You know…..beer before food and water!Ouch. Don't forget beer.
Good luck, hurricane season is always a fun time in the southeast but I have to imagine it beats Tornado alley.
I agree with every thing you say but to me the biggest difference is with a hurricane you have the opportunity to evacuate the area before the storm lands and if you're lucky you have time to seek shelter from a tornado.The binary nature of a tornado (it either hits or misses) vs. what constitutes a hurricane "hit" (the effects decrease rapidly as you move away from the eyewall, but flooding is often a secondary effect) make comparing the two almost a personal preference sort of risk.
A given acre of land in the "hottest" part of Tornado Alley is swept by significant tornado (EF-2 or higher) winds once every 10,000 years. In the southern third of Florida, a given acre is hit by swept by a hurricane (windspeed above 74 mph) 6 times every 100 years.
The damage severity is the "thing". Since aerodynamic drag is a square function, 111 mph wind causes considerably more structural damage than 74 mph wind. But flooding and related types of water damage can easily surpass either of them in both monetary and danger-to-life terms.
In short, you pays your money and you takes your choice, and hope neither of the damn things hits you while you're living there. lol
Good luck that’s cutting it close with the current track, that can obviously change 10 times between now and then.We're flying to New Orleans on Wednesday AM, so hurry up and get that system out of the way!
I'm doing the same this weekend. Now I'm trying to figure out what to do with my chickens. Hopefully Jim Cantore doesn't show up here!Been super lucky so far this season…….looks like luck has finally run out
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Will be spending the day filling propane tanks and gas cans. This is gonna suck…..
Earthquakes are the scariest, i lived in a 17 story building when a 7.1 hit close, i didn’t want to go back to my apt, stayed at a friend’s place for a couple days after that one
As for those who say, "You can always move to a somewhere else.", I always ask, "Where in the country can you go that isn't in danger from some form of natural disaster?"