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http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-harrisburg-tornado-20120229,0,6320257.story
170 mph winds!  Damn!
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I'll take the east coast. Keep your quakes. I'll stick with snow.
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You have no choice my friend. It is happy sunny here.
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Vegas baby! No snow, no earthquakes, no tornado, no hurrincanes. 
Just a lot of strippers working their way through college! 
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Tych has it correct. New England has its benefits.
Snow, we can even build shelters made of snow.
No tornadoes, no earthquakes, even the hurricanes are blocked/absorbed by the mountains.
I'll take the self-sustainable clean country Northern Vermont living we have up here.
Farmland, wildlife, fresh water, etc.
As long as we can keep the urban masses on the other side of the Adirondacks and Green/White mountains we will be fine.
The Quebecers are easy to tell by their accents, and even then their food is great!
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Tych2 posted:
I'll take the east coast. Keep your quakes. I'll stick with snow.
No earthquake has ever bothered me for more than 15 seconds.
The only people who fear earthquakes are ones with vivid imaginations.
You've got wayyyy more valid reason to fear pigeons than you do earthquakes.
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_Enkidu_ posted:
Vegas baby! No snow, no earthquakes, no tornado, no hurrincanes, no water, no culture, no fish, no life without air conditioning.
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Did You Know?
Geological, geophysical, geotechnical, and historical data and analyses show that the earthquake hazards in Southern Nevada are significant.
According to NBMAG/NESC, Nevada is ranked third in the nation for being at risk for large magnitude seismic activity, behind Alaska and California.
Nevada is ranked 5th nationally in estimated losses on an annualized basis due to earthquakes (Nevada Earthquake Safety Council, 2001).
The Nevada Earthquake Risk Mitigation report emphasizes the need to evaluate system vulnerability for lifeline utilities and bridges, to inventory potentially seismically dangerous buildings, and to develop an integrated approach to seismic design for new construction (Nevada Earthquake Safety Council, 2001).
Las Vegas is at high risk for casualties and structural damage from a large magnitude earthquake, due to increased population density. Our buildings are built to withstand the pull of gravity downward but earthquakes move structures in all directions.
http://earthquakes.unlv.edu/
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Tornadoes can be treated the same way as quakes. If you're willing to spend the money you can be pretty safe in both. If you're not or you're in the wrong place at the wrong time... splat.
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a would have thought you'd have more time to prepare for a tornado than for a quake?
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tornadoes have plenty of warning.
theres usually a really loud siren screaming at you the very first sign of a supercell or whatever cloud/pressure formations it is that create tornadoes.
ive been here, in chicago land, for over 35 years.
ive never seen a tornado.
weve had some incredible winds that made cyclonic dust clouds hundreds of feet high and and ripped up acres of trees
but weve had no deaths and not a whole lot of property damage.
how much warning do you have for earth quakes?
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I live in mini, clean, crime free, landlocked chicago in the middle of indiana, and I've never seen one either.
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Modeeb posted:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-harrisburg-tornado-20120229,0,6320257.story
170 mph winds! Damn!
Luxury.
A few videos of what I was in the path of
A page all about that day and night of well over 82 tornadoes from Texas to Missouri
A map of the paths of the tornadoes in the central part of the state
The wikipedia page with more info for those interested in one scary day
I'll take earthquakes over tornadoes. People who had hours to prepare for the F5 in that outbreak were killed even in their own shelters. Winds exceeded 318 mph when it moved through OKC. 316 mph is the upper limit of the Fujita scale so had there been an F6 rating this would have broken into that category.
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Ill stick with central Fl. where hurricanes are weaklings by the time they reach us, no earthquakes to worry about and a tornado once every 20 years or so! 
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_Enkidu_ posted:
Vegas baby! No snow, no earthquakes, no tornado, no hurrincanes.
Just a lot of strippers working their way through college!
We have had snow here as well as a couple of earthquakes and while it wasnt a tornado, there have been high winds in excess of 70mph before that destroyed many casino signs and other structures..
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Grymlo posted:
Ill stick with central Fl. where hurricanes are weaklings by the time they reach us, no earthquakes to worry about and a tornado once every 20 years or so!
Central FL is mostly rural Jesusland though. 
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An F4 tornado still blows less wind on average than the usual ego inflated Californian.
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