06-06-2018, 03:12 AM
Hawaii ranked in the Top Ten on WalletHub's 2018 Safest States list. Lower than I expected, even with an active volcano. I've lived in other states and in general found their tornadoes, twenty below temperatures, snakes, and professional sports fans after a game more dangerous than the hazards here.
Why so low? It wasn't our Financial Safety (#6) or Emergency Preparedness (#5). It's our highways, at 39th in the country.
https://wallethub.com/edu/safest-states-...e-in/4566/
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home — dear and familiar stone hearth and garden — and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. Today I favor the latter view. The word “sojourner”... invokes a nomadic people’s sense of vagrancy, a praying people’s knowledge of estrangement, a thinking people’s intuition of sharp loss: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” - Annie Dillard
Why so low? It wasn't our Financial Safety (#6) or Emergency Preparedness (#5). It's our highways, at 39th in the country.
https://wallethub.com/edu/safest-states-...e-in/4566/
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home — dear and familiar stone hearth and garden — and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. Today I favor the latter view. The word “sojourner”... invokes a nomadic people’s sense of vagrancy, a praying people’s knowledge of estrangement, a thinking people’s intuition of sharp loss: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” - Annie Dillard
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves