I'll take a "Tornado Alley" state any day!

[Floogeldy]

I'd rather be threated by the occasional tornado than earthquakes and hurricanes!

Which is your preference?

B-)

[Redstone]

1. I'll stick with the hurricanes.

Last one we got was in 1992. Tornadoes are every summer.

Redstone

[evlbstrd]

2. Tornado Alley states tend to come with a lot

of Hellfire and Brimstone, too. I need an umbrella.

[kedrys]

3. Hurricanes

I'd never want to actually be in one, but at least you get some freaking warning.

[MuseRider]

4. I live in tornado alley

but have been in a hurricane (at least the beginning of one) and an earthquake. I will stay right here in tornado alley.

[hfojvt]

28. I felt like I was in a hurricane last night in Kansas

The rain was pounding and the wind was howling. The only thing missing was a surge off the Missouri river.

[Deja Q]

5. Tornadoes rock! And just like a date,

they're few and far between and just when you think they're going to put out... they go away. Fortunately.

[Wapsie B]

6. Gulf Coast for me.

I don't know how many twisters they get closer to the Gulf but it can't be as many as Kansas/Oklahoma area. I just want to get away from winters here. So I'll stick with hurricanes. Plus someone has to move south to dilute the power of the red menace.

[sasquatch]

18. Fuck the south, move to Ohio, we've got better football

:)

[hfojvt]

29. isn't Ohio in tornado alley?

I heard the t-storms there were FIERCE, although that might not matter if you have a grandfather named Trespassers William. How are the winters in Cincinnati?

[sasquatch]

42. Yes and No; Xenia Ohio is a tornado town, the rest isn't

We did get a class five in Cincinnati my senior year but it didn't matter because Clinton was in office and federal funds came right away. The winter in Cincinnati is less severe than it is in Cleveland, but the Ohio River does create snow storms.

[Zuni]

40. Hurricane Camille

best of both worlds---a Hurricane with tornado winds---ravaged the gulf coast with 200 mph plus winds in 1969

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. That's easy

- tornadoes. With the new weather reporting technology, we almost always get warnings and can take shelter.

[hfojvt]

39. you mean when they cry "wolf" with the sirens?

I am afraid that many people are no longer taking that seriously. They keep blowing the sirens when nothing is happening. When the "straight line winds" tore through here last year, there was no warning that I knew of, except me looking out the window and thinking "I do not like this".
When I was a kid in SD we got surprised several times. Once I was out playing catch in the sunshine when I noticed the ground was a funny color. Either mom or a look at the sky made me go inside and when I was at the top of the basement stairs I turned and saw the Purple Martin house blow over - a 30 foot 4x4 snapped at the base.
My sister in Nebraska tells stories about going out to eat and seeing funnels in the rear view mirror on the way home. Either she is not getting warnings, or not tuning into them.
The one time I was a teenager and they blew the sirens, and I was scared silly expecting a catastrophe and I found out the next day the tornado was fifty miles to the south east. Supposedly headed our way, but really, as if an SD storm is going to travel fifty miles to the west, when storms there always go from west to east.

[Patiod]

48. Was the sky green?

I was in Detroit a few years ago, returning a rental car at the airport, and the sky turned green. Seriously. Scared the hell out of me - never saw a sky that color in Philadelphia. The Mid-westerners there took it as a bad sign.

Found out later there had been more than one tornado reported in that area that afternoon.

[hfojvt]

49. acutally the ground turned light purple

at one o'clock in the afternoon, this made me look at the sky. I have never seen a green sky either, but I have seen some very black ones.

[proud2BlibKansan]

53. They don't cry wolf with sirens here

Last time I remember hearing them was when we had that bad tornado two years ago in May.

[mandyky]

8. Same here

I have felt small earthquakes in NY and AZ and cannot imagine being in a highrise in say LA or Frisco. There is a big difference between a 4 something and a 6 or more. The 4.4 in MY lasted 4 minutes. I can't imagine what a 6 ot 7 would be like for that amt of time.

Hurricanes last for hours or days.

Torandoes if you don't get hit directly, and don't lose electric, are over in 10 to 20 minutes.

[RoyGBiv]

9. I'll stay in Tornado Alley ...

You *can* avoid a tornado if you're paying attention to the weather and have enough sense to get underground. They don't come with massive flooding, and even the biggest ones don't destroy entire cities the size of Miami or Los Angeles.

I say this having survived three in three years, one of which passed within half a mile from my apartment, and my mother barely escaped OKC's F4/5 May 3rd tornado a few years ago.

At one time I was a storm spotter for the county civil defense unit (emergency management now), so technically I've "survived" quite a few, but as long as I paid attention, I was never in any real danger during that period even when I was at times within a few hundred yards of a funnel. It's an amazing spectacle.

