Even all the way over here on the East Coast I have been hearing about your daily quakes.
Hope you are all doing ok.

I've been hearing about all the wildfires lately!! Aren't they in grrlscout's state???

Yoo-hoo, grrlscout, I hope that you are OK!!!!!!!!

I live just outside of Washington, DC. It's a relatively mild-weather area overall. In 34 years, I've never been evacuated from my home, but I have been held captive (so to speak) in my home by snow and ice storms and have been encouraged by hurricane-related power outages to hang out in a hotel for a night. There have been tornadoes, but usually in the outlying areas, not in the city or close-in burbs where I live. We've had a few snowstorms that shut down the Government for a few days, and I'm all for that (as long as I have food!).

The worst I can remember was one snowstorm that took us by surprise a few decades ago. I had almost no food (I only grocery shopped once a month back then) and, between eating basically one food item day after day to stay alive and the cabin fever, I couldn't even enjoy being off of work--much. LOL Luckily, I am within walking distance of a McDonald's so, in an emergency, I can at least have a hamburger if the snow is not too deep for me to waddle my tiny self up the hill.

This particular snowstorm is the one, I think, that was SO deep that I got about 30 yards from my front door (en route to either McD's or to unearth my car) and had to just sit down right in the road (well, in the 20+-inch pile of snow that was the road) out of pure exhaustion. I was up to my waist or chest in snow (I'm 4'6") and it was tremendousy tiring to just put one foot in front of the other for very long.

Just adding my two cents

California can keep the mud slides, the earthquakes, and the wild fires.

Florida and the Gulf and Atlantic coasts can have the heat and the hurricanes.

I'll keep the tornadoes, ice storms, and flooding (of course, I've never had to deal with a flood)

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Originally posted by GoingSkiing:
It is colder in the winter, oh course... like in the 40's and 50's during the day.

40's & 50's are a heat wave in Atlanta from about the middle of Dec till sometime in Feb. Between severe thunderstorms and ice storms we have our power go off at least for a day several times every year and sometimes for as much as a week. One year we got the last room at a local motel and spent a week with 6 adults and a 4 year old in one room. 5 of the 6 adults went to work every day so we were all there only at night.

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Originally posted by Lori4squaremom:

You know I always laugh when people say that, you guys live through hurricanes, tornadoes, and ice storms and such EVERY SINGLE year, and normally many times a year, you face evacuations on a regular basis.

I never thought of that. Glad all of you are OK.

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Alli Coffin:
I'm in New Jersey, which I believe is so heavily populated because we don't really have to deal with anything catastrophic, either weather or geologic.

A hurricane may make it here once every 3-4 years, but almost never above a category 2.

Our "tornados" are never above an F1.

Earthquakes are so rare...and then very weak.

I remember one ice storm in my 32 years. Maybe 5 full out blizzards--but those are so slow and easy here. The biggest danger is needing to go to the hospital during one, and we proved this year that it can be done (DD split her head open and needed stiches in the middle of a big snowstorm).

I have never been evacuated, and I have lived less than 10 miles from the beach since I was 2.

I suspect most places have their risks of disaster, and wherever you live you just get used to it.

alli
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I grew up in NY and ditto what Alli posted.

We never had an evacuation and I only remember one really bad ice storm where we had no power for 1 week.

We live in the Midwest now and do have our occassional tornado warnings but I live in a pretty hilly area and if we do have them, they are usually F1s and don't do much, if any damage.

I think it's all a matter of what you grew up with : )
Last season we didn't have one warning for our area and this year none so far either.

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Originally posted by Lori4squaremom:
You know I always laugh when people say that, you guys live through hurricanes, tornadoes, and ice storms and such EVERY SINGLE year, and normally many times a year, you face evacuations on a regular basis.

I'm in New Jersey, which I believe is so heavily populated because we don't really have to deal with anything catastrophic, either weather or geologic.

A hurricane may make it here once every 3-4 years, but almost never above a category 2.

Our "tornados" are never above an F1.

Earthquakes are so rare...and then very weak.

I remember one ice storm in my 32 years. Maybe 5 full out blizzards--but those are so slow and easy here. The biggest danger is needing to go to the hospital during one, and we proved this year that it can be done (DD split her head open and needed stiches in the middle of a big snowstorm).

I have never been evacuated, and I have lived less than 10 miles from the beach since I was 2.

I suspect most places have their risks of disaster, and wherever you live you just get used to it.

alli

p.s. Anyone live near the New Madrid fault line? I saw in the news this morning that the region is suddenly a lot more active, too, with 3 quakes at 4.0-ish in the last year.

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Originally posted by Lori4squaremom:
So, those of us that are here in CA and have lived here any length of time would MUCH rather live here and face the ever so occasional quake than what you all face each and every year At least that is one Californian's opinion

I totally agree... PLUS, I live in a part of CA where the weather is pretty darn close to perfect.

Our weather report for the past 5 days or so: Areas of morning low clouds and fog...clearing to the ocean by midday. Otherwise sunny. Highs lower 60s coastside to mid 80s well inland.

It has been 82 every day... no humidity. It is colder in the winter, oh course... like in the 40's and 50's during the day.

There is a price to be paid... like a major earthquake every 100 years...

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Originally posted by Bee:
Glad to hear that you are all safe and not affected by the quakes.

The whole concept totally freaks me out. When we were in SF two years ago, I though about it every time we crossed a bridge or were in an elevator.

I'm sure you get used to it living there but for a Northeasterner, it was unsettling at best ; )

You know I always laugh when people say that, you guys live through hurricanes, tornadoes, and ice storms and such EVERY SINGLE year, and normally many times a year, you face evacuations on a regular basis. I'd MUCH rather live through 3 or 4 MAJOR earth quakes in 28 years than go through all of that every year So, those of us that are here in CA and have lived here any length of time would MUCH rather live here and face the ever so occasional quake than what you all face each and every year At least that is one Californian's opinion

Glad to hear that you are all safe and not affected by the quakes.

The whole concept totally freaks me out. When we were in SF two years ago, I though about it every time we crossed a bridge or were in an elevator.

I'm sure you get used to it living there but for a Northeasterner, it was unsettling at best ; )

Nope... haven't felt a thing here either.

SchoolMom, down in So. CA, said she felt some earlier... last week, I think...

We get a little jolt, which we can actually feel only about once every 5-10 years. I can only remember one that rattled pictures, lamps, etc. since my kid was born in 92. Anything a 3 or under... either you don't feel it or it is impossible to tell if it was a quake or a big truck going down the street. Might feel a 4 if the epicenter is near by...

And I remember the Loma Prieta quake in '89 VERY well... but our condo was on bedrock and we didn't even lose electricity. I stayed at my grandmothers for a few days, as she had neither power nor fresh water for about 4 days... but 5 miles down the road... my husband had electricity, phone, water... everything. I wasn't home when the earthquake hit. I was in college in SF... and it was scary.

I tutored a family that lived next to the train tracks... they thought that I was nuts because I dove under their kitchen table every time a train went by because it felt just like an earthquake. I dove under their table for a couple of years after the Loma Prieta. The kids would make fun of me and say, "You can come out now... the train has gone...!"

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Haven't felt them here in central CA....we live a life of daily TINY quakes all over CA...kind of like HI and Japan, 99% of them are never felt by most Californians.

I haven't heard of any damage or injuries.....and I believe that the "big" ones have been about 130 miles out in the ocean.