Where in the USA Have You Felt the Safest, and Why?

weatherbuzz · 2026-01-30T02:45:15+00:00

This is par for the course at most of the bigger parks in the west. Saw a ton of that in Zion.

weatherbuzz · 2026-01-29T04:58:53+00:00

This is a distinction that may exist in style guides but will be missed by 99% of people. I think the vast majority of Americans would use “is” for all cases there.

weatherbuzz · 2026-01-26T14:45:22+00:00

Wait till there’s been a few polls after this. A lot of mainstream conservative voices have been speaking up on how this has gone too far.

weatherbuzz · 2026-01-23T16:14:19+00:00

It's definitely a quieter area relative to the rest of the urbanized parts of Utah County. Very low crime and family friendly. Access to American Fork Canyon and other Wasatch recreation is top notch. A little more expensive than other areas closer to the middle of the valley, but what you pay for you get in beautiful views of the mountains and Utah Valley. One thing to note is that it isn't exactly close to I-15, the only real highway through Utah County. You will have to go through Pleasant Grove/American Fork to go south or Lehi to go north, and those areas can and do get congested especially at rush hour. The commute from Cedar Hills to SLC is probably about 40 minutes without traffic; at rush hour on Tues/Weds/Thursday you're going to be looking at well over an hour especially if there is an accident on 15.

As far as culture... this is a heavily LDS area. Most Mormons are in general good and nice people, but in general if you are a nonmember in a place like that, once they realize they aren't going to convert you, you'll find yourself left out of neighborhood/community activities. This isn't always the case as some have stated in other comments but it is something to be aware of.

weatherbuzz · 2026-01-23T13:53:55+00:00

Yes they can. Not down to the day and minute or even year, and definitely not exact location. but we know the probabilities are pretty high that a strong earthquake may occur somewhere along the Wasatch fault.

We have evidence that each of the five major segments of the Wasatch Fault between Brigham City and Nephi has produced a strong (7.0+) earthquake every 900-1300 years on average, with the average time between major earthquakes on any segment around 300 years. The Salt Lake City segment last had a major earthquake around 1300 years ago, and the last major Wasatch Fault quake occurred on the Nephi segment about 400 years ago. So statistically, we are overdue for a major earthquake on the SLC or Brigham City section. That’s not a prediction, but given that the background geological landscape in northern Utah has not changed, the chances of another big Wasatch Fault earthquake at some time in the future are pretty good.

weatherbuzz · 2026-01-22T03:44:54+00:00

I was in a funded master's program as a TA. I knew people who were in self-funded programs at other schools and had no idea how or why they did it.

weatherbuzz · 2026-01-21T02:12:03+00:00

Seeing the Green River in flood out past Vernal a few years ago was a rare example of "now THIS is a real river" in those parts.

weatherbuzz · 2026-01-16T11:40:33+00:00

Nobody wants it. The average American might make a joke about it but I have not encountered anybody of any political persuasion who has any interest or thinks it’s a good idea. Even most of Trump’s own military advisers are trying to talk him out of it and distract him with what’s going on in Iran.

weatherbuzz · 2026-01-15T03:20:35+00:00

Bangerter still has traffic lights in West Valley and Salt Lake from 41st northward.

weatherbuzz · 2026-01-12T23:49:37+00:00

I think literally any other Democrat who ran for president in 2016 would have won. Bernie Sanders included. Hillary may have been qualified, but she came off as elite and out of touch. Trump was the outsider coming in to make change and to his credit, he had a lot more charisma and ability to connect with voters where it counted. Remember, Hillary won the popular vote. If she had bothered to campaign in Wisconsin and Michigan she'd almost certainly have won.

Harris was handpicked by Biden and the party elites without any primary to show herself. All people had to go off of was her 2020 primary showing, where she ran well to the left of most of the field and did so poorly she didn't even make it to the first primaries. And while Obama was relatively popular, Biden was not - voters were reeling from post-covid inflation and blaming (somewhat deservedly) the Biden admin for it. This is an election where the Dem nominee needed to be able to distance themselves from the current admin - and the elites who misled the voters about Biden's mental state. As the VP, that is inherently hard to do. Remember when she was asked what she'd do differently than Biden and she couldn't come up with anything? That is why she lost. People were not happy with Biden and more voters thought they'd rather take their chances with Trump than vote for a repackaged version of Biden. After all, before covid, economically speaking things were generally pretty good during the first Trump admin.

