We usually only get a bit of snow (some ice, too) and the odd tornado. Not much else.

Yeah, but I'm a native Californian, and tornados scare me much more than earthquakes. I've also lived through some really nasty snowstorms and even a firestorm when I lived in Spokane. I'll take my earthquakes.

A winter that involves driving on ice or packed snow more than, say, three times better have one hell of a wonderful city to make up for it.

Yeah, but I'm a native Californian, and tornados scare me much more than earthquakes.

We all seem to prefer our own natural disasters over all others -- I have a decade-long disagreement with some Cali friends about whether or not earthquakes are worse than hurricanes. Dude, at least we have time to buy ice and/or get out of the way.

Hurricanes are much less scary to me.

ETA: Holy crap! I just clicked on ita's link. Freaky. (And yet, not freaked by the pictures of boats in trees that show up when a hurricane passes through here. Huh.)

Hurricanes and blizzards are not that scary to me. I've never experienced an earthquake, but they seem creepy, and tornados look really scary.

Actually, I prefer packed snow to black ice and slush. But...only if ther are no other drivers. I'm safe on packed snow. The rest of the world is what scares me. (I learned all my snow driving techniques on pole-position sytle curvy mountain roads with unguardrailed dropoffs.)

But other than that really minor and unlikely-realized distinction, I agree with you, ita. And it needs to have heated seats in every venue and covered or underground walkways, and OH! 10 hours sun daily.

So I'm not moving any further north.

Earthquakes are quick, and hard to predict. So I like them, because no anticipation. As a Jamaican, hurricanes suck, because there's nowhere to go, except uphill.

Tornadoes are a mix of anticipatable and sudden. Don't make me feel good. I prefer to not be warned, if prevention is impossible.

(I learned all my snow driving techniques on pole-position sytle curvy mountain roads with unguardrailed dropoffs.)

You want to see blind terror? Stick me on any road with a steep dropoff and no guardrails.

I'll be on the floor, thankyouverymuchandpleasepasstheValium

I guess when it comes down to it, it's which city you love. I'd rather be in danger (the Big One *is* coming) than bored.

I like anticipation. I can be in the same room with an unopened birthday present for WEEKS.

I like planning ahead. Even if I can't do shit. I can pretend.

Tornados get my lizard brain in a tizzy, though. I'm blaming it on my parents being midwesterners. Despite being next to a freight line for a while, sometimes the sound catches me wrong and the adrenaline hits. And I've only been in the vicinity of actual tornados twice thrice- forgot the local baby tornados, and only once close enough to hear the eerie call.