[autorank]

10. I've got a friend in OK, KA, etc. storm chasing this week. How is it?

Rain of toads yet? Lots of activity?

I'm selfish, I want to see some great pics (he goes every year and it blows my mind).

[Floogeldy]

11. Tornadoes are easier to avoid than you might think!

With the right equipment, and shelter.

B-)

[autorank]

12. No, I'm hoping the guy gets a bunch, that's why he's there.

He's a storm chaser and they really hit it when they have one of their week long orgies of life-risking behavior. So I hpe there arelots of storms for my friend but that none of them cause any damage to anyone (hmm...weasel logic).

[xmas74]

27. We had some mild damage on Saturday morning.

Just an F1-tore up some barns and stuff. Nothing that serious this year.

[auntAgonist]

13. two choices for me

hellacious thunderstorms and blustery snowstorms!

[Floogeldy]

14. Ha ha!

I hope you are still recovering well, aunt. :)

[auntAgonist]

16. hey Floogeldy!

I'm doing just fine thank you, i think i'm finally regaining some energy and strength!

nice of you to ask!!

:hug:

[Floogeldy]

17. Thank goodness!

:pals:

[Heidi]

15. I absolutely agree.

I grew up in "Tornado Alley" and never once came close to being hit by a tornado. That's probably because I spent the summers of my youth cowering under an inverted sofa, thanks to my storm-paranoid 98-pound mother, who could flip a sofa upside down for us kids' protection in less than a nano-second.

I'm with Mr. Floogeldy on this one.

[yewberry]

19. But, but...

The last big quake here was...um, 2001, I think? 6.8, as I recall. Yep, awful and baffling.

Most of the smaller quakes are just funny. (On the news: "Um, hello? Yeah, I saw the water in my sink move. My dishes clinked. I was amazed!")

Okay, yes, I live in an earthquake zone...but I wouldn't live in 'Tornado Alley' for anything!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. Well, I am going to weigh in, everybody! And you know just where I am

on this question! Heck, I live in California, and have since I was 13 years old...lots and lots of years...

I've experienced many earthquakes here..up and down the state. The vast majority are brief, and exciting rides. The Northridge quake was scary and strong. It went on awhile, probably a minute or so...That was 1971...We had NO damage..My family and I, I mean...

The key thing to remember is: Our building codes are very strict. So unless the quake is right in your neighborhood, the building will likely stand. It is a crapshoot, of course. We live with it.

We prepare and are ready. Then we stop worrying about it...That's it. I don't like storms; you all can have them...I'm staying right HERE!

:grouphug:

[bertha katzenengel]

50. The Sylmar Quake in '71 was on my mother's 30th birthday.

The earth said "HAPPY FREAKIN' BIRTHDAY! WAKE UP!!"

I live where there are tornadoes and hurricanes now. I'd rather have an earthquake.

[qnr]

21. Nor'Easters any day. Even earthquakes. Not a tornado state though.

It's not only tornadoes, it's (just a small listing): Tornadoes, stifling heat, regular thunderstorms putting electronics at risk & making walking of the dog an interesting experience, hobo spiders, brown recluses, black widows, rattlesnakes, scorpions, tasteless food, water that has to be filtered before you drink it, neighbors that feel they must mow the lawn at 9PM, etc.

[hfojvt]

31. how often do you see scorpions?

When we went to Ok for a cousins wedding that was the joke I told my sister, about "flying scorpions".
Funny that you left out the wind, but SD has alot of that too. My OKC uncle said of my hometown on a visit "and I thought Oklahoma was windy."

[qnr]

33. Quite often. Not so much in town though. Yeah, the wind can be a pain,

but at least it helps cool things down sometimes.

[orleans]

22. i hate tornados--they scare the shit out of me

when the skies turn wicked i feel my heart start pounding, my adrenaline kicks in, minor to major panic attack--it's a real drag. i can't help it. seems like the older i get the worse it gets.

plus i don't have a house with a basement. so we all pile up in the hallway (the only area in the house not on an outer wall)

[qnr]

24. Right. We have no shelter here either. And people say you get warning

Whoopie-doooooooo - Yeah, enough warning that you spend hours watching Severe Thunderstorm watches and warnings, Tornado watches and warnings, and everything else progressing towards you, with no idea of whether one of the tornados are actually going to hit your area or not. I pretty much ignore it all, but my wife gets worried. I've watched some of the people around here, they're like zombies, frothing at the mouth and staring at the television screen for literally hours. Even when nothing is going on, they're talking of dry lines, and things of that nature.

[LSK]

23. my preference is Colorado Mountains

No tornados, earthquakes, hurricanes. As long as you dont build your house on a mountain slope, nothing can happen.

And this morning my weather forcast had a threat of tornados and I didnt like it one bit.

[alittlelark]

25. I only have earthquakes....

I have NO INTEREST in tornados and all that crap.

