Tornado or a Flood

At lunch Wednesday, a statement was made by a man who had lived through a tornado that he'd rather have a tornado strike his home than a flood? As I drove home from Des Moines, a distance of 122 miles, I drove next to boiling flood water than lingered on the side of I-35 and I-280 in Milan, Illinois. Would you rather lose everything to a tornado or clean up after a flood?