We know that Carl has been in a major hurricane and a strong earthquake.
Lacey has been in a strong earthquake.
I flew into hurricane Gloria as a tv meteorologist(for ratings) in September 1985.
Here's your last chance to tell us if you've been in one of those natural disasters or another kind..........including tornado or thunderstorm strong enough to do serious damage or major flood.
I think that cliff has a major flood on his land every year Spring (-:
The United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security recently gave us its natural disaster risk for 170+ countries around the world and ranked them.
"risk of becoming a victim of a disaster as a result of vulnerability and natural hazards such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, storms, floods, droughts and sea level rise"
I'll have those later. Please guess some countries high and low on the risk and where the US is.
OOOOOoooooo Oooooo. OOOoooooo....
Mr Kotter...Mr. Kotter.... Pick Me...Pick Me...
Phillipines !!!
.... I've been waiting very patiently for this question...!!!....
with Indonesia a very close second
Question … could the person running the country qualify as a natural disaster ?
Here are the riskiest 30 or so countries and the Philippines is definitely one of them, so ding, ding, ding. SS gets a gold star for his guess and for his funny response.
The lower down on this list(higher the %) the higher the threat from natural disasters. There are only 2 countries with a higher risk than the Philippines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural_disaster_risk
| 141 |  Cape Verde | 10.39% | 10.80% | 10.88% | 9.47% |
| 142 |  Honduras | 10.68% | 10.91% | 11.02% | 12.10% |
| 143 |  Chad | 10.85% | 11.06% | 11.13% | 12.25% |
| 144 |  Cameroon | 10.91% | 11.09% | 10.96% | 14.46% |
| 145 |  Dominican Republic | 10.96% | 11.28% | 11.63% | 12.00% |
| 146 |  Madagascar | 11.15% | 11.23% | 11.50% | 10.27% |
| 147 |  Niger | 11.24% | 11.62% | 11.93% | 14.03% |
| 148 |  Guyana | 11.39% | 11.65% | 11.77% | 9.02% |
| 149 |  Benin | 11.39% | 11.32% | 11.42% | 10.90% |
| 150 |  Chile | 11.65% | 12.28% | 12.26% | 11.97% |
| 151 |  Haiti | 11.68% | 11.88% | 11.96% | 11.45% |
| 152 |  Jamaica | 11.83% | 12.15% | 12.15% | 12.89% |
| 153 |  Gambia | 12.07% | 11.71% | 11.84% | 13.90% |
| 154 |  Vietnam | 12.53% | 12.81% | 12.88% | 11.21% |
| 155 |  Japan | 12.99% | 13.56% | 13.69% | 13.57% |
| 156 |  Fiji | 13.15% | 14.10% | 13.53% | 11.13% |
| 157 |  Guinea-Bissau | 13.56% | 13.09% | 13.34% | 13.12% |
| 158 |  Nicaragua | 14.62% | 15.18% | 15.39% | 11.91% |
| 159 |  Mauritius | 15.53% | 14.89% | 15.36% | 15.74% |
| 160 |  Timor-Leste | 15.69% | 16.37% | 17.13% | 17.45% |
| 161 |  El Salvador | 16.05% | 16.85% | 16.89% | 16.49% |
| 162 |  Papua New Guinea | 16.43% | 15.90% | 15.81% | 15.45% |
| 163 |  Cambodia | 16.58% | 16.90% | 17.17% | 16.58% |
| 164 |  Costa Rica | 17.00% | 16.94% | 17.38% | 16.74% |
| 165 |  Brunei | 17.00% | 15.58% | 15.92% | 14.08% |
| 166 |  Solomon Islands | 19.14% | 18.11% | 18.15% | 23.51% |
| 167 |  Bangladesh | 19.17% | 19.81% | 20.22% | 17.45% |
| 168 |  Guatemala | 19.88% | 20.88% | 20.75% | 20.88% |
| 169 |  Philippines | 26.70% | 27.52% | 27.98% | 24.32% |
| 170 |  Tonga | 29.33% | 28.23% | 28.62% | 29.08% |
| 171 |  Vanuatu | 36.28% | 36.43% | 36.31% | 32.00% |
At the other end, we have the 30 safest(from natural disasters) countries. The higher up on this list, the lower the risk from natural disasters.
| 1 |  Qatar | 0.08% | 0.11% | 0.10% | 0.02% |
| 2 |  Malta | 0.60% | 0.61% | 0.61% | 0.72% |
| 3 |  Saudi Arabia | 1.14% | 1.32% | 1.31% | 1.26% |
| 4 |  Barbados | 1.32% | 1.16% | 1.15% | 2.44% |
| 5 |  Grenada | 1.42% | 1.44% | 1.46% | 2.29% |
| 6 |  Iceland | 1.52% | 1.55% | 1.53% | 1.56% |
| 7 |  Bahrain | 1.69% | 1.81% | 1.81% | 1.66% |
| 8 |  Kiribati | 1.78% | 1.78% | 1.78% | 1.88% |
| 9 |  United Arab Emirates | 1.97% | 2.10% | 2.07% | 4.09% |
| 10 |  Sweden | 2.12% | 2.26% | 2.15% | 2.00% |
| 11 |  Norway | 2.19% | 2.35% | 2.31% | 2.28% |
| 12 |  Finland | 2.21% | 2.28% | 2.24% | 2.06% |
| 13 |  Singapore | 2.27% | 2.49% | 2.54% | 2.85% |
| 14 |  Egypt | 2.29% | 2.34% | 2.33% | 2.38% |
| 15 |  Israel/ Palestine | 2.30% | 2.49% | 2.43% | 2.60% |
| 16 |  Estonia | 2.36% | 2.52% | 2.50% | 2.25% |
| 17 |  Switzerland | 2.37% | 2.61% | 2.59% | 2.55% |
| 18 |  Luxembourg | 2.43% | 2.68% | 2.65% | 2.70% |
| 19 |  Seychelles | 2.55% | 2.58% | 2.60% | 2.68% |
| 20 |  France | 2.62% | 2.79% | 2.78% | 2.76% |
| 21 |  Oman | 2.64% | 2.74% | 2.72% | 2.80% |
| 22 |  Cyprus | 2.68% | 2.77% | 2.81% | 3.46% |
| 23 |  Denmark | 2.89% | 3.10% | 3.09% | 2.86% |
| 24 |  Lithuania | 2.92% | 3.18% | 3.23% | 2.89% |
| 25 |  Germany | 2.95% | 3.24% | 3.27% | 2.96% |
| 26 |  Ukraine | 2.97% | 3.14% | 3.19% | 3.02% |
| 27 |  Canada | 3.01% | 3.18% | 3.18% | 2.57% |
| 28 |  Spain | 3.05% | 3.38% | 3.40% | 3.29% |
| 29 |  Belgium | 3.07% | 3.42% | 3.48% | 3.51% |
| 30 |  Mongolia | 3.08% | 3.10% | 3.24% | 3.43% |
Where is the US???
Right after Russia, at #45. Both are relatively safe places to live when it comes to the threat of natural disasters.
| 44 |  Russia | 3.58% | 3.78% | 3.83% | 3.56% |
| 45 |  United States | 3.76% | 3.99% | 3.99% | 3.72% |
Good thing that this report came out before Trump was president.......or it might be used as evidence for collusion (-: