US Living: 4 Things I Honestly Thought Would Be A BIGGER DEAL
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- Before moving to the United States, I did have one or two reservations. There were certain elements of American life that I'd seen in films that I thought would be a much bigger deal once I lived in the US. Thankfully, those things haven't been anywhere near as central to my US existence as I initially feared. Here are four of them.
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Oh my god. The idea of the British media fearmongering about jaywalking in America is the funniest thing I've heard all day.
I’m sure the cop only arrested that historian for jaywalking because he did it immediately after being told not to. The police officer then needed to go on a little ego trip and punish the historian for not respecting his authoritah.
In a lot of US cities, especially the larger ones, jaywalking is technically against the law, but everybody still does it anyway and the laws against it are virtually never enforced. In the city I live in, the fine for jaywalking is set by statute at $1.00. Given that, even if the police wanted to strictly enforce anti-jaywalking laws, it simply would not be worth the paperwork.
Personally, I’d estimate that I jaywalk directly in front of a cop a least a couple of times per week and have never even been scolded for it.
When Winston Churchill came to America, he went to NYC. He looked in both wrong directions, then, stepped into street and was promptly run over by a taxi. I believe he survived the experience.
Jaywalking not only varies by state but also by city. Most places don't enforce it.
you’re not american if you haven’t jaywalked lmfao. it’s so low of a misdemeanor that it isn’t enforced in most states/cities
Isn’t that hilarious? I know I’m Boston jaywalking is more of an average Tuesday than an offense. Seriously, if the pedestrian actually crosses instead of meandering down the road you’re in luck.
As an American , growing up I really thought quicksand would be a much bigger deal .
Yes!
Hahahaha.... me too! you wouldn’t happen to be a child of the 60’s would you? quick sand often appeared on tv shows in those days as a treacherous obstacle. the idea of falling into some quick sand as I crossed the meadow on my way to school was a very real consideration. lol (quick sand) that sure does take me back !
Bro SAME cartoons and Indiana Jones really had me convinced
John Mulaney!!!
@@michellejoy3678 born in 66 so lots of shows I watched in the 70’s had that theme 😂
Living in the Midwest, my number one fear is other drivers on icy winter roads.
This!!!
It’s not even winter yet and I almost get hit by cars almost everyday when walking to class and work. They literally drive 1 foot away from me even tho it’s the law to give pedestrians 10 feet. I’ve actually had to jump out of the way. I’m sooooo scared I’m gonna get hit
As a Northerner living in the midwest I also fear midwesterners in the snow.
@@FakeRyanGuild at least they aren't southerners.
@Tom - hopefully, this account won't get hacked 3 feet for bicycles? I'm lucky if I get 3 inches!
Speaking of Jaywalking; I'm a Canadian who was visiting Seoul South Korea with a group. While in the downtown business district one day we grew impatient with the ridiculously long traffic light and decided to go for it and Jaywalk. The strangers also waiting at the light saw what we were planning and started to freak out. Finally the one man told us that we would die if we tried to cross. People drive too fast, ignore traffic rules and pedestrians die all the time there.
Of course you haven’t seen one, they are called brown recluse not brown socialite
I like your humor melodicgrog!
Brown socialite. Lol. Good one!
Years ago We used to see them under Boards when I was doing Construction!
I see a brown recluse about every 3 months in Arizona, and black widows are even more prevalent
😆😆😆
Tornados aren’t a big deal until they are. Then they are a very big deal
The truth in this comment is absurdly realistic. I’m in Tennessee, my area has relatively recently been deemed Dixie Alley as a nod to Tornado Alley. We’ve had 2 brushes with tornadoes and I have felt very mild earthquakes, twice.
Not cool. Not. At. All. Cool.
As a man in California my whole life, earthquakes are nothing. Even when they hit it they are still relatively nothing. Yet I always hear outsiders scared of the idea in regards to Cali.
@@BigSteelThrill Think of a tornado as an earthquake that has all of its energy scrunched up into a narrow moving dot. So within that moving dot, Richter 9.5. Outside of that moving dot, maybe Richter 2.0, or zero. If you don't get hit, not a big deal. If you do get hit, at worst you're dead, at best you have major building damage. Trailers in particular fare poorly against tornadoes.
Can confirm, still cleaning up 2 yrs later
I was gonna say the same thing: "A tornado isn't a big deal until it hits your house..."
You know, the jaywalking thing is interesting to me, because in the U.S., jaywalking is always used as the textbook example of "the most minor and inconsequential way in which a person could possibly break the law." Like, if a fictional character is riddled with guilt over jaywalking, you know they are _extremely_ straight-laced and follow the rules to the _letter,_ because jaywalking is a crime that literally no one cares about enforcing. As long as you aren't putting yourself and/or others in danger, you're fine.
Also, the term "jay" was originally an insult when the term was coined, and the term was invented by the automotive industry as part of an effort to shift the blame for car accidents onto pedestrians, so I really don't feel the least bit guilty about doing it.
Yeah but if you walk on a highway and get hit shouldn't the blame be on the pedestrian? Also walking when it's not your turn is the same as going through a red light. You are at fault if something happens and you aren't on a crosswalk as the pedestrian and I think it's quite common sense if you don't want to die. But In low speed areas sure who cares. But blaming the automotive industry when it's the one thing that saved our country is kinda sad.
@@likeablecloud2454 Are you... unanticipatedly expounding on movezig5's last sentence?
@@odo324 Yeah but the issue is that the term is needed. If some dumbass tries to commit suicide by walking in front of traffic it protects the driver. I processed his last sentence it's just that the whole idea of jaywalking is entirely unacceptable is stupid.
If you have a crosswalk we're people are supposed to stop and the road where you will probably die if you stop you have to understand why the crosswalks are needed. Then the term jay walking came out. His last sentence is stupid as yes although it was to push guilt on citizens it was needed as there were fucking idiots who put drivers in harm by walking were they shouldn't. And then if the driver hits them they would be guilty of murder for the pedestrians dumb decision.
@@likeablecloud2454 , "turns" are only necessary because of cars... Pedestrians and cyclists travel at speeds where you can just navigate between one another usually without stopping. In most countries, accordingly, cars get to wait their turn (stopping and staring is easiest for them anyhow; it's just a pedal assuming we are on surface streets) and everyone else can just go about their business. Highways are another matter of course, but that's not "jaywalking" since pedestrians aren't permitted at all on highways. And, frankly, strodes where you're likely to have a mix of pedestrians and cars going above 35 mph shouldn't exist; that's terrible city planning.
@@emma70707 dude jaywalking is literally walking were you shouldn't. Go to the crosswalks and the stroad isn't that dangerous. Sorry you seem to think they are dangerous because of speeds but most streets are 20 to 35 so it's quite literally a matter of not jaywalking.
the amount of times growing up in school having fire fighters and cops talking about stop drop and roll really made it seem like getting lit on fire was far more likely that it has been
It’s surprising how it only takes one time to make all that talk worthwhile.
@@moremerry57 Yeah, my uncle got lit on fire once as a kid. Thankfully his brothers were there and remembered, so they knocked him down and rolled him around. Still spent months in the burn ward, but it could have been a lot worse
Distructive weather, venomous spiders, deadly snakes, aggressive animals, dangerous geography... Watching Lawrence over the years has made me realize that other countries think about our nature the way we think about Australia. 🤣
Same
Yeah. That's probably true. 😄
I mean, every time California gets a wildfire we get sweet fire tornado pics.
