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   From: gunner@lightspeed.net   
      
   On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 16:07:55 GMT, "Glenn"  wrote:   
      
   >"John"  wrote in message   
   >news:r2ng3292kohl675eroe5lbp2oqv216fujb@4ax.com   
   >> I just wondered what states people would regard as being some of the   
   >> safest places to live in the USA?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >I like Kansas.  Supposedly the tornado alley state but I am 75 and have   
   >never seen one.  Does happen sometimes but so do car accidents.   
   >   
   >If you chose to live in a forest, you know darned well sometime there will   
   >be a forest fire.  Not if but a certainty.   
   >   
   >On the coast, especially east, you know you will have hurricanes   
   >occasionally, not maybe but a certainty.   
   >   
   >Live in the mountains and there is a good chance a rock slide or forest fire   
   >will get you.   
   >   
   >I'll take the good old boring central states   
      
   Something to consider..is not how safe an area is from natural   
   disasters...but how well prepared the area/infrastructure for those   
   emergencies.   
      
   I live 5 miles as the crow flies from the San Andreas fault, here in   
   California. We have small earthquakes every couple days or so..but   
   most are never felt. I did however lose a home to an earthquake in   
   1983.  The entire town was leveled..but there were only a very few   
   injuries, and 1 death..and to this day..Im not sure it wasnt a   
   homicide of opportunity IRRC.   
      
   Its been 20 + yrs, the town was rebuilt to modern building codes for   
   earthquake standards..not the 19th century as it originally was..and I   
   doubt there were be much serious damage after an equivelant   
   earthquake.  My current home has been hardened against   
   earthquakes..and if one occurs...the home and infrastructure simply   
   sways and rides it out. Im more concerned about a couple of my larger   
   top heavy machine tools in my home hobby shop falling over than losing   
   the house and grounds.   
      
   Good weather, not prone to forest fires here in the desert, no   
   tornados, no hurricanes, no floods at my elevation etc, limited crime,   
   no gangs other than a couple local wanna be's, far enough off the   
   beaten track to not be an attractive destination for hordes of spikey   
   haired cannible mutants after something really bad in the LA area,   
   its a heavily armed  Red Zone, and local oilfields can provide energy,   
   fuel and water to the area.  Good well hardened hospitals and   
   emergency services..simply because they have had lots of experience   
   with earthquakes in the past and have built to counter the issue in   
   the future, etc etc.   
      
   So its not necessarily a state by state comparison that is valid, but   
   an area by area look that needs to be done.   
      
   Gunner   
      
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   As a genetic communist you feel that noticing behavioural   
   patterns relating to race would cause a conflict with your belief   
   in biological Marxism."     Big Pete, famous Usenet Racist   
      
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