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ITT: We determine the safest place in the USA when it comes to natural disasters.
Califonia is out, fires, mudslides, eaarthquakes
Florida is out, hurricanes
Luisiana is out, hurricanes
Oklahoma is out, tornados
Most of the North East is out, winter storms leaving you without power and/or snowed in for weeks
Texas has fires, floods, and tornados
Hawaii is one volcano away from the bottom of the pacific
Alaska: see North East
Midwest: floods
West: fires, tornados
So where would you live if you wanted to minimize your chance of being involved in a natural disaster or losing power for several days because of one?
>> Anonymous
i'd go hide in mongolia, nothing ever happens there.
>> Anonymous
I've lived in New York City all my life. We haven't gotten a snowstorm of consequence in years. Fuck you, Atlantic Ocean.
>> Anonymous
Buffalo, New York snow storm closes schools, leaves nearly 400,000 without power
October 13, 2006

Monday, 13 February 2006
Some 68.3 cm (26.9 inches) of snow lay in New York's Central Park by 1600 (2100 GMT), making it the worst blizzard to hit the city since records began in 1869.

Scenes from the streets of New York City during the 2003 blackout. ... remained without power on Wednesday, nearly a week after a preseason snowstorm dumped...
>> Anonymous
>>144013
Ohio. Most boring fucking state ever. Even natural disasters avoid us. I live in central Ohio and other than some heavy snow that doesn't cause any any outages we don't get much.
>> Anonymous
>>144024
Have you googled Ohio+floods recently..I'm not even going to cut&paste it all, to summerize, almost ever year large portions of Ohio are under water, people drown, lose power etc...
Also, lots of tornados
>> Anonymous
Wyoming, nothing happens here, few tornado's and fires, but nothing long term. Not enough rain for mudslides. Not near enough snow in the winter to constitute being without power for days. Unfortunately, there's a huge volcano a short distance to the west, but, don't be a pussy :D.
>> Anonymous
Come to norway, nothing happens here.
NOTHING.
>> Anonymous
>>144041

Come to Sydney, Australia. Nothing happens here. NOTHING. I mean, if you call "drought" and "Moar drought" a fucking natural disaster, yeah maybe.
>> Anonymous
>>144038
That huge volcano is called 'Yellowstone' and if it blows, we're ALL fucked.
>> Anonymous
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executive dog is watching the weather...
>> Anonymous
Michigan! Aside for unemployment and Detroit, nothing happens here!
>> Anonymous
Stop complaining about nothing happening you spoiled brats. I live in South Australia and nearly had the house blown away by a freak storm. It's not fun. Other than that, it's pretty quiet. You get below freezing in the winter though and up to 50 degrees celcius in summer sometimes.
>> Anonymous
>>144041
I thought Norway was in Europe...
>> Anonymous
>>144050
ITT: read the OP.
>> Anonymous
lol fortune
>> Anonymous
I've always lived in Georgia, over the course of the past two decades we've had one snowstorm (three, maybe even four inches omg!!) and maybe two major river floods.
>> Anonymous
Where To Hide From Mother Nature
Wyoming? Nope. West Virginia? Think again.
By Brendan I. Koerner
Posted Thursday, Sept. 15, 2005, at 6:20 AM ET

If an American wants to minimize his chances of dying at Mother Nature's hands, where should he set up house? Slate crunched the numbers—and did some educated guesswork—to find the U.S. city where the odds of perishing in a natural disaster are closest to nil.
We started by taking a look at every presidential disaster declaration from 1965 through 2004. As this color-coded map reveals, the Eastern half of the nation has had the most officially declared disasters, although North Dakota, Washington, and California have endured more than their share of woe. Going by presidential decrees alone, then, Western states such as Nevada or Wyoming appear safest.
>> Anonymous
But the data are skewed by the fact that disasters are more likely to be declared in populated areas. As this FEMA primer makes clear, disasters are declared in order to make funds available to people and businesses affected by a catastrophe. So, a severe storm in the Milwaukee suburbs is a lot likelier to be declared a federal disaster than a severe storm in an unpopulated expanse of southwestern Wyoming.

The declared disasters list was useful, however, in helping to eliminate the obvious noncontenders. Like, say, California. The state's massive population gives it a low per-capita fatality rate for natural disasters, but no one would consider it a safe haven from nature's worst: It's susceptible to earthquakes, mudslides, wildfires, torrential rains, rip currents, and even volcanoes. Unsurprisingly, then, California has had more declared disasters than any other state but Texas, which is frequently hammered by tornadoes, thunderstorms, and floods.
>> Anonymous
For simplicity's sake—Slate still lacks a supercomputer to handle massive number-crunching assignments—we automatically eliminated the 30 states with the most declared disasters. Most were no-brainers, such as the hurricane-prone states of the Gulf Coast and the heartland states that lie in Tornado Alley. Sparsely populated North Dakota has regular problems with severe flooding, as do Virginia, Tennessee, and New York. (Flooding, tornadoes, and tropical storms/hurricanes have been the most prolific killers in recent years, although heat waves often take significant tolls.) Illinois and Pennsylvania didn't make the grade because their cities can get lethally hot. Also disqualified were some notably frigid members of the union, such as Wisconsin and Minnesota; blizzards and icy conditions are frequently deadly, especially for motorists. And seemingly placid West Virginia? It has some issues with landslides, particularly in the counties that border Ohio.

