Yeah, I am in Florida and not too crazy about the hurricanes either. We know enough in advance that we could possibly leave but so often it is supposed to come but never does (or is downgraded to a tropical storm) so who can take off of work for something that 'might' happen? Plus you'd have to leave pretty far in advance or else you'd just get stuck in all the exodus traffic.

I was born and raised in Ohio so we had tornados and I think they were more scary to me than hurricanes because there was no warning. My mom had her house completely destroyed (not the same time as the California time in post above). They were just lucky as my dad had dug a tornado cellar type of thing for them and they got into it soon enough. They also had warning sirens which saved their lives also but where I lived in Ohio didn't.

Then I heard that Ohio and especially Tennessee (which I always thought was a safe place) will probably get a really big earthquake someday as they are the New Madrid fault line.

I don't think anyplace is safe. Where are you at?

Laurel

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