Avalanches I guess. Had a fella die in one the other day just a few miles from where I live. My house is safe though.
Don’t really consider snowstorms to be a natural disaster.
Forest Fires are our biggest threat right now. And we are overdue.
Hmm. Let me see…
Two “Hundred-Year” floods in four months. Ugh.
Those shots from the porch are MY porch as the water came closer…and closer…
Tornadoes of course. And Atlanta once got slammed by a fast-moving hurricane that made it all the way up from the Gulf while still maintaining hurricane-force sustained winds (75 mph), but that was a freak occurence.
Drought might actually be our biggest threat in Atlanta. For a city with so much greenery, Atlanta has a surprisingly limited water supply. And Atlanta’s continuing growth puts the city at even greater risk in this regard. If we were to get another Dust-Bowl-level drought event, I’m not sure how the city would cope.
Bad blizzard and all my life I’ve heard that Massachusetts is on a fault line so we’re due for an earthquake.
If you count snow and subzero temperatures, 100% chance.
Natural disasters. Well, let’s see. Here in far west Texas…as far west as you can possibly get and still be in Texas…tornadoes are extremely rare. We have earthquakes, but they’re not very common and too small to notice when they do happen. We’re too far from any major body of water to be subject to hurricanes. Flash floods occur now and then, but are seldom dangerous, at least within city limits.
Snow might count as a natural disaster of sorts. Not that it snows much or often, but El Pasoans have no clue how to drive through it. Every time we get an inch of the stuff, there are enough traffic accidents to shut the city down for hours.
Drought conditions are par for the course out here. This is the desert, after all. Strangely enough, we don’t have a lot of wildfires.
The frequent rainfall we get in the early summer does have one unpleasant consequence. It drives a lot of critters away from the mountains and into the populated areas. After a couple of rainy weeks, folks living at the foot of the Franklin Mountains get inundated with scorpions, tarantulas, rattlesnakes, skunks, and coyotes.
No, the real natural nastiness that hits us from time to time is dust storms. Huge, billowing clouds that sweep in from the desert and blot out the sun for hours at a time. I recall one such storm a few years ago when you literally could not see the buildings on the other side of the street. Nothing but a thick, stinging, choking blanket of yellow air, driven by winds strong enough to overturn 18 wheelers. Thank the gods they don’t happen frequently. When they do, though, they’re nasty.
Southeastern NH checking in. Except for plagues of mosquitoes (malathion is my friend), some blizzards which keep you inside, and the upcoming mud season, we’ve no real issues… Unless you take into account the pending doom that the Boston area channels like to dredge out once in a while about the huge earthquake that’s due in our area.