Yup, the picture at 7:24 actually is from one of Toronto's suburbs as the storm washed out houses in the Humber River valley. This hurricane is one of the reasons why the city has parks in most of its ravines, rather than houses.
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Hurricane Diana in 1984 must be noted because of its strange path. It traveled north toward Oak Island, NC then went due east, into the Atlantic, looped back around, and made landfall near Oak Island. It hung around for a couple of days. I remember folks making signs "Go Away, Hurricane Diana!"
@Watherbox If you're open to suggestions/requests I hope you might consider the 2011 EF-3 tornadoes that hit Camp Creek, Tennessee and Glade Spring, Virginia. They happened later on April 27 and early on April 28, 2011.
Another great video. Gracias. Notable that the deaths and damage from many of these hurricanes were so high, yet they occurred when development and populations were lower than today, when they could easily have been much higher. Also notable is that many of these hurricanes occurred prior to the time when humans have "caused" climate change.
Really Texas has had several really bad hurricanes of course there is 1900 but you also have Allison which flooded most of Houston in both times it hit, Ike which actually defeated the sea wall in Galveston which was built in response to 1900 and had never been beaten until Ike and also Ike basically wiped one town off the map that being the town on the pensula next to Galveston, and of course Harvey the storm the never seemed to end which blew Allison's numbers up.
i'd like to argue with hazel, i think hurricane florence was the worst it dropped 3+ feet of rain where i lived and it took many of us 4+ years to rebuild.
The Galveston storm and the story behind it are crazy. Had the meteorologists in the United States listened to the Cuban forecasters they'd have known well ahead of time. Worth watching a video on if you're not familiar! I'd love to see that hurricane video! Really enjoy your content! The algorithm will pick you up soon enough!
I helped with the relief efforts in New Orleans post-Katrina. Spent two weeks volunteering during summer gutting and rebuilding homes. We visited the lower-9th, the hardest hit area by the flooding. There was nothing left. Other than two houses which were rubble. I saw fridges and couches perched in trees. Roads were impassable. I've never seen anything like it. It brought me to choking tears.
We've recovered somewhat, but the scars still remain. There are empty lots where houses used to stand in the Lower 9th Ward, abandoned buildings, houses, and stores that remain rotting and crumbling. We managed to weather Ida fine, but it's really only due to Katrina that the levee system was upgraded and was able to handle it. I doubt we'll ever fully recover.
Louisiana gets a lot of the attention with Katrina, and rightfully so, but Biloxi and surrounding towns in Mississippi got HORRIBLY damaged too, and kind of got shorted on news coverage and volunteer relief because of the lack of awareness/public knowledge. Some small townships in the area were entirely wiped off the map, nothing but slabs left. We left North Carolina and went down twice, first a year after and then two years after the hurricane, to some of the suburbs of Biloxi that Katrina had hit to help with cleanup/disaster relief which was still going on. There were still many leveled houses or only slabs left even in '07. Many people in our Disaster Relief volunteer group, who had been there in '06, commented that in many places it looked like the hurricane hit yesterday even in '07 because so very little had been done even two years after the fact. We got told by a lot of residents it had been a really slow process because New Orleans was getting all the government attention and they had a hard time getting FEMA and other people to come help them, especially in the smaller towns. Even today when people say "Katrina" they only mention Louisina and New Orleans. I think people forget about Mississippi because of the dikes breaking in Louisiana and NO being a bigger and more prominent city but it's really a shame because in some ways the damage was almost worse in MS because the recovery effort lasted so much longer.
I grew up in coastal Mass and had a new classmate after Katrina who had been displaced but had grandparents in my town. You always hear about natural disasters obviously, but seeing someone in person who had their whole life uprooted was a real eye opener for me, being only 11 at the time.
My grandparents got married during Hurricane Hazel in NC. They lost power before the ceremony and had a candlelit ceremony in the church. My granny said she wasn’t going to get married in the storm, but her momma said “you’re gonna get married cause I said so”. People say rain on your wedding day was good luck, and my grandparents were married 61 years before my granny died, on their hurricane wedding anniversary.
Would love to see you talk about the wind impacts of hurricane Andrew. It was theorized that the scale of wind damage was due to so-called "miniswirls", an occurrence somewhere between a tornado, microburst and straight line winds. It was poorly understood and as far as I know a completely unique event. If you could do some digging and put a presentation together about that I would love to see it.
I remember being 10 and not understanding why people weren't leaving Florida, and then wondering why people didn't just drive their cars fast so there was no traffic? 😅
I remember when hurricane Matthew. It was the first hurricane I evacuated for here in costal Georgia. The only other one I’ve evacuated for since was Irma. My apartment at the time was really close to the marsh and it was a mandatory evacuation for both. After the worst of Matthew came through we snuck back into my city before we were “allowed” to and the damage was surreal to see
I remember Sandy like it was yesterday. The incredible winds screaming through the locked windows, heading branches snapping, the incredible rain. All of it is burnt into my head.
@@trickster6054 it may have made landfall as a Cat 1, but it actually ended up becoming a Cat 3….oh mind you, it made landfall during a full moon so that made the tides much worse, and it had combined with a nor’easter which intensified its strength because if all that warm water from the Atlantic. It is still one of the most costly storms on record, not to mentioned the lives lost to it……and places here in the northeast specifically here in NY, are still recovering and rebuilding 10 years later. There’s a reason for why it was called Superstorm and Frankenstorm Sandy, mainly because it made landfall right before Halloween but also because of how powerful it was.
@@tiamarrow6366 No it didn't lol... Sandy was a Cat 3 when it made landfall in CUBA... When it made landfall in the northeast US it was a cat 1 with 80MPH winds... strongest wind gusts reported were around 90-100 MPH. 80MPH sustained with 100MPH gusts is a solid category 1. The reason it is called a "superstorm" is because you guys are vulnerable to even weak tropical/subtropical systems...
While Sandy was "only" a CAT 1 when it hit New Jersey, what make it extraordinary is how massively huge it became in area, and its sharp turn to the west once it reached New Jersey. New Jersey rarely gets a direct hurricane landfall due to the natural curve of the coast, and the fact that hurricanes normally are curving out to sea by the time they get that far north. If you look at the satellite loop you can see a strong block setting up in the atlantic to the northeast of Sandy which pushes Sandy suddenly westward. Very unusual track.
I've lived through every Hurricane that made landfall in both Louisiana and Mississippi since Hurricane Andrew in '92 which is ALOT of Hurricanes over the years
Was surprised that there wasn't even an honor mention of the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane that struck the Florida Keys considering it's still stands as the strongest hurricane, in terms of wind speed, to strike the US mainland at 185 mph.
There is a monument in Islamorada Key on Route 1 dedicated to that Hurricane. You are right, it knocked out the famous Florida East Coast R.R. built by Henry Flagler of Standard Oil. It ceased operations thereafter to Key West. The old 7 Mile Bridge span is still visible.
I was a kid when Hurricane Sandy hit NJ. It was so scary. Me and my family were watching the news and had to stay together. We lost power for probably a week. My little brother and I had to go to Pennsylvania to stay with our grandpa because he wasn't affected.
Not to be that person but in the Galveston 1900 storm, you have a black and white photo of a woman wearing a Mickey Mouse sweater. Maybe she has a DeLorean but probably not.
I remember Hurricane Hugo vividly. I was a kid and we lived in Charlotte, NC. The hurricane came ashore near Charleston but then rapidly barreled inland, still being at hurricane strength 200 miles inland. No one was expecting such a strong storm that far inland. We had millions of trees down and no power for 2 weeks. We paid a lot more attention to hurricane forecasting after 1989, that’s for sure.
