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Slate: the safest states from Mother Nature's rath...the selections are surprising -- (link)

Posted by zeitgeist May 21 '13, 15:59

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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_gist/2005/09/where_to_hide_from_mother_nature.html (www.slate.com)

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Dumb. Alaska was "knocked out immediately" because of winter storms? That's just lazy. - Dr.Vermin May 21, 16:16 5
- You have a volcano blowing it's top right now. Where is that at to you? -- nm - Bacon May 21, 16:19 4
  - Looks like about 600 miles away, out on the Aleutian chain. -- nm - Dr.Vermin May 21, 16:24 2
    - Aah no ash then. -- nm - Bacon May 21, 16:28 1
      - Not this time. Closer ones have shut down the airport before though. -- nm - Dr.Vermin May 21, 16:39
  - The real volcano not Sarah Palin fyi -- nm - Bacon May 21, 16:20
Oregon -- nm - Bacon May 21, 16:07 8
- Uhm...aren't you right next a volcano in a range where the only sure nonactive volcano has given up some smoke? -- nm - nevermind May 21, 16:30 2
  - Not sure which nonactive is giving up smoke right now -- nm - Bacon May 21, 16:31 1
    - Mount Margaret I think and not now, in the past. - nevermind May 21, 16:49
- doesn't coastal Oregon have tsunami sirens? -- nm - Buzz May 21, 16:16 1
  - Yes -- nm - Bacon May 21, 16:19
- Damn right! -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) May 21, 16:12
- quakes, tsumanis, volcanos and I swear to some pagan deity that the zombie outbreak will start in portland -- nm - zeitgeist May 21, 16:10 1
  - The only thing we really need to worry about here is the Cascadia Fault -- nm - Bacon May 21, 16:14
all but the intro. were written in 2005 - a lot happened since then for the states mentioned, and they don't - b. May 21, 16:04 3
- here's something from 2011 with metro areas. Mop needs to build a compound for all of us. nm but: -- (link) - b. May 21, 16:06 2
  - looks like utah and wyoming have had the fewest disaster area declarations in the past ~50 years. - b. May 21, 16:14
  - Dakotas have lowest quake and hurricane risk, certainly no tsunami, though yellowstone super cano is possible -- nm - zeitgeist May 21, 16:11
*wrath* too -- nm - zeitgeist May 21, 15:59

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