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And I live in an area where strong earthquakes are pretty much non-existent. (Some years ago there was a ~3.0 quake out in the Gulf - I didn't feel it up here near the Georgia line.)

I've only had one tornado come close - I heard a LOUD rumbling down in my bottom thirty acres, where the swamp is. By the time I got the weather warning it was about ten miles away. Tracing the path it took backwards, the rumbling must have been that tornado forming.

I've lived through a number of hurricanes and tropical storms - those a expected here in Florida. Even when I lived in a mobile home, they didn't worry me too much.

The closest I have ever coming to dying from a weather event was walking across the ridge from my barn to my house. Out in the open field in the middle, suddenly my hair - very long, almost to my waist) started standing on end. I RAN as fast as I could back to the house. Just as I closed the door, lightning struck a tree at the top of hill near where I'd been walking. That kind of thing happened again - I was standing on my deck, felt the electric prickle, went inside and closed the door. Again, lightning struck just as I was safe inside, striking a pine tree about 100 feet below the house.