Yes but in the US nature usually stays in nature. The threats in Australia seem to be more interested in checking out civilization, or maybe I watch too much tv
@@honkytonkinson9787 Lol. I've found snakes and one time a really intrepid opossum in my house in a fairly urban area of California (I often leave the back door open for my dog), and was once shocked to discover our trash bin outside was not being raided by stray dogs but rather by a pair of urban coyotes. I cannot even count the number of camel spiders I've seen in the garage. My friend had a bat fly into her house once, and another called me in a panic to come over to capture and remove a tarantula that had found its way into her home.
We won't even talk about the wildlife Florida residents call animal control to remove, but I always thought of Florida as a whole universe unto itself anyway. 🤷♀️
You’re not a Midwesterner unless you have gone outside during a tornado warning to look. Maybe while eating something with ranch.
So true😂
It’s the same in Texas and Louisiana.. only the food could be different. 🤣
That something had better be Bacon.
Same here in S. Carolina, I remember once in the early 90's during a tornado warning in 6th grade they made us huddle down in the hallways, and it was really close to us being let out of school for the day, and they kept us there for a good while after school, and all the parents who where coming to pick up their kids, my dad included were like WTF, let them out, I gotta get home, and all the while my dad was sitting in his truck drinking coffee, and eating powdered doughnuts lol!
And drinking Mt. Dew
Most of my life and adolescence was spent in South Texas, and I often visited family in the hill country. I'll never forget seeing an actual scorpion on my aunt's wall as a child, and though I was told it was normal, I couldn't sleep that night.
As far as spiders go, however, I can't tell you 100% one way or another if I've encountered a brown recluse or not, and in some way, that kind makes it scarier. There's LOTS of different species of spiders in Texas, and 90% of them are harmless, but there's also a lot that look very similar to each other... or in other words, we have a LOT of brown spiders, but the only dangerous brown spider is the brown recluse, so when you see a big brown spider, you're not 100% sure if it can kill you or not. This has, at least made me (and I imagine a lot of other Texans) very wary of pretty much any brown spider, and when we find one we either tend to let it go outside or kill it on the spot.
Our black spiders are not as scary, considering the only ones you really need to worry about is the female black widow, which has an undeniably easy to identify red hourglass marking on its back that's nature's way of saying "don't touch me"
Worth pointing out that the most "impressive" part of identifying a brown recluse, specifically is that it's always much smaller than I figure it should be... just eyeballing it anyway. There are field guides for determining colors and markings along with other details about spiders and spider kin (like scorpions)... BUT with scorpions the "general rule" is that the larger the scorpion, the less dangerous it tends to be for humans. It's not a perfect rule, admittedly, but a fairly useful (98%-ish) rule when confronted with a scorpion in the house or in camp... as it were. ;o)
The stars at night, are big and bright-
Another thing for people who are unfamiliar with black widows; since they are web dwellers, its very rare to see them walking around after they've picked a place to set up shop. They do tend to become more active at night though, so they will be less likely to hide away then in the daytime, unless its in a cluttered place like a garage. The reason I'm saying this is because a black widows web feels different to the touch then other more common webs that belong to Daddy Long legs etc. A Widows web is strong to the touch. So if you accidently touch a web and notice that it feels more substantial, Get Your Hand Back. They will not charge at you but it always feels safer to me.
I live in Alabama and went on a backpacking trip recently. I moved a stone to sit on and underneath I found 5 scorpions. First time I’ve ever seen them. In Alabama, not Arizona or Colorado, but my home state of freaking Alabama
We visited family in East and Central Texas every summer when I was growing up. When we would go to our family reunions in Golthwaite, TX, there were only 2 hotels. The Hereford, which had crickets and scorpions, and the Mauny (sp?) which had slime mold. We stayed at both at different times but all agreed that the Hereford, with its crickets and scorpions was preferable to the moldy other hotel.💯
Speaking as a Missourian, if there's ever any news about a tornado, chances are, you or someone you know are going to be seen outside staring at the sky for about 10-20 minutes. At the minimum.
I was born in Minneapolis and moved when really young. We went back to see the house my parents had me and my sister in and we stayed at an rv park. I asked my dad "what does a tornado warning sound like?".... 15 minutes later we are all in the designated bunker (the main bathroom building) surrounded by on radar what looked to be 3 tornados. I've never seen purple and green lighting before or since.
Yup.
FYI, when the tornado sirens go off, contrary to what you've heard about hiding in the basement, we actually go outside to look for them.
well i wanna see how bad the cleanup is going to be!
Right, who wants to miss that kind of weather phenomenon
yep, open the garage door, put up a few camp chairs in the garage, and watch the storm roll in...
Same. The sky is really pretty right before and it's eerily calm for a bit.
Exactly. That's why he hasn't seen any.
"I could have played for Manchester United in England... if it wasn't for reality." Even as an American that made me smile.
Manchester United.... pffft.... if your going to have a fantasy it might as well be for playing for City.
@@JohnSmith-gm4fj Chudley Cannons FTW!
I know a man who actually did play for Manchester until he was permanently injured. He still works with them, but he now teaches at a high school nearby me in the States. Of course, he coaches soccer, too.
@@ebwarg I’m more of a Hollyhead Harpies fan! Go, Ginny!
@@Ripplesinthewaters You mean he's a football coach?
I mean, I'm from Texas. Currently, when I open the shed to fetch my lawnmower, I have to stand WAY BACK when I swing open the doors to avoid the colony of brown recluse spiders that have webbed it all over on the inside. I have also had to pick up a friend from the hospital when there was a nest of brown recluse that lived in her mattress, bit the shit out of her through the night, and almost killed her. Tornadoes are also a thing in my neck of the woods :) So, by just not being in Texas you're safe from at least half your list.
Karimonster -
So far I've been bitten by them in South Carolina and Oklahoma. A friend in Florida lost the sight of one eye when one crawled onto her face and bit her while she slept. That was Florida.
@@jamesredman1263 Had a neighbor who was bitten by one on the temple and lost the sight in his eye (and it went all gray, cloudy, and gross-looking) for about eight months, but it eventually got better. Took about two years to get back to normal, though.
Wait wait wait. I didn't know Brown relcuse spiders lived in Texas. That might be the one thing that'll make me move.
That mattress sounds like a nightmare
Maybe if Texas starts making a big deal about all the venomous creatures and dangerous things that exist in Texas, we can lower the number of people moving to Texas.
I had a couple of university roommates that were exchange students from the UK. They were talking about hiking around an unmarked trail. The conversation went something like:
"how many people are you taking with you?"
"Oh, just me."
"Uh... You _do_ realize there is a cougar warning around that trail, right?"
"But [American student] goes all the time by herself."
"Yeah but she has a concealed carry permit."
"Beg pardon?"
"She takes a handgun with her in case a cougar decides to attack. What do you do in the UK to protect against big predators?"
"Uh... The biggest predators we have are foxes and wild dogs."
"So... No bears or wolves or cougars or coyotes or pissed off deer/moose?"
"No! WTF?! Do you have that here?!"
"Well not the bears and wolves and moose, but my grandpa lives in Idaho and he has to watch out for bears and wolves. I think he takes a rifle with him when walking to the mailbox."
"America is scary."
"Pssh, just take a couple friends with you and you'll be fffffiiiine!"
I live in Rural MN, nothing in the woods scares me (though I usually have a lever-carbine with me.) - But Once a month I must drive to the Twin Cities...I got a carry permit, that's the REAL Jungle! (No not a racial thing, just thugs in general.)
Jaywalking is one of those offenses you'll probably only ever get caught doing if you end up pissing off a police officer because then he'll try to stick you with everything on the book.
Along with all the things in the book too!
Exactly. The cops wrestled him down because *he kept ignoring them!*
The reminds me of a parade I was at one year during Mardi Gras season: we were all behind the barricades waiting for the parade to arrive, and a cop was walking up and down the street. A drunk (we were all drunk,. but he was *drunk)* tried to hop the barricades to get to the other side, and the cop said "no". Wash, rinse, repeat... twice. By this time, the cop was tapping his billy club in his palm. Dumb Drunk hopped the rail anyway, and the cop *beat the crap out of him* then hauled him off to the paddy wagon. We all cheered.
Kind of like littering as well. I've seen people unwrap candy and throw the candy wrappers on the sidewalk right in front law enforcement. Technically it's littering but if you do it while a cop is yelling at you for something else, he or she will throw that into the ticket. Although they'll likely enforce littering if it's like an empty soda pop or beer can you throw to ground, then that's just plain rudeness to the public.
@@paullangland6877 the law i hate is how it is supposedly illegal to throw away your trash in someone else's bin. I don't own a recycling bin but my neighbors do so on the day it's supposed to go out I take it for them and throw my recycling in there. Also a good time to point out we live in a condo so there bin is just under the stairs.
@@bland9876 "the law i hate is how it is supposedly illegal to throw away your trash in someone else's bin."
You can't hate a law if it doesn't exist; Google the damned thing and see if it's real.
Based on my elementary school education, I always thought being lit on fire would be a much bigger problem than it actually is.
*stop*drop*roll*
I swear they beat that into my head more than they did any other academic course.
And yet you see videos of people on fire running all over internet/news/tv shows... while I'm yelling "stop running you fool!"
Maybe it's less of a problem than it otherwise would be because kids are taught to stop/drop/roll/run around flailing?
Strangle I have been on fire or almost on fire so often that I don't ware synthetic fabrics. That's on account of bad life choices like drunken bonfires and running into danger.
I know 2 ppl that "stop, drop, and roll" saved their life. It was worth the lesson. 😂
Wasps: Use poison under cover of darkness. Strike quickly and violently. Then retreat like a blitzkrieg. Do not underestimate. A fist sized nest may seem like a minor nuisance, until you get too close.
Got a nest of hornets this past summer on our porch... The thing's about the size of a basketball! Keeps the (other) bugs out of the house, though...
Will probably (now that cold weather is setting in) clamp a bucket around the thing with gasoline in the bottom and then slice it off... Cap the bucket quickly once it falls in... AND that's that. ;o)
Wasps, Yellow Jackets and hornets are WAY more of a problem than any "deadly" spider... which truly aren't that deadly at all. I really dislike flying stingy things. Oh and Velvet Ants ... DO NOT pick up no matter what.
@@Cattrix999 Funny you should bring up Velvet Ants... I picked one up two summers ago and stuck it in a coke bottle... brought the thing to Terminex and had that guy identify it...
I'd never seen such a cool looking ant in my life! I just wanted to know what the Hell it was...
"SO..." I said upon learning about the "Mule Killer wasp"... "That was among the top 10 dumbest f***in' things I've done in my life. Right?" ;o)
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 Well you were certainly lucky. We had a 15" pool put up in the backyard a few years ago, we had to buy sand to layer in the perimeter before the vinyl was laid down. A few days later I found this beautiful red and black fuzzy large ant, booking it across my sewing room. I followed the critter until it came to the wall and squeezed under the baseboard. I didn't have the inclination to pick it up because bright red and black told me.. ahh shouldn't touch that. Later googled and found out it was a Velvet Ant which is really a large flightless female wasp with a Freaking Bad Sting attached. I was nervous for a few years every time I used my sewing room. But nothing ever showed back up. We speculate that this gorgeous beast had come in on the delivered pile of sand to cushion the bottom of the pool. You can actually buy these now online to keep as pets.. I keep tarantulas and see different species of velvet ants for sale every once in awhile .. so if you are interested you can be the proud owner of a few :) . not me, I'll stick to my spiders
@@Cattrix999 Yeah... lucky is one way to put it... I avoided (through no fault of my own) a horrible sting that day...
I normally relegate my brand of "stupid" to wrangling the dangerous reptiles... since nobody wants that job or function in life... if they're sane.
SO the whole "bright colors mean danger" software didn't stick with me... (lolz)
AND those "spiders" are technically megalomorphs... AND I'm sort of confident you've already been warned that they die from being dropped, so I can tentatively stay relatively comfortable with handling them... ;o)
As a kid, quicksand, undercurrents, and rip tides were my concerns, never minding the fact that I live probably a thousand miles from the ocean.
Also, downed power lines. I've only been around for two events causing those.
A few things do stand out as being just as dangerous as I was taught:
-crossing the street,
-earthquakes. God damn, I was inside for most of a magnitude 5.7 one and I busted down an interior door just because the lock was a little stuck and I could not suffer any delay from getting out of my old house.
-ricocheting detritus while shooting guns. Wear your eye protection while shooting. It's no joke getting a piece of copper jacket from a bullet in your eye.
There's like 10 brown recluse spiders in my garage right now. We have a "you don't f with me and I won't f with you" thing going on.
Best way to go.
Sounds like some shitty roommates. Do they at least pay rent?
Make them pay bills
they're everywhere in the lower midwest. I find them in my basement, at work, in my parent's barn, and at my friend's auto body shop. here's the thing: they're shy, they flee before they bite, are relatively small so they have trouble breaking the skin, and don't inject venom like 95% of the time when they do bite. Most importantly, it's been found the danger of their venom is grossly overstated unless you let the small wound they can cause get infected. Most of the "brown recluse" bites you see on the internet are MRSA if you actually track down the source, true recluse bites develop VERY differently than those pictures. It's almost like a rash that turns into a bruise that turns into a small blister, usually between the size of a pea and a dime at worst, that then just sort of scars over. The pics I've seen of confirmed recluse envenomations are practically identical to the time I put on a boot with a paper wasp inside of it, and it stung me several times in the same spot before I could get it off. It sucked but it wasn't THAT bad, and the only lasting effects was a very small circular scar
Sounds like me and the black widows living in my motorcycle. I tried to get rid of them, but they really seemed to have their hearts set on living there so we leave each other alone and they get to go on road trips with me.
I literally spit my coffee out when you described "A tornado results in the death of a witch" as a documentary. That was the funniest thing I've heard in a long time. 👍
As documentaries go, that was a good one. Very instructional if, by chance, you find a road made of lemony masonry work. 😂
There's no place like home.
I'm late to the party, but I used to live in Mississippi, and I saw SO many brown recluse spiders.
My house was totally infested.
And it turns out they're not as aggressive as they're made out to be, and in the winter, the cold makes them very sluggish.
