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Originally Posted by red sky
It just blows me away that people choose to live in these areas. No disrespect obviously but in all the places in America, why choose a place such as Tornado Alley to live. Unlike cities that are on faults that have a higher chance of earthquakes, tornados are a certainty. It is just the quanity and magnitude that is unknown. Scary business.
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I think reality is the opposite actually.
You can't get away from earthquakes. They are rare but when the big one hits, as we've just seen on a grand scale, they are beyond devestating.
Tornados are random. You could live in the middle of tornado alley your entire life and never see one, or you could get hit two or three times in a lifetime. It is rare for someone to die in a tornado relative to how many occur. They are more and more predictable every day and the number of deaths has decreased dramatically thanks to technology. Earthquakes? not so much.
I would much rather spend my life in tornado alley than in downtown San Francisco. That said, I would prefer to live somewhere else altogether!