I think many did not get the gist of what I meant so I am going to explain. Does not mean you have to agree as many will not. De for sure.... And that is no problem. ALL are entitled to their own views and thoughts.
That said here goes.
I have the financial means to live anywhere in the world I choose to.
Being a mechanical engineer, a businessman, and entrepreneur has blessed me over a career and lifetime.
I cannot sit and be idle either so I still work today for a friend of mine who was a former supplier....
WHY do I live where I do?
Because here there are no natural disasters waiting to happen.
There was a tornado outbreak back in 1974 that came through the north central part of the metropolitan Cincinnati and proceeded up I-71 to Xenia, Ohio and ripped apart that town.
It was a RARE, very RARE event...
Hurricanes are NOT RARE EVENTS. Noreasters are NOT RARE EVENTS. Flooding RIVERS are NOT rare events.
In FACT, they occur frequently and are a result of all the usual and repeatable causes.
For example: FLOODING:
In and around the shores of the Ohio River, the 2nd largest river in America, when there is a lot of rainfall, it tends to flood even though we have multiple dams built to control.
People who choose to live next to it in low lying flood plains get flooded out frequently.
WHY do they choose to stay there? I do not understand enjoying being flooded out regularly.
COAST LINES on EASTERN shore and GULF SHORES are highly susceptible with regularity to the destruction caused by Hurricanes, tropical storms, and depressions which result in lots of rain and flooding.
WHY so much flooding.
Because the GROUND IS SO LOW. At or below sea level....
Consequently, when nature's storms come there is always a lot of flooding and or damage caused by high winds and sometimes tornadoes are spawned as well.
Again, a place or area I would never choose to live because I simply do not have the tolerance to have to evacuate, tear down, lose everything including all our memories, and then have to rebuild all while having to now find a place to live until sometime our house could get rebuilt and then we do it all over again another time later.
If folks don;t mind living like that and enjoy the constant rebuilding and destruction that occurs, good for them.. I applaud your hardihood.
It ain't for me.
And let's face it here, that the odds of having another hurricane are substantially HIGHER by enormous percentages than odds of a tornado ever landing on your house ANYWHERE in the U.S. Same with living next to a river. PLAN and count on being flooded out.... Rivers rise and floods occur regularly.
Storm surge is a regular event with Noreasters up the eastern seaboard and so are infrequent hurricanes that go up that coastline as well.
I would not choose to live along that easternboard next to the ocean or within a couple of miles of it...
I love Virginia. My daughter lives there. Same city as Zim. The water table there in her area is extremely high.... You can see it laying on the ground in dry season.
Would I live where she does? NOT on your life. RICHMOND is a different story.
Anyway, areas that are always prime targets and repeatable with regularity is what I am referring to.
Not some snowball's chance in hell of something happening. If you choose to live next to an ocean, plan on being visited by storm surges, high winds and hurricanes or tropical depression or storms. Same with living next to a river. THEY FLOOD.
Count me out on any of that.... Your mileagem ay vary..
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