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[deleted] t1_j9dmfum wrote

Reply to comment by choicebutts in What is your favorite thing about Virginia? by reignthepain

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airquotesNotAtWork t1_j9dn06p wrote

All of these are usually worse in other parts of the country, natural disasters here are mid in both frequency and intensity

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Dead_Hours t1_j9dqstl wrote

As someone that experienced Isabel and Katrina I agree.

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threecolorless t1_j9f6dhw wrote

Agreed, it's nice for a worst case hurricane scenario to be "oh no, we lost power for a week and can't drive some roads due to trees/flooding" rather than "oh no, our entire community has been destroyed and several of our friends drowned"

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choicebutts t1_j9dnbl5 wrote

I've lived in Virginia most of my life and the weather here is nothing compared to Indiana's. A severe thunderstorm and tornado warning here is just a regular afternoon storm there. The thunderstorms in Indiana scared the living shit out of me. Winters there are absolutely brutal and seem to go on forever. Virginia is positively placid compared to the midwest.

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JustKatB t1_j9hm65y wrote

I've lived in lower Michigan and agree, storms here* are so mild.

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DeviantAnthro t1_j9f75zg wrote

The 30 years of weather I've experienced here can't compare to even that one night i got stuck in a storm in Kansas.

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