I wasn't born, but my family tells stories of it. By the time it got to them, it was severely weakened, but My mom made an improvised shelter out of couches and chairs and mattresses in the lower story since where they were it was so far inland that flooding was a non-issue, just wind. They were also in a very large and sturdy brick townhouse building with no big heavy trees around tall enough, even if they did fall against it, to do any serious damage. They both tried to sleep, But every little noise, even the most tiny creak of the structure from the wind, my late mom (who had extreme storm anxiety and would panic even with little thunderstorms and make us huddle in the hall as if a tornado was coming until it passed, when we were kids) would wake my dad up, to see if the building was falling in. Finally she let him sleep and went to sleep herself, and in the morning they saw there was very little damage, mostly just limbs down and a few things blown around. Which was honestly to be expected, as the storm wasn't much worse than a normal big NC thunderstorm by the time it got to where they lived anyway. In fact the only storm-related death anywhere near them was miles away and was some dummy who, AFTER the storm had gone by, went outside and tried to fell a damaged tree on his own instead of waiting for the city tree crew, and got killed when it went wrong. My dad used to say they just barely missed being able to have t-shirts that said "we slept through Hurricane Hugo."
Hugo terrified me as a child, even though we lived a half-hour west of Columbia. I turned into something of a junior hurricanologist after the fact, actively tracking the storms for years at getting quite good at predicting their paths in a time before widely available tracking software. Everyone's got their coping mechanism, and mine is knowledge. It probably didn't help that a well-meaning teacher, trying to educate us about the pending storm, told us that ultimately bogus story about the Richelieu Apartments hurricane party during Camille. It left me fully expecting to have our house blown down or washed away. In the end, our power went out for the weekend and the worst damage our house saw was a shredded windsock.
I live about 25 miles inland from Myrtle Beach, SC. I was 10 years old and remember it well. My parents made me and my brother a bed on their bedroom floor. They stayed up all night. I can remember hearing our brick house making popping sounds. It was scary. We were without power for almost 3 weeks.
By shear deadlyness, the Galveston Hurricane wins. But overall Harvey beats that storm in almost every category. Harvey dropped an average of 33 inches of rain on the Houston area, the highest being more than 70in. Harvey wasn't just a rain storm though, it made landfall near Corpus Christi as a Cat. 4 hurricane with 12+ foot storm surge. Many of the major bayous in Houston go through the suburbs and downtown. These bayous which normally help Houston's flooding made it even worse for some places as the bayous rose to over 40ft above average peak height. If you go to Houston and ask somebody, very few will say that they didn't have to renovate their house or buy a new car after flooding and NOBODY will tell you that they don't know someone who had to essentially rebuild their life from nothing. Flooding doesn't look as bad as wind damage because the house is still standing, but when there is 8ft of stagnate, sewage water in your home for 2 weeks there will be nothing left in your house that is is salvageable by the time the water recedes, not even the house itself. When the water's gone their will be mold going up the inside and outside of every wall, wood that is too weak to support the house's structure, and anything having to do with electricity not functional including the entire house's wiring. Over 200,000 homes were flooded.
Richmond, Virginia is very prone to flooding due to the James River cutting though the downtown area. Rain from Hurricane Agnes caused the water level of the James River to rise and flood a major part of downtown. Some parts of Richmond were under 28ft of water. In 1995, a huge flood wall was constructed along the banks of the James River. This flood wall was designed to withstand 32ft of flooding.
@@nutterinherbutter5080I think we’re already there. Look at 2016-2022. Matthew in 2016, Harvey Irma and Maria in 2017, Florence and Michael in 2018, Dorian in 2019. The fact that all those storms happened in a 4 year time span… Then the last two years you have Ida and Ian. I looked at the costliest Atlantic hurricanes. 7 of the 12 (and 5 of the top 6) costliest hurricanes of all time have been since 2016.
Absolutely love your content! I'm a huge fan of all things tornadoes (being that a few QLCS tornadoes just hit my backyard in WI this afternoon, so it's fresh in my blood), but hurricanes are so fascinating for their sheer energy, their raw power, and their widespread coverage. I look forward to any new content you post!
Nice vid man. Hurricane Ian was just incredible. By far the most significant storm I've ever chased/ experienced. A lot of people are hurting down here in Florida from it.
Why is the US Virgin Island always not include whenever doing videos about the US. We got hit most of the same hurricane that then devastated the mainland.
All i can say is i was part of it all my whole entire neighborhood was completely flooded with water and which left me with no words but *OH MY GOSH!* hurricane ian will be forever remembered to me as the first worst hurricane i've ever experienced through out 19 years of my life also only haft of the inside of my house was flooded accept my room including my sister too
Personal disagreements (But if the following hurricanes didn’t exist, I would agree with your picks in the video): Virginia: Isabel (2003) North Carolina: Florence (2018) Alabama: Ivan (2004) As a hurricane fanatic, I really enjoyed this video. Great job man!
Completely agree with Virginia. Isabel is the only hurricane that I've evacuated for in my 20 years living in Hampton Roads. Irene and Sandy were cakewalks in comparison.
Harvey caused a very high amount of damage but it wasn't even close to the most deadly hurricane. I suspect that the 1900 Galveston Hurricane was also stronger in terms of windspeeds but wasn't properly measured. It definitely should have been mentioned, though.
@@evilthing999 Agnes did the same thing over PA, Maryland, and upstate New York. It's hard to believe it only got as strong as a Category 1 though and the name was the first one retired from a Category 1 storm.
The worst hurricane to hit Mississippi was Hurricane Katrina with a record 27.8 foot storm surge in Pass Christian (pronounced Pass Chrish-tee-anne), which, yes, is also the same location of the 2nd highest storm surge in the U.S. from Hurricane Camille. I'm guessing you chose Camille because it was a category 5? The overall impact from Katrina was far worse, however. Great video!
Katrina had double the deaths in Mississippi. He probably only chose it because it was a category 3/4 with wind gusts of 135 miles per hour in poplarville.
I think he said Camille was the worst for Mississippi since it made a direct landfall there. Katrina however made landfall in Louisiana, so that’s why he brought it up when discussing LA.
@@holdenbraswell6650 Katrina's eye made landfall on the Pearl River, which is the border between Louisiana and Mississippi. The storm surge destroyed the entire MS coast, as well as Alabama's. The highest point was 27.8 feet in Pass Christian, MS. All this to say that Katrina did hit Mississippi. Every single one of it's 52 counties was declared a disaster area. I was there when it happened, and Katrina is absolutely the worst hurricane to hit MS. It is just (almost) always overlooked due to the media attention on New Orleans.
I see……I knew it made landfall near the MS coast, but I never knew it was that close. That’s crazy. Yeah so maybe Katrina is the worst for both Louisiana and Mississippi. Thank you for the additional info, I had absolutely no clue it came that close to the LA/MS border.
I agree. Both Camille and Katrina were terrible, but I would give Katrina a slight edge because of the storm surge and the sheer size of the storm. The entire coastline of Mississippi was destroyed with Katrina, whereas Camille was more compact and the strongest impacts more localized. Pick your poison, though.