Of course, if you get used to their slow speed, as I did, because I first moved into my house in the winter, when the summer comes, and the same spider moves like lightning?
It's a little startling.
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And as for black widows, I've found them in Alabama under the spot where you turn your water on and off for the house, where the utility person checks it.
There's usually a little concrete box set into the ground that said "Water" on it.
It should've said: Box O' Widders, because it had a very striking black widow and her little baby widows.
Both of these spiders, the recluse and widow, aren't spiders you're likely to mistake for any other spider, once you've learned what they look like.
The widow in particular, in nature, is a very glossy globular black, with the legs perched under the hump of that globe.
You don't even need to see the red hourglass, because that shape is so distinctive.
And like you, I'm not afraid of spiders, in general, just in specifics, like when my hand is upon one unexpectedly.
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In my house, at first I tried a policy of live and let live.
Spiders eat bugs, I thought, so I'll leave them alone.
This worked OK until I watched a particularly large spider cross a piece of paper.
I heard the patter of its little feets (claws, they're called claws) clattering on the sheet.
I thought I could see the paper bend under its weight.
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That spider was put outdoors like a small dog.
Do countries outside the US ever talk about the crazy hail we get here? Just curious. Where I grew up in Colorado had incredibly destructive hail storms. They would destroy cars, windows, rip the siding right off of houses, even strip trees of leaves and branches.
Just curious if storms like that happen in the UK or if I too live in a hellscape?
Also, giant forest fires and the resulting weather patterns they create.
Live in Maryland. Almost everything misses us, and I couldn't be gladder. But we have gotten hail the last few winters, and while ours is nothing like yours I cans e how it could easily be destructive. But you're right, people don't talk about it much!
Montana feels your pain
@@chip9177 us rocky mountain states got to stick together!
Here in Michigan we don't get hail nearly as bad as your region.
I thought that was a US thing too. Then I went to Melbourne, Australia. Three days into the trip, we got hit with a huge hailstorm.
Honestly I'm a little sad that you haven't experienced the demented Midwestern pastime of seeing a pea green sky outside, hearing the wail of a tornado siren, and running outside to try and get a glimpse of the funnel. Or yelling at your Dad to turn the TV off and come to the basement. Good times.
We always had a contest to see who could catch the most hail when we were home with dad. Mom survived the 74 Xenia, oh tornado though, so if she was home, we were locked in a closet. (No basement)
My childhood summers in a nutshell.
My grandson and I were the only two home last time a tornado warning came and we had two large dogs. So we sat in the hallway with one dog pulled over still in his crate, afraid he'd freak out. We sat on the floor and played on our phones when suddenly I said " do you think the dogs are wondering what the hell is wrong with this picture?" 😂😂
Quick, everyone run outside to watch the tornado
I live in nebraska and I haven’t experienced it yet
When I was a kid in Oklahoma, I used to ride a tarantula to school while being chased by a tornado. Just sayin'.
In Illinois we just road the tornado.
That made me LOL! So true!
One word: alligators.
@@JonGee420 In Illinois, its a struggle to find an intact road to take in the first place. God forbid your arachnid is on the fritz.
@@LostShipMate last time I was in Illinois I gassed up in Indiana and drove all the way through without stopping for fear that I would be taxed for something
I live in NYC. Jaywalking and crossing the street when the light is not in your favor, (as a pedestrian), is normal. In fact, the easiest way to spot a tourist is to see who stops when the signal says "don't walk."
I grew up mostly in Florida, as that was where I was born. Us kids learned to avoid the spiders in the woods and our bedrooms. When turning over old logs, we watch out for rattle snakes and black widows. We saw a lot of them. Us kids running around in the woods and in our back yards (same thing), while our parents are doing other things, we just carefully move an old log or toy and say "I see a black widow" and we then put the log back down and go on our way. We might tell our parents. When we do, they say, "Well, be careful, just don't mess with that log." If we see a rattle snake, we tell our mother who gets a 20 gauge shot gun and goes out to shoot it. She didn't let us shoot it because we might miss it and just get it mad. We were around ten years old, so that was a good idea. Not that we didn't use the shot gun or rifle, we did, just not to shoot a rattle snake.
I dream of a world were a chicken can cross the road without
having his motives questioned.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
It didn't. It just kindof wandered out there and did fuck-all for a solid minute.
Even then the chicken will still be the joke.
The chicken crossed the road because it was stupid. Very stupid. I work with them for a living so I know! In all fairness it's our fault for inbreeding them to the Nth degree, but they truly aren't mental giants.
@@agoogleuser4443 Still smarter than the domestic turkey!
Why did the Chicken cross the road?
To get away from Gonzo!
Why did Gonzo cross the road?
He was chasing the chicken!!
I thought Quicksand would play a bigger part in my life when growing up
It's a lot more likely to take your shoes,than your lfe.
Farmers drained all their wetlands. They were losing cattle.
2 years ago I would have laughed like a clown at that... but then I got stuck in quicksand.. it scared the fuck out of me because I am old and it took over 2 hours to free myself... my brother also got stuck. At first it was funny.. you know getting your boot stuck in the mud... but then you pull it out and the other is stuck even worse... and it goes on. At first you are just in up to your ankles.. and then the knees... It was comical I am sure... but not funny for us... until we were safe..
@@drmorqWarrenProject Glad you are both safe. I have never seen it (I am in New Zealand) but it does exist and it is dangerous if you panic. It was in every movie and tv series as a kid. So i thought it was everywhere...
We have areas of quicksand in Toronto, Ontario. The big pond, formerly a bay on Lake Ontario is called Grenadier Pond because 2 British Grenadiers fell through the ice and were sucked into the quicksand on the bottom. Part of the Toronto subway runs through circular metal tunnels because the subway runs through a pocket of quicksand. The trains are severely limited for speed through the area because the weight of the train could create a bow wave that could cause the tunnel to flex to much and break.
I remember back when I worked at an airport I had a foreign guy come up to me and he pointed to our tornado shelter on site, and he was like, do..-do you guys actually use that?? I remember just being like, uhh, I mean, yes..? He was so genuinely worried about tornadoes so I had to explain that not only were they out of season, but most Midwesterners basically give no thought to them and a lot of times ignore the sirens. Like we have some bad ones every so often, like when Joplin, MO got straight leveled some years back, but that's like a once in a decade type event.
As far as recluses go, oh man Midwesterners also fear them but generally as long as you vacuum and actually use all the rooms in your house you wont have issues. However, I have heard stories of people just like, oh yeah had this spare bedroom that's never gone into and we moved the couch in there and there a massive nesting and like 50 brown recluses just chilling in there. True story btw.
But tbh even other Americans do exactly what you did, like people on the coast will be like, oh I could never live in the Midwest because Tornadoes are scary, or Midwesterners will be like, oh I could never live on the coast because of earthquakes and tropical storms. So don't feel bad, we do the same thing to each other.
I worked at a Walmart one summer and they had this display that looked like a small smokehouse (think wooden frame and corrugated metal walls/roof) that they would use to display summer sausage and cheese. They stored it on the ground outside and asked a few of us to bring it in and set it up. That thing was covered in black widow spiders when we went to get it, but we just had to brush them off the best we could and bring it in to set up. Quite a few of them made the trip and lived happily in the middle of the deli.
I remember visiting Ireland and my cousins asked if it was scary with all the big storms and I had to tell them I lived on the other end of the country from all those big storms in the South East. A lot of people don't realize how big the US is.
I live on the south east and I had a tornado rip threw our town like 10 years ago and another one a few months ago
They say we're going to get hit by a tropical storm here tomorrow. It looks to be shaping up to be a fairly big storm. Just rain and some wind though. I don't anticipate it being life threatening. I've never been in any storm that was really life threatening I don't think. Although once I was stupid enough to drive in water a few feet deep. I was in a 4WD truck though so I made it OK. I could have gone around it. If I'd known how deep it really was I would have. Turns out once you're committed you pretty much have to press on.
The media doesn't do us any favors either. During all the riots last year, my Canadian friend was legitimately afraid for my life as if the entire country was burning down- thanks international media.
@@bodyofhope you wouldn't have known anything was going on from where I live. One day when I was out I saw a small group that tried to do something on a highway here. But they were just too small and were largely ignored so it never amounted to anything.
When my wife's family (Cuban) in Miami saw the news about the attacks in NYC & D.C. on 9/11, they called to check on her, worried for her safety. She lived in Cincinnati.
2:03
"Only every three years?"
- all of us living in tornado alley
Us in Alabama - Spring = tornado season
@@senseijoyner yup I once saw one a few hundred feet away, thank God it started going the other way and we had a basement
In OK, grew up just a couple miles South of the area that seen more tornadoes than anywhere else, and having witnessed 2 tornadoes that both maxed and likely exceeded EF5, every 3 years sounds very optimistic. One week, it was tornados until at least 3 am every day for a week straight. So depending where you are, that stereotype isn't unfounded. But it's also a drinking game.
Funny enough, for all the BS of 2020, very mild tornado season, but Canada's weather got drunk and played around in my backyard for a couple weeks to make up for it.
The first weekend after moving to Midwest City, OK, I saw a tornado outside the window (but a mile from us) the restaurant we were eating in. Two years later one sent hail and broke all of the apartment windows on my side of the complex. I still own a house in Moore, OK (we PCSed from there after living 13 years in OK, in 1998), where a number of tornadoes have managed to wipe out large sections of nearby streets, but it has been just fine. Weather doesn't worry me, lol. I also grew up with earthquakes, so maybe that's why tornadoes and hurricanes don't faze me.
26 years in Missouri and I've seen SO many tornadoes, but never seen one actually destroy anything. I was afraid of them when I was little, but not anymore. Lol.
I live in Oklahoma and am actually studying meteorology in grad school - so I've definitely seen tornadoes, caught a black widow in my house, and shaken brown recluse out of blankets put up for the winter. But all my friends from the coasts are equally freaked out by them, so it's not just a UK vs US thing!
New to your channel, and loving it! In my teens, I was bitten on 2 different occasions by brown recluse about a year apart but in the same place, left ankle. First one was much worse, never saw what got me, it was in my sleeping bag while camping in the Cumberland Mountains TN, and necrosis started before I could get any medical help. Second one, I knew what had happened, and got back down off the mountain to a doctor pretty quick. Ankle never fully healed right, since the bites I've broken the lower left fibula three times.
As an American kid in the 70s, my biggest fears were quicksand and Bigfoot 😂
Me too...and i thought everyone's garage had an anvil and blasting caps!
Bigfoot? Wow, bruh
The Syfy channel: Bigfoot and tornadoes write that down!
Same
My biggest fear was the girl who lived next door's father.
so THATS why my friends kept asking me whether it was true that jaywalking is illegal in america when i lived in manchester. I was so confused why brits were so concerned about our almost never enforced misdemeanor crimes
generally in my experience its only ever enforced when one of 2 things happens 1) the cop is behind on his ticket quota and needs to get more tickets or 2) your jaywalking was a component in an accident causing people to be injured or worse. Also its almost never enforced in smaller towns and cities
In the late 90s and early 00s there was a rash of smaller (especially college) towns enforcing the jaywalking laws (at least in the Deep South) - but it was usually as part of a ticketing quota/scare tactic used sporadically just to remind people that it was illegal and often dangerous. It was especially used at start of fall term. These areas were generally unfriendly to and dangerous for pedestrians or cyclists anyway. I have not seen jaywalking enforced since I returned from York (where some of my friends practically had to push me across the roads when I wanted to wait for signals - from a fear of cars more than laws) and suspect it is because the areas have become more pedestrian friendly. That said, when driving, you do have to keep a eye on all of the cellphone zombies out there.
I remember hearing that one a lot when I was a kid, how we shouldn't jaywalk. Then you grow up and realize you can pretty much do what you want, within reason. Jaywalking in New York City, for example, isn't within reason. But in smaller cities, jaywalking is fairly common.
@@curiouslywoven9737 following the traffic laws in smaller cities actually makes less sense than jaywalking. So the crosswalks are only ever at the intersection so when I can cross I'm always at risk of being hit by people just cruising through their red to turn or blitzing between cars to turn or people pulling up to the light to turn right on red. If I jaywalk a bit further up I no longer have to worry about traffic in 4 directions, just left and right. Yeah the cars shouldn't be mowing you over but I'm middle aged and cannot recall a single pedestrian strike ever resulting in charges despite both being in the cross walk with the right of way and pedestrians always having the right of way anyhow. So everyone tries to bully/blast/squeak by you regardless of how close that cuts it and they do so at high speed.
Enforced in Canada, so keep to the cross-walks! Safer for everybody!!
Grew up in the bay area, we had on average about 70 earthquakes a week (mostly small ones) but I grew up in a trailer that would start rolling (just a little bit) everytime the earth started shaking. You begin to ignore anything under a magnitude 5 real quick.
From North Georgia, was here when that EF4 tore through Rossville, and have killed at least around 20 recluses.
A coworker of mine came back from lunch one day with a ticket for jaywalking. She'd been walking down the street and spied several people standing with a police officer on the other side and being nosy crossed over to see what was going on. The officer just told her to get in line as he was ticketing all of them for jaywalking.
They should have scattered.
I want it even pay it a lot of people don't know but they're not really worried about Minor tickets being paid off I haven't paid off minor tickets in years
On the other hand I have been picked up on warrants for things that are little more serious but the minor tickets never come up though
I live in the county right above New York City: everyone jaywalks, it’s normal. Cops could get you for it I never heard of it happening. Went to college in New Hampshire: without a car in site I would cross the street & classmates would look at me as though I had a death wish.
hahahaha she shouldn't have been so nosy!
He also said disoriented instead of disorientated. Assimilation is complete.
I noticed that too.
Bwahahaha. Yesssss.
:distant chanting: one of us, one of us, one of us
He now officially speaks *American* , not English, muhahaha.
Actually both are considered correct in in both countries, though disorientated is about twice as common.in the UK, and disoriented is far more common in the US.
Great script-writing and transitions. Thank you.
I live in an area of the US that is very prone to tornadoes and I've had a similar conversation with a friend of mine from England. While tornadoes are devastating when they actually strike a populated area, the vast majority of them touch down in the countryside then dissipate harmlessly a few minutes later. Many of them never fully form to begin with (these are sometimes called 'funnel clouds' or might be referred to on news broadcasts simply as 'heavy rotation').
