North Carolina tops for weather disasters?

[lovesMountains]

Originally Posted by Carolina_native

You may be safe from NJ corruption in NC, but you can get NC corruption here. Heard of our former Democrat House Speaker Jim Black?

Yeah, but can NC really compare just because of one dirty politician? He's in prison now, so at least his crimes won't go on for decades or anything. By all accounts he went bad in the last 10 years and before that we've had pretty clean politics here

[wbyrd]

Well,

I was 10 years old at the time of the outbreak. The F4 that moved from northeast of Clinton down Hwy 403 into Duplin County came 3 miles from our home.

Beffrey 2 was right, a very scary night. Question for Beffrey? You mentioned you saw one in Greene County that day. These storms came through after dark.

Just wondering if you are referring to the same set of storms?

Wbyrd

[Beffrey2]

Originally Posted by wbyrd

Well,

I was 10 years old at the time of the outbreak. The F4 that moved from northeast of Clinton down Hwy 403 into Duplin County came 3 miles from our home.

Beffrey 2 was right, a very scary night. Question for Beffrey? You mentioned you saw one in Greene County that day. These storms came through after dark.

Just wondering if you are referring to the same set of storms?

Wbyrd

I'm sorry. You are right. I really got my days mixed up!

The tornado I saw in Greene co was back on an afternoon in June 86. We also ran into a bad hail storm that same day in western Craven Co...just under an hour before the tornado in Greene co. (we were heading back to Wilson from New Bern)

I really don't know what I was thinking.....or how I could have got the years mixed up. lol

[Petunia16]

I showed this forum to my husband, so this is what he emailed me... to put this whole thing into perspective since we are leaving earthquake country to head off to NC in 2 months:

http://www.eas.slu.edu/hazards.html

The 10 worst natural disasters. Here they are. Notice that tornadoes didn't even make the list, but earthquakes show up regularly

1. Earthquake
2. Hurricane Katrina
3. Volcanoes
4. Earthquake
5. Volcano
6. Earthquakes
7. Typhoon
8. Volcano
9. The Flood (yes, that one)
10. The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

[SunnyKayak]

Originally Posted by Petunia16

I showed this forum to my husband, so this is what he emailed me... to put this whole thing into perspective since we are leaving earthquake country to head off to NC in 2 months:

http://www.eas.slu.edu/hazards.html

The 10 worst natural disasters. Here they are. Notice that tornadoes didn't even make the list, but earthquakes show up regularly

1. Earthquake
2. Hurricane Katrina
3. Volcanoes
4. Earthquake
5. Volcano
6. Earthquakes
7. Typhoon
8. Volcano
9. The Flood (yes, that one)
10. The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

That is referencing the world of course those numbers will be distorted when comparing weather phenomenon in this state.

Here is a link of counties with the highest percentage of tornadoes
http://www.nc-climate.ncsu.edu/image...do_count_c.jpg

Photos of landslides
Landslides - Historical Events in North Carolina

Earthquake epicenters in this state.
Earthquake Epicenters

Lightening Deaths
Lightning Fatalities, Injuries, and Damage Reports in the United States - National Lightning Safety Institute