I survived Hurricane Camile in Gulfport in 1969. It is a seminal point of my life and my memories of the aftermath have haunted me through my existence. The experience of literally every house in your development being flattened and finding dead snakes and alligators in your back yard as a five-year-old is defining..... Trying to interpret the meaning of full-sized freighters sitting in the parking lot of the water-park you loved to visit is daunting to a five-year-old. The fishing-pier you and your dad loved to visit and spend hours at is now literally upside-down, with its pilings sticking up at a 45 degree angle. Literally everything that you knew: Your school, your local grocery store, your sports complex, your amusement center was wiped out. Literally. There was nothing left of even the existence of those entities. That was the aftermath of Hurricane Camile on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi in 1969.
Wow, no mention at all of one of four Cat 5 hurricanes to landfall in the contiguous states. They call it the forgotten Cat 5. Oh, you mispronounced Mobile.
Living in Central New Jersey, I don't care what Sandy was classified as. I know people that were very close to losing their lives and got extremely lucky. A few days later I made it to the beach (bayhead, pt. Pleasant area) and there were 2-3 story houses halfway filled with sand. It was wild, but not in a good way.
While Wilma was far from the worst hurricane to hit Florida it is the worst hurricane I've experienced personally. Wilma blew a big tree onto my house which severely damaged my balcony and we lost power for over a week. Irma wasn't quite as bad for me, the damage wasn't as bad in my area and we only lost power for about 3 days that time.
Great video, but I'd have to disagree on the Mississippi pick. As bad as Camille was, Katrina was worse in Mississippi in every way. It killed more people and caused significantly more damage. Katrina's surge was also higher than Camille's (28 feet vs 24 feet), affected a much larger area, and caused far more damage along the Mississippi coast.
@@Spagine Katrina made its first landfall in Plaquemines Parish Louisiana as a Cat 4 and a second landfall right along the Mississippi/Louisiana border as a Cat 3. Katrina's highest surge was measured in Mississippi, not Louisiana. It was 27 to 28 feet. The cities of Waveland, Bay St Louis, Gulfport and Biloxi experienced the highest storm surge heights ever recorded in the US and all of them experienced a larger, more destructive surge than in Camille. Katrina's surge in Mississippi was worse than Camille's in every way. It was higher, pushed farther inland, effected a larger area, and caused far more damage. Camille was bad but the surge was quite localized by comparison and even at it maximum, was lower in height. It destroyed more structures and killed more people in Mississippi than Camille. I find Katrina's damage in Mississippi is often forgotten because it was overshadowed by the humanitarian crisis in the more populated city of New Orleans. But Katrina's highest surge and strongest winds in the right front quadrant hit Mississippi, not Louisiana. The max surge in New Orleans was about 17 feet along the lower 9th ward as the Atlantic pushed up the Mississippi. However, most of the flooding in New Orleans actually came from the Levee failure along Lake Pontchartrain, which failed from a northerly surge of about 11 feet on the left side of the hurricane. So New Orleans levees failed on the weaker side of the hurricane. The most intense part of the hurricane (the right front quadrant) hit Mississippi.
That wasn't even the peak wind gust of the 1938 hurricane. It was 186 miles per hour at Blue Hill Meteroroligical Observatory just outside Boston. This remains the highest wind gust associated with a hurricane anywhere in the US
it was most likely worse we didnt hàve the instriments to measure we do now, one thing is for sure if we ever had another like that one or the 1821 NYC hurricane it would be soley blamed on man made global warming
Hello! Great video and I appreciate you branching out into hurricanes too for a bit. However, one of the pictures you showed of the aftermath of the Galveston hurricane showed a woman in jeans and a Mickey Mouse sweatshirt, so I think that one must be from a different storm (Mickey wasn't born until 28 years after that storm). Not a big deal but I thought you may want to know.
I vividly remember Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina growing up in Louisiana. Andrew was the one that introduced me to the idea of "hurricane parties" as the eye passed over BR, neighbors grilling all the meat and vegetables they had before they could spoil, sharing amongst each other while others took care of damage and debris up to that point before the other part of the storm hit. Katrina was more surreal since it didn't hit us head on, more so New Orleans. I remember being without power for two days and cable for about a week, and the amount of people from NO sheltering in the Rivercenter downtown and other points north-and-westward. Also remember that the "counterflow" evacuation plan wasn't executed the Friday before, but Saturday morning at the behest of Gov Blanco and Mayor Nagin, against the recommendation of the Bush and the DHS. Oh, and FEMA not getting the help they needed from the National Guard for two days because of the governor goofing up.
@ElDoggo141 Yes Galveston had the most deaths but hurricane Harvey exceeded in many more other categories than Galveston so I'm a bit surprised Harvey hadn't at the very least receive a mention.
yeah Harvey ended up being the costliest hurricane on record for Texas and set several records for all-time rainfall for quite a few places in Texas. It parked itself over Texas and just let loose. I was amazed because the thing just would not move on.
Awesome video. I just can’t help but be fascinated by the fact that hurricanes, like in 1938, used to be able to hide in the “fog of war” of the Atlantic. You never knew what was coming
I lived through Sandy. For 3 hours we had 90mph winds in Trenton, and the whole time, there were flashes as power lines exploded everywhere. Some people didn’t have electricity for weeks, and the shore town of Mantoloking was split in two by the storm surge. It also completely flooded NYC’s subways and the regional rail tunnels, some of which still haven’t been fully repaired.
@@CatinthehatOct1989 The central pressure of Sandy was 945 millibars at landfall, the lowest pressure ever recorded in the northeast US. It is equivalent to a borderline Cat 3/4 hurricane. I’ll never forget the roaring, raging sound of the wind that night. You could feel the house shaking and hear transformers exploding everywhere. It was nightmarish.
Interesting fact about Hugo, when it went through Western NC it traveled directly through South Mountains State Park. While traveling through the park, it ripped massive slabs of rock (I think most are granite) clean off the mountains. One of the slabs is massive, at least 25 feet tall, a foot or so thick, and at least 10 feet long.
If you ever get a chance to see photos of McClellanville SC after hugo. It looks like an atomic bomb went off. All the trees to the horizon where laid flat like toothpicks. Houses foundations were ripped from the ground. 13ft sea level increase.
11:33 hmmmmm pretty weird how their all tied as a very storng caragory 4, also wierd how your insurance is 100% free for a catagory 5... Also weird how alot of ships where ida made land fall recorded gust strong enough to support a cat 5 hurricane and how it and Katrina broke wind gages but in other states in didn't even though it was stronger... Pretty fishy
Man, your vids are always very entertaining and keep me really engaged into really listening out to what you have to say on every video. I have been subscribed to you since you had only a few hundred subscribers and have only wished for you to get bigger since. Glad to see you growing and getting more noticed, you deserve it.
Here in NY……when it comes between Irene and Sandy…most of us NYers consider Sandy to be worse since it combined with a nor’easter, was fueled by the warm Atlantic water, and happened during a full moon. With Irene, by time it hit Long Island and NY….yeah there was damage but it was pretty minimal. One of my relatives lived in Freeport right on the waterfront and when Irene hit…..he said that there was minor flooding well where his house was….like he didn’t really get any bad floods. The only real damage was just debris from the trees around the area. Now that’s not to say that other areas in NY didn’t get it worse because I’m sure that happened, but for the most part….it honestly wasn’t too bad. Sandy however…..there’s a reason for why it was nicknamed Superstorm Sandy, as well as Frankenstorm (due to it making landfall around Halloween) and why so many people here in the northeast still shake when they’re reminded of the storm.
actually the strongest hurricane to hit NY was the nameless hurricane that hit Long Island in 1938. I lived on Long Island for Sandy and it was wild to see the damage it caused, but my Grandpa lived in Lynbrook in 1938 and he said he literally saw trees leave the ground and almost fly away.
