Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 09, 2022

I’m with the car

Reminds me of a bumper sticker I once saw: “Welcome to Arizona. Now go home!”

Those regions usually come with a lot of critters, too.

Where is the sign painter’s ladder?

My brother lives downwind from Lake Erie and typically gets several feet of snow every year staring at the end of October. But a few years ago an F2 tornado tore down his barn in the middle of November. I keep telling him there’s better places, but he and the wife still think it’s Paradise.

The sign is to keep people away, he’s a genius!

There are actually a bunch of areas like that. The sign painter probably isn’t lying at all. Then there’s the baseball-sized hail….

Hipster deterrent

Would you want to live anywhere else?

Add “Yearly Hundred-Year Floods.”

It could say “Next Starbucks 300 Miles”. That would do it.

I guess my wife & I are gentrifiers. When we moved to an island in a river south of Ottawa in 1972, it was mostly farms and tiny cottages, most without running water, where the city folk would weekend. Our bank tried to scare us off by refusing a mortgage, as we would need a well and septic system. Last year a fixer-upper sold for 2.1 million.

The crappy Florida weather doesn’t stop people from moving here

There is no safe place on the planet, but I think I live in one of the safest, central North Carolina. We don’t get many earthquakes, severe droughts, or wildfires. We do have the occasional snow storm or ice storm.

Thunderstorms and tornadoes do happen, but not anywhere near the frequency of the Midwest. Add to that, I am “down in the holler” which means I am somewhat sheltered from high winds and lightning. Most storm fronts come in from the west and get a scrubbing by the Appalachian Mountains.

Even though I am in a low-lying area, it has excellent drainage and if we ever get flooded, this entire part of the state would have to be under water.

North Carolina is noted for its hurricanes, especially Cape Hatteras which is a sandbar 60 miles out at sea. The shortest distance to the coast is 130 miles. A hurricane would have to travel due west to make a beeline to us. That is very unusual at this latitude. So hurricanes have to travel long distances over land to get to us by which time they lose most of their “umph.”

i’d like to see a tornado in a blizzard …on the weather channel

I live in a beautiful state (most are BTW) in an area that attracts vacationers from a neighboring state. They tend to be obnoxious and think that they are so much better than everyone who is a local. We really like it when they go home. Unfortunately, some retire here.

I picked up a really nice house to live in a long time ago. In a “rural” area. There was a lady there just as I was looking at the place and she told the realtor that she couldn’t take the house because there were horses on the other side of the fence, and she was afraid they would hurt her kids.

exit. stage left

Actually, the steepness of those roofs does suggest anticipation of heavy snowfall. On the other hand, tornado alley doesn’t have seriously heavy snowfalls.

Often enough those who want to gentrify are the ones unlikely to tolerate the little bit of extra noise you get from good snow tires. After the first bad winter you can find them in their car where they went off and got stuck. Problem solved

Not working in Florida

My neighbor cut down several trees this year to add more sun to their anti-critter compound (aka garden) and when the last hurricane blew through they lost a bunch of giant old growth trees from the strong winds that were no longer being blocked by trees that were cut down. Getting another Hurricane this week, let’s see what’s next.

That didn’t work here.

“Last Chance For Gas” until the next “Last Chance For Gas” sign

Vehicles must be ^ high to get past flooded roads and mudslides.

DILBERT recently invented “a small drone that follows you around and reminds you not to be a jerk”.

Citizens of Florida,Texas,and Arizona get first dibs

“Caution Bubba Region” should be enough.

Looked up anti-gentrification. I didn’t realize it was such a big problem.

I saw that sign at the PA border going North on I70!

I sometimes think there should be a signs at California borders saying “beware, there be earthquakes here”. We had one a little over a week ago – it was “interesting…”

When Californians move in…

Is this Oklahoma or Colorado?

Next: WARNING ! [running tally here]land developers have been eaten by bears.

Sounds like something likely to happen about anywhere in the Midwest eventually. Then again, wouldn’t rule out that happening in parts of Texas either, where they would be the least prepared for such an event.

In Hawai`i, you are either Hawaiian or a “haole,” in which case you are invited to go home, even if you were born here and Hawai`i is your home.

I’ve always wanted to see a snownado.

Sounds like a better tactic than anti-gentrification laws.

As a CA gal, I spent time at both ends of “Tornado Alley”, TX and ND, hightailed it back to the west coast “Ring of Fire”.

WIsh that could happen here. SO many new residents (yankees) abd new houses. Gettin’ crowded ’round here in coastal GA.

If the weather doesn’t leave you miserable then the Republicans will.

Good for Bubba since gentrification is how the rich steal our neighborhoods.

Don’t forget spontaneous volcanic eruptions.

That’s not gentrification, that’s development. Not to say I don’t sympathize with Bubba.

Genius!

Roughly 17 million people live in what is widely considered Tornado Alley, an area of approximately 500,000 square miles which spans portions of eight states across the high plains of the United States. Makes one wonder, just a little.

And, down near the River, he put up signs warning that it was a Flood Zone.

Chased those fools wanting to build Summer Mansions and a Marina for their giant Yachts right back to the City.

We need something like that in Oregon – especially on our southern border.