Sittin here in rural Mississippi durin a thunderstorm, I got to thinkin, “ya know, Natchez is a pretty good place to be if you’re scared of Natural Disasters.”
I mean, Cali has quakes
Kansas and the like have tornados
Bangladesh has floods
Hawaii has volcanoes
Alaska and the like have avalanches
But here in MS, there is no real danger of nature. How’s things where you are?
Nothing so dramatic. But the rare combination of low-pressure & tidal surges will easily overwhelm what flood defences exist around here (I’m currently sitting somewhere around sea level, ten miles inland). The last such floods were in 1953, and over 300 people were killed. Since then, many thousands more homes have been built on flood-prone land. The next surge tide won’t be pretty.
<Knocking on wood>
I think the threat here in the Cleveland area is relatively low. We get some flooding sometimes, but not too much because it can drain into Lake Erie relatively quickly. We get blizzards but those are more of an inconvenience, generally speaking. We get tornadoes in the springtime, but not like in so-called tornado alley. We’ve had a few bear sightings in the eastern suburbs, but no moutain lions (yet!).
Flooding, tornados, & the New Madrid earthquake fault.
Not much. No serious earthquakes in central Panama (though we occasionally feel mild ones). No volcanos. No hurricanes. No tornados. No blizzards. Maybe an occasional flood.
Earthquakes are of course the biggest worry where I am. But typhoons are also potentially dangerous, and then there are the outside chances of Tsunamis or Fuji blowing.
Hurricanes are the biggest worry in Savannah. We have been quite lucky to have been missed on numerous occasions. The last one to actually hit us was David in 1979.
It helps that we are deep in a notch, so that the majority of hurricanes coming up the coast just sweep past us and hit South Carolina.
We will occasionally get hit by remnants of storms that have come up through Florida of have come ashore through the Gulf of Mexico.
Hmmm… I think I’m pretty well situated too.
earthquakes are known in the southern ontario area, but are almost without exception pretty mild. Same for tornados. We’re far enough inland that most hurricanes are down to the thunderstorm level if they reach here at all.
A really bad blizzard or ice storm would probably be the top suspects. 
Bushfires.
I haven’t really seen one yet, as I luckily arrived here in Canberra a few days after the Jan. 2003 bushfires had been quelled. But the pictures (that’s just a few) are quite haunting, and there was still a bit of a smoky haze over the city as I arrived. Whole areas of forest that used to line roads were gone; my partner’s parents’ house was nearly lost while his parents were off fighting the fires at their best friends’ house which was in even more dire danger.
Luckily, I live across the street from some shops and in a brick townhouse complex, and the area of the city I live in wasn’t really threatened. But there’s a lot of houses in the ACT that back on to open, dry bushland, or that are built on the side of a hill that is crowned in thick foresty growth, and they’re the ones in the most danger.
Floods and tornados seem to be the big things around here in northeast Texas.
Earthquakes, of course. I lived in Northridge during the 1994 quake (officially a 6.8, but probably 7.3 or higher*), practically right on the epicenter. Truly an amazing experience. The apartment that pancaked, killing about 20 people, was about three blocks away. Eighteen units in our townhome complex burned down, but we were upwind from it. Some knucklehead backed his car up into our main water line during the exodus, so when everybody had water a few days later, we had to wait about two weeks. Outside of a few friends who got particular jittery for a while, most everyone I knew learned to cope with the aftershocks within a few days.
Nowadays, very few Los Angelenos throw much concern the earthquake way. As soon as the aftershocks ended (took maybe a year) most people forgot about it.
*Any earthquake 7.0 or greater must be classified as a disaster area, which means state and federal aid. And after the 1989 Quake in the Bay area, the state didn’t have any more funds so downgraded the size. Or so I’m told by many.
Upstate NY - well, Long Island and stuff feel the hurricanes & sometimes worry about tides. So we get the backlash of that, heavy rains, but the only things we really need to worry about are:
Snow
Getting stranded up in the mountains because of snow
and snow.
Just flooding here in WV.
Tornados in central Arkansas. I forgot about the New Madrid. Don’t tell Mrs. Plant, she’s frightened enough when it rains.
Are you from around Jasper, or is your “Dogpatch” a general term for the fair state of Arkansas?
Vancouver B.C. We have chances of earthquakes, mudslides and perhaps volcanos. Other than that, nothing… other than floods.
Tennessee.
Columbia, SC - we get some real good hurricanes. If they come inland, they can really whomp us; Hugo in 1989? was the last one. Even when they don’t hit us, coastal evacuations make it hell on us here.
We’re also on a fault line, but most people don’t know that. There was a big earthquake in Charleston in 1886, and a teeny itty bitty one here a month or so ago.
I live not too far from where the San Andreas fault meets the Garlock fault. Hasn’t moved around here since 1857. Here’s hoping it doesn’t move again in my lifetime! The worst we have had lately has been the torrential rain (well for the Mojave desert anyways) and the landslides, erosion and other crud that comes with it. It is very windy here too so that is sometimes an issue. We have to clear off a number of treebranches from various parts of our property every year. So, the possibility of a Big One (I mean earthquakes, you perverts!), nothing around here that is usually life-threatening.
In Greensboro you don’t get much except for ice storms and hurricanes. Well, what’s left of the hurricanes after they get torn apart by the land ahead of us. We’re pretty safe I suppose.
Oh, and Godzilla. Terrible, filthy, stinky beast. God, how I miss him.
Northern Illinois here, so we aren’t quite as central to Tornado Alley as Arkansas but we usually get at least a few each summer. We’re farther away from the New Madrid fault as well but we’ve felt a few shakes from it. And of course the sizzling hot summers and awful winters. Gorgeous thunder storms, though.
Living only a few blocks from the Mississippi River, the biggest threat is flooding. Fortunately my city has a flood wall so I’ve never been flooded out but we’ve had at least three ‘century’ floods just since I’ve lived here. It’s pretty daunting when that big river rages out of its banks.
Why do I live here again?
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