Everywhere has natural disasters. Oklahoma has oil, so that's a big reason. Oil

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Oct 10, 2021
5:49:51pm

FieroCoug All-American

Everywhere has natural disasters. Oklahoma has oil, so that's a big reason. Oil

Is the reason my family is in Oklahoma also.

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FieroCoug

Previous username: AlphaCoug
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Joined: Dec 7, 2016
Last login: Jun 14, 2024
Total posts: 13,705 (947 FO)

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Oh boy, big tornadoes coming through in the next couple hours.

FieroCoug

10/10/21 5:40pm

Stay safe!

Blue Ridge

10/10/21 5:44pm

We're chillin. It'll be windy but at my house we'll be fine.

FieroCoug

10/10/21 5:49pm

Curious. Why do people live in the path of tornados and hurricanes?

pink22

10/10/21 5:46pm

Why does anyone live in a desert? A fault line? Where it snows? Hurricanes? CA?

Preppy

10/10/21 5:49pm

So what are the other options?

The Pope

10/10/21 5:59pm

Going outside the US?

Preppy

10/10/21 6:01pm

RE: Curious. Why do people live in the path of tornados and hurricanes?

StantonMac

10/10/21 5:49pm

Everywhere has natural disasters. Oklahoma has oil, so that's a big reason. Oil

FieroCoug

10/10/21 5:49pm

or earthquakes, floods, forest fires, volcanoes and landslides. Earth sucks!

FrontLineFan

10/10/21 5:50pm

Umm…most of those are easily avoidable

pink22

10/10/21 6:01pm

Where would someone live to avoid all natural disasters? Pretty much everywhere

k-ace

10/10/21 6:17pm

Minus an earthquake, those others are mostly avoidable except some flooding.

pink22

10/10/21 7:12pm

So the entire states of FL, LA, TX, OK, KS, IA, MO, IL, NC, SC, AL, MS, AR, NE, and IN?

SingleStrapBackpack

10/10/21 6:10pm

You forgot several northern tornado states.

TN_Coug

10/10/21 6:56pm

Yeah, I was just putting in what I thought the "regulars" were. Upper Midwest can also get them, too.

SingleStrapBackpack

10/10/21 7:02pm

Well yeah. Every time there’s a tornado and it rips apart a town, I wonder

pink22

10/10/21 7:14pm

Because they are completely randomly located events across 15 states. That's why. A town being ripped apart is no

SingleStrapBackpack

10/10/21 7:24pm

Completely random east of the Continental Divide. West of that is virtually

pink22

10/11/21 8:22am

Right. All the states I listed are east of the CD. There's tons of great farmland there – WAY more than in the arid

SingleStrapBackpack

10/11/21 9:19am

Also, for the last 15 years the avg annual deaths from hurricanes and tornadoes combined is 134. By comparison, 38,000

SingleStrapBackpack

10/11/21 9:23am

No place is really even safe, even SLC has had tornados

JayOwen

10/10/21 8:57pm

Salt Lake has had one tornado that did damage in 200 years

pink22

10/11/21 8:19am

There are certainly some things I don't miss about living in Oklahoma

normanCoug

10/10/21 6:35pm

Dont they happen once a week there? Depending!!! on the trailer park?

10/10/21 7:25pm

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