1 You forgot mine collapses, mine fires, the occasional landslide and, of course, the sink holes.

Not to mention the damn coyotes that are yowling across the road every night for me.

2 I wonder what it would be like in a car. At 65 miles an hour would you notice?

3 Of course you would.  Don't you watch movies?

4 Heh, we don't get the giant sinkholes here, that's a Scranton/Wilkes Barre thing.  We don't have mines around here either.  Flooding and snow are the only real issues we face. 

As for the coyotes, you need to send them my grandfather's way, he's a varmint killing machine.

5 Lemme tell you, you know what'd be scary?  Having one of those big Scranton/Wilkes-Barre sinkholes open up right under or in front of you.  

6 Alex, what are your coyotes like? I ask because the ones I grew up with in Oklahoma sounded like a cross between dogs and wolves. Their sound was almost musical, and not scary. But when I moved out here, I lived in the rural Santa Monicas (as rural as it gets this close to L.A. and the valley) and the coyotes sound much more hyena-like. It's very disturbing after dark. I moved back out here last year (after living in Santa Monica proper for two years) and I've had some follow me when I'm running at night, yapping in the bushes and calling to the others which are roving around in the dark. It still bugs me that they sound so different from the coyotes back home. Bastards out here are creepy. 

7 The coyotes run right up and down my street here in suburban L.A. county at night.  I'll often see two or three of them run right past me while I'm outside having a smoke.  And, yeah, the howling up in the hills at night can be disconcerting at times.

8 The damn coyotes are the dog/wolf type which wouldn't be so bad if they didn't start the yowling at 3 in the morning and scare the hell out of me.  A few nights ago they got something pretty big and I got to hear the circle of life going on right outside my front door.  Thank heavens most of the carcass was gone by the time I got up. 

I have a good friend in LA who lives in the hills and has a hell of time with them.  She says the same thing, that it's a completely different call from the ones out East.  I don't think I could handle having them following me, I know my place on the food chain and it's not the top. 

Lemme tell you, you know what'd be scary?  Having one of those big Scranton/Wilkes-Barre sinkholes open up right under or in front of you. 

Oh hell yes.  I'm only sort of joking about our offices collapsing into one.  We're fairly certain there's an old mine shaft running under the building.  

9 Every few years there's a 3 or 4-magnitude quake with a Lancaster area epicenter.  Some people freak out but most don't even feel them.

My area mostly just gets flash floods.

10 I've heard about the small earthquakes, most people don't even feel them.  We don't get flash floods, and our floods aren't as bad as they used to be because of the dikes, but if there's enough rain or rain+snow melt, we get flooding, and the sewers back up.  

11 Most of the disasters here are man-made.  I mean, we do get blizzards, and the occasional disastrous flood, but for the most part they're man-made.  Like the earthquake that hit because the Democrats took office, or the 12,000 foot well that was drilled to pump waste into that caused a bunch of earthquakes, or the sinkhole that opened in the middle of I-25 thanks to a pipe that leaked from repeatedly being exposed to inconsistent pressure.

I can deal with blizzards so much better than tornadoes or earthquakes.  They're usually pretty good about predicting blizzards, and as long as we've got food stashed, we're good, even if we're trapped in the house by the snow for a few days.  Plus we're in snowshoe distance of a large grocery store.