And the beat goes on...


Don't ask why, it just popped into my head.

Make you own hazards map

I challenge you to find ANY area in the United States that DOES NOT have ANY of the hazards selectable in the list(These are only Floods, Earthquakes, Hail Storms, Hurricanes, Tornadoes and Wind storms) occuring in the last 100 years. If you can find it, and the temperature minimum is 50 degrees, and the maximum is 75 degrees. PLEASE share it with me.

Florida isn't that bad, but there is alot that could be better. Almost every new house survived because they were built to the latest building codes. These don't protect you from the 75 year old rotted oak tree falling into your house though.

Life is nothing but risks and hazards, you just have to mitigate them.
California has earthquakes and wildfires, but yet people still seem to go there.
The northeast has brutal winters, and an affinity for terrorist targets, but yet people still live there.
Hawaii is an island, with the threat of hurricanes and volcanic eruptions, but yet people still live there.
Louisiana has threats of flooding and hurricanes, but yet people still live there.
Florida has daily thunderstorms and threat of hurricanes, but yet people still live here. Deadly major hurricanes only happen every 10-15 years. You're liable to get killed in a car accident, than having your home hit by a major hurricane.

Find me a place without natural hazards. I would probably move there in a heartbeat.

Yup. And the daily thunderstorms scare me more than the hurricanes did / do. The lightning is unbelievable.

Florida had it easy for too long. I think that'll change. We'll adapt. We'll have to if we want to keep our insurance. :-) The problem is not that we have hurricanes, the problem is that we don't have them often enough. If Florida experienced two or three major events a year, every year, we'd be fine. It's the two or three every decade or so that hurt.

According to this article you may well be right:

"Yet for all its fury, this season's burst of activity falls well within the bounds of past experience. What's surprising, say experts, is that the US and Florida haven't seen more major storms make landfall over the past few decades."

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0913/p01s03-usgn.html