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Very worried. Good time to start reprioritizing things in my life.

TheChaplain 7y ago
Some googling tells me Florida and North Dakota are the safest states in the US. Outside US it's Antarctica, but it sounds rather inconvenient..
- asveikau 7y ago
  Florida has hurricanes though. Not to mention the risk of "Florida man".
  - pizza 7y ago
    There's a reason for all those Florida man stories! Might change your mind about them: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/how-floridas-proud-open-government-laws-lead-to-the-shame-of-florida-man-news-stories-7608595 https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/how-floridas-proud-open-g...
  - H8crilA 7y ago
    Or the sunny day floods and the eventual submersion.
  - steven2012 7y ago
    Also sinkholes and flooding caused by global warming!
  - Ididntdothis 7y ago
    Also alligators!
- carlivar 7y ago
  I would think Arizona is safer than Florida. A lot of DR datacenters in Phoenix.
  - t34543 7y ago
    Arizona ranks very low on frequency of natural disasters, but there is a lot of temperature related aggression. Its kind of normal to be threatened with a gun.
    - carlivar 7y ago
      What's the source of that information?
      - t34543 7y ago
        Personal experience. Here is a study to back up the relationship between heat and aggression: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6f7e/ce3f7045e645f6b5891a80a10236cabd9f0f.pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6f7e/ce3f7045e645f6b5891a80...
        oil25 7y ago
        If true, this doesn't bode well for the recent heat wave in Alaska, which is already the most violent and dangerous state in the US.
    - blhack 7y ago
      That is absurd. I’ve lived in Arizona for almost 15 years and I don’t think I know of a single person who has ever been threatened with a gun.
      - monocularvision 7y ago
        Over 40 years in AZ and same experience.
- whymauri 7y ago
  In Florida you are a dice roll away from getting your house leveled every decade.
- imperialdrive 7y ago
  I'm in North Dakota right now for a few days from SF... you'd be trading earthquakes for mosquitos, ticks, and snow!
crorella 7y ago
After checking the build quality of the places around here (SFO bay area) I'm getting concerned too. Make sure to have a backpack with some essential items there. Have some gallons of water and make sure to have a plan in the eventuality of an accident, for example, make sure to close the gas main valve. Sync with your family on where to gather if they are at work/school, etc. I was there for the 9.1 @ Chile in 2010 and all of this was super helpful, within 10 minutes my whole family was gathered in our parents house and we were already saving water in our bathtub and pans (which was super handy, because we had no water for about 3 weeks)
- dehrmann 7y ago
  > After checking the build quality of the places around here (SFO bay area) I'm getting concerned too. Infrastructure or buildings? Wood-frame buildings without a soft story are pretty safe, at least in terms of not killing you.
  - crorella 7y ago
    Buildings mostly, I guess they will move harmonically with the ripples as wood is pretty flexible but I still freak out thinking they could fall over my head lol
- refurb 7y ago
  How ere you able to save water? Was there water pressure for a short period of time? I always imagine water pressure being lost right away, so if you didn’t have water already stored you’d be SOL
  - crorella 7y ago
    It was not lost right away, it was working for several hours, around 12, but with a very low pressure. Since this happened on February (summer time) we were lucky one of our neighbors had a pool full of water we used for the toilet :)
  - jcranmer 7y ago
    Not OP, but the distribution system of water is almost entirely fed by gravity from a water tower. Losing water pressure usually means loss of the power to the pumps supplying the water towers, not breaks in the pipelines themselves. There's enough water stored in the water towers to satisfy usually a few hours of demand, and the water in the pipes might satisfy a few hours more if you live at a low enough elevation.

Some googling tells me Florida and North Dakota are the safest states in the US. Outside US it's Antarctica, but it sounds rather inconvenient..

asveikau 7y ago
Florida has hurricanes though. Not to mention the risk of "Florida man".
- pizza 7y ago
  There's a reason for all those Florida man stories! Might change your mind about them: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/how-floridas-proud-open-government-laws-lead-to-the-shame-of-florida-man-news-stories-7608595 https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/how-floridas-proud-open-g...
- H8crilA 7y ago
  Or the sunny day floods and the eventual submersion.
- steven2012 7y ago
  Also sinkholes and flooding caused by global warming!
- Ididntdothis 7y ago
  Also alligators!
carlivar 7y ago
I would think Arizona is safer than Florida. A lot of DR datacenters in Phoenix.
- t34543 7y ago
  Arizona ranks very low on frequency of natural disasters, but there is a lot of temperature related aggression. Its kind of normal to be threatened with a gun.
  - carlivar 7y ago
    What's the source of that information?
    - t34543 7y ago
      Personal experience. Here is a study to back up the relationship between heat and aggression: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6f7e/ce3f7045e645f6b5891a80a10236cabd9f0f.pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6f7e/ce3f7045e645f6b5891a80...
      - oil25 7y ago
        If true, this doesn't bode well for the recent heat wave in Alaska, which is already the most violent and dangerous state in the US.
  - blhack 7y ago
    That is absurd. I’ve lived in Arizona for almost 15 years and I don’t think I know of a single person who has ever been threatened with a gun.
    - monocularvision 7y ago
      Over 40 years in AZ and same experience.
whymauri 7y ago
In Florida you are a dice roll away from getting your house leveled every decade.
imperialdrive 7y ago
I'm in North Dakota right now for a few days from SF... you'd be trading earthquakes for mosquitos, ticks, and snow!

crorella 7y ago

After checking the build quality of the places around here (SFO bay area) I'm getting concerned too. Make sure to have a backpack with some essential items there. Have some gallons of water and make sure to have a plan in the eventuality of an accident, for example, make sure to close the gas main valve. Sync with your family on where to gather if they are at work/school, etc. I was there for the 9.1 @ Chile in 2010 and all of this was super helpful, within 10 minutes my whole family was gathered in our parents house and we were already saving water in our bathtub and pans (which was super handy, because we had no water for about 3 weeks)

dehrmann 7y ago
> After checking the build quality of the places around here (SFO bay area) I'm getting concerned too. Infrastructure or buildings? Wood-frame buildings without a soft story are pretty safe, at least in terms of not killing you.
- crorella 7y ago
  Buildings mostly, I guess they will move harmonically with the ripples as wood is pretty flexible but I still freak out thinking they could fall over my head lol
refurb 7y ago
How ere you able to save water? Was there water pressure for a short period of time? I always imagine water pressure being lost right away, so if you didn’t have water already stored you’d be SOL
- crorella 7y ago
  It was not lost right away, it was working for several hours, around 12, but with a very low pressure. Since this happened on February (summer time) we were lucky one of our neighbors had a pool full of water we used for the toilet :)
- jcranmer 7y ago
  Not OP, but the distribution system of water is almost entirely fed by gravity from a water tower. Losing water pressure usually means loss of the power to the pumps supplying the water towers, not breaks in the pipelines themselves. There's enough water stored in the water towers to satisfy usually a few hours of demand, and the water in the pipes might satisfy a few hours more if you live at a low enough elevation.