>>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.
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>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.
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>Tamar

You forgot mudslides & wildfires.

Dan