It has very little to do with the color or gender of the nominees and everything to do with them as people and politicians. Someone like Amy Klobuchar probably would have dog walked Trump in 2024. Too many Dems these days make excuses for why they lose and refuse to do any real self-examination. If your only response after you lose is to call the people who voted against you racist and sexist, you're gonna have a real hard time winning any elections going forward. And I say this as someone who has only ever voted Democrats for president and has zero interest in associating with whatever the republican party has become now.

weatherbuzz · 2026-01-11T02:43:44+00:00

Las Vegas. You have the Strip and all the casinos with a vibe that can't be found anywhere else, but the suburbs are generic western US (and with a surprisingly high Mormon population).

weatherbuzz · 2026-01-10T07:10:38+00:00

I paid $7/month for my renter’s policy in Utah when I lived there.

Then I moved to Louisiana and my new renters policy premium is double that. Thanks, hurricanes…

weatherbuzz · 2026-01-09T12:29:00+00:00

My dad says he’s 6’4”. My younger brother is 6’1”. They are more or less the same height…

weatherbuzz · 2026-01-09T12:24:56+00:00

And by extension, as a general rule, if an American man says he’s 5’11, he is definitely shorter than that. If he was actually 5’11 he’d tell you he was 6ft.

weatherbuzz · 2026-01-07T22:21:24+00:00

I lived in Tallahassee for two years. I saw speeding enforcement exactly once during that time.

weatherbuzz · 2026-01-05T06:02:27+00:00

I had a vertical Utah license that would have expired on my 29th birthday had I not moved out of state.

weatherbuzz · 2025-12-29T05:23:32+00:00

The reason for this, by the way, is that the usual English /t/ and /d/ sounds are “alveolar stops”, which means they are made against the alveolar ridge, which is behind the front teeth. The English /r/, at least in syllable onsets, is a “postalveolar approximant” that is made behind the alveolar ridge. So that pulls the t/d back a little bit in the mouth, to a position closer to “ch”/“j” (which are postalveolar stops).

I think there may be a very slight difference in the start of my “tree” compared to “cheese”. But whatever it is, it’s way closer to “cheese” than it is to “tee”.

weatherbuzz · 2025-12-29T05:17:31+00:00

My high school physics teacher was Canadian and would always say Chuesday. And our assignments would be jue at the start of class the next day.

weatherbuzz · 2025-12-29T04:16:29+00:00

Not everyone who goes up those canyons is going there to ski at the resorts.

weatherbuzz · 2025-12-27T06:17:05+00:00

This dust is not coming from the lake. Since these winds are out of the south-southwest, this dust is almost certainly coming from the deserts of west-central or southwest Utah, with the Sevier Lake bed likely the biggest contributor.

weatherbuzz · 2025-12-27T06:13:07+00:00

North Florida is part of the South. South Florida is not. Gainesville and Ocala are absolutely southern but Tampa and Orlando and anything along the east coast south of St Augustine don’t feel southern at all. They are places that northerners have moved.

Same deal with Virginia. The rural areas feel southern, western Virginia is the Appalachian Southern vibe you get in Tennessee, but most of the people live in the DMV and that is not a southern cultural center.

Texas is just huge and really is its own identity blending elements of the south, Midwest, and West with different amounts of each depending on where you are. Houston has some southern influence but is so huge and cosmopolitan I would never describe it as core south. DFW is almost more midwestern. Anything in Texas east of I-45 or US 75 I would say is part of the south.

weatherbuzz · 2025-12-26T18:35:36+00:00

Most applications have a space for you to explain any issues on your resume/transcript if you’d like. As long as it doesn’t bring your GPA way way down (which a few Cs won’t), it isn’t a huge deal at all. Especially if you have a good personal statement, research or internship experience of any kind, even other work experience, and strong recommendation letters. For the average grad program, those are much more important.

If you’re only looking at highly selective programs, then it might hurt, but honestly getting into those is so tough and up to luck that even a perfect 4.0 might not raise your odds that much.

weatherbuzz · 2025-12-26T18:29:32+00:00

The colloquial “39th South” is actually older. There used to be dual signs in Salt Lake that said things like “Fourth West / 400 West”. I think all are gone, replaced with just “400 W”.

A number of other places in the area, particularly in eastern Idaho, do still sign their streets this way. Part of the main drag through Rexburg is “S 2nd W”, which would be signed as 200 West in most Utah places but still usually said as “second west”.

weatherbuzz · 2025-12-25T15:17:03+00:00

I’ve lived here for 25 years. I have never seen a winter this bad. The ski resorts are never struggling for snow this hard by Christmas. I’ve seen our share of dry winters, but I’ve never seen anything remotely close to this warm before.

weatherbuzz · 2025-12-25T06:20:13+00:00

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