe in it or not.
My local weather was trying to say how these tornados were just extremely large. They made it sound like they have been the biggest on record. Then he said "almost F5 in size!" of course I immediately went to wikipedia for a list of how many F5 tornados there have been in the past, and there are many years in the 1900's where there were 4-5 of them per year. Even local media plays along with the fear-mongering trend.