Most populated areas of the plains states have advanced warning systems. Typically the air raid sirens are sounded when a tornado is spotted in the area. It's been nearly 50 years since someone in my city has been killed by a tornado.
Here in Chicago, we’ve heard of this urban legend of the ‘jaywalking law’. We cross anywhere, anytime..carefully. Assume every car is TRYING to hit you.
In Chicago, Jaywalking is an extreme sport. We're basically playing Real-Life Frogger
Extra points if you cross in front of the Daley Center. If you get hit there you’ll die of paper cuts from all of the attorneys’ cards being thrown on your prone body!
Wait...they’re not trying to hit me?
Then you Have Florida, where the Pedestrian has Right of Way
@@railbaron1 ?? Thats in every state
"...you won't find them in libraries."
You can, under 796.
Well played, dog
A joke using the Dewey Decimal System, I am going to take a picture of this.👍. My sister once sent me a text with a bunch of numbers and said to disregard it as she just couldn’t find a pencil and needed to remember the numbers. I laughed and messaged back, asking why she was looking for books about health and sports. Never message a librarian call numbers because they will know what you are up to.
Conan, the Librarian now respects you.
@@endymallorn And my respects for a UHF reference
All roads lead to Weird Al.
I love how honest you are!
Couldn't help but notice how the two maps you showed reveals that tornado alley is very similar to brown recluse territory. I especially noticed since southern Missouri where I live is right in the heart of both! I've taken shelter from several tornadoes and a couple have done damage in my neighborhood, but I've never actually seen one. I wish I could say the same for Brown Recluses - despite their name, they are seen all the time around here and it is terrifying, to be honest. In my nearly fifty years, though, I've only ever seen four black widows - two outside and two indoors. I actually find them less frightening than Brown Recluses - although they are still pretty scary.
In Missouri, Tornadoes are like live sports: exciting, loud and more fun when you're drunk and watching them than when you're actually participating
Yeah... I’m from Florida and we used to break out the slip n’ slide during hurricanes...otherwise they’re boring.
Watching a tornado from the roof of your house is sort of a rite of passage in Missouri! What part of Missouri are you from? I am from Northeast MO.
@@leewitte4580 North Central. Chariton County
Soccer fields are literally everywhere. Especially high schools and colleges. But also a lot of elementary schools and parks.
You are no stupid, just careful. I so enjoy watching your uploads. Some day I would love to visit Britain. Thank you again for all the work you put into your vlogs and have a fantastic day.
I’ve been through one major Earthquake, a hurricane, a volcanic eruption, a spider bite bad enough to require a hospital visit, a rattlesnake strike, numerous bear encounters, and several major forest fires too close for comfort, but the worst thing I’ve experienced was poison oak. It was a minor annoyance the first few times until that one time it was so bad I couldn’t walk for a week.
The person who got stopped after they jaywalked was almost certainly more about the fact that the officer had ordered him not to, and he did anyways, then it was about the actual jaywalking
You sound lucky
Once my husband got a ticket, I kid you not, because the HAND was red on the crosswalk. He was walking.🤷♀️
@@mangot589 yeah, that sounds pretty excessive (of the officer) for most situations.
@@mangot589 I mean that's essentially the same as going through a red light. Whether you're driving, on a bicycle, or walking, the rules of the road still apply to you. Not that I agree with all of them, but they exist, and you can't be all that upset or surprised when you get a ticket for breaking them.
Yes, he acted as of the officer didn't exist
As a kid my mom would huddle my 5 siblings under the basement stairs during tornado warnings. We'd about kill each other ! Dad on the other hand wanted to take us all in the family station wagon and go look for them. We preferred going with dad @
I remember in the 70’s watching shows on killer bees coming here from other countries.
Yep. And it was real, I remember a news segment about a lady in Texas (I think) who was trapped in her car because they swarmed it trying to sting it. I forget how they got them away.
A researcher in Brazil was trying to crossbreed a type of African bees that are very aggressive but also very productive, with local bees to get higher production. They escaped and spread out. They would intensely attack anything they deemed a potential threat - including random animals and humans. The issue was finally resolved when they were absorbed into wild local honeybee populations and their aggression faded, much like what the researcher was trying to accomplish in the first place.
Great video!!
I have a fear of going to Britain and being accosted by old men wearing tweed blazers, flat caps and demanding to know if I’m a Dickens Man.
That just sounds like the creative writing department at my university.
Sounds like a scene from "A Clockwork Orange".
@@starman6280 they wore bowlers
I'm scared of going and being arrested for thinking I still have free speech
That's my dream vacation!
Jay walking is a sport; it’s called Dodge Car.
Citizen’s arrest! Citizen’s arrest!
You have won the TH-cam comment section!
I was going to say something similar. Jaywalking is most definitely a common college sport. It’s a race to see whether or not you can get across the road to the pizza place before a semi comes barreling around the blind corner... if you win, you get a pizza.
or Frogger
@@bookcat123 And if you lose you're a road pizza!
Here in Kansas, when the tornado siren goes off, we all go outside and sit on our porches and watch them.
I was living in Arkansas, at the time, when I was bitten, on the shin, by a brown recluse while mowing my yard. When the swelling was the size of a softball My wife took me to the ER, where the doctor agreed that it was a spider bite and that I should see my doctor tomorrow. I said it was hurting now and could he not do something about it.
He began administering the lidocaine, inserting the needle into the wound. As I am lying there trying not to kick the doctor from the pain, my wife tells me, "That's the pain shot." I responded by growling out, "IT'S WORKING!"
I still have my leg, so everything worked out.
Love you show!
My daughter had been *in* three tornadoes by age 18. In NJ and PA, not really tornado central. She’s just talented like that.
Does that mean she's been inside those tornados? While not being inside of a building?
I grew up in rural PA along the upstate NY border and have had a handful of tornados touch down within my area. None of them very powerful though. My sister managed to get a picture of one right by our house
@@MrC0MPUT3R Around 1998-1999 while traveling on 219 near PA/NY Border I was forced to pull over due to a tornado.
Typically, if a tornado flings you a mile away, you're not going to find yourself anywhere, ever again.
Except the afterlife, or possibly Florida if you believe in reincarnation AND going to hell.
Someone else will have to do the finding for you.
You mean I won't go to Oz?
@@LanMandragon1720 I don't think Australia is a viable landing point. I do hope you have your passport ready.
@@Lycanthromancer1 🤣🤣🤣
Love your sense of humor! Thanks for the laughs. I moved to San Antonio from Melbourne, Florida. I’ve seen tarantulas but no brown recluse. I guess they didn’t come out.
I'm in TN and our dorms always had some sort of bug issue, but my room in particular had several brown recluses pop up over the years and I was the one who took care of spiders because my roommate was arachnophobic. One memorable instance was a recluse climbed out of the sink drain and I had to pull it out with tweezers and throw it out the window.
When I visited England back in high school I thought I'd see Royal Guards everywhere with people constantly taking selfies with them or trying to get them to break concentration. Turns out they aren't just randomly posted on every other street corner 🤦♂️
When we visited England my wife worried that my army language, which tends toward the colorful, would offend someone.. Things were going swimmingly until we entered a fish and chip shop with our elderly tour guide, a WWII veteran, who commented that their appeared to be a group of German tourists dining in the corner. I replied “ don’t you like Germans ?” The answer was a very ungentlemanly and loud “f..k’m all”, followed by an equally loud “g.d.im” from an old gent behind the service counter.
