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If you lived where a natural disaster is deemed to occur soon, would that factor into your day-to-day existance?

Asked by msh (4270points) September 22nd, 2015 from iPhone

Fault lines, volcanic activity, massive flooding water levels, etc.
What if you are living near or on one of the places where catastrophic conditions are not a maybe, but a when. Would it have a place in your decisions or daily thought at all?
Yes, before it starts: I realize that you can die in a bathtub. I know, getting hit by a car… Or best yet- that fateful meteorite with your name on it could hit and kill one also….

That’s not what I’m asking.

I mean the natural disasters that loom constantly:
fault-lines along both US coasts, living near (Mt Etna) or on (Hawaii) active volcanos, coastal cities underwater- with oceanic activity and sudden land shifts.
Moments that quickly change everything forever.
Does it / would it change or shape your daily thoughts or future planning? Oklahoma and the Texas-panhandle can build tornado shelters, but what if the threat guaranteed to happen soon, still looms great?
A funhouse on the fault-line?
Do you worry?
Do you pack supplies?
Pray that it’s quick?
Not buy insurance? ( bitchin’ rates, I would guess! )
Tell those you love a little bit more vehemently?
Or go on the thought that we’re all gonna go sometime?
What if, in real life, you survive part one of whatever has happened, as part two is on the horizon? Who you gonna call?
Or is it all: “It’s a lovely day in the neighborhood….” NBD?
Would you, or do you, think about it every day? Would you move away because of it?

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