'Death Map' of the US: Where you don't want to try and fool Mother Nature
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So....on the Reuters map, the Orange pie slice is Heat/Drought.
Over the entire desert southwest, there is no orange pie slice. In fact, one is apparently more likely (from this map) to die of Heat/Drought in the Midwest than either the desert Southwest or the hot, humid Southeast.
Reuters, you have some 'splaining to do!
That's b/c those areas are used to heat and/or drought and know how to deal with it better, mainly by having AC everywhere Just like people up north know how to deal with cold and snow better. People adapt to what they are used to, which in the southwest and southeast is heat.
Heatwaves can be more deadly in a city like San Francisco whose average high temp in summer is in the upper 60's to low 70's compared to Sacramento whose average high is in the 90's to low 100's b/c no one in San Francisco has air conditioning.
I was just reading this over on Reutors then I came over here to city-data. "Death map" shows heat a big hazard to Americans - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081217/hl_nm/us_death_usa - broken link)
I thought I was in a safe area by looking at the black and white map. You have posted the color version, and now I find I'm in a pink area. The last place I lived was pink too. I must like to live dangerously.
I just started a thread in the CA forum about this report that was featured in an LA Times article.
The common misconception seems to be that people think CA, and especially Southern CA, is a dangerous place to live natural disaster wise when its actually one of the safest. There are far more dangerous places to live than CA and Southern CA. Disaster area? Southern California has it made in the shade - Los Angeles Times
Judging by the colors Indiana is the safest state?
There is a really cool book that came out some about 10 years ago called Cartographies of Danger. It used all data including crime, traffic, weather, wildfires, etc.
The safest location in the U.S. is northwest Connecticut.
Judging by the colors Indiana is the safest state?
yeah, I'd say MA as well plus maybe RI and NJ, they seem to have all blue. IN seems to be fairly low too, at least for a larger state.
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