You can run from a hurricane!! You don't get any warning for an earthquake!!

 

Very true but we get a major earthquake like every 10-20 years or so whereas you get how many hurricanes a year there?

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Very true but we get a major earthquake like every 10-20 years or so whereas you get how many hurricanes a year there?

Mostly the threat of them...Jax seems to miss out on them. Knock on wood!! The Carolina's and the gulf coast get it way worse!

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What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is agoin' on here???

Mostly the threat of them...Jax seems to miss out on them. Knock on wood!! The Carolina's and the gulf coast get it way worse!

 

I see, kinda the same for Fresno and earthquakes too. SF and LA take the brunt of them. We can feel the shaking here but actual damage is really really rare.

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I see, kinda the same for Fresno and earthquakes too. SF and LA take the brunt of them. We can feel the shaking here but actual damage is really really rare.

Pretty much! I'm gonna say knock on wood again...just in case!!!

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What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is agoin' on here???

Mostly the threat of them...Jax seems to miss out on them. Knock on wood!! The Carolina's and the gulf coast get it way worse!

 

Thanks to a geographical anomaly that makes the Jacksonville area the western most point of the east coast really helps to assure any hurricanes working their way up the coastline tend to roll by us.  We are more in danger from a hurricane hitting the gulf coast in the big bend area and coming across the state. 

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Thanks to a geographical anomaly that makes the Jacksonville area the western most point of the east coast really helps to assure any hurricanes working their way up the coastline tend to roll by us.  We are more in danger from a hurricane hitting the gulf coast in the big bend area and coming across the state. 

 

I call it the armpit of the east.

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I call it the armpit of the east.

 

If the United States was a person, Florida would make it a man. That's an unusual spot for an armpit.

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I don't know what we call them I've never experienced one. I'd call it a hurricane myself. I think we use "tropical storm" and "hurricane" or at least that's what our news guys refer to your eastern storms as.

 

I'm sure we get them out in the ocean but I think they usually hit South America - we certainly don't get them in the same way you guys do.

 

LOL.....naw....they don't hit South America....(well definitely not on the Pacific side anyway)....and theres only been a few reported cases of a tropical cyclone hitting South America from the Atlantic side, too. 

 

One of the reasons California rarely if ever gets them is because the ocean temperatures near California are colder and simply do no support a tropical cyclone. The ocean needs to be 80 degrees or above usually for the storm to strengthen or at least maintain its strength. Colder waters than that weaken the storm. 

 

Quick wiki search - it looks like they rough up the bottom of the continent. And none have made it to Ca since I've been kickin.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_hur...0-2005.jpg

 

From the same page:

 

 there is only one recorded case of a Pacific system reaching California as a hurricane in almost 200 years of observations—the 1858 San Diego Hurricane.^[11]

 

Given how long ago that was, I'd be surprised if that 1858 storm wasn't even a hurricane at landfall. Probably a decaying tropial storm. 

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