Potential disaster map of the US

[nancylebov]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/trollprincess/817403.html

Because everyone on my friends list hasn't linked to it yet.

However, I don't think Philadelphia is in the deadly blizzard zone--or at least, in the ten years I've been here, there's been a couple of blizzards that left 2 1/2 feet of snow. I believe real blizzards are more energetic.

And we're in the "nuked second" category, I think.

Link found at Making Light.

Comments

[sturgeonslawyer.livejournal.com]

Just thought you should know ... your computer apparently thinks it's 2006. At least, the last couple of posts you've posted have been dated 2006.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Thanks. My computer has been giving me weird date warnings and I hadn't been checking the year. Let's see if I stop getting the warnings.

Ghu knows how the year had been thrown out of sync.

And I just corrected the link--I'd accidentally linked to a subthread instead of the main page.

[redbird]

Technically, what makes it a blizzard isn't amount of snow, but the wind that comes with it. Wind plus cold plus even a couple of feet of snow can be deadly.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Ok, then I think we just get snow storms or whatever you call getting snow with moderate or less wind. My google fu doesn't seem to be up to finding records for just how windy it gets here, but I think the general level is "not very".

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

Blizzards in urban areas are pretty much never widespread death zones. They kill a few randoms per storm, who couldn't get out of it in time or whose heat broke down or something, and they kill an unfortunate number of homeless people who don't *have* anywhere to get out of it (although many cities, Chicago being one of the best of them, have some pretty good emergency arrangements for the homeless in winter, if they're together enough to take the help, which is always its own issue), but they don't do the wiping out large chunks of the city bit that hurricanes or earthquakes do. For that matter, tornadoes don't actually damage very much at a time, because they are small and they only harm what they touch down on. They're just *very* nasty if they happen to hit you directly.

[madfilkentist]

In New England, we consider blizzards nuisances. An occasional hurricane can do serious damage here (as in 1938), and we're more of a terrorist target than less populated areas are, but overall I think this is one of the less disaster-prone parts of the US.