@@stephenchapel2058 Fawlty Towers: The Germans
@@DurkMcGerk lol great one
I thought British policemen would all wear old-fashioned helmets and say, "What's all this, then?"
@@stephenchapel2058 When I visited Wales in 1990 I was introduced to an elderly Welsh WWII veteran, a friend of the family I was staying with. When he heard I was American he sat down across from me and stared hard at me without smiling. When he finally spoke, he practically yelled, "D-Day!" I was just trying to absorb this and think of a response when he said, "I'll. Never. Forget. The. Breakfast. I. Had. Real bacon! Eggs. Pancakes!" Another dramatic pause ensued and I now knew better than to reply before he was finished. Finally, he said while pounding on the table, "And it was All! Because. Of. You. Yanks!" All I could say was, "Was it?" And he went on to explain how he was somehow stationed with our 101st Airborne for the D-Day mission and they gave him the best breakfast he ever had and that it was likewise a peak moment fighting alongside them. I told him I was very glad to hear it!
From the western US here, always thought of tornadoes as a regional thing (which I suppose is more accurate) so it's funny to hear that you attributed them to the nation as a whole. I never had to think about them a day in my life
A few years ago one touched down a few miles north of Sacramento. Caused some damage. They’ve also been seen in Long Beach. Plus waterspouts form off the coast sometimes. But the tornadoes, probably the F1 type, are an anomaly but they do occur.
@@christystewart4567 I'm in Idaho personally and I'm pretty sure we've never gotten anything more significant than, like, dust devils. If we have it was either a long time ago or brief
The sheer size of the US is something that a lot of people don't realize. California alone is larger than the entirety of the UK.
Technically there have been recorded tornadoes in every US state although obviously the vast majority happen in tornado alley
A lot of Europeans treat the US as a whole and act like the entire country is the same. The size of the US and differences between states are akin to different european countries than all being one country.
I witnessed Tornados a bunch in my life (South/Eastern Michigan). My wife's house growing up was hit by one. The family dog was inside of a dog house at the time was sent several hundred feet into the air and placed in a tree about a quarter mile away.. It survived, but was never quite the same after that (understandably).
I have relatives in eastern Oregon where you can pretty easily find Black Widow spiders in places like sheds, basements, and the crawl space under the house. They are pretty chill, don't react to much and just hang out in their mess of a web waiting for a snack to wander by. They don't seem to see very well because they seem to ignore you when you get close. They are a lot less scary than spiders that quickly run off and disappear right after you see them. Wear gloves when you get into the wood pile and you'll be fine.
‘Interest that seems to largely diminish by the time people are done with education,,, kind of like Marching Band’
That one made me really laugh,, you know us too well Lawrence!
I felt this one, hit too close to home
Just the idea of a grown man playing soccer seems so ludicrous to me....that's what my little nephews do for fun. 😂
It made me laugh until it made me sad.
DCI? I guess they won't let you march that over 24.
I had a black widow in my garage at my previous residence but here's how spider's are bros: the generic house spiders killed it. I don't kill spiders unless they're being annoying or intrusive. Spiders are nature's insecticide (this is a joke since they're arachnids if you couldn't tell)... they eat the other things that you don't want to deal with (e.g. mosquitos, wasps, etc.)
If I find one around my home, I kill it because I have a toddler who might try to pick it up if she saw it.
@@sonicpsycho13 In my experience you'd be more worried about Brown Recluses -- Black Widow Spiders don't typically try to invade the home but I understand your opinion and caution. Be safe.
@@Avram42 I had a black widow that lived behind the toilet in my bathroom, her name was bobbie because she would stand at the top bobbing her head up and down while was in there.
yeah, I get a yearly brown recluse in my basement. Comes around when I get my yearly crickets. So many dead cricket bodies.
Yeah, I love long-legs spiders because they're so friendly and helpful. Also the fuzzy black wolf spiders are nice.
I live in oklahoma, not only are we in tornado alley but the number of different fronts that often move through means we get some crazy weather sometimes such as days where its entirely possible to wake up to summer weather only for it to be snowing by nightfall, whenever my family sees a tornado warning we never panic as we know its unlikely to do us any harm unless it literally comes at us but we have a closet in our home we can hide in as a precaution, bunker down, watch the weather report and when its all clear go back to bed, or be so tired from the day you fall asleep on the cosy floor since you bothered to surround yourselves in blankets and pillows
I've been here sixty years and I've never seen a tornado. My older brother and sister still talk about the twister that came through town in 1957, which was visible from our house. One thing to remember: green skies are a bad thing. If a storm is coming, and the sky turns emerald green, go to shelter.
From an Alabama resident. Here's the thing about the Brown Recluse spider, it is called that because they are reclusive. I know they are around. I know the kind of places they like to hang around. I could probably find one in my house if I went looking. They have a strong preference for staying hidden and unnoticed. Out of habit I tend to give my shoes and clothing items a shake before I put them on just to be safe. At 51 years of age, I remain unbitten. I dont really expect that to change.
This guy is hilarious! I’m glad this popped up randomly in my recommendations
Hubby and I don't like spiders. I have seen a brown recluse and a black widow. We also have some nasty snakes in Texas. I nearly had to change my knickers when a big cottonmouth snake was cuddled up next to the house. Of course, I had to bring in groceries and walk by that thing twice. That night I learned cottonmouths smell like a skunk.
At the time I didn't know what kind of snake it was but my fear was that if I went too fast it would be one of those snakes that chase you. And I would lose because I can't run fast.
Anyway, I called my husband and told him what was outside. He got really, really quiet and I knew at that moment it was bad. Sweet hubby shot that snake (and the garden hose as well).
We don't see cottonmouths or coral snakes all the time, nor the spiders and for that, I'm extremely grateful!
I have lived in Missouri and Illinois my entire 41 years. I have only 1 time seen an actual tornado, and it was many miles away, and never even got to the ground. I have been within 10 miles of a touched down tornado a number of times, but tried as I might, I never actually go to see them. 41 years of sitting on my porch during severe thunderstorms, and I still haven't been blown away...yet.
I feel like I need to add to this. I know that many others in the midwest have been severly devastated by a tornado, and I would never make light of that. I lived in Southwest Missouri during the Joplin Tornado, and helped with cleanup after the Stockton Tornado in 2003 and the New Years Eve tornado in 2010 in St Louis.
Most midwesterners have some indirect experience with tornadoes, and the rest have direct experience. But, regardless of the relative regularity of tornadoes, the vast majority of midwesterners will never have direct contact with a major one. It really isn't a big deal...until it is.
We did have a microburst happen in 2015, at my current residence, though. It took down multiple trees in the neighborhood, ripped a roof off a building and caved in my next door neighbors garage door. Microbursts can actually be as devastating as a tornado, just in a very limited and localized area.
Re: tornadoes, you might have seen one and not realized it. F1 tornadoes aren't necessarily announced on the news. Basically if you are looking at a wooded area in a severe thunderstorm and the trees seem to be doing a violent, circular hula, there is probably a low level tornado the air above you that isn't touching down because of the line of trees. Ditto if you are sitting at a stop light and across the intersection are sudden repeated waves of rain all moving rapidly and strongly.in the same direction.
