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   From: jtbell@presby.edu   
      
   In article ,   
   John   wrote:   
   >I just wondered what states people would regard as being some of the   
   >safest places to live in the USA?   
      
   I guess South Carolina is out.  Charleston was flattened by an earthquake   
   in the 1880s, and was whipped by Hurricane Hugo in 1989.  Here in the   
   Upstate we get ice storms such as the one which knocked out electicity to   
   about a million people for several days last December.   
      
   --   
   Jon Bell                         Presbyterian College   
   Dept. of Physics and Computer Science        Clinton, South Carolina USA   
      
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