The DC Metro area is mostly immune to most natural disasters, even ones that are having huge effects all around us. Hurricane? It rains for a few days. Blizzard? We get a few inches, or often nothing at all. There’s flooding in spots but it’s mostly just an inconvenience for most people (unless you’re in Ellicott City); the Potomac gets high sometimes but it never floods the whole area like the Mississippi. My main concern living here is we’re a major military target, but like natural disasters, there’s not much I can do about that.
Well, I live in Delaware. We get Hurricanes, but I live enough inland that I’ve never so much as had a power outage.
I just live here cause that’s kind of how I ended up due to job migration. There’s nothing “outweighing” it, though it’s a perfectly fine (and that’s it) place to live. I’d have to say zero sales tax is probably it’s biggest perk.
I live in northern New England.
Like the others who live here have said blizzards in the winter are probably the most common; they are more of inconvenience than a disaster though.
There is also the annual spring flooding from snow melt but if you don’t live in the flood zone by the rivers it really isn’t much of a problem.
The worst disasters are probably in the winter though; the occasional severe ice storm can knock out power up to a week(or even two weeks in the more rural isolated areas) but ice storms that sever usually only happen ever 8 to 10 years.
For an out of left field danger, consider the ARkStorm. ARkStorm - Wikipedia
Basically, an ultra-souped up Pineapple Express. 115 inches of rain, and geologic proof of same. The flooding maps are something to behold. The Buttes are islands. And the Sacramento area is overdue, per sediment studies.
I point it out because I used to live in California, and I’d never heard of such a thing, besides the flooded Central Valley descriptions in Lucifer’s Hammer.
For me, hurricanes in Houston are the main natural danger—think Harvey—though this wouldn’t have been a picnic when Chicxulub hit. The weather sucks most months. I live here because it is still relatively inexpensive, the food is the best in the US, and it’s where work is. I don’t live in a flood plain, and I have plenty of non-perishable supplies.
Southeast Missouri, USA:
Like most of the Midwest/Upper South, dramatic thunderstorms, complete with tornadoes and hail, are common. My brother-in-law had his truck severely damaged by hail; we have a carport so that’s not a concern for us. Lightning struck my house a couple of years ago, and the surge destroyed my TV; that sucked. We had a small, weak, and short-lived tornado strike a few hundred meters from our house, the first tornado to touch down in this county in all of recorded history.
They tell me that the biggest cause for concern around here, natural disaster-wise, is forest fires. No one I know has ever been evacuated for one, however.
Also, I could throw a rock and hit the New Madrid fault (if I could throw a rock a hundred kilometers, that is). When (not if) it starts acting up, I’m probably screwed.
I live here because this is where Mrs. Homie’s side of the family lives.
WildaBeast sums up the area perfectly including the subsequent post about flooding. My neighborhood is an A99 flood zone. We have flood insurance, but we’re not worried about it.
I thought it stays mainly in the plain?
We can get heat waves. Every summer we’ll have at least a week or two with highs of 103 to 110 degrees F. If we’re lucky, the delta breeze breaks it up in the evenings.
There’s the possibility of flooding, although we have an up to date levee system. I’m not in a 200-year flood area. I checked out the county emergency response documents, though, so I’ve seen the maps that show where flooding will be if different dams break (California stores water behind a lot of dams). I’m required to report to work if a disaster hits, so it’s good that our office will be above water. Well, unless one of three specific dams break, in which case we’re supposed to report to the Honor Farm out by the county hospital.
We’re not near any active faults, so I don’t worry about that.
I live here because it’s where I found a job. I pretty much enjoy the area. And I live only two miles from work, so the decreased commute reduces the odds that I’ll have a collision.
Boise, Idaho has summer heat that people in the south would scoff at, and winter snow that people in the north (and also pretty much everywhere else in Idaho) would scoff at. Lately there have apparently been some fires in the surrounding hills, but in my orbit that’s mostly translated to the city smelling like smoke.
And that’s it.
Maybe that’s why the Californians keep moving here, it’s so peaceful.
Er, wait, I mean we’re constantly battered by hurricanes, floods, famines, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions! At the same time! So stay away, for your own safety!
I’m sorry, but that’s some grade A funny right there.
I’m reasonably sure Barcelona isn’t on any plains, but then, neither is the rain in Spain, My Fair Lady notwithstanding.
You forgot to mention the naked bicycle rides…
Keep Portland weird… LOL
Oops, here in Tempe, natural disasters? Other than folks fleeing Cali and voting extreme Liberal when they get here; nope, that’s the biggest one. Second biggest is the Drugs and Crime that are occurring from a large influx of illegal aliens. Weather related tho, nah…
Too late. You already have enclaves of retired California municipal workers. They talk to each other.
Of course Barcelona has planes, otherwise no one could get there. 
I live in northeast Georgia (the US one). The biggest natural disaster threat is tornado followed by straight line winds in thunderstorms. To put it in perspective, though, the state averages 21 tornadoes per year which translates to 3.6 per 10,000 sq. miles (it’s a pretty big state). Only 1 fatality per year, again on average, so about a 1 in 10 million chance of dying from a tornado. Pretty safe, all-in-all.
The good stuff? By car it’s 1.5 hours to the Blue Ridge mountains, 4.5 hours to the beach, lots of places in between for outdoor activities year round, mild winters, relatively cheap land and housing - I could go on…
Huh. I have been told by FEMA and COE folks that the Sacramento levees are the worst disaster in the US waiting to happen. The actual quote was “thank god for Sacramento! Their levees are such a severe threat that Congress is always willing to consider funding for shoring up levees.” The Sacramento levees are supposedly more dangerous, that is more likely to kill large numbers of people, than the levees holding back Lake Okeechobee. When those levees go, upwards of 10,000 people are expected to drown in their beds.
But, neither disaster has happened yet so there is no need to worry…
Isn’t Sacramento the state capital…?
Hey hey hey keep it a lid on it, 2000 people moving here a month (supposedly) already.
Ahem! PAY NO ATTENTION TO BEGBERT, WHO OBVIOUSLY DOES NOT GET OUT MUCH. BOISE IS A TERRIBLE PLACE TO LIVE WITH CRIME AND MAYHEM AND DESTRUCTION AND EARTHQUAKES AND SMOKE FROM ALL THE FIRES.
But we don’t have tornados
I live in London, England. We don’t have these worries. I mean, not for a long time, anyway. Floods? No. The city has very good protections against that. We don’t have the other stuff.
I thought we were second worst!
They’re starting work on the levees that protect my neighborhood next month. Part of the American River Common Features-Natomas Basin Project authorized by Congress in 2014. Work starts in my area July 8th.