[xmas74]

26. We have tornadoes.

But we also have the threat of earthquakes. I live near a small fault that went about 3 weeks or so ago. It was just a 3.3 but enough that you knew that it happened. And we do have New Madrid. When that baby goes for a big one again (and it's long over for a big one) everyone is gonna know that it happened.

[Wapsie B]

32. That would scare the *cover your ears*

shit outa me. I wouldn't know what to do. The times I've been in California I was expecting a tremor or something.

[xmas74]

34. Not a big deal.

You get used to it too. If it's gonna happen it'll happen.
I just don't worry. Dark_Leftist, OTOH, should worry about New Madrid. If a good one hits out of there, it will take out Memphis.

[qnr]

35. Yellowstone is gonna get us all anyway :) j/k n/t

[xmas74]

36. I'm a little more afraid of New Madrid right now.

Most predict that Yellowstone will not be in our lifetime. New Madrid is almost 20 years overdue. Last time it hit it made rivers flow backward and churchbells in Boston chime.
Now that's messed up. And it will decimate both St Louis and Memphis.

[qnr]

37. I know, as I said, I was "just kidding" :) n/t

[xmas74]

38. I know you were.

But OMG there has been too much info on that crap lately! And the schoolkids around here don't even know that they have a faultline w/in a couple hundred miles.
Freeper education. What else can I say.

[Behind the Aegis]

30. NOT ME!

I am in a Tornado Alley state...we have tornadoes and we are a BRIGHT red state. I have been in over 20 hurricanes, 10 tornadoes, 3 whiteouts, 2 Nor'easters (I was at a conference), flash floods, two earthquakes, and even a wildfire (also big here in Okla-HELL-ma). I want to go back to the east coast. Hurricanes, unless you are in Florida, usually peter out...lots of wind and rain, but not much else. After seeing the May 5th tornado destruction in Oklahoma, I NEVER want to be in that again!!! Actually, while driving home from OKC one weekend, we had a tornado form above our car and touch down on the highway behind us....ever seen an 1970ish El Dorado do 100mph? It's a sight!!! I have also seen a train picked up and tossed and a piece of straw driven into a tree trunk...tornados scare the shit out of me!!! Give me a hurricane over any of them any day!

[Bridget Burke]

41. I'll take hurricanes...

There's plenty of warning so people along the coast can get out; the rest of us can batten down the hatches. Although, if a Force 5 was heading towards Houston, the cats & I might make a quick visit to the Metroplex. My neighborhood stayed dry during the Big Flood but storm surge could be worse in a real hurricane.

We get a fair number of tornadoes here but they tend to be smaller than up in Tornado Alley. Special bonus: Tornadoes often accompany hurricanes. During Hurricane Carla, a twister took out the Ursuline Convent in Galveston--a building that withstood the Great Storm of 1900.

Talking to a vet of the Northridge Quake confirmed my thoughts that sudden movements of the earth would not be fun. And that was not The Big One!

And--while the notorious Houston Summer is beginning--at least we don't get months of snow & ice down here. A bit of ice on the roads shuts the city down & that's fine with me.

[BamaLefty]

43. Hurricanes

I live in "Hurricane Country" oh well...

[Ladyhawk]

44. I'd rather have the quakes.

So far, no big ones where I live...knock on wood.

[realisticphish]

45. Tornadoes own

theres nothing like that sick feeling when you look up and see green, evil looking swirling clouds. Hurricanes, bah, floods, bah, no weather inspires visceral terror like a tornado

[kick-ass-bob]

hurricanes.

you know what and when it's coming.

[bertha katzenengel]

46. Earthquakes, please. TYVM. I prefer to stick w/ what I know.

However since I now live "where there is weather," I'm stuck.

[MrScorpio]

47. Actually in this part of the country Hurricanes are pretty rare

I've lived in VA since '87 and only had to deal with 3 or 4 of note.

[Twillig]

51. In Volcano and Earthquake land there's

no damn warnings and alerts that interrupt the damn ballgame on TV!

For which I am thankful.

[tk2kewl]

52. Give me the sea and a hurricane

[elfrangel]

54. I've lived in Arkansas

my entire life. I've only had to be concerned about a tornado twice in my 27 years here.

I live in a valley area, between Crow Mountain, Petit Jean Mountain and Mount Nebo, so that helps deflect most of the "bad" stuff. But still, it's nothing to worry about. As long as you pay attention and watch what's going on, you'll be alright.

Hurricanes and Earthquakes scares the begeezes out of me. I'll take Tornado Alley over any of it.

[Pithlet]

55. That's easy to say

Until you're huddled in your interior closet clutching your children tightly and fearing for your lives because you live in a house without a basement during a tornado warning. Which I've done a few times. Believe me, it makes me rethink my choice of states :)