If you live in California, be ready for earthquakes; in Kansas, stand by for tornadoes, in Florida, hunker down for hurricanes. Everyone is subject to fires (wild or otherwise), auto accidents, or inability to watch sporting events because the grid is down.

Preparing is the answer. This timely article was in the paper this morning:

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-quake-sanders-20170923-story.html