No. Not really. And when they do, they're minor. Last one I recall, I got out of my car and my neighbors had to tell me I was in one. Didn't even know it.
I doubt that. You get to learn what to do with where you live. We're a pretty unique country. Depending on area/region we have all kinds of land and climates.
We have desert and arid regions to tropical islands, wet lands, mountains, plateaus, valleys, farm regions, salt lakes and flats, etc, etc.
Here the fires are commonly in the west and Midwest where we have seasonal and long stretching arid regions that aren't necessarily or even likely to be deserts.
Floods are obviously more likely in low lying regions. Though they're also possible in flatter regions where the soil doesn't absorb a long overdue rain fall.
Believe it or not, our south isn't as likely to burn as the northern regions of say, California.
West gets the cyclones.
East gets hurricanes.
In the northwest pacific they're called typhoons.
All the same thing. Just categorically named by which region they take place in.
Twisters/tornados only get large and strong enough to write home about in the central, flat region.
Mountains on either side of the country break them up and create a barrier that hurricanes/cyclones/typhoons don't really cross.
Most of our earth quakes happen on the San Andreas fault line. For the most part, any of them happening elsewhere won't even knock pictures off the edge of a shelf... and after shocks and tremors are rarely even felt. You could sleep through them and never knew they happened.
Where I live now borders tornado alley. But the terrain is such that they almost never happen and when they do, you could just step out of the way.
I'm also on the west side of the eastern mountain range. This provides a natural barrier from hurricanes.
I'm nowhere near the San Andreas fault, the ocean or the Gulf of Mexico and I'm plenty far above sea level and at the top of a hill.
So all the serious threats pretty much don't come here. Barely a record of a tornado, no flooding, etc..
Just far enough south we hardly get snow ever. So I won't be stranded trying to get home to see the family in winter.
Just far enough north there's no alligators.
It's a good place. Beautiful country. The nicest, friendliest, honest people you'd ever want to meet. Far enough out of the city to be country and peaceful. Close enough to the cities and several small towns that you'd never want for anything you couldn't get nearby.
A good place to displace the family and raise some kids.
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