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Originally Posted by Frazod
This is the thing. In the Midwest, sure, we're going to have the occasional tornado. Even up here in northern Illinois, we get them. But they are rare, and while the damage can be horrible, even the worst of them are isolated to relatively small area. That offers cold comfort if it's your shit that gets blown away, but it's not like these monstrous hurricanes that can lay waste to everything for hundreds of miles.
I truly will never understand why people deliberately move to places like Florida. When my previously mentioned friends first told me they were relocating there, I told them then that I thought they were both nuts. You've got the oppressive heat and humidity and dinosaurs crawling through your yard, and that's on a good day. On a bad day, you get this. And they happen regularly. You live there long enough, you're going to get hit by one, there isn't a goddamn thing you can do about it, and you can only hope that it will be a glancing blow and not some shit like Andrew or Katrina. No thanks.
Yeah, the weather sucks up here; summers can be awful, winters can be brutal, but we're mostly safe, except from each other.
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My wife and I have thought of moving to Florida. Yeah, you have the occasional hurricane that you have to deal with but it's a tropical paradise, and I absolutely hate Kansas winters. I can handle the heat and humidity. Hell, we have that in Kansas, sometimes (many times) the temp is higher here in July/August than in Florida. And yeah, Florida humidity and sun is worse but it's not like it is that much better here.
That being said, I will admit that hurricanes like this one make me think that maybe I'm better not ever moving to Florida.
One of my best buds from Kansas moved there 25 years ago. They live in Lakeland and usually don't have much to deal with. But there have been 2 or 3 over those years that were pretty bad. I'm definitely praying for them.