Where You Live Affects Your Health (tornadoes, move, train)

[riveree]

Originally Posted by Katie1

OK so what zone do you live in? Interesting report...do other cities in FL put out these reports.......

These are only "health zones" used for this reporting purpose, we don't normally refer to where we live as zones (we tend to use region, neighborhood name or zip code), but I am in Zone 2.

Originally Posted by OhBeeHave

I'm having a problem opening this file using Firefox browser.

Hmmm....I'm using Safari with no problem....hopefully you got a chance to see it now.

Originally Posted by vdecapio

Zone 3 is the best it looks like. Lets all crowd into Zone 3

Really Zone 6 - the beaches - did very well in all aspects except suicide. My guess would be the higher income level needed to live at the beach allows for better medical care, for one thing. As for the suicide, maybe it's those mortgages?

Zones 2 & 3 switched positions here and there, but rated about the same overall, I'd say.

Originally Posted by travelingfood

this reads like a crime statistic too.
so yup, recommending people to southside is a good thing.

I know, that's what hit me too when I first read it . It's really a sad picture for some areas.

[Katie1]

No matter what the report says IF I can find an apt in Zone 1 thats not too crazy I am moving there!! Old Jacksonville Within or near the org city limits....could someone send me a map?

[HIF]

The first thread on this site has some maps. I'm not sure how accurate the first one is, the area shown as Mandarin is not correct, but the zip code map should be good.

There are a number of nice areas in zone 1 and I'm sure that others more familiar with that part of town will fill you in. I do know that in Riverside (may be fringe of zone 1) and San Marco (zone 3, but on southbank of the river, across the river from downtown) they have smaller apartments, some homes have garage apartments, and they frequently advertise their vacancies with just a sign on the property, so if you are in the area, just driving around is a good way to find a place.

[Katie1]

HIF Too far to drive around currently in West Virginia!!

[riveree]

Originally Posted by Katie1

No matter what the report says IF I can find an apt in Zone 1 thats not too crazy I am moving there!! Old Jacksonville Within or near the org city limits....could someone send me a map?

Katie, look at the maps right on this link in this thread here - scroll down to the third 'zone' map and you'll see the zip codes:

Zone 1 = 32208, 32209, 32254, 32204, 32202, 32206

Zone 2 = 32207 (this is San Marco), 32277, 32211, 32216, 32225, 32246, 32224

[Katie1]

Thanks that does help!!

[apanda]

Originally Posted by riveree

Katie, look at the maps right on this link in this thread here - scroll down to the third 'zone' map and you'll see the zip codes:

Zone 1 = 32208, 32209, 32254, 32204, 32202, 32206

Zone 2 = 32207 (this is San Marco), 32277, 32211, 32216, 32225, 32246, 32224

Go '46, or Zone 2! I must admit North Jax looks pretty grim.

[Katie1]

Zone 2 thats across the river...What happens and JAX gets a freak hurricane or something I would need to depend on early warning to get across the bridges....
I am leaning more on the mainland side around zone 1... ideas??

[riveree]

Originally Posted by apanda

Go '46, or Zone 2! I must admit North Jax looks pretty grim.

Yeah, 32246 does pretty well on here .

[riveree]

Originally Posted by Katie1

Zone 2 thats across the river...What happens and JAX gets a freak hurricane or something I would need to depend on early warning to get across the bridges....
I am leaning more on the mainland side around zone 1... ideas??

As for the hurricanes, for one thing, we get plenty of warning - you'll know it's coming for a week or so before it's set to land, so plenty of time to get somewhere if you want to leave.

Secondly, if you chose to live in "zone 2", you be roughly 5-15 miles in from the ocean, and the ocean is one of the major points of vulnerability. If you chose to live in 32207, for example, you're roughly 15 miles in from the ocean and you're in a CAT 5 Hurricane Evacuation Zone for the most part, which means that you would not be required to evacuate unless the hurricane is a direct hit Category 5 - this is the safest rating you can get. If you had a mansion on the beach you'd probably be a CAT 1 Hurricane Evacuation Zone, as a comparison. If the day ever comes where a CAT 5 is set to make landfall here, the whole city will be evacuating, I'm sure !

Here's another map to consider, it may take a few seconds to load, but will give you a general idea of the vulnerability of the areas you're looking at:

Storm surge zones ("5" is the safest, "1" is the most vulnerable, areas with no rating are areas where it's not an issue I guess...higher land, etc.):

http://www.floridadisaster.org/PublicMapping/duval_surgezone.pdf (broken link)

There's no one easy answer to hurricane safety. You'd think you'd be safer and safer going inland, but that's not really the case. We're a peninsula, and the most common track for hurricanes is to come up the gulf and then either towards Louisiana or across Florida towards the Atlantic. It's less likely for a hurricane to come in at us via the Atlantic side. So often, the Westside, Clay county, etc., get hit harder as the hurricanes come across the peninsula from the gulf side, tornadoes can occur out in the rural areas that way, etc. When the hurricanes travel up the Atlantic side, it's nerve-wracking, but they don't land here*, they travel past us and up into the Carolinas and such.

Once you're here for a few years, you see the patterns...year after year, storm after storm.

(*of course, never say never, it is entirely possible for us to get a direct hit and we have one on record)

Here's the Hurricane forum will all the hurricane discussions:

Hurricanes Forum - Relocation, Moving, Local City Discussions - City-Data Forum