Awfully glad I live in Minnesota (to live, state, great)

[freezengirl]

I love Minnesota, always have, always will. I just wish it loved my aging bones a little more...

[cdubs3201]

Every place on earth is subject to some sort of natural disaster or harsh condition. Unless you've invented a bubble and you live in that.

[audadvnc]

Originally Posted by cdubs3201

Unless you've invented a bubble and you live in that.

Lots of us invested in the bubble. Then it popped in 2008, and we're still treading water...

[xandrex]

Originally Posted by Govie

I'd venture to guess that Duluth (outside of the very cold weather) is probably one of the safest places on the planet. Baring they have an earth quake up there, is there any real threat outside of a treacherous blizzard?

Duluth really is on the safest cities for natural disasters.

Most snow storms that come off Lake Superior simply don't hit the area because they're coming in from northeast. They hit Wisconsin and the UP instead. Winters are milder thanks to a lake effect as well. And once again, the lake and hill have helped Duluth - the city has apparently never once had a tornado touch down in city limits.

Is it boring? Perhaps a bit. When I was growing up there, it was called "Dull-Youth" because of the lack of opportunities to do very much. But I do love the lake.

[Govie]

Originally Posted by xandrex

Duluth really is on the safest cities for natural disasters.

Most snow storms that come off Lake Superior simply don't hit the area because they're coming in from northeast. They hit Wisconsin and the UP instead. Winters are milder thanks to a lake effect as well. And once again, the lake and hill have helped Duluth - the city has apparently never once had a tornado touch down in city limits.

Is it boring? Perhaps a bit. When I was growing up there, it was called "Dull-Youth" because of the lack of opportunities to do very much. But I do love the lake.

Yeah, I was up there this summer enroute to my family's place in Chisholm. It can be a bit dull, but it's better than a number of places I can think of (Fargo, Omaha, Madison, to name only a few).

[xandrex]

Originally Posted by Govie

Yeah, I was up there this summer enroute to my family's place in Chisholm. It can be a bit dull, but it's better than a number of places I can think of (Fargo, Omaha, Madison, to name only a few).

I have a bit of a soft spot for Fargo. I went to school there for a year, so maybe this is the reason? Despite being in North Dakota and not nearly "urban" enough for my taste, I enjoyed it. Maybe it was the people. But I was also surprised by how much was going on (it helps that they have three universities in the area all pretty close to each other).

[yoyoma02]

Originally Posted by xandrex

I have a bit of a soft spot for Fargo. I went to school there for a year, so maybe this is the reason? Despite being in North Dakota and not nearly "urban" enough for my taste, I enjoyed it. Maybe it was the people. But I was also surprised by how much was going on (it helps that they have three universities in the area all pretty close to each other).

Agreed on Fargo. I am defiantly a city kid, but I went to school there for 4 years and really miss it sometimes.

[tijlover]

Since I left MN, and having grown up in St. Charles/Rochester, with relatives in Elba, I've read of the two horrendous floods that wreaked havoc in those areas. Poor Elba, where my grandparents hail from, it's on it's way to becoming a ghost town, like Beaver did, downstream from the Whitewater river.

What's always minimized in MN is the insects. Mosquito's, woodticks, gnats, and flies, IMO, are worse than any natural disaster to fear up there. Those "terrorists" would simply starve out here in the desert, with our 4 inches of rain a year! Whenever I think of a return to MN, that's foremost on my mind: dealing with the insects again!

[Star691]

Good posts. Agree with most of them, and it is a nice area in Minnesota.

[sholomar]

Originally Posted by xandrex

Duluth really is on the safest cities for natural disasters.

Most snow storms that come off Lake Superior simply don't hit the area because they're coming in from northeast. They hit Wisconsin and the UP instead. Winters are milder thanks to a lake effect as well. And once again, the lake and hill have helped Duluth - the city has apparently never once had a tornado touch down in city limits.

Is it boring? Perhaps a bit. When I was growing up there, it was called "Dull-Youth" because of the lack of opportunities to do very much. But I do love the lake.

can't go through life worrying about natural disasters, but the same thing goes for eastern WI along the lake.. rarely is there lake effect snow, and from experience, severe weather tends to fall apart as it hits the lakeshort counties so that it's non severe, and there's no earthquakes or anything.

Personally I'd love to live in an area that got feet of snow that then melted, only to get more feet later on. Eastern side of lake michigan, in the state of michigan, would be worth a try for me.