13:24 - The woman in this photo, used to illustrate the 1900 Galveston hurricane, is wearing a Mickey Mouse sweatshirt. I assure you she was not doing this in 1900, since Mickey would not even be invented till 28 years later.
Disappointed in your research. Sandy did not wipe out a piece of the Atlantic City boardwalk. That section of boardwalk had been wiped out many years earlier due to neglect. Sandy simply picked up the few boards that were still hanging by a thread. Saved the city the expense of having to eliminate the dangerous eyesore. The AC boardwalk was just fine after Sandy. Other parts of the island were not so lucky. The media hyped the boardwalk angle all out of proportion for ratings and clicks. Apparently, you bought it and continue to perpetuate the hype in your video.
Though we're not a coastal state, I believe the worst in Pennsylvania is a tie between Hurricane Agnes in 1972 (which was a tropical storm by the time it came to PA) and Tropical Storm Lee in 2011. The reason why they were so devastating is that they didn't move from over Pennsylvania for several days. Plus, Lee came right after Hurricane Irene had left Pennsylvania.
9:51 As of 1/15/2023, Ian has a monetary damage toll of over $110 billion, making it the 3rd costliest TC (Behind Harvey and Katrina,) and the costliest in Floridian history, surpassing that of Irma by more than twice.
I live in SWFL (Direct Impact, North Northport, even made a video about Ian destroying my streaming/gaming pc lol) and I will tell you, it felt a lot more like a CAT 5 and not a CAT 4. I was here for Hurricane Charley and that guy was no walk in the park either lol. I went without power for 11days with Irma in Charlotte County.(thankful that was all it was out for but it got to 91degrees in the house without AC and wow I'll never forget that).
Excellent video! I remember Hurricane Sandy. I was honestly excited, being the little kid I was, I didn’t realize how dangerous it actually could have been.
If you are looking for a good book about The Galveston Hurricane, consider reading ‘Isaac’s Storm’. It talks a lot about the development of modern day meteorology.
what people need to realize is that these older hurricans wind speeds were measured at sea level. today they are measured at several thousand feet up by a plane going all through out the hurricane trying to find the highest wind speed possible. It could be 155 mph at 5000 ft but only 110 at sea level but still classified at 155 instead of the actual 110 at sea level.
FYI, Mobile is pronounced “Mo-Beel”. 😂 Everyone gets it wrong. My parents talk about Federic all the time. It took until the following April Fool’s for debris to be picked up in their neighborhood. Mom has told me horror stories of the wind and how it would pick up vents in the house. They had major damage due to wind causing trees to snap. They didn’t mess around with any hurricane after it. Great video!!
My grandmother lived in Florida and came to to visit me in California. While she was here, hurricane Ian hit her house. When she got back, her house was totally destroyed. We’re so lucky, that could have been much worse
Irma hit my old elementary school like a TRUCK. The playground, patios, and most of the roofs were absolutely torn apart, they couldn't even fix most of the damages in time for us to come back so they had to extent the period we were out for because of that. Spooky
Irma was such a large storm and hit at just the right angle that it covered nearly the entire state of Florida, save for the western panhandle. Pretty much every major city- Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Tallahassee, Orlando, Jacksonville all took considerable damage as did all the small towns in between. And as mentioned in the video, the Keys were absoloutely rocked by the monster storm. Also, Irma caused one of the largest state wide power outages ever in Florida.
4:35 1785, not 1985. Great video nonetheless.
It's always a year that I stumble on, last video it was 2014 lol. Sorry about that!
Ironically, the photo at 5:04 is of flooding in Cape May during the 1944 storm. (Well, that neighborhood always floods…)
Oh, ha, my first thought was "Gloria!" Then I thought it was me who must have heard wrong. 🥴
@@weatherboxstudios lol, all good here!!
DUH, it is not western Virginia lmfao: West Virginia is a separate state; you know the whole Mason Dixon line and that civil war thing! lol
Another interesting thing about hurricane Hazel is that it's the only hurricane to reach Toronto Canada while still maintaining a tropical core.
My great grandmother was in that storm she used to tell me stories about the flooding and damage
Yup, the picture at 7:24 actually is from one of Toronto's suburbs as the storm washed out houses in the Humber River valley. This hurricane is one of the reasons why the city has parks in most of its ravines, rather than houses.
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We've all sinned and deserve Hell.
Jesus died on the cross and was resurrected, defeating death and sin.
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We must repent and trust in Jesus to be saved.
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@@MateodeJovelU know that for a fact? Why would they show pictures from Canada when theyre only discussing North Carolina?
OH the way you said Mobile, AL just tickles me lol. You'd say it like MobEEl! this is a great video!
Hurricane Diana in 1984 must be noted because of its strange path. It traveled north toward Oak Island, NC then went due east, into the Atlantic, looped back around, and made landfall near Oak Island. It hung around for a couple of days. I remember folks making signs "Go Away, Hurricane Diana!"
@Watherbox If you're open to suggestions/requests I hope you might consider the 2011 EF-3 tornadoes that hit Camp Creek, Tennessee and Glade Spring, Virginia. They happened later on April 27 and early on April 28, 2011.
Another great video. Gracias.
Notable that the deaths and damage from many of these hurricanes were so high, yet they occurred when development and populations were lower than today, when they could easily have been much higher. Also notable is that many of these hurricanes occurred prior to the time when humans have "caused" climate change.
Really Texas has had several really bad hurricanes of course there is 1900 but you also have Allison which flooded most of Houston in both times it hit, Ike which actually defeated the sea wall in Galveston which was built in response to 1900 and had never been beaten until Ike and also Ike basically wiped one town off the map that being the town on the pensula next to Galveston, and of course Harvey the storm the never seemed to end which blew Allison's numbers up.
Could you talk about hurricane Huron of 1996
i'd like to argue with hazel, i think hurricane florence was the worst it dropped 3+ feet of rain where i lived and it took many of us 4+ years to rebuild.
The Galveston storm and the story behind it are crazy. Had the meteorologists in the United States listened to the Cuban forecasters they'd have known well ahead of time. Worth watching a video on if you're not familiar!
I'd love to see that hurricane video! Really enjoy your content! The algorithm will pick you up soon enough!
I helped with the relief efforts in New Orleans post-Katrina. Spent two weeks volunteering during summer gutting and rebuilding homes.
We visited the lower-9th, the hardest hit area by the flooding.
There was nothing left. Other than two houses which were rubble. I saw fridges and couches perched in trees. Roads were impassable.
I've never seen anything like it. It brought me to choking tears.
We've recovered somewhat, but the scars still remain. There are empty lots where houses used to stand in the Lower 9th Ward, abandoned buildings, houses, and stores that remain rotting and crumbling. We managed to weather Ida fine, but it's really only due to Katrina that the levee system was upgraded and was able to handle it. I doubt we'll ever fully recover.
Louisiana gets a lot of the attention with Katrina, and rightfully so, but Biloxi and surrounding towns in Mississippi got HORRIBLY damaged too, and kind of got shorted on news coverage and volunteer relief because of the lack of awareness/public knowledge. Some small townships in the area were entirely wiped off the map, nothing but slabs left. We left North Carolina and went down twice, first a year after and then two years after the hurricane, to some of the suburbs of Biloxi that Katrina had hit to help with cleanup/disaster relief which was still going on. There were still many leveled houses or only slabs left even in '07. Many people in our Disaster Relief volunteer group, who had been there in '06, commented that in many places it looked like the hurricane hit yesterday even in '07 because so very little had been done even two years after the fact. We got told by a lot of residents it had been a really slow process because New Orleans was getting all the government attention and they had a hard time getting FEMA and other people to come help them, especially in the smaller towns. Even today when people say "Katrina" they only mention Louisina and New Orleans. I think people forget about Mississippi because of the dikes breaking in Louisiana and NO being a bigger and more prominent city but it's really a shame because in some ways the damage was almost worse in MS because the recovery effort lasted so much longer.
I grew up in coastal Mass and had a new classmate after Katrina who had been displaced but had grandparents in my town. You always hear about natural disasters obviously, but seeing someone in person who had their whole life uprooted was a real eye opener for me, being only 11 at the time.
Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, fires, doesn't matter, your content is incredible no matter the context of it.
Hurricanes can and do have all those
all except act of squirrel.... we need more coverage of that. Be objective!
One note, at 10:30. The coastal city in Alabama referred to, named Mobile, is pronounced Mo-beel.
thank you for saying it
I only know about the correct pronunciation because of "the Pacific" show
Heard him say mobile and it was honestly adorable 😂
"Mobol" 😂😂
As a floridian, i will never forget Irma, that pain in the *** chose to go down the center of the state
My grandparents got married during Hurricane Hazel in NC. They lost power before the ceremony and had a candlelit ceremony in the church. My granny said she wasn’t going to get married in the storm, but her momma said “you’re gonna get married cause I said so”.
People say rain on your wedding day was good luck, and my grandparents were married 61 years before my granny died, on their hurricane wedding anniversary.
Woah, a hurricane video? Wow, either way this video is amazing. This channel is a big inspiration for my weather studies, and I’m glad I found it!
I think it was inevitable for him to make a video on hurricanes
It's fine, so long as accuracy isn't important.
Would love to see you talk about the wind impacts of hurricane Andrew. It was theorized that the scale of wind damage was due to so-called "miniswirls", an occurrence somewhere between a tornado, microburst and straight line winds. It was poorly understood and as far as I know a completely unique event. If you could do some digging and put a presentation together about that I would love to see it.
Thanks for the heads-up Joe! Next video is about tornadoes and extreme wind anomalies within hurricanes, so this would be perfect to include
I remember being 10 and not understanding why people weren't leaving Florida, and then wondering why people didn't just drive their cars fast so there was no traffic? 😅
I think it could have happened in Camille. I knew a man who was in it at landfall in Mississippi, and he described something very similar.
I remember when hurricane Matthew. It was the first hurricane I evacuated for here in costal Georgia. The only other one I’ve evacuated for since was Irma. My apartment at the time was really close to the marsh and it was a mandatory evacuation for both. After the worst of Matthew came through we snuck back into my city before we were “allowed” to and the damage was surreal to see
I remember Sandy like it was yesterday. The incredible winds screaming through the locked windows, heading branches snapping, the incredible rain. All of it is burnt into my head.
It made landfall as a cat 1…
@@trickster6054 it may have made landfall as a Cat 1, but it actually ended up becoming a Cat 3….oh mind you, it made landfall during a full moon so that made the tides much worse, and it had combined with a nor’easter which intensified its strength because if all that warm water from the Atlantic. It is still one of the most costly storms on record, not to mentioned the lives lost to it……and places here in the northeast specifically here in NY, are still recovering and rebuilding 10 years later. There’s a reason for why it was called Superstorm and Frankenstorm Sandy, mainly because it made landfall right before Halloween but also because of how powerful it was.
@@tiamarrow6366 No it didn't lol... Sandy was a Cat 3 when it made landfall in CUBA... When it made landfall in the northeast US it was a cat 1 with 80MPH winds... strongest wind gusts reported were around 90-100 MPH. 80MPH sustained with 100MPH gusts is a solid category 1. The reason it is called a "superstorm" is because you guys are vulnerable to even weak tropical/subtropical systems...
While Sandy was "only" a CAT 1 when it hit New Jersey, what make it extraordinary is how massively huge it became in area, and its sharp turn to the west once it reached New Jersey. New Jersey rarely gets a direct hurricane landfall due to the natural curve of the coast, and the fact that hurricanes normally are curving out to sea by the time they get that far north. If you look at the satellite loop you can see a strong block setting up in the atlantic to the northeast of Sandy which pushes Sandy suddenly westward. Very unusual track.
A burning memory
I've lived through every Hurricane that made landfall in both Louisiana and Mississippi since Hurricane Andrew in '92 which is ALOT of Hurricanes over the years
Was surprised that there wasn't even an honor mention of the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane that struck the Florida Keys considering it's still stands as the strongest hurricane, in terms of wind speed, to strike the US mainland at 185 mph.
There is a monument in Islamorada Key on Route 1 dedicated to that Hurricane. You are right, it knocked out the famous Florida East Coast R.R. built by Henry Flagler of Standard Oil. It ceased operations thereafter to Key West. The old 7 Mile Bridge span is still visible.
I was a kid when Hurricane Sandy hit NJ. It was so scary. Me and my family were watching the news and had to stay together. We lost power for probably a week. My little brother and I had to go to Pennsylvania to stay with our grandpa because he wasn't affected.
I remember in PA that Sandy had howling winds and occasional brownouts.
Not to be that person but in the Galveston 1900 storm, you have a black and white photo of a woman wearing a Mickey Mouse sweater. Maybe she has a DeLorean but probably not.
And she's wearing pants. That wouldn't happen. Good catch!
Yea it’s definitely a pic from much later than 1900
I remember Hurricane Hugo vividly. I was a kid and we lived in Charlotte, NC. The hurricane came ashore near Charleston but then rapidly barreled inland, still being at hurricane strength 200 miles inland. No one was expecting such a strong storm that far inland. We had millions of trees down and no power for 2 weeks. We paid a lot more attention to hurricane forecasting after 1989, that’s for sure.
I wasn't born, but my family tells stories of it. By the time it got to them, it was severely weakened, but My mom made an improvised shelter out of couches and chairs and mattresses in the lower story since where they were it was so far inland that flooding was a non-issue, just wind. They were also in a very large and sturdy brick townhouse building with no big heavy trees around tall enough, even if they did fall against it, to do any serious damage. They both tried to sleep, But every little noise, even the most tiny creak of the structure from the wind, my late mom (who had extreme storm anxiety and would panic even with little thunderstorms and make us huddle in the hall as if a tornado was coming until it passed, when we were kids) would wake my dad up, to see if the building was falling in. Finally she let him sleep and went to sleep herself, and in the morning they saw there was very little damage, mostly just limbs down and a few things blown around. Which was honestly to be expected, as the storm wasn't much worse than a normal big NC thunderstorm by the time it got to where they lived anyway. In fact the only storm-related death anywhere near them was miles away and was some dummy who, AFTER the storm had gone by, went outside and tried to fell a damaged tree on his own instead of waiting for the city tree crew, and got killed when it went wrong. My dad used to say they just barely missed being able to have t-shirts that said "we slept through Hurricane Hugo."
Hugo terrified me as a child, even though we lived a half-hour west of Columbia. I turned into something of a junior hurricanologist after the fact, actively tracking the storms for years at getting quite good at predicting their paths in a time before widely available tracking software. Everyone's got their coping mechanism, and mine is knowledge.
It probably didn't help that a well-meaning teacher, trying to educate us about the pending storm, told us that ultimately bogus story about the Richelieu Apartments hurricane party during Camille. It left me fully expecting to have our house blown down or washed away. In the end, our power went out for the weekend and the worst damage our house saw was a shredded windsock.
It did a lot of damage in Puerto Rico too.