That left 20 states, two of which we knocked out immediately on common-sense grounds: Hawaii, since islands are inherently at the ocean's mercy (plus there's a slew of volcanoes), and Alaska, where severe winter storms are the norm. For the remaining 18 states, then, we looked at year-by-year fatalities resulting from severe weather, dating back to 1995, as recorded by the National Weather Service. The NWS statistics cover 27 different types of weather events, including such relative rarities as deaths due to volcanic ash, fog, dust devils, and "miscellaneous." (Since California had been eliminated at this stage, we ignored earthquake fatalities, which the NWS does not track.) We then used the total number of fatalities from each state to arrive at a deaths-per-thousand figure, based on population numbers taken from the 2000 Census.
>> Anonymous
Of the 18 states, only three had a fatality rate lower than 0.01 per thousand for the last decade: Connecticut (0.00587 per thousand), Massachusetts (0.00299), and Rhode Island (0.00286). These figures are somewhat surprising, given that all three of these New England states have ample coastlines and are thus susceptible to fierce storms. But they are also more immune to hurricanes than their southerly counterparts, virtually free of tornadoes, and blessed with relatively cool summers and winters that, although cold, aren't quite North Dakota cold. They're also affluent—all three boast family median incomes above the national average—and, as Hurricane Katrina reminded us, socioeconomics matter when it comes to preserving life during natural disasters.

For the three finalists, we looked at the county-by-county breakdowns of presidential-disaster declarations since 1995. Rhode Island only had one, during the Blizzard of '96. Connecticut was hit by that storm, too, as well as by Tropical Storm Floyd in 1999, which affected Litchfield, Hartford, and Fairfield counties. Massachusetts, meanwhile, had five major declared disasters, mostly associated with heavy rains and flooding in its seven easternmost counties.
>> Anonymous
Based solely on the numbers, then, Rhode Island would seem to be the winner. But the tiny state's cities are clustered around bays and rivers, which means a major hurricane could cause flooding. During the Great New England Hurricane of 1938, for example, a violent storm surge hit Providence.

Eastern Massachusetts is dicey because its long coastline is exposed to the unforgiving Atlantic Ocean. The rural west has proven statistically safer, but winter in the Berkshires can be snowy and harsh.

That leaves Connecticut, whose coastline faces the Long Island Sound rather than the open ocean. Still, living near the water is not recommended for the truly tense; a safer bet is somewhere inland, away from rivers and lakes, but not too deep in the boonies. The state's winters aren't tropical, but they tend to be not quite as snowbound as those in western Massachusetts.
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After much debate, then, we settled on Slate's "America's Best Place to Avoid Death Due to Natural Disaster": the area in and around Storrs, Conn., home to the University of Connecticut. It lies in Tolland County, which was not part of the 1999 federal disaster declaration for Tropical Storm Floyd. It's a safe 50 miles from the sound and not close to any rivers. It also has relatively easy access to a major city (Hartford) in the event an evacuation or hospitalization becomes necessary.*

This conclusion is by no means scientific, nor can safety ever be completely guaranteed; as moviegoers and Rick Moody fans are already aware, Connecticut does have its share of dangerous ice storms. And we're open to suggestions about other candidates for the title. If you want to make a case for your hometown, please drop us a line. In the meantime, the parents of UConn students can sleep a little easier tonight.
>> Anonymous
Canada
>> Anonymous
Georgia!
>> Anonymous
MICHIGAN
>> Anonymous
glad to know that nowhere is safe when mother earth decides to kill off all the scum on this earth.
>> Anonymous
>>144089
I raped mother earth full force in the ass and face
>> Anonymous
I already live in Canada.
>> Anonymous
Northeast Kansas (See:Kansas City, KS)... we have invisible block technology here. No storms - nothing. Kinda pathetic.
>> Anonymous
>>144617
Obviously you don't remember the omg floods we had earlier this year, or the ice storm which knocked out fifty percent of the electricity in the Greater Kansas City area.
>> Anonymous
>>144013

come to washington

there is the occasional earthquake every 4 to 7 years, but other than that it's cool
>> Anonymous
PA... land of lush natural beauty and home to few to no severe weather scenarios every year.
>> Anonymous
not rly dude. volcanoes create land. if there's private property in the way that just their bad luck. lol so next time a volcano erupts invest in realty
>> Anonymous
YUS1 washington
>> Anonymous
washington also has a habit of being buried under 2000 feet of ice during ice ages, so plan ahead!
>> Anonymous
>>144634
Moar liek a LOLcano, amirite?