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Ohio seems reasonably safe. Maybe Cleveland will see real estate prices go up for the first time in 20 years?

scruple 8y ago
Depends on where... I have family in southern/central Ohio and, while they've always been a risk, there has been a marked uptick in the occurrence of tornadoes. Xenia, OH very famously has been hit multiple times by serious tornadoes. Where my parents are, where I did most of my growing up, in southeastern Ohio, is a little safer because of the Appalachian foothills, but I fondly remember the tornado sirens blaring every Wednesday at noon during the spring, summer, and fall. A friend of mine from high school, who is a meteorologist and storm chaser today, was telling me the last time that we spoke that tornado alley is potentially / actually shifting eastward over time. I haven't tried to verify what he was saying, because I trust him given his career choices, but it does seem to bear out from the anecdata that I have available.
- madengr 8y ago
  Tornados cut a narrow swath, compared to a hurricane. I’d wager all the tornados in the last 100 years cause less total economic damage than a single hurricane hitting a coastal city.
  - scruple 8y ago
    Well, I believe that the point is that as tornado alley shifts east that these natural disasters will come closer to larger or perhaps denser metropolitan areas. I do agree with your point. Though, if / as torando alley shifts eastward there could be some significant overlap between the areas that could be impacted by both torandos and hurricanes. I'm reminded of the tornados that hit Alabama last year.
    - hueving 8y ago
      No, even if they hit denser metropolitan areas, they do nothing compared to a hurricane in aggregate damage.
      - scruple 8y ago
        I never said they did.
kregasaurusrex 8y ago
It's still seeing a net population decline though, both in the Metropolitan and suburban areas. A recent post on the Columbus subreddit showed Cleveland has one of the lowest average internet speeds in the country, and this story from Ars [0] shows actual redlining in how new cable was (not) being laid down. The apartment I lived in growing up was using dial-up until my freshman year of high school a decade or so ago. [0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/att-allegedly-discriminated-against-poor-people-in-broadband-upgrades/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/att-a...

Depends on where... I have family in southern/central Ohio and, while they've always been a risk, there has been a marked uptick in the occurrence of tornadoes. Xenia, OH very famously has been hit multiple times by serious tornadoes. Where my parents are, where I did most of my growing up, in southeastern Ohio, is a little safer because of the Appalachian foothills, but I fondly remember the tornado sirens blaring every Wednesday at noon during the spring, summer, and fall. A friend of mine from high school, who is a meteorologist and storm chaser today, was telling me the last time that we spoke that tornado alley is potentially / actually shifting eastward over time. I haven't tried to verify what he was saying, because I trust him given his career choices, but it does seem to bear out from the anecdata that I have available.

madengr 8y ago
Tornados cut a narrow swath, compared to a hurricane. I’d wager all the tornados in the last 100 years cause less total economic damage than a single hurricane hitting a coastal city.
- scruple 8y ago
  Well, I believe that the point is that as tornado alley shifts east that these natural disasters will come closer to larger or perhaps denser metropolitan areas. I do agree with your point. Though, if / as torando alley shifts eastward there could be some significant overlap between the areas that could be impacted by both torandos and hurricanes. I'm reminded of the tornados that hit Alabama last year.
  - hueving 8y ago
    No, even if they hit denser metropolitan areas, they do nothing compared to a hurricane in aggregate damage.
    - scruple 8y ago
      I never said they did.

kregasaurusrex 8y ago

It's still seeing a net population decline though, both in the Metropolitan and suburban areas. A recent post on the Columbus subreddit showed Cleveland has one of the lowest average internet speeds in the country, and this story from Ars [0] shows actual redlining in how new cable was (not) being laid down. The apartment I lived in growing up was using dial-up until my freshman year of high school a decade or so ago. [0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/att-allegedly-discriminated-against-poor-people-in-broadband-upgrades/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/att-a...