I live about 25 miles inland from Myrtle Beach, SC. I was 10 years old and remember it well. My parents made me and my brother a bed on their bedroom floor. They stayed up all night. I can remember hearing our brick house making popping sounds. It was scary. We were without power for almost 3 weeks.
Hugo was largely (and unjustly) overlooked due to the earthquake that hit San Francisco in October of 1989.
By shear deadlyness, the Galveston Hurricane wins. But overall Harvey beats that storm in almost every category. Harvey dropped an average of 33 inches of rain on the Houston area, the highest being more than 70in. Harvey wasn't just a rain storm though, it made landfall near Corpus Christi as a Cat. 4 hurricane with 12+ foot storm surge. Many of the major bayous in Houston go through the suburbs and downtown. These bayous which normally help Houston's flooding made it even worse for some places as the bayous rose to over 40ft above average peak height. If you go to Houston and ask somebody, very few will say that they didn't have to renovate their house or buy a new car after flooding and NOBODY will tell you that they don't know someone who had to essentially rebuild their life from nothing. Flooding doesn't look as bad as wind damage because the house is still standing, but when there is 8ft of stagnate, sewage water in your home for 2 weeks there will be nothing left in your house that is is salvageable by the time the water recedes, not even the house itself. When the water's gone their will be mold going up the inside and outside of every wall, wood that is too weak to support the house's structure, and anything having to do with electricity not functional including the entire house's wiring. Over 200,000 homes were flooded.
I believe the Galveston hurricane is the one that the book Isaac's Storm was about
Richmond, Virginia is very prone to flooding due to the James River cutting though the downtown area. Rain from Hurricane Agnes caused the water level of the James River to rise and flood a major part of downtown. Some parts of Richmond were under 28ft of water. In 1995, a huge flood wall was constructed along the banks of the James River. This flood wall was designed to withstand 32ft of flooding.
It's a good day when weatherbox uploads
It’s neat to see a pattern of late 30’s, mid 50’s, late 60’s, etc. Seems like every 15-20 years there’s a wave of bad hurricanes.
By that logic we are coming up to a bunch of bad storms
@@babyyodasoup7894 exactly. It has nothing do to with climate change. It’s all cyclical.
we had bad storms in the mid 2000s (2003, 04, and ESPECIALLY 05), so by that logic we are about to have the worst years again very soon
12 year solar cycles or just enough time to indoctrinate people from first grade to graduation.
@@nutterinherbutter5080I think we’re already there. Look at 2016-2022. Matthew in 2016, Harvey Irma and Maria in 2017, Florence and Michael in 2018, Dorian in 2019. The fact that all those storms happened in a 4 year time span…
Then the last two years you have Ida and Ian. I looked at the costliest Atlantic hurricanes. 7 of the 12 (and 5 of the top 6) costliest hurricanes of all time have been since 2016.
Absolutely love your content! I'm a huge fan of all things tornadoes (being that a few QLCS tornadoes just hit my backyard in WI this afternoon, so it's fresh in my blood), but hurricanes are so fascinating for their sheer energy, their raw power, and their widespread coverage. I look forward to any new content you post!
Nice vid man. Hurricane Ian was just incredible. By far the most significant storm I've ever chased/ experienced. A lot of people are hurting down here in Florida from it.
Did you think Michael was worse?
@@markpalavosvrahotes5575 I didn't chase Michael
I think Ian may have just beaten Irma as Florida's most costly hurricane.
@@aaronlowe620 Do you think they will upgrade Ian to a 5?
@@markpalavosvrahotes5575 I think they got it right the first time, but still not impossible.
Why is the US Virgin Island always not include whenever doing videos about the US. We got hit most of the same hurricane that then devastated the mainland.
Just wanna say, Mobile is pronounced Mo-Beeul, otherwise great video
It’s mo-beel not mo-beeul
All i can say is i was part of it all my whole entire neighborhood was completely flooded with water and which left me with no words but *OH MY GOSH!* hurricane ian will be forever remembered to me as the first worst hurricane i've ever experienced through out 19 years of my life also only haft of the inside of my house was flooded accept my room including my sister too
1:30 That was New England’s most devastating September 11th until 2001
Personal disagreements (But if the following hurricanes didn’t exist, I would agree with your picks in the video):
Virginia: Isabel (2003)
North Carolina: Florence (2018)
Alabama: Ivan (2004)
As a hurricane fanatic, I really enjoyed this video. Great job man!
The worst hurricane in my area would be Hurricane Floyd.
Completely agree with Virginia. Isabel is the only hurricane that I've evacuated for in my 20 years living in Hampton Roads. Irene and Sandy were cakewalks in comparison.
I remember Isabel, though it was mostly due to causing an outage when it came through Pennsylvania.
surprised you didnt mention hurricane harvey, its tied for the most costliest hurricane with katrina
Harvey caused a very high amount of damage but it wasn't even close to the most deadly hurricane. I suspect that the 1900 Galveston Hurricane was also stronger in terms of windspeeds but wasn't properly measured. It definitely should have been mentioned, though.
Yeah, the fact that it stalled for an extended period of time just inland and caused insane amount of rainfall is really unimaginable
@@evilthing999 Agnes did the same thing over PA, Maryland, and upstate New York.
It's hard to believe it only got as strong as a Category 1 though and the name was the first one retired from a Category 1 storm.
The worst hurricane to hit Mississippi was Hurricane Katrina with a record 27.8 foot storm surge in Pass Christian (pronounced Pass Chrish-tee-anne), which, yes, is also the same location of the 2nd highest storm surge in the U.S. from Hurricane Camille. I'm guessing you chose Camille because it was a category 5? The overall impact from Katrina was far worse, however. Great video!
Katrina had double the deaths in Mississippi. He probably only chose it because it was a category 3/4 with wind gusts of 135 miles per hour in poplarville.
I think he said Camille was the worst for Mississippi since it made a direct landfall there. Katrina however made landfall in Louisiana, so that’s why he brought it up when discussing LA.
@@holdenbraswell6650 Katrina's eye made landfall on the Pearl River, which is the border between Louisiana and Mississippi. The storm surge destroyed the entire MS coast, as well as Alabama's. The highest point was 27.8 feet in Pass Christian, MS.
All this to say that Katrina did hit Mississippi. Every single one of it's 52 counties was declared a disaster area. I was there when it happened, and Katrina is absolutely the worst hurricane to hit MS.
It is just (almost) always overlooked due to the media attention on New Orleans.
I see……I knew it made landfall near the MS coast, but I never knew it was that close. That’s crazy. Yeah so maybe Katrina is the worst for both Louisiana and Mississippi. Thank you for the additional info, I had absolutely no clue it came that close to the LA/MS border.
I agree. Both Camille and Katrina were terrible, but I would give Katrina a slight edge because of the storm surge and the sheer size of the storm. The entire coastline of Mississippi was destroyed with Katrina, whereas Camille was more compact and the strongest impacts more localized. Pick your poison, though.
I survived Hurricane Camile in Gulfport in 1969. It is a seminal point of my life and my memories of the aftermath have haunted me through my existence. The experience of literally every house in your development being flattened and finding dead snakes and alligators in your back yard as a five-year-old is defining.....
Trying to interpret the meaning of full-sized freighters sitting in the parking lot of the water-park you loved to visit is daunting to a five-year-old.
The fishing-pier you and your dad loved to visit and spend hours at is now literally upside-down, with its pilings sticking up at a 45 degree angle.
Literally everything that you knew: Your school, your local grocery store, your sports complex, your amusement center was wiped out. Literally. There was nothing left of even the existence of those entities.
