People ask me some time why I live in Arizona when it gets so hot in the winter. My answer: because it's safe. There are no major fault lines in the state which means no earthquakes. Occasionally we get a big windstorm that comes through, but we don't live anywhere near "Tornado Alley." The ocean is 6 hours away: close enough to go for the weekend, but far enough away to never have to deal with hurricanes. It can get up to 120 in the summer, yes, and we have bad fires sometimes because everything gets so dry, but I'll take fires and hot weather over natural disasters any day!!
This weekend I watched the 1.5 seasons of the show Jericho. The show takes place in a small, fictional town in Kansas. In the pilot episode several nuclear bombs are detonated in the United States which then plunges everyone into a whole new world and a new way of living. The people in this small town have to learn how to put their lives back together with no electricity, and no communication with the outside world. They have no idea what's going on or what happened with the bombs. The bombs went off in September. Soon, this small Kansas town is dealing with harsh winter weather and no heat. As I sat shivering on the couch, huddled under the blue blanket Katy knit for me for Christmas, watching these winter episodes, I was suddenly very thankful to live in Arizona. It does get cold here (contrary to popular belief) but at leas tit doesn't snow and stay below freezing for months at a time. In fact, in most movies/shows that depict the "end of the world" scenarios, most of them have people migrating south to Arizona and Mexico during "nuclear winter." Since I'm an inherently lazy person, this is good! I don't think I would survive a migration. Luckily, I don't have to.
This is why I live in Arizona. Eventually everyone's going to be coming here, anyway. I'm just ahead of the game. :)
