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Just taking a guess and saying Chattanooga TN. Was going to say Atlanta but then I remembered that tornado that occurred downtown. Your thoughts?
Chattanooga has very narrowly dodged some violent tornadoes in the recent past, so I wouldn't say it's immune from natural disasters.
Among major U.S. cities, I'd say probably Buffalo. They get buried by lake-effect snow in the winter, but that's where the extreme weather stops. Even Arctic air is modified by its proximity to two Great Lakes.
A blizzard isn't a natural disaster. It's not even that dangerous.
Yeah and the cities that get them or lake effect snow, which is the case in the Great Lakes region, they have the infrastructure to remove it in a timely manner.
I don't recall any homes being destroyed or swept away by falling snow. Snow is disruptive, not typically destructive (outside of an occasional big box store or stadium roof). Mortality tends to be by indirect means, by heart attacks or traffic accidents, and statistically there are really fewer accidents, deaths, and crimes during storms than on average days. "Cost" associated with snow is lost work-time, or additional road maintenance. Hardly equivalent to tornadoes, floods, landslides, or fires.
And best of all; afterwards, you can play in it! I'd send my kids out sledding or to have a snowball fight after a blizzard. Not exactly gonna send them to play in a flood after a hurricane. I mean, playing in a flood WOULD be fun, if not for dangerous debris and bacteria.
I guess the best you can do is to go redneck tubing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85ZzTUAk6mg Gotta admit, if the water is clean and its just heavy rain and not a massive storm, I'd totally do this!
And crazy Haboob conditions every once in a while, though like snowfall these dust storms usually are not considered natural disasters.
Wildfires don't get into the Phoenix metro. They are almost exclusively in Yavapai, Coconino, Gila, and Graham counties (Prescott, Payson, Flagstaff, and Safford areas).
Haboobs last a maximum of thirty minutes and do nothing, believe me I've been in several stories high. They don't damage much and aren't considered disasters. Floods can interfere with our freeway infrastructure but it's also something you can easily avoid. Our floods could easily, easily, be fixed if we installed a drainage system like most cities have, but we also don't have very much rain, so many didn't consider it worth the cost. It's mostly a "our infrastructure can't handle two inches of rain" disaster, not a disaster that no matter what kind of infrastructure we built, it will still happen. By the way two inches of rain is 1/4 of our annual rain fall.
Phoenix, and the rest of the Southwest, are the least susceptible as of right now, though as temperatures continue to increase and cause more heatwaves we will see more heat-related deaths, and that is technically considered a natural disaster.
How can blizzards not be counted? Tons of people die every year because of blizzards. Either from driving or from accidents(trees falling, broken wires, etc)
Safest spots I can think of
Southern Utah, las Vegas, fresno, and phoenix
If you have AC, you have nothing to worry about with regards to nature. yes, San Diego is low on the earthquake damage meter, but those places are even lower than SD. Theres also No tsunami risk like in Portland or Sacramento. Very low fire, tornado, and flood risks, too. Rain is usually a joke when it does fall.
Edit: I forgot that fog can be dangerous in Fresno, but there hasn't been a bad foggy season in like a decade. Bad fog is starting to look like a thing of the past.
Earthquake map
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