Re: How far south in Illinois....

> Unless you live directly on the San Andreas fault line or frequent tall
> buildings in LA or SF, there is little chance an earthquake will ever
> destroy any of your property. I've lived here over 40 years and felt
> every major earthquake that has come along.....it is just like living
> in the hurricane zone in the South or the tornado zone in the MIdwest.
>
Like I said elsewhere, not all California is at risk, but most of the major
population areas are right along the fault zones. 40 years is also not long
in geologic terms. What I was getting at is all of those faults will move
eventually, but as I recall the timeframe for "eventually" is something like
within 500 years.
>
> The big downside of hurricane and tornadoes (it seem to me) is all that
> worry and energy you spend thinking about the one that is coming. All
> those rounds of GOLF cancelled because of fear one might hit your
> house......
>
I've never cancelled a round of golf because I was afraid a tornado would
hit my house. I have cancelled rounds because of rain and especially
lightning, but unless you play in some place like Kuwait you have that
probleme verywhere. I doubt anyone did that because of a hurricane either,
though as I said the trouble with hurricanes is that they impact a large
area meaning you are more likely to have to get away early. I've never
wasted any thought on Tornados, even though we've had a couple within 5
miles of my house and a storm they won't admit was a tornado knock over a
couple of trees in my backyard. They are pretty much random events and
beyond taking obvious precautions (like not going near mobile homes, which
seem to be tornado magnets :-) not worth worrying about.



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Warren Montgomery (wamontgomery@xxxxxxx)
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"Cal Golfer" <Bill_VP@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >Well, there is a statistical difference -- with tornados and hurricanes
> >it's
>>a matter of luck -- your chances of being hit are pretty much the same
>>every
>>year. With earthquakes it's inevitable.
>
> Not sure I follow this reasoning.
> In California, there is nothing to prepare or worry about. When one
> hits, it hits without warning, and if you are driving your car at the
> time you probably won't feel it, anyway...
>


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