• I am just saying that it is geologically stable, that it is far enough inland to not be a risk for hurricanes, no severe winters, and lacks the geographic configuration for frequent tornadoes.

    Dry as hell.  Flash flooding at times.  But the “big stuff” in terms of natural disasters seem to be lacking…


  • The American outback seems to be pretty hospitable…


  • Except for tornadoes and blizzards…


  • @ncscswitch:

    Except for tornadoes and blizzards…

    it’s funny - Winnipeg gets a bad flood every hundred years or so (which we are pretty well prepared for), and the odd bad blizzard (ditto), but no tsunamis/earthquakes/landslides/ice storms/alligators etc.


  • @ncscswitch:

    Except for tornadoes and blizzards…

    I thought the only problems were bad service and cholesterol?  :wink:


  • Raleigh is pretty well set also…

    We get hurricanes, but to have more than Tropical Storm force effects would require a very precise track, and even then we are looking at  at most Cat2 strength this far inland.  Most of the time any hurricanes or remnants thereof that pass through the area simply end the summer drought :-)  We do have some urban flooding issues, and the fools who built in the flood plain along Crabtree Creek, but that is about it.

    Snow… we get it on rare occasion.  And as everyone heard 2 years ago on the news, as little as 1/4" will shut this place down.

    Hurricane spun F0 tornadoes happen on rare occasion

    And droughts.

    We ARE at risk for a Mega Tsunami though, but then again, so is everythign below 1000’ elevation and east of the Appalachians, and there is an old plate boundary about 75 miles west of here in Forsyth County that has actually been acting up a bit lately (several 2.somethings, and one that was clsoe to 4.0) :-P


  • Besides thunderstorms, much of Oregon is just as safe.


  • @Nukchebi0:

    Besides thunderstorms, much of Oregon is just as safe.

    Volcanoes…


  • @ncscswitch:

    @Nukchebi0:

    Besides thunderstorms, much of Oregon is just as safe.

    Volcanoes…

    He got you there.  :lol:

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    The only thing we have in Arizona is heat… thats what airconditioning is for 8-)


  • And a complete lack of water supplies…


  • @ncscswitch:

    And a complete lack of water supplies…

    Well at least the eastern part of Arizona.  The western part has the Colorado River.  :wink:


  • When it isn;t a nearly dry trickle from upstream usage :-)


  • @ncscswitch:

    @Nukchebi0:

    Besides thunderstorms, much of Oregon is just as safe.

    Volcanoes…

    Uh, no. They aren’t active enough to do anything.


  • Mt St. Helens, and a few dozen others that can wake up at any time…


  • @ncscswitch:

    Mt St. Helens, and a few dozen others that can wake up at any time…

    Mt. Saint Helens is in Washington.

    Edit: Based on my knowledge of Oregon’ geography, there are 8 volcanoes in Oregon that have any real chance of erupting: Mt. McLaughlin, Mt. Bailey, Mt. Mazama (Crater Lake), Newberry Crater, Mt. Bachelor, the South and Middle Sisters, and Mt. Hood. Only one of them, the South Sister, is even remotely near becoming active again.


  • But is close enough to do damage to Oregon :-P


  • Read the edit.

    Anyways, we know that Mt. Saint Helens doesn’t affect Oregon (ash, yes, but otherwise no), because of the 1980 eruption that didn’t.


  • Just a matter of which way the wind blows at the time…

    And any of those could be active in a VERY short period of time.  None of them are “extinct”, just “dormant”… like St. Helen’s was before she blew her top 20 some years ago.

    Oh, and let’s not forget earthquakes either for Oregon…

    Last but not least… we are WWWAAAAAAYYYYY off topic :-P:


  • I know. Anyways, volcanoes show activity before they erupt. Therefore, they are predictable. You know when it will affect you. I also know that they are dormant. The South Sister has a slight (10 inch) bulge from rising magma, but that is the only one.

    Oregon earthquakes rarely happen because the fault near the coast (causing the volcanoes) is a subduction fault, not a linear fault such as the San Andreas Fault.

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