The Best and the Worst...

According to a recent article in The New York Times, our family now resides in one of the "most unsafe" areas for natural disasters. Sperling's Best Places ranked the DFW area as having the highest risk of disasters in the United States. (I am visualizing throngs of people chanting, "We're number one! We're number one!")

Just this past weekend, we saw a few inches of rainfall, impressive lightning strikes, hail, and wind. And that was just within a few minutes. Okay... hours.

 

North Texas is vulnerable to frequent tornadoes, hail, gusty winds, flood, grass fires and even hurricane remnants, sooooo why did Sperling's Best Places also recently rank this area (in another survey) as the 4th best place to relocate to?  Oh, it must be that relatively low earthquake risk that helps make up for the other bad stuff.

I am confused.

The 10 Best Cities to Relocate to

1. Pittsburgh, PA
2. Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY
3. Omaha, NE/Council Bluffs, IA
4. Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
5. Austin-Round Rock, TX
6. Des Monies-West Des Moines, IA
7. Madison, WI
8. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN
9. Denver-Aurora, CO
10. Indianapolis-Carmel, IN

http://www.cnbc.com/id/39850148/Best_Cities_to_Relocate_to_in_America?slide=8


What I am seeing from merging these two surveys together is that North Texas is a perfect place to relocate to if you are a storm chaser. Or an insurance adjuster. Or a weatherman.
Hmmm...