After seeing the folks in California dealing with a 5.4 magnitude earthquake earlier this week, it got me to thinking about places to live where disasters don’t occur. I’m not sure if there is really any place like that on Earth, but you can certainly pick your poision when you do decide to live somewhere. I live about 40 miles north of Atlanta, Georgia in the North Georgia Mountains and we don’t have earthquakes here. Good thing we don’t have them here, because people would not be as keen on these things like the California residents are. I guess the same would be true if a tornado came through California, those folks would not be  prepared to take cover like the folks in North Georgia have to do about a half dozen times a year. So where can we live to avoid earthquakes and tornados?

Well if you start running from those 2 natural disasters, you just find your self having to worry about other things. New York seems like a place that you wouldn’t have to deal with tornados or earthquakes, but they are other things in the Big Apple that you might have to watch out for. In New York you would have to deal with freezing cold temps in the winter and the possibility of being trapped at home in a blizzard.  People in New York City and around the coast line that has a very dense population of people and businesses are at risk for a hurricane that might come off the Atlantic Ocean. You also would have to face the un-natural things like another terroism attack on New York, so heading toward the Northeast doesn’t make a lot of sense either.

Is there any where to live that is safe from disasters? Perhaps if we just move to Canada, we would only have to worry about the cold temperatures, high winds and blizard-like conditions they have to deal each year. Idaho and Montana also seem like places you wouldn’t have to worry about tornados, earthquakes or hurricanes. So if the people on the East Coast wonder why anyone would want to live out in California with all of the earthquakes they have; chances are they are wondering why we choose to live in places that gets tornados. So there really isn’t any place that it totally safe from disasters and you always have floods and lightning that can put a damper on anyone’s picnic. When you choose to live somewhere, you just need to be aware of the history of the land, so you can prepare for what Mother Nature might throw at you someday.