In all fairness, I should point out one other minor detail.
California has earthquakes, and may end up falling into the ocean.
Oklahoma has tornadoes - and sometimes we have bad ones, like the one that hit today. Which simply proves that if you build a lot of houses in the exact same pathway that a tornado followed 14 years ago, you're going to have a lot of people die - since tornadoes DO tend to follow certain paths.
For example, near Lafayette, Indiana, where I moved from, we always had tornadoes form just south of a little town to the south of Lafayette, and they'd go from west to east, and pretty much you could figure within a mile or so about where they'd start, and where they'd end. But those were small ones - maybe 200 feet in diameter.
This one we saw today - and at work we watched it live, from start to finish - ended up starting out quite small, then within the span of about 45 minutes grew to about a mile wide and to probable F5 level - and cleared out a path 20 miles long and a mile wide.
Thus, if you move here, don't move there. The neighborhood I live in is full of houses that were built in the 1940's - and they're still here, in original shape. And they're only 3 miles north of where this tornado went through - but obviously they've never been touched.
Side note - as I'm going to bed now, the death toll from this one is at 51, with a bunch of children because two elementary schools took direct hits. Unfortunately, the tornado drill where you go into the lowest level (in this case, the basement) backfired when the entire building collapsed and then the basement flooded,
(11-21-2013, 12:53 PM)Jihadjoe Wrote: Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.
