I find it so weird that America and all these other overseas countries have huge natural disasters like that... We don't get tornadoes or hurricanes. Australia isn't really big on the whole 'disaster' scale. Occasionally the tropics up north might get a flood or two, but the main problem we have are bush fires. Aussie is such a dry, arid land. ;n;

There was one not too far from my house, once. And last year my step-mum's father had to be evacuated from his farm because of a bushfire. Luckily only half the trees burned down, although most of the animals escaped..

But thunderstorms I like.