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Reply #15 –
Actually, FC, my rant was directed more towards Amooset.. Mr. "I'll never leave the Midwest". Hello, born in Chicago, (Midwest, last I checked) both tornadoes I've been through in my life (not counting the one that passed within half a mile of us last year in Charley) were experienced before I ever moved down here. Got stuck on top of a mountain in the middle of a blizzard on our trip down here back when I was a kid. You people aren't immune from your share of disasters.. you just haven't had the really bad ones yet.

Hurricane activity is cyclical.. a roughly 40-year cycle that doesn't even take "global warming" into account.. and we're in a peak. If you think back even to 1992, when Andrew came through Florida, it was a total freak event.. now, it seems like half the hurricanes that pass "major hurricane" status (category 3 or higher) shoots right to category 5 for at least some of the time. Ten or twenty years from now, this place will be worrying about the occasional category 1 storm.

Now I don't know about cyclical with tornado activity.. but I DO know that there's a MAJOR faultline running along the Mississippi.. (New Madrid) and that place may be just as due for "the big one" as most of the West coast. With an earthquake, I doubt you get the warning we do. I'd actually rather go through a major hurricane (and I went through the one that was the strongest, wind-wise, to hit us in this whole two-year hurricane mess.. "officially" rated at 150 mph now, may be increased in the record books at a later date like Andrew was.. I still dread hearing the sound of the wind screaming by our house and blowing through the frames of the windows) than a major earthquake. But with that view, should I call you all idiots for living near the New Madrid faultline? Remember that the next time you buttstuffyze people in areas pr0ne to another type disaster from what you're vulnerable to. (whether you know you are or not)

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Reply #16 –
Take it easy there psycho....  I have been through tornados, two in fact.  Both were disastrous.  So where would I rather live?  In the south which is guaranteed at LEAST one hurricane every year, severe or not?  Or in the midwest where I've seen two tornados in 23 years.  Hmm... Once every ten isn't so bad.  As for the fault?  Nowhere near it and avoid it if at all possible.  I'll always live on high ground away from flood waters and fault lines.  A tornado gets me?  It will be my own fault if I'm not prepared for it.  That's what storm cellars are for.  Living in high risk area is like me living in a place with no storm shelter.  I mean no disrespect to those who lost their lives in the hurricane(s), but the survivors should really take a second look at where they're living and why.
1987 Thunderbird 3.8. Sold :(

1982 Thunderbird - Goodbye 255, Hello 302!

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Reply #17 –
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but the survivors should really take a second look at where they're living and why.



But they must remember that Ohio is unsafe as well!  I'm actually surprised at how many Florida tags I have seen lately.  Looks like they ran from the disaster and just kept going.
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Reply #18 –
I've read somewhere that here in quebec we have the most changing climate in canada...
from -30*C (-22*F) to 35*C (95*C), Tons of snow and Glaze winter and very hot in summer...

...at least we dont have agressive weather like hurricanes or tornados.

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Reply #19 –
Quote from: Sly1990
I've read somewhere that here in quebec we have the most changing climate in canada...
from -30*C (-22*F) to 35*C (95*C), Tons of snow and Glaze winter and very hot in summer...

...at least we dont have agressive weather like hurricanes or tornados.

 :iagree:
1987 Thunderbird 3.8. Sold :(

1982 Thunderbird - Goodbye 255, Hello 302!

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Reply #20 –
Quote from: thundergrowl
So...are you comparing me to a spy ol' pirate...I'll knock you down a rung!:nutkick::mad:




:)



Tell me you didn't love the comparison. :drink:

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Reply #21 –
Quote from: oldraven
Tell me you didn't love the comparison. :drink:

arrr! ye ole sleeveen!
 
There might be some truth to the comparison. My dad's cousin, he's 92 years old now and has sailed around the island many times on the old coastal boats, has a theory that the only people who would have settled in their home outport would have been outlaws, theives, piriates, etc.
 
I don't know if you've heard of it, but his neice wrote a book about this little village called Random Passage. It was later made into a miniseries by CBC. If you like to read pick it up. It's all about my family and the other families from Cape Island. Check out the credits; Uncle Jack is dad's cousin and Aunt Elsie is my grandmother.
 
BTW sorry for the hijack
 

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Reply #22 –
I may just do that. :)

I always believed the only reason Hollywood makes pirates sound like crazy drunken Irishmen with a twist of hillbilly was because of the ol' Privateers from the Maritimes that ran the coast in our little war. :D