True, Hal. But car accidents take more lives than any of the things
mentioned
short of nuclear war. Hey!! Let's outlaw cars!! ;-)
Blizzards, like everything else mentioned, are a calculated risk. Kansas
looses
on average one life a year to blizzards. (Direct result - not snow
shoveling heart attacks).
The current population of the state is about 2,818,000. So your odds are
about 300,000 to one of dying in a blizzard.
Cheers!!
Jim
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Hal Faulkner <frog.aye at gmail.com> wrote:
> And let's not forget about blizzards. Blizzards kill people! Blizzards
> KILL people.
> I don't have any numbers but BLIZZARDS KILL PEOPLE!
> Hal
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Robert Evans <b-evans at earthlink.net>wrote:
>
>> Jim Johnson wrote: "You will be in a California earthquake at least once
>> a
>> year even if you move around."
>>
>> Now, Jim, we have been having this argument for several years, now. Yes,
>> I
>> know that as a Weather Fabricator you are biased. But let's get some
>> facts
>> on the table. These come from the U.S. Geological Survey and your old
>> outfit, NOAA.
>>
>> 1 If you live in California, you will be in thousands of quakes a year.
>> But, they are so insignificant you do not even feel them.
>> 2. The estimates that there are millions of earthquakes throughout
>> America
>> each year. Again, you folks in Virginia, Florida and the rest of the
>> country simply do not feel them.
>> 3. There have been far more fatalities from tornados than from
>> earthquakes
>> since they began keeping records.
>> 4. Alaska skews the earthquake records for all of the U.S., having the
>> top
>> 10 earthquakes in magnitude, and 13 of the top 20 (Hawaii, Missouri and
>> California accounting for the rest.
>> 5. Only 2 people have died in earthquakes since 2000, according to the
>> USGS, while the National Weather Service claims there have been 3. In the
>> same period of time, there have been 1,150 deaths in tornados.
>> 6. Since 1955 (a cut-off year used, for whatever reason, by the NWS in
>> separating data), 4,721 people have met death in tornados, but only 379 in
>> earthquakes.
>>
>> If you are interested in annual comparisons:
>>
>> Year T E
>> 1955 129 1
>> 1956 83
>> 1957 193 1
>> 1958 67
>> 1959 58 28
>> 1960 46
>> 1961 52
>> 1962 30
>> 1963 31
>> 1964 73 128
>> 1965 301 7
>> 1966 98
>> 1967 114
>> 1968 131
>> 1969 66 1
>> 1970 73
>> 1971 159 65
>> 1972 27
>> 1973 89
>> 1974 366
>> 1975 60 2
>> 1976 44
>> 1977 43
>> 1978 53
>> 1979 84
>> 1980 28
>> 1981 24
>> 1982 64
>> 1983 34 2
>> 1984 122
>> 1985 94
>> 1986 15
>> 1987 59 9
>> 1988 32
>> 1989 50 64
>> 1990 53
>> 1991 39 2
>> 1992 39 3
>> 1993 33 2
>> 1994 69 60
>> 1995 30 1
>> 1996 25
>> 1997 67
>> 1998 130
>> 1999 94
>> 2000 40
>> 2001 40
>> 2002 55
>> 2003 54 3
>> 2004 35
>> 2005 38
>> 2006 67
>> 2007 81
>> 2008 125
>> 2009 21
>> 2010 45
>> 2011 549
>>
>> So go West young man, to California where you will be safe!
>>
>> Buster Evans
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