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Pick your poison. The difference is Texas' top 3 natural disasters are predictable long before they happen giving people time to prepare for the worst, California's are not.
1) CA's rainy season is in WINTER, think about what season hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere occur in.
2) Most of our storms come from the Gulf of Alaska and when they do come from lower latitudes closer to Hawaii (aka the "Pineapple Express") they don't come in the form of organized cyclonic tropical storms.
"Despite its long coastline, California is not vulnerable to tropical cyclones. Because of the cold California Current from the North Pacific Ocean and the fact that the storms tend to "steer" West, California has only been hit with two tropical storms in recorded history, a storm which came ashore in 1939 and dumped heavy rainfall on the Los Angeles Area and interior deserts and Tropical Storm Nora. The remnants of tropical systems will affect California more commonly, every several years."
3) a "typhoon" is a hurricane in the NORTHWESTERN Pacific, they're still called hurricanes in the eastern Pacific where they actually occur, which is well south of Ca.
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As rarely as it occurs, its about the same chances of Texas getting hit by an earthquake which is why y'all are in a 100 year drought. LOL
This statement makes absolutely no sense at all but please explain LOL.
I literally cannot wait to see what misinformation you embarrass yourself with next.
Not all tropical cyclones in the Pacific are called Typhoons and no, Hurricanes don't hit California either. The water is too cold for a Hurricane to survive in.
I wasn't stating it as fact. I was stating it as the perception that northeasterners have about Texas vs. California. Sure, it may not be true in reality, but that's now we view Texas. If I was to tell my friends and family that I was moving to Texas, they would be like
I wasn't stating it as fact. I was stating it as the perception that northeasterners have about Texas vs. California. Sure, it may not be true in reality, but that's now we view Texas. If I was to tell my friends and family that I was moving to Texas, they would be like
You're overgeneralizing a bit. I do agree that California gets more attention as an interesting place while Texas is either ignored or some stereotypes tossed in or just confused with the south in general.
people in both states are actually pretty apolitical.... people whose lives are completely taken over by politics will see these places as polar opposites but yes they are actually pretty similar. a large amount of Mexican influence, the people are laid back and have a good sense of fashion, you also have that thug/cholo culture in both states. huge freeways, mega freeway interchanges, the people also listen to the same music and watch the same sports...
True most people in real life don't care that much about politics. But the overall politics of a place often reflects local culture. Even if your typical Bay Area suburb resident and Houston suburb resident don't care much about politics, local attitudes would be rather different. Texas isn't your typical southern state, but it's always had a large southern cultural influence that California mostly lacks. Texas also gets far more transplants from the south. Texas also has a far greater African-American presence than California by percent, with blacks making less of an obvious impact to Californian culture and population. The Asian population is over double the black population in California. Texas has a high proportion of southern Baptists; California does not. Fifty years ago, the differences between the two states was much larger, with California definitely wealthier and more educated.
And you can't ignore the landscape differences: with its mountains California is much more dramatically scenic and the coastal areas have a much milder climate friendly for year around outdoor recreation. It adds a culture of the outdoors that you can't get in Texas. Mountain biking started in the Bay Area. It couldn't have started in any populated Texan metro. Really, it's a bit odd to claim a state that's mostly flat is the same as California.
I. At least that's how New Englanders view the two states -- whether it's accurate or not. California is considered "cool," while Texas is considered "backwoods."
So I guess New England is considered "ignorant."
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