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All of the above seems like sound advice... I would add a coleman-style campstove too, though. And those chargers for cellphones.
Purely for thoroughness, there is at least a theoretical chance of eartquake-related damage, from Charleston and New Madrid (as a retired business continuity/disaster recovery analyst, it MUST be considered... then dismissed.) Geophysical and climate hazards are low here, not nonexistant.
The Triangle is "surrounded" (for limited values, etc) by high-value military facilities. There is a hydrogen bomb still buried in the muck somewhere near Goldsboro, and one in Charleston harbor too, IIRC. There is a high social risk of needing an opinion on college basketball.
Thunderstorms, icing and flooding are the normal risks here. No one here knows how to drive in snow or ice, and even the northern migrants forget quickly.
Medium high. Tornado watches are common throughout the summer as are severe thunderstorm warnings, but we're not tornado alley. Big twisters like they have in Oklahoma that keep leveling Moore, OK are not very frequent here, but I would say we do have several smaller tornadoes touch down every year and the occasional bigger one. Tornadoes are relatively small storms (compared to hurricanes) and can be devastating to the areas where they hit, but leave the house next door untouched.
I've lived in NC for 51 years, almost all in the Triangle.
We've had 2 significant tornado events in Raleigh - in 1988 and 2011 - that caused widespread damage. Numerous unconfirmed tornadoes (about 1x/year) cause tornado-like damage of a torn-off roof or a downed tree into a house.
power outages from May-Sept thunderstorms and icestorms from Dec-Mar are the greatest issue to prepare for.
Ok, I earned the google one; re them touching down even here, still scares the heck outta me. From that search link I found North Carolina Tornadoes and was surprised at the amount for Wake
That's typical of the kind of tornadoes we get. Pretty terrible if you're hit, but otherwise doesn't affect a large area. Sign up for the severe weather alerts from one of the TV stations and you should expect to get alerts about every week through the summer. Mostly it's just severe thunderstorms, but a couple of times a month you'll get a tornado warning, too, and of course the hurricane tracking info, and flood warnings, and heat index warnings.
As far as your link, I'm surprised it's not more. Certainly get tons of watches and warnings about them.
There's a national map at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/climate-in...do-climatology. Of course you have to adjust the counts for the number of square miles per state. North Carolina has fewer than most southern states.
However there are significant differences in the kinds of tornadoes. Florida has lots of EF1s, for example, but relatively speaking not many EF4s and EF5s that are the typical killers. The 1988 North Raleigh tornado was an EF4 (two fatalities in the city limits of Raleigh). It missed my house by 3 blocks. As far as I know, this is the only EF4 or EF5 in recent history in the Triangle. The 2011 outbreak was two EF3, four EF2s, and three EF1s.
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