Relocating? Check out this map!

[CarolAnn]

This is a link to the Natural Disaster Risk Profile map - the best copy I could locate with a quick Google search:

http://www.floodsquad.com/ (scroll down for the map)

If you have a choice, consider areas out of the high danger zones!

I noticed it didn't cover winter blizzards, though - so keep in mind not everything is covered here! ;)

[beekeeper]

Neat, We are in a 'low' risk area :)

[rockymtngirl]

Rocky Mountains look pretty good - I see they didn't put the Yellowstone caldera in there - 'course if that goes - well all us here in the Rockies are probably toast - so no restoration will be needed ;)

[WileyCoyote]

I moved to a county that had only had 12 tornadoes in 50 years, no other problems (other than severe winter storms, which we kinda like). The month we moved here, they had 12 tornadoes, and more to come... Seems like every day for a while the wather radio was going off constantly! All we got around us was some really awesome clouds and wind. But neighboring areas and townships caught hell.

We are betting that when the Yellowstone caldera finally blows, the Badlands and mountains in between us and it will slow down the lava flow. My brother lives in ID and says we will be inundated with the ash blow - I told him that it depended on whether the upper level jet stream was north or south of us! Of course, where he lives, earthquakes are the norm. One house near him, that we looked at and thought about buying, had structural damage to the basement and foundation due to earthquakes. Um, never mind... After all, no matter how much or how many ways you prepare, survival in extremes really boils down to simple luck.

Where we used to live, the hurricanes didn't bother us as much as the constant flow of evacuees from other areas demanding succor. Why would anyone leave their home to flee to an unknown area, with nothing in their bank, pocket, car, or hands, and expect the rest of the world to provide them with food and shelter? Stupid.

[bookwormom]

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Why would anyone leave their home to flee to an unknown area, with nothing in their bank, pocket, car, or hands, and expect the rest of the world to provide them with food and shelter? Stupid.

well, it seems to work. Are they provided with food and shelter(and entertainment in form of TV)? I bet they are .

do you think it will come to it that they will not be provided for?

[JakeLeg]

This is a link to the Natural Disaster Risk Profile map - the best copy I could locate with a quick Google search:

http://www.floodsquad.com/ (scroll down for the map)

If you have a choice, consider areas out of the high danger zones!

I noticed it didn't cover winter blizzards, though - so keep in mind not everything is covered here! ;)


Pretty cool. We also did our due diligence before we bought our place. With some real good mapping software I have, I printed very large printouts of the general vicinity we wanted to live.

Then I started narrowing down our potential by eliminating certain areas. I took into consideration railway lines and highways (for potential chemical spills), sun exposure (hillside south face is preferable to north face) height above localized flood plain, power plants, correctional facilities, etc etc...

[stilltryinat50]

can u say "bulls-eye"? And they wondered why I insisted on a storm shelter in the basement. ::) Nobody teases me about it now....

[WileyCoyote]

Well, the threat of imminent danger was not the only things we thought about. Although the things not on any map, like the Canary Island old volcano collapsing and destroying the entire east Coast with a tsunami, figured in; there were also other things like oil, water and mineral rights (in some states they can remain with the seller or original owner, in some states all rights are sold). I didn't want to put in my biggest garden ever and then have someone plowing up my property for shale oil! So one has to weigh everything; weather and soil conditions, water purity and availablity, proximity to potential development, as well as "simple" weather disasters. Then there are the potentials of man-made disasters, everything from terroristic acts to bureaucratic boondoggles and pandemics. Basically, the fewer people you have to impact - or to be impacted by - around you, the better.

Plus I don't think that map is completely accurate; a large fault lies under the Savannah River and the Cooper River in SC; just because they have been dormant for over 100 years does not mean they are dead. In fact, one can still find sheets of lava rock under the Savannah River... Folks around there think they are past due.

And, yeah, Bookwormmom, I do believe that there will come a time when they are not provided for... and then many evacuees will either simply lay down and die or sprng up and try to take from others their "due". I believe that FEMA will become so immobilized by so many inadequate responses to so many natural and man-made disasters that they will cease to exist, with full-out martial law taking their place.

[wy0mn]

From pessimist to prophet.
Its really sad & frightening that most of the predictions I've read on this site have eventually come to pass. Adios FEMA.
Luck, someone said. I've chosen as well as I possibly could for the circumstances & situations I forsee coming toward us, yet there is always the intangible.
Volcanoes, earthquakes, meteors, tornadoes & lightning... I just can't get excited about those things. I'm fairly certain I will die when I'm supposed to. Probably from some red-neck eating virus I bumped into while jumping out of the way of an oncoming vehicle.
Yet we can't help but plan, can we?
Lex