XPost: alt.building.construction, alt.construction, alt.talk.weather   
   XPost: rec.travel.usa-canada   
   From: hatuunen@cox.net   
      
   On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:43:33 GMT, sechumlib   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 2006-04-10 14:16:00 -0400, "Frank F. Matthews"   
   > said:   
   >   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Hatunen wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 05:36:12 +0000 (UTC), jtbell@presby.edu (Jon   
   >>> Bell) wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>> 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.   
   >>>   
   >>> Arizona, Jon, Arizona.   
   >>>   
   >> Sunburn Dave sunburn.  And have you noticed an occasional hot spell.   
   >   
   >Depends on WHERE in Arizona. Not much hot weather on the north rim of   
   >the Grand Canyon, for example.   
      
   But the sun's UV is worse at the Grand Canyon because the air is   
   even thinner at that altitude. And they have pretty bad winters   
   at the GC.   
      
   By the way, here in Tucson our hot spell is not "occasional", and   
   we really only have one a year.   
      
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