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Good luck, I was trying to make a similar point. A place like the Caribbean Islands is another story, but it's not like living in New Orleans means you are in frequent catastrophic danger. I found it particularly strange to consider the Northeastern US to be in that circumstance. When boiled down, you realize that every place has its challenges. Daily, cold, windy and/or snowy weather for 4 months of the year likely has a bigger impact on someone than a hurricane every 4 - 5 years. But, like anything, it depends on the circumstances (e.g. whether you live in a flood zone or not).
Regardless, it doesn't invalidate an entire region. You just have to plan accordingly. Kind of like making sure you have all season tires on your vehicle and a generator handy in Rochester.
The good thing about hurricanes is that although they cause a lot of damage, you typically have several days warning.
That I straight up don't believe about Chicago. Chicago tends to be chilly even in June.
I've spent about 20 weekends in Milwaukee in the past 16 months. This is true. What ever it's like in Milwaukee, just add a few degrees to get Chicago's temps.
I was wearing shorts in Feb this year. There was also a week of hot and humid weather in March. I remember going for a bike ride and sweating buckets.
It can be cold in June, but it's not normal. It can easily get into the humid upper 80s by April.
I've spent about 20 weekends in Milwaukee in the past 16 months. This is true. What ever it's like in Milwaukee, just add a few degrees to get Chicago's temps.
I was wearing shorts in Feb this year. There was also a week of hot and humid weather in March. I remember going for a bike ride and sweating buckets.
It can be cold in June, but it's not normal. It can easily get into the humid upper 80s by April.
Same here in Indianapolis...we had a nice week like that in January as well. It's the exception to the rule, but it happens every winter without fail.
Have powerful Natural Disasters across the West, South, and Northeast made the Great Lakes more attractive?
As most people that are acquainted with a map know, three of the four regions of the United States all border the ocean. One does not. As many know, the most gruesome natural disasters out there usually come from the ocean (tsunamis, hurricanes, atmospheric rivers, so on) or from plate movement in areas near the ocean which cause devastating earthquakes of epic proportions.
For the purposes of this thread, I've decided to focus solely on the Great Lakes as opposed to the entire Midwest, which also includes the Great Plains, which are swarmed with violent tornadoes. The topic of this thread is only in reference to the Great Lakes region as compared to the hazards of the Northeast/South/West/Great Plains. Please keep that in mind when the discussion unfolds.
Natural Disasters like the Megathrust, Category 5 Hurricane, Atmospheric Rivers, lateral shift earthquakes, Great Wildfires, and the like are cause for concern in vast swaths of the three aforementioned regions. In contrast, the Great Lake's biggest headache is usually just a blizzard or a flood. (Tornadoes of epic proportions typically don't occur in the Great Lakes but rather in the Great Plains - an entirely different section of the "Midwest" than the Great Lakes).
I think it is time to have that debate now. Given the imminent threats that the coastal regions like the Northeast, the West, and the South face and the violent nature of the Great Plains - has it made the the cities and areas along the Great Lakes more appealing to anyone? Have these natural disasters or even the potential for these disasters to occur made anyone write the major cities of the other three regions plus the Great Plains off entirely?
Jeez, man. Simmer down.
This post reminds me of the time I was in New Zealand and all these people in a hotel bar were watching Twister on the television. They just knew, upon watching that, that we Americans were dodging tornados as part of our daily commute. I just couldn't convince them otherwise.
I live in Alabama. In 2011, during the outbreak, an F2 passed within a mile of my home. Later in the day, an F5 passed north of town, and bits of insulation from destroyed homes wound up in my yard. But, during the entirety of my life here, I've yet to see or experience a tornado close up. We've had hurricanes spin up from the Gulf. Again, the really bad ones knock out power for a couple of days. Last time I had a major power outage from a hurricane was Frederick in...1979.
What's more, you seem to think that killer tornados and massive hurricanes are a new development. Before this year, the mainland of the US had not been hit by a major hurricane (F3 or up) since 2005. Twelve years. Tornados are no more prevalent today than they were 100 years ago and a good bit easier to predict.
As far as the West is concerned, they have the occasional earthquake in California. And wildfires are just part of the late summer, just the same as every year.
And yet you expect us to pull up tent stakes and move to Illinois. Which, by all accounts, has a major economic disaster brewing even as we speak. Plus it's freaking cold up there. I had a client in the upper peninsula of Michigan who always perversely held his annual meetings in January. No thanks.
In other words, quit reading news where every weather story is a sign of the onrushing apocalypse. "Astronomical risks"? You've gotta be kidding me.
I've been through 7 hurricanes and a couple tropical storms, almost lost everything once, there's another storm in the gulf, and I still wouldn't want to move to Cleveland.
First of all, why do you have to trash Cleveland? There are other cities in the Great Lakes besides Cleveland, you know. But, it's easy being in a city that a lot of people love while people live in a city that almost everybody loves to hate.
That I straight up don't believe about Chicago. Chicago tends to be chilly even in June.
Chicago owns one of the worst heat waves in the US, so I think 70's in February is certainly possible.
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