Why doesn't Michigan get natural disasters?

Question

(Not that I'm complaining!)

We get the occasional blizzard, flooding, and tornado - but that's it, thankfully. Why is that? Does it have to do with all of the water in and around the state?

Answer 1

Are you kidding me?  Michigan DOES get natural disasters...go back and check your facts over the last 100 years...you'll see plenty of natural disasters!

Answer 2

Because God loves Michigan the best!

Answer 3

I think its the water around us, that keeps a lot of our weather the way it is. We really don't get anything to disasters around here, thank god!

Answer 4

Hold on there...   Just you wait around for a few tens of thousands of years...  Michigan's been through some pretty rough stuff with them glaciers getting scraped and flattened and frozen a mighty-many times!!  Throw in a few meteors here and there over the last few millions of years, too, and hundreds of forest fires, too!!  - - - Just you wait!!  Way things are goin', things may just dry up to smithereens!!

Answer 5

I think you need to define a "natural disaster" for us.

The three you listed are all natural, and if significant enough, they would be a disaster.

We do see a rare hurricane, but it's just a bad storm when it get's here. That's because we are too far inland.

In the first half of the 20th century, lightning caused a forest fire that burned off most of the northern half of the LP.

We get rare earthquakes; we are not on any major active fault lines. But experts do suggest Detroit and Chicago both are very vulnerable because we will get a quake, and it will likely be bad.

Not much going on around here otherwise.

Location, location, location!!

Answer 6

Because of the tectonic plate it sits on.