That was the aftermath of Hurricane Camile on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi in 1969.
Gotta click fast when weatherbox uploads 👀
Sane
Yeah ik 😂
Wow, no mention at all of one of four Cat 5 hurricanes to landfall in the contiguous states. They call it the forgotten Cat 5.
Oh, you mispronounced Mobile.
Living in Central New Jersey, I don't care what Sandy was classified as. I know people that were very close to losing their lives and got extremely lucky. A few days later I made it to the beach (bayhead, pt. Pleasant area) and there were 2-3 story houses halfway filled with sand. It was wild, but not in a good way.
Hurricane Andrew was a Cat 5 Storm and was 165 mph
Hurricane Andrew was the third cat 5 to make landfall in the U.S
With gusts over 200 mph!
You missed a good amount of states
I live about 20 minutes south of Charlotte NC, and I lived through Hugo. It was a nightmare.
Missed opportunity to talk about Michigan and Huron hurricane
Hey I don’t know if you will see this but for maryland and Virginia you should’ve done the 1933 Chesapeake potamac hurricane
While Wilma was far from the worst hurricane to hit Florida it is the worst hurricane I've experienced personally. Wilma blew a big tree onto my house which severely damaged my balcony and we lost power for over a week.
Irma wasn't quite as bad for me, the damage wasn't as bad in my area and we only lost power for about 3 days that time.
The seasons of 04, 05, and 06 were just wild. Growing up in south Florida during that time was just wild especially as a midwestern native
@@skinWalkman I thought 2006 was a quiet season?
@@Spagine I think I misremembered. I’m probably confusing it with the 03-05 seasons. It was a crazy few years
Great video, but I'd have to disagree on the Mississippi pick. As bad as Camille was, Katrina was worse in Mississippi in every way. It killed more people and caused significantly more damage. Katrina's surge was also higher than Camille's (28 feet vs 24 feet), affected a much larger area, and caused far more damage along the Mississippi coast.
Katrina hit Louisiana
Camille was still worst in Mississippi
@@Spagine Katrina made its first landfall in Plaquemines Parish Louisiana as a Cat 4 and a second landfall right along the Mississippi/Louisiana border as a Cat 3. Katrina's highest surge was measured in Mississippi, not Louisiana. It was 27 to 28 feet. The cities of Waveland, Bay St Louis, Gulfport and Biloxi experienced the highest storm surge heights ever recorded in the US and all of them experienced a larger, more destructive surge than in Camille. Katrina's surge in Mississippi was worse than Camille's in every way. It was higher, pushed farther inland, effected a larger area, and caused far more damage. Camille was bad but the surge was quite localized by comparison and even at it maximum, was lower in height. It destroyed more structures and killed more people in Mississippi than Camille.
I find Katrina's damage in Mississippi is often forgotten because it was overshadowed by the humanitarian crisis in the more populated city of New Orleans. But Katrina's highest surge and strongest winds in the right front quadrant hit Mississippi, not Louisiana. The max surge in New Orleans was about 17 feet along the lower 9th ward as the Atlantic pushed up the Mississippi. However, most of the flooding in New Orleans actually came from the Levee failure along Lake Pontchartrain, which failed from a northerly surge of about 11 feet on the left side of the hurricane. So New Orleans levees failed on the weaker side of the hurricane. The most intense part of the hurricane (the right front quadrant) hit Mississippi.
That wasn't even the peak wind gust of the 1938 hurricane. It was 186 miles per hour at Blue Hill Meteroroligical Observatory just outside Boston. This remains the highest wind gust associated with a hurricane anywhere in the US
it was most likely worse we didnt hàve the instriments to measure we do now, one thing is for sure if we ever had another like that one or the 1821 NYC hurricane it would be soley blamed on man made global warming
Hello! Great video and I appreciate you branching out into hurricanes too for a bit. However, one of the pictures you showed of the aftermath of the Galveston hurricane showed a woman in jeans and a Mickey Mouse sweatshirt, so I think that one must be from a different storm (Mickey wasn't born until 28 years after that storm). Not a big deal but I thought you may want to know.
i caught that too
At 4:37 you meant to say 1785
to hit EVERY US atlantic coastal state. except for Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.
This is a amazing video concept, and a great video at that. YOU ARE AWESOME!! KEEP GOING!!
I vividly remember Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina growing up in Louisiana. Andrew was the one that introduced me to the idea of "hurricane parties" as the eye passed over BR, neighbors grilling all the meat and vegetables they had before they could spoil, sharing amongst each other while others took care of damage and debris up to that point before the other part of the storm hit.
Katrina was more surreal since it didn't hit us head on, more so New Orleans. I remember being without power for two days and cable for about a week, and the amount of people from NO sheltering in the Rivercenter downtown and other points north-and-westward. Also remember that the "counterflow" evacuation plan wasn't executed the Friday before, but Saturday morning at the behest of Gov Blanco and Mayor Nagin, against the recommendation of the Bush and the DHS. Oh, and FEMA not getting the help they needed from the National Guard for two days because of the governor goofing up.
I'm surprised hurricane Harvey isn't considered on the list or a mention. The amount of rain it produced in Texas is unimaginable.
Galveston Hurricane of 1900 killed 12,000
@ElDoggo141 Yes Galveston had the most deaths but hurricane Harvey exceeded in many more other categories than Galveston so I'm a bit surprised Harvey hadn't at the very least receive a mention.
yeah Harvey ended up being the costliest hurricane on record for Texas and set several records for all-time rainfall for quite a few places in Texas. It parked itself over Texas and just let loose.
I was amazed because the thing just would not move on.
@@Wixyification yeah it did the same thing Agnes did in PA.
4:35 let's all be clear here about the lack of information about 1985 - the year of the great meteorologist strike. (1785 is the correct year)
Awesome video. I just can’t help but be fascinated by the fact that hurricanes, like in 1938, used to be able to hide in the “fog of war” of the Atlantic. You never knew what was coming
At 13:24, that isn’t a picture from the Galveston hurricane; Mickey Mouse wasn’t created for another 25+ years…
Awesome video, nonetheless.
I suspect we got Mick(ey) rolled. :-)
@@warrenmadden2586 it seems we have been… lol.
I lived through Sandy. For 3 hours we had 90mph winds in Trenton, and the whole time, there were flashes as power lines exploded everywhere. Some people didn’t have electricity for weeks, and the shore town of Mantoloking was split in two by the storm surge. It also completely flooded NYC’s subways and the regional rail tunnels, some of which still haven’t been fully repaired.
That sounds like it was awful for so many people go through that. I do remember hearing that people were without electric for a few weeks.
@@CatinthehatOct1989 The central pressure of Sandy was 945 millibars at landfall, the lowest pressure ever recorded in the northeast US. It is equivalent to a borderline Cat 3/4 hurricane. I’ll never forget the roaring, raging sound of the wind that night. You could feel the house shaking and hear transformers exploding everywhere. It was nightmarish.
0:06 Ian (2022) was a Category 5 hurricane and was the costliest in Florida state history.
It did reach cat 5, but it was cat 4 at landfall
@@ErikCB912still a cat 5
@@sportsgeek4101 yes, but again, not at landfall
@@ErikCB912 doesn’t change its classification, sorry
@@sportsgeek4101 when did I fail to acknowledge it was a cat 5?
Interesting fact about Hugo, when it went through Western NC it traveled directly through South Mountains State Park. While traveling through the park, it ripped massive slabs of rock (I think most are granite) clean off the mountains. One of the slabs is massive, at least 25 feet tall, a foot or so thick, and at least 10 feet long.
