The Washington Post had an interesting article with maps showing which areas in the U.S. are prone to flooding, tornadoes and hurricanes, extreme hot and cold, wildfires, lightning, and earthquakes and volcanoes. I couldn’t resist looking ourselves up. Our main dangers are lightning and wildfires, of course.
Are you curious or would you rather not know?
April 25, 2019
Earthquake and wildfires for us….
I hear about them all the time: prepare! prepare! prepare!
What do they suggest for earthquakes, and what defensible space do they recommend for wildfires?
our state is generally overlooked by the media and other things that might be representative of us. we were called ‘the heartland’ for weeks when they were covering the Murrah building bombing. and occasionally the city of Moore just south of OKC and a few miles north of my own town Norman… blows away. our biggest problem weather/catastrophe has always been the tornado. but I’ve noticed the last two years that tornado alley seems to me to be moving to the south. and southeast. not sure why.
fire and floods to me are much worse. a tornado is devastating but it only lasts for a short time. just the thought of wildfires and floods… they cover so many miles and go on for weeks on end… now THAT seems tragic to me.
we had wildfires in our Panhandle last year caused by lightning I think. it killed thousands upon thousands of cattle. and it burned for days and days.
that was horrible to me!
Nature isn’t always nice. 🙁
not sure I want to know, although my phone is set to receive VIP information…occasionally they test your system, it’s quite loud.
and so much of the weather, starts out with very little information because – well I’m not sure why – maybe they don’t want mass overload of the traffic leaving or similar; or as in the case of the VIP bridge on the West Coast – maybe they don’t anticipate exactly what will occur…
If there’s nothing you can do, no sense worrying about it.
knowing won’t change what can/will happen but I suppose it’s better to have an idea of what to prepare for.
The main reason for knowing is to see if there is something you can do to protect yourself. We’re working on that up on the land.
I looked and didn’t learn anything I didn’t already know. We get extreme cool and some tornadoes. We can’t go anywhere where they don’t have something.
The main thing is to see if there is something we can do to help protect ourselves.
Having lived here most of my life, there’s no need for me to look to see what our hazards are. If the sirens go off we check NOAA’s website to see how concerned we should be this time since our county is huge so the potential danger can be many miles away.
I assume the danger is tornadoes? Just the idea of them scares me.
Well, we know we are in Tornado Alley, so it is a good idea to be aware and prepared. We always pray we are ready for something that will not happen.
Woos – Lightning, Misty, and Timber
Yes, I’m with you!
Know we’re due for “the big one” earthquake. Limited to preparedness I can do. Interesting to see the link — thanks!
Yes, there’s not much you can do about earthquakes except keep your fingers crossed. I was raised in the the East Bay area of CA and still remember one of my super-cool teachers in high school saying, “Run for the door!” when we had a jolt. Needless to say we didn’t, and she was really embarrassed afterwards.
I already know that we will have flooding in the Spring and tornado warnings with increasing touchdowns and then horribly hot summers, a much too brief Fall and a long frigid snow covered winter because I live in the Midwest.
I’m afraid your weather sucks! 🙁