According to CNN, Hawaiian homeowners living in proximity to Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, have chosen to outrun lava flows instead of picking up and moving to greener pastures. Lava destroyed three abandoned houses there just this week in a nearly deserted neighborhood there, but one local said:
It's the safest place I've ever lived, safer than the mainland. They have forest fires over there that burn up 3,000 homes in Southern California. I'm here for the duration, whatever happens.
Tell me, if any, what natural disaster do you face where you live?
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We're all about the Earthquakes in CA. They freak me out, I HATE HATE HATE HATE them
1We get earthquakes and wildfires. Except it seems the wildfires are more frequent.
2AZ - Wildfires & Floods.
3Used to live in CA... which is all about Earthquakes. I HATE THOSE DARN THINGS!!!! They still freak me out
We get crazy blizzards!
4Even right now it's snowing
Maryland - The occasional tornado, but flooding has always been a problem. We have flood warnings today!
5There was a tornado drill on Sunday and it snowed on Monday. Ah... Oklahoma.
6My car has been flooded out more than once
7Pittsburgh (western) PA. no real natural disasters here. once every 10 years there is a tornado. About once every 5 years a flood, but the flood is usually not that bad.
8TX- we get almost all of them (except for earthquakes depending on where you live). In Houston, the main concern is hurricanes and the flooding that goes with it.
9I was in a tornado (never know when 1 is going to pop up) on the way to prom in 93.
10Blizzards. Southern Ontario doesn`t get much in the way of natural disasters, thankfully. Just a lot of snowstorms, and the *very* odd, tiny earthquake.
11Northern CA-Earthquakes (of course) and Floods!
12Manitoba- blizzards, wind chill (yes, I do count that as a natural disaster. The temperature dropped below -50C), hail (there was a pretty major hail storm this past summer), flood, and tornadoes. But we count ourselves lucky that we don't get earthquakes or hurricanes. Go figure.
13We had a couple blizzards this winter (Michigan) and occasionally there are tornados- but my city is right on the lake, so they usually skip right over us. *Luckily*
14we'll have tornado warnings occasionally during the summers but haven't had a real scare in a long time. we can also get some fairly nasty winter weather but compared to a lot of other places i don't think it's too bad. my mom and i were just talking about how chill Detroit weather is lol. We don't get a lot of extremes.
15In in the Pacific NW and we had pretty bad flooding this year so that's what I chose. The other big threat that wasn't listed is Windstorms, they aren't classified as Hurricanes or Tornadoes around here though.
But we also are on a pretty nasty fault line so there is always talk of a big earthquake being inevitable, and there are Volcanos near enough to be threatening too.
16Voted floods; but we get floods not only from high rain downfalls but also from melting snow and ice.....so technically it's hurricanes, blizzards and floods here in PA.
17We usually get bad hurricanes in NC, but we didn't have any this year. Occasional flooding in the city I live in and rarely do we have tornadoes, but we still get them.
Its a dangerous place.
18I live just outside of Portland, OR, so I think our biggest threat is earthquakes although luckily we don't get bunches of them the way CA does! We had a tornado this year, but those are so rare that I wouldn't even think of them as a threat. Some areas get flooding, but I'm lucky where I live that it isn't much of a possibility.
19cali - wildfires! flash floods, earthquakes
20back in january, here in long beach, we had a tornado warning even! ahh!
Northern Vermont: blizzards galore!
21i live in pennsylvania. no real disasters here. every now and then a tornado will roll through but very rare.
22Very lucky in our part of TN - nothing too scary here.
23California = Earthquakes
24They don't scare or worry me though.
I'd be more concerned about tornadoes or hurricanes if I lived in those areas of the country.
None of the above.
25We get snow a lot and occassionally a flood, but nothing higher than ankle height.
26In New England I'd say blizzard and hurricane.
27MT= Wildfires in the summer and blizzards in the winter woohoo
28By far the worst is the wildfires I got evacuated from a campgrounds this summer when i was obv. camping and my parents almost got evacuated from fires this summer
Vancouver - Earthquakes! We get a LOT of rain, too - so mudslides, contaminated water, and flooding, not to mention rising sea levels are some things we also have to worry about. there are a few active volcanoes nearby too.
29My home in SF, California is REALLY CLOSE to the San Andreas Fault...i was 3 during the 1989 earthquake...There was an earthquake back in December and I was in my dorm in San Jose and my poor roommate from Hawaii was so scared...she's not used to those things, neither am I...earthquakes still scare me...i don't think i'll ever get used to them
30In Alaska we have earthquakes, avalanches, blizzards, wildfires *AND *the occasional tsunami warning. lol
31My Mom was in the 1964 earthquake, in Valdez. It was the most powerful recorded earthquake in U.S. and North American history, and the third most powerful ever measured by seismograph, clocking in a moment magnitude of 9.2 and was an 8.4 on the Richter scale. She isn't afraid of earthquakes, which is badass. Some of us even enjoy them.
32NYC, global warming. ha.
33Southern Ontario, the biggest 'natural disaster' we get around here are some pretty nasty snowstorms...but they are more of an inconvenience, you might be stuck in your driveway for a day or two, but usually the plows have everything cleared up within 3 days.
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