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Phoenix rarely has any severe weather activity at all-- other than the constant oppressive heat. We do, however, have occasional dust storms during this time of year, as well as flash floods-- usually at least one good one a year. Oh, and whoever said Denver is OFF THE WALL-- Denver has some of the highest rates of lightning strikes in the nation, plus tornado risk. Earthquakes there are extremely unlikely, but not 100% impossible. Hurricane-free, though, is guarranteed.
The Northeast is probably your best bet. There are no real natural disasters here beyond cold temperatures and snow storms in the winter.
Places like NYC, Philadelphia, Boston would seem to fit the bill.
If the criteria is that NO risk for these disasters, then you won't find any major population center in the US that fits the bill. The statement above is very much off base. In 1938 a strong hurricane hit New York and New England and killed 600 people. Most experts predict that another big one will hit the region sometime this century.
A tornado touched down 20 miles north of New York city, LAST JULY (2006), during rush hour and caused some serious property damage. Imagine what would have happened if this twister's path was straight up I 95 at that time (I happened to be stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic on I 95 a few miles from where this tornado touched down.)
The least likely place that one would experience most of these events would probably be the Mountain West, in the regions without known fault lines, but there are no guarantees. A tornado hit downtown Salt Lake City just 8 years ago. One person was killed, 84 injured and there was $150 million in property damage. The fatality list could have been much higher had the tornado hit just one day later (it destroyed a large convention area that was scheduled to receive 20,000 attendees the next day).
Salt Lake City's Tornado Aftermath - Salt Lake City - 8/16/99 (http://saltlakecity.about.com/library/weekly/99art/aa081699.htm - broken link)
If the criteria is that NO risk for these disasters, then you won't find any major population center in the US that fits the bill. The statement above is very much off base. In 1938 a strong hurricane hit New York and New England and killed 600 people. Most experts predict that another big one will hit the region sometime this century.
A tornado touched down 20 miles north of New York city, LAST JULY (2006), during rush hour and caused some serious property damage. Imagine what would have happened if this twister's path was straight up I 95 at that time (I happened to be stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic on I 95 a few miles from where this tornado touched down.)
The least likely place that one would experience most of these events would probably be the Mountain West, in the regions without known fault lines, but there are no guarantees. A tornado hit downtown Salt Lake City just 8 years ago. One person was killed, 84 injured and there was $150 million in property damage. The fatality list could have been much higher had the tornado hit just one day later (it destroyed a large convention area that was scheduled to receive 20,000 attendees the next day).
Salt Lake City's Tornado Aftermath - Salt Lake City - 8/16/99 (http://saltlakecity.about.com/library/weekly/99art/aa081699.htm - broken link)
This is going on everywhere. West Coast with the "Big One" and the mega-tsunami, East Coast with the hurricanes, South with the hurricanes, Midwest with tornadoes and most recently, floods.
Phoenix rarely has any severe weather activity at all-- other than the constant oppressive heat. We do, however, have occasional dust storms during this time of year, as well as flash floods-- usually at least one good one a year. Oh, and whoever said Denver is OFF THE WALL-- Denver has some of the highest rates of lightning strikes in the nation, plus tornado risk. Earthquakes there are extremely unlikely, but not 100% impossible. Hurricane-free, though, is guarranteed.
Denver doese not have some of the highest lightning strikes in the nation even though we do get them, so does everywhere else in the world, and I think you made that up about tornados, the front rage has a very small risk due to the mountains also how can you say Denver is "OFF THE WALL" and you said Phoenix witch has the same chance of lightning, and a higher chance of tornados?
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