Is Any Place Disasterfree?

I live in South Florida. Beautiful South Florida! I am one of the those people who actually loves living here. I love the weather, the people, the views, the wildlife, and so on. But some people only think of South Florida as a hurricane trap. Well, the only hurricanes that have had any significant affect down here in the past several years are Hurricane Wilma and Hurricane Andrew. What place doesn't have its weather or environment issues? Flooding in the midwest, northeast and in Texas; fires in Georgia, California, Arizona and Washington state; extreme heat (triple digits) in the west; landslides in California, etc; tornadoes in the midwest--the list goes on. Most of those places deal with those disasters much more often than South Florida deals with hurricanes. At least, there are hurricane warnings!

(I know if you read my earlier blog about me planning on moving, you might ask, "If you like it so much in South Florida, why move?" It is a necessary move--not that I feel I need to get out of South Florida. I'll be back often because of all the reasons listed above--plus to visit my family.)