I was hoping you’d make a hurricane related video
I lived through hurricane sandy and I can tell you it was bad
Not sure how feasible it is, but it'd be cool if you covered The Great Labor Day Hurricane of 1935
If you ever get a chance to see photos of McClellanville SC after hugo. It looks like an atomic bomb went off. All the trees to the horizon where laid flat like toothpicks. Houses foundations were ripped from the ground. 13ft sea level increase.
11:33 hmmmmm pretty weird how their all tied as a very storng caragory 4, also wierd how your insurance is 100% free for a catagory 5... Also weird how alot of ships where ida made land fall recorded gust strong enough to support a cat 5 hurricane and how it and Katrina broke wind gages but in other states in didn't even though it was stronger... Pretty fishy
Hurricanes are right up my alley. 2004 was a fun time to be a Floridian
Hurricane ivan 💀
It was stupid 😜 lol 2005 was no joke either
@@MzKaylcC Hurricanes are a lot of fun in a way.
Man, your vids are always very entertaining and keep me really engaged into really listening out to what you have to say on every video. I have been subscribed to you since you had only a few hundred subscribers and have only wished for you to get bigger since. Glad to see you growing and getting more noticed, you deserve it.
Happy Weatherbox Wednesday! Love me some hurricane content too in addition to tornadoes.
How about the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane in the Florida Keys? It was a CAT 5.
Here in NY……when it comes between Irene and Sandy…most of us NYers consider Sandy to be worse since it combined with a nor’easter, was fueled by the warm Atlantic water, and happened during a full moon. With Irene, by time it hit Long Island and NY….yeah there was damage but it was pretty minimal. One of my relatives lived in Freeport right on the waterfront and when Irene hit…..he said that there was minor flooding well where his house was….like he didn’t really get any bad floods. The only real damage was just debris from the trees around the area. Now that’s not to say that other areas in NY didn’t get it worse because I’m sure that happened, but for the most part….it honestly wasn’t too bad. Sandy however…..there’s a reason for why it was nicknamed Superstorm Sandy, as well as Frankenstorm (due to it making landfall around Halloween) and why so many people here in the northeast still shake when they’re reminded of the storm.
actually the strongest hurricane to hit NY was the nameless hurricane that hit Long Island in 1938. I lived on Long Island for Sandy and it was wild to see the damage it caused, but my Grandpa lived in Lynbrook in 1938 and he said he literally saw trees leave the ground and almost fly away.
At 4:13 that is the roller coaster that was on the pier got floated out to sea
Star Jet, an E&F Miler Industries Hi-Miler model at Casino Pier. Never got to ride it. (Yes, I am a coaster nerd)
Anyone else notice that the Galveston Hurricane hit in 1900 but the lady is wearing a Mickey Mouse sweatshirt?? 13:27
13:24 - The woman in this photo, used to illustrate the 1900 Galveston hurricane, is wearing a Mickey Mouse sweatshirt. I assure you she was not doing this in 1900, since Mickey would not even be invented till 28 years later.
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Disappointed in your research. Sandy did not wipe out a piece of the Atlantic City boardwalk. That section of boardwalk had been wiped out many years earlier due to neglect. Sandy simply picked up the few boards that were still hanging by a thread. Saved the city the expense of having to eliminate the dangerous eyesore. The AC boardwalk was just fine after Sandy. Other parts of the island were not so lucky. The media hyped the boardwalk angle all out of proportion for ratings and clicks. Apparently, you bought it and continue to perpetuate the hype in your video.
Excellent content, as always, my fellow Northeastern Ohioan! I always look forward to your weather analyses!
Not even a honorable mention to harvey? I get it Galveston hurricane deserves it but I would at least give a call to harvey. Great video tho
Surprised you didn’t mention Hurricane Isabel for Maryland. I remember that storm was terrible.
Though we're not a coastal state, I believe the worst in Pennsylvania is a tie between Hurricane Agnes in 1972 (which was a tropical storm by the time it came to PA) and Tropical Storm Lee in 2011. The reason why they were so devastating is that they didn't move from over Pennsylvania for several days. Plus, Lee came right after Hurricane Irene had left Pennsylvania.
9:51 As of 1/15/2023, Ian has a monetary damage toll of over $110 billion, making it the 3rd costliest TC (Behind Harvey and Katrina,) and the costliest in Floridian history, surpassing that of Irma by more than twice.
13:25, I didnt know Mickey Mouse was around in the year 1900!?!?!
I live in SWFL (Direct Impact, North Northport, even made a video about Ian destroying my streaming/gaming pc lol) and I will tell you, it felt a lot more like a CAT 5 and not a CAT 4. I was here for Hurricane Charley and that guy was no walk in the park either lol. I went without power for 11days with Irma in Charlotte County.(thankful that was all it was out for but it got to 91degrees in the house without AC and wow I'll never forget that).
Being in any hurricane in Cape Hatteras, NC, is absolutely insane. Every year the island gets smaller and smaller. Beyond scary. Great video.
10 layers of Dunes down to 1
@@gianttigerfilms yup. Sad sight to see anymore. Soon the entrance to Buxton will just be gone entirely. A new island.
Excellent video! I remember Hurricane Sandy. I was honestly excited, being the little kid I was, I didn’t realize how dangerous it actually could have been.
If you are looking for a good book about The Galveston Hurricane, consider reading ‘Isaac’s Storm’. It talks a lot about the development of modern day meteorology.
what people need to realize is that these older hurricans wind speeds were measured at sea level. today they are measured at several thousand feet up by a plane going all through out the hurricane trying to find the highest wind speed possible. It could be 155 mph at 5000 ft but only 110 at sea level but still classified at 155 instead of the actual 110 at sea level.
Thanks for including storms from the 1800's. I'm wondering what documentation may exist from prior centuries?
How did hurricane Micheal in 2018 not make this list
Hurricane Michael was weaker than Andrew at landfall and it also did less damage than Andrew by $2B
Surprised you didn't mention that Hurricane Sandy also merged with a Winter Storm.
FYI, Mobile is pronounced “Mo-Beel”. 😂 Everyone gets it wrong. My parents talk about Federic all the time. It took until the following April Fool’s for debris to be picked up in their neighborhood. Mom has told me horror stories of the wind and how it would pick up vents in the house. They had major damage due to wind causing trees to snap. They didn’t mess around with any hurricane after it. Great video!!
does everyone remember Micheal? That destroyed a city in Florida.
Where's New York? That's a coastal state. I'd go with the 1938 hurricane. Florida you could also consider 1935 Labor Day hurricane.
He mentioned it at the beginning.
My grandmother lived in Florida and came to to visit me in California. While she was here, hurricane Ian hit her house. When she got back, her house was totally destroyed. We’re so lucky, that could have been much worse
"only 900 millibars" lol that's an extremely strong hurricane
Irma hit my old elementary school like a TRUCK. The playground, patios, and most of the roofs were absolutely torn apart, they couldn't even fix most of the damages in time for us to come back so they had to extent the period we were out for because of that. Spooky
What about Hurricane Mitch? It killed 20k
Irma was such a large storm and hit at just the right angle that it covered nearly the entire state of Florida, save for the western panhandle.
Pretty much every major city- Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Tallahassee, Orlando, Jacksonville all took considerable damage as did all the small towns in between. And as mentioned in the video, the Keys were absoloutely rocked by the monster storm.
Also, Irma caused one of the largest state wide power outages ever in Florida.
I would be interested in seeing worst hurricanes/hurricane remains for inland states
Very good. The pronunciation of southern cities was pretty funny tho