re: #203 klys

To some extent, the reality is you trade one set of hazards for another. Move to CA to avoid tornadoes? Now you have earthquakes. Move to the eastern seaboard? Hurricanes! Down to the Southwest, well, now you have risk of flash flooding when it does rain.

What gets me is the fact that people don’t prepare for the hazards, whether it’s having a safe room or basement in the midwest, or having a plan and emergency supplies in CA, or a pre-mapped escape route in case of flooding/knowledge of where higher ground is.

I think the thing that scares me most about Tornadoes (having lived in the mid-west and mid-south much of my life) is that they seem “personal”.

An Earthquake can’t be predicted with any specific accuracy, but it hates EVERYBODY.

A Hurricane you have notice of a week or so in advance, and you can board up, ride it out, or evacuate. It also hates everybody.

A Tornado is almost random, you may get 30 minutes notice, you may get none, it HATES YOU, and leaves your neighbor across the street untouched.

RBS