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["Lisa K. V. Perry" <lkvp AT floydva.net>]

Gene GeRue wrote:

> > Here's a piece from Slate and NPR on where to go to be safe:
> > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4856048. Of course, a 
> > meteor could hit you directly if your luck was of the bad kind.
> >    
>
> Trent Lott's house, destined for cartoon infamy, will be rebuilt with 
> taxpayer money. 
That makes me ill, but what else is new.

I also saw the article and sent it to my sister who graduated from 
UConn, located in Storrs, CT.  Storrs used to be a sleepy  little 
college town, but is too close to sprawling Hartford for my taste.  We 
chose Floyd County in sw VA because it is also a safe--and 
healthy--place to live.  All of our water flows out of the county 
(doesn't come from somewhere else), we're far removed from nuclear power 
plants for nuclear drift, tornadoes are a rare occurrence, etc.  We're 
far from major population centers even though we're located in an East 
Coast state.  The one drawback is if a hurricane hits FL or SC and heads 
north or northwest, we get much rain as evident one year ago when 
Florida was repeatedly hit by hurricanes and our neck of the woods took 
in 8"-12" of rain.  You can't have everything. 

Lisa