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Well, to take a theme that's popular with this website, a portion of a sufficiently large lottery prize could be donated to MIRI and allow for the development of FAI before UFAI...
More practically - in most timelines where I don't win the lottery, my general physical location falls within astonishingly predictable bounds, and any disaster that happens to hit within those bounds will trim those timelines from the group of timelines in which I continue to live. A lottery win is one way in which I would gain enough resources to get kicked out of my current parameters, and do things such as traveling places I otherwise would never go.
I recall this was the theme of a post from 2010. It appears to have been deleted ...
You can move as it is. If you randomly move, that will work better than randomly winning the lottery, at a lower cost. Or are you thinking just a very small lottery to counter the costs of moving?
How many disasters are there that are that large and consistent? All I can think of is meteors and Earthquakes.