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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
to be fair, floods in paris are rare occurences.
both, possibly.
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Well, so are earthquakes where people are actually killed, unless you happen to live in Turkey or China or Afganistan, where they seem to happen every other year or so.
Even places like Missouri can have killer earthquakes. Not often, but then it only takes one to make a dent in your life. And, the New Madrid fault is still active.
The thing is .... there isn't a place on the planet that is so safe that you can be guaranteed that nothing is going to happen to knock the whole place down. With some places, it's maybe once every 100 years or so ... but we call that "rare" and we choose to ignore it the best we can.