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Why Do They Live In Tornado Alleys?

A Facebook Friend asks: "Why do people choose to live in tornado areas where their whole life's work can be wiped out with one monster storm and even lose their life and/or lose their livestock and pets then have to rebuild? Do insurance companies keep insuring them? Whole towns and neighborhoods can be wiped off the map in a matter of minutes and scenes on TV of houses looking like splintered match sticks have convinced me that is not the place to venture. That does not sound like anyplace I would want to visit much less live." (AP photo: Alli Christian, left, helps Jessica Wilkinson as she looks for her dog Bella after Wilkinson returned to find her tornado-destroyed home in Norman, Okla., on Sunday)

Question: Can you name a place in the United States that you absolutely would not live?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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