a suburb or Buffalo, NY." to which they replied "oh, you guys get a lot of snow". I then tried, rather unsuccessfully, to point out we got snow but not as much as everyone believes but I did point out "we never got to deal with the severe weather and hurricanes Virginia Beach gets."
Yes we do get snow and on occasion we get some nasty storms. I'll address snow in a post in the winter but the focus of this post in reference to a recent article on the The Atlantic Cities. While it is true we can get our occasional nasty snow storm we rarely get anything else.
The recent article I referenced discussed cities that were refuges from the major natural disasters such as hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, wildfires. Below are maps created by Trulia, an online real estate company using Federal disaster data. They show how living in areas that deal with less natural disasters keep home prices down. Buffalo N.Y. came in 4th.
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| Every map came from the article |
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| Every map came from the article. |
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| credit to engineers at Trulia |
We are so far inland that hurricanes rarely affect us beyond some rain and thunderstorms. We completely avoided the onslaught of Hurricane Sandy. We have seen very slight seismic activity but it's been from distant and low magnitude earthquakes such as though felt in Canada over the last few summers. We do see a tornado on a rare occasion but most are weak and do little to no damage. They're found mostly in farmland to the east. Wildfires are of no concern because we never experience the droughts of the western states. Yes we occasionally get some flooding but nowhere near what you see in the Midwest along the Mississippi and connecting rivers.
So we get a little snow I'll take it over the weather the coastal cities have been receiving the last few years.
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