Great. My home county and my retirement (if and when) county are two of the reddest areas on the map!
eta: my county is not a country, although it is larger than several.
What’'s particularly intersting about that map is the lightest shaded area includes 1/2 of TX, KS, and NE, as well as the panhandle of OK. In other words, the left side of Tornado alley is in fact one of the least-likely areas to get a presidential disaster declaration. Can’t be that dangerous.
Well, bear in mind that tornadoes create smaller areas of damage, and are less likely to get a disaster declaration if they only smash up a few houses.
I do agree that the likelyhood of being hit by one is small due to the large land area of the midwest.
BTW, I found a higher resolution verson of that map. Interesting to note that flood is still the most likely disaster to recieve a presidential declaration in the States.
Ohioan here.
Tornados? Meh. We don’t think about them.
People leave Ohio because they hate the long winters. They move south. Florida is a popular place for Ohioans to move to.
But they usually come back. They realize that, while our winters might suck, Ohio has a lot of advantages over Florida.
Why do people live in North America with the ice sheet covering it covering it every 10,000 years or so?
And those dopes who live west of the Mississippi? How do they survive with that super volcano under Yellowstone going off every 600,000 years?
Heck, and can you believe that people still live on Earth? It’s been under constant asteroid bombardment for almost 4 billion years! You’d think they’d get a clue.
Waitress: “Well, there’s egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and fish; egg, bacon and fish; halibut bacon and mackerel; sausage, fish, mackerel and eggs, cod, mackerel, halibut and bacon…or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and fish.”
There are [WAG] 35,000 houses in Springfield. Since I was born (in 1970), about 150 of them have been damaged by tornadoes. Less than .33% over 38 years.
I used to live in Ohio. We moved to Minnesota.
(Tornadoes are like playing Russian roulette. Having done disaster recovery work after a hurricane, hurricanes are more like facing a machine gun nest. Just mile upon mile of damage all the way up the coast and for several miles in. It was Andrew)
Yes, and I assume most of that was from the tornado(es) we got three years ago. Prior to that, Springfield had been pretty much unscathed by tornadoes, at least in my time. The tornadoes three years ago did significant damage to buildings/businesses, but no one was killed or seriously injured except the Lauterbach Man.
