baddessi:  So glad to hear you are ok.  Those storms are nasty. 

Artful Dodger: thanks..it's nice to be up and running again!

baddessi:  We have earthquakes and floods here.  Sometimes rock slides in the mountain and avalanches too.  But where I live on earthquakes affect us.  We're up too high for floods, too far from the mountains too.  I've felt a couple of earthquakes since moving out here.

Artful Dodger: so many people ask how I can live here with a threat of hurricanes. We haven't had one like this since 1983...so it doesn't happen often..I used to live up north and in Colorado...every year people die in blizzards or from exposure from the cold. My sister lives in California for a while. She had earthquakes...my younger sister lives in Illinois on a fault line and they had an earthquake this year and tornado threats every year...a dear friend lives in Oklahoma..they, along with many states around them have a serious threat of tornadoes every year...when I lived in Colorado, there were rock slides and avalanches that claimed lives each year....and floods can be much more devastating than people realize...most of our country can be at risk for that at one time or another.
it doesn't matter where you live..there are always risks....I feel very blessed and lucky to have come thru this so easily. It could always be worse...