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Yes, but some places are far worse than others. Down here in Atlanta we get some pretty bad thunder storms (and accompanying low lying land floods), and rare b

Yes, but some places are far worse than others. Down here in Atlanta we get some pretty bad thunder storms (and accompanying low lying land floods), and rare but not unheard of hail. We're pretty far from any real faults, though we have gotten tiny tremors from east Tennessee and north/south Georgia before, they're at most 4-5, with everything in Georgia around a 3. We're far enough away from, and high enough above the ocean for sea level rise to not impact us. Tornados are exceedingly rare. We hardly ever get any real hurricane weather, usually just some rain from the outer reaches of it as it hits the coasts. I'd choose this over my former South Louisiana digs any day. We had to evacuate for hurricanes multiple times when I was a kid there. For hurricane Andrew we were driving north in the pouring rain and wind so high nobody could close the car doors except my dad. I've never been even close to that scared of weather in Georgia.

DoreenMichele 7y ago
I think that falls under personal preference. I was born and raised in Georgia. I'm abundantly familiar with what goes on there, weather-wise. Near daily thunderstorms in the summer. Electrical storms that can kill electronics, appliances or even people. If it snows at all, businesses shut down, schools shut down, car wrecks go up, etc. If it gets too cold, they sometimes shut down schools and businesses. When I was eight years old and we had something like a foot of snow, roofs were collapsing, they were sending a van around to pick up nurses so the hospitals would be staffed and my sister and father walked like five miles in the snow to get to a store to get supplies we needed because no municipality in the state has any equipment for doing snow clearance and all the roads were closed. Snow is not some kind of natural disaster in places that routinely get snow. But it is a real and serious problem in Georgia simply because it happens so rarely that it doesn't make any real sense to acquire snow plows and the like. They would rust and rot in place and be unusable on the rare occasion that it does snow enough to see an accumulation on the ground. Most of the time, you wait a day or so, things warm up, it melts, schools and businesses re-open. But, meanwhile, people die in car wrecks. https://www.vox.com/2016/1/27/10840810/snow-car-crash-map https://www.vox.com/2016/1/27/10840810/snow-car-crash-map Atlanta sometimes has serious flooding. https://www.11alive.com/article/weather/10-year-anniversary-historic-2009-flood/85-67a5d008-de15-4529-a68b-796eabcacf65 https://www.11alive.com/article/weather/10-year-anniversary-... Etc.
- selectodude 7y ago
  Sounds like Chicago is about as close to safe as it gets anywhere on earth.
  - kaikai 7y ago
    As long as the power grid stays live. I’d hate to live that far north without a wood stove for backup.
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  - geomark 7y ago
    You are joking, of course. A safe place would not have subzero temperatures during cold season. The world is full of much safer places where there are no weather extremes, earthquakes, or other natural disasters. Of course, you must also consider manmade disasters like overreaching government, civil unrest, and if there are oil reserves you risk invasion by other countries to liberate the population.
    - EdwardDiego 7y ago
      > A safe place would not have subzero temperatures during cold season Given the long human history of surviving subzero temperatures, why do you say that?
    - D-Coder 7y ago
      "The world is full of much safer places where there are no weather extremes, earthquakes, or other natural disasters." Examples please? I may want to move to one of these places.
- rjbwork 7y ago
  Yeah I hear you. I've been here for over 25 years. But we're getting less and less snow generally, but yeah pretty much any of it and things have to shut down because we don't have the infrastructure to deal with it. Better to just shut things down for a day or 3 a year instead of spending millions of dollars on the infrastructure to handle it. I mentioned the flooding. The one major place that is often flooded is the connector near midtown where at the bottom of the 2 hills. There are certainly some flash floods on some streets especially when drains get clogged. But you're right, there are issues here. I had a laptop zapped through a phone line > modem > ethernet > laptop from a lightning strike. I'd still take them over a straight up coast city's issues.

DoreenMichele 7y ago

I think that falls under personal preference. I was born and raised in Georgia. I'm abundantly familiar with what goes on there, weather-wise. Near daily thunderstorms in the summer. Electrical storms that can kill electronics, appliances or even people. If it snows at all, businesses shut down, schools shut down, car wrecks go up, etc. If it gets too cold, they sometimes shut down schools and businesses. When I was eight years old and we had something like a foot of snow, roofs were collapsing, they were sending a van around to pick up nurses so the hospitals would be staffed and my sister and father walked like five miles in the snow to get to a store to get supplies we needed because no municipality in the state has any equipment for doing snow clearance and all the roads were closed. Snow is not some kind of natural disaster in places that routinely get snow. But it is a real and serious problem in Georgia simply because it happens so rarely that it doesn't make any real sense to acquire snow plows and the like. They would rust and rot in place and be unusable on the rare occasion that it does snow enough to see an accumulation on the ground. Most of the time, you wait a day or so, things warm up, it melts, schools and businesses re-open. But, meanwhile, people die in car wrecks. https://www.vox.com/2016/1/27/10840810/snow-car-crash-map https://www.vox.com/2016/1/27/10840810/snow-car-crash-map Atlanta sometimes has serious flooding. https://www.11alive.com/article/weather/10-year-anniversary-historic-2009-flood/85-67a5d008-de15-4529-a68b-796eabcacf65 https://www.11alive.com/article/weather/10-year-anniversary-... Etc.

selectodude 7y ago
Sounds like Chicago is about as close to safe as it gets anywhere on earth.
- kaikai 7y ago
  As long as the power grid stays live. I’d hate to live that far north without a wood stove for backup.
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- geomark 7y ago
  You are joking, of course. A safe place would not have subzero temperatures during cold season. The world is full of much safer places where there are no weather extremes, earthquakes, or other natural disasters. Of course, you must also consider manmade disasters like overreaching government, civil unrest, and if there are oil reserves you risk invasion by other countries to liberate the population.
  - EdwardDiego 7y ago
    > A safe place would not have subzero temperatures during cold season Given the long human history of surviving subzero temperatures, why do you say that?
  - D-Coder 7y ago
    "The world is full of much safer places where there are no weather extremes, earthquakes, or other natural disasters." Examples please? I may want to move to one of these places.
rjbwork 7y ago
Yeah I hear you. I've been here for over 25 years. But we're getting less and less snow generally, but yeah pretty much any of it and things have to shut down because we don't have the infrastructure to deal with it. Better to just shut things down for a day or 3 a year instead of spending millions of dollars on the infrastructure to handle it. I mentioned the flooding. The one major place that is often flooded is the connector near midtown where at the bottom of the 2 hills. There are certainly some flash floods on some streets especially when drains get clogged. But you're right, there are issues here. I had a laptop zapped through a phone line > modem > ethernet > laptop from a lightning strike. I'd still take them over a straight up coast city's issues.