>I'll add that to my list of reasons not to live in the US along with all those guns, rabid animals and deadly spiders you have extreme weather.

Depends where. This is a _big_ country. Some areas get hurricanes, some get earthquakes, some get tornados, and some get none of that. Where I am, the worst we face on an ongoing basis is the remnants of Tropical Storms (though there's some talk that Hanna may still be a TS when it gets here) and the occasional blizzard.

Tamar