Fear of weather differs from state to state?

Question

I recently moved from Florida to Minnesota.

I've seen and been through about a BILLION Thunder Storms, and I don't know how many hurricanes. I've seen tornado's. And apparently, "Thirty-six percent of all U.S. hurricanes hit Florida" (I pulled that off some website). THROUGHOUT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE EXPERIENCES, NEVER DID WE LEAVE OUR HOUSE! We didn't board up windows. We never hid in the bathroom with a matress over our heads. The philosophy is, if a storm with 80mph winds is going to rip your roof off, there's not much you can do about it, and hiding in the bathroom is about the stupidest resolution since hiding under your desks to keep safe from an atomic bomb.

What I'm getting at here is that throughout all of these storms, not once have I heard a reporter or weather person flip out and tell us to hide and prepare for random acts of insane weather that "WILL kill you!" And then we moved here, and these people FREAK THE h**l OUT when the winds are moving at 40mph. Uh, why?

Answer 1

A lot of the fear factor is from the news media

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They come on TV and tell everyone to get into the safe place of your home and hope for the best

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You got to pay attention to what is happening around you

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I lived in Jupiter Fla. and I know that when a hurricane was going to hit land that you would not even of know it cause people were still driving their cars

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Kids were out playing sail the bike down the street

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We had some people move here to where I live now in Ohio from S. Dakota and

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When a two inch snow was forecast they ask why does everyone go into panic mode and clean out the grocery stores of milk and other daily needs

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Where up in S. Dakota they would have feet of snow on the ground at times and not even shovel some of the roads off cause the wind would blow it back over the road and no one there even blinked an eye at it

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So the culprit to what you are experiencing is the

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Answer 2

Local people know what conditions to be concerned about, so if they are upset at 40 mph winds, it must be important.  Maybe winter is setting in already.(just joking)

Answer 3

You have to realize that people out in Minnesota aren't accostomed to 40 mph winds as Floridians are when it comes to severe thunderstorms, hurricanes or tornadoes. I live in California, and if we had a tornado here god forbid no one would know what to do here, for we're not used to having tornadoes here. Where I live at we get 100 + degree weather in the summer. If Minnesota reaches 100 + degrees then the National Weather Service would issue "extreme heat warnings". In my area, it's a fact of life, and we're adjusted to 100 + degree heat. You would never hear of "extreme heat warnings" in my area when it reaches 100 +.