I currently live out in the desert in El Paso - and we have those teeny-tiny micro-tornadoes called "dust devils". They look so cute - but if you do actually get in side one - they have a respectable amount of energy to them.
Violent hula lol
Re:
When I was a first grader, I remember a Dust Devil picking one of my classmates a few inches off the ground. Looking back on it though, it's pretty obvious I fell for a bit of over exaggeration.
an f1 tornado started in a field near the playground when I was in elementary school (this was NH so they aren't even common here) and they didn't even make us come inside because they had decided that telling a playground full of 8 year olds a tornado was coming would be more likely to cause somebody to get hurt in the panic then the actual tornado which never even reached the playground before running out of power.
You you think jaywalking isn't a sport? Really depends on where you live. "If you can dodge a car, you can dodge a ball."
In New Orleans it seemed to be a sport. People would just pop into the street from between cars, etc. Not wanting to be a murderer (even accidentally), it made me NERVOUS!
Dodge dip dive duck and dodge.
Welcome to Las Vegas, where even the police aim at careless pedestrians who foolishly use the crosswalks!
It's a sport in a Florida only the homeless must have balls of steel cause they just slowly walk out in the middle of traffic
*traffic
Growing up in rural northern CA, black widow spiders were super common. (I'd probably encounter several per year). But they typically like dark, quiet places. Also their webs are super strong and crackle when broken, so it's decently easy to detect and avoid them.
I found out about you while watching Mr. H and friends. Your videos are hilarious.
True story: had a bunch of Brown Recluses at my old job. I put on a hat that had been sitting on the shelf. A few hours later after taking off said hat, a spider came dangling down from my hair. After freaking TF out, I looked down at said hat and found 1 living and 1 dead. 3 Brown Recluses. In my hat. For hours.
😟😨😱😱😱😱😱
Thanks, I hate it.
Are you sure that wasn’t the lookalike Introverted Hat Spider? They’re harmless.
My garage is full of black widows.... I don't give it another thought
@@SteveVi0lence usually they won’t bother you if you don’t bother them, and the bite isn’t lethal, but can be dangerous to children, the elderly or other immune compromised people, or if someone is allergic.
My mother was a USAF weather specialist and, a tornado chaser, when she was stationed at Tinker AFB back in the early 1980s. I got to go with her on a few chases. It was a blast.
Ah, yes....Midwest City, Oklahoma.
I hope not literally a blast
@@tonia.5861 It's IN Oklahoma City.
@@kathleenr4047 worked there for years and as it’s main gate is at 29th and Air Depot in Midwest City, those that live and work around there just make that connection. Technically you’re correct because North of 29th is Midwest City and South is annexed to OKC at least as far as Air Depot.
@@tonia.5861 Just sayin. It's in Oklahoma City. I used to live at Ft Campbell, Kentucky. The city smack next to it was Clarksville Tennessee. It's still IN Kentucky.
love the videos! I live in Georgia and yes I've seen multiple brown recluses and even more black widows. My stepdad was even bitten by a brown recluse in my basement. He had to have surgery to get venom cut out.
As a Missourian ive seen some particularly violent storms that (thankfully) later, produced tornados and brown recluses are just par for the course. My Sifu regularly has them in his house.
In the Phoenix area and used to have Black Widows all the time in my yard, until we got chickens. They love Black Widows as snacks. Haven't seen any in a few years now.
I worry more about scorpions than black widows when I'm in Phoenix.
I'm 40, and I've only seen black widow spiders a few times here in S. Carolina, same with brown recluse, I've seen more eastern diamondback rattlers, and water moccasins then anything. Heck in my part of SC near the Savanna River we've even gotten gators wandering through town, and sunning themselves in people's yards having traveled a few miles to get to that sunny spot.
@@CommodoreFan64 We have the snakes in Texas, but most of us who don't live along the southern Louisiana border would probably shit ourselves if we encountered a gator. Though we do have wild boars, and those things get HUGE. RIP if you come across a mama with her babies
@@CommodoreFan64 up here in southeast Tennessee I’ve seen plenty of black widows. I see more copperheads than rattlesnakes, but I’ve come across plenty of monster rattlesnakes too.
I live in California and I can easily find black widows in my yard, but I'm not motivated to kill them unless they do something like settle around the doorbell.
They only come out at night, and killing them means getting close to them. The bug spray for "spiders" only paralyzes them for a few days.
Laurence, I wonder how in the world you're able to make these amusing vlogs without breaking out into laughter in almost every sentence! You are such a funny gent!
This is nearly the whole reason I watch his videos, that slightly bent sense of humor.
Why do you think there are so many cuts in the video? ;-)
Loved him in this. He made me laugh 🤣
While I've never seen a tornado, we did have a bad one near here last year. People that I know took shelter in their basements. And one family did have damage. For this area (South Jersey), it was very rare.
As a Midwesterner, I absolutely thought tornadoes were going to be a bigger deal than I imagined 😅 in elementary school, they warned us so many times how dangerous they are and nowadays I forget that they even occur except on Wednesdays
In Chicago they test the warning sirens on Tuesdays at 10:00
@@gailplacko3197 In Iowa, we do it at noon
Your fear of spiders in the US sound similar to my fear of living in Australia. Too many venomous creepy crawlies for me to hypothetically live there!
Totally!!!! Like, why do so many Aussie things want to kill you? If it ain’t crocodiles, there’s snakes, if you miss the snakes, there are sharks. Don’t forget the spiders either. Never get in a fight with a male platypus. They play dirty... And pythons
I saw Black Widows, Brown Recluses and Tarantulas during My time in Arkansas! There were also a lot of Snakes! One time there was a Copperhead in the Outhouse!
@@BETTERWORLDSGT You say this like it’s surprising? I live with these creatures every day. Copperheads usually won’t kill you-not adults anyway. The venom is much less toxic than rattlesnakes.
@@marthahawkinson-michau9611 I don't want anything biting Me, poisonous or not, I shot several snakes during My time there, carried a Pistol out there in the Country! Not surprising stall, just telling the experience.
@@BETTERWORLDSGT My very liberal, feminist, pro-gun control philosophy professor would carry a gun with her when she mowed her yard. She called it her “snake charmer”, and blew off the heads of multiple snakes with it. I’m definitely not going judge you for protecting yourself.
I live in Kansas and my old house is mostly held together with desiccated brown recluse corpses
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Same
They have studied houses in that area that have literally hundreds of Brown Recluse cohabitating peacefully with human occupants. Turns out Brown Recluse spiders have very little to gain from biting humans except as a last ditch defense.
@@squintish Yeah we just ignore one another mostly
YOU TOOO? I thought mine was the only one, well that and piles of dust and cow manure that get blown in from the feed lots. Western edge btw.
I only saw a tornado once. It was traveling down the Mississippi River. Interesting to see all of the water swirling around as it was moving downstream.
7:37 the closest I got to being in trouble for jaywalking, is I jaywalked in view of cops and they just blow a whistle at us.
Apparently I've been living your American nightmare. I grew up in southern Alabama, where you're likely to encounter both tornadoes and black widows with regularity. Then I moved to the pacific northwest and swapped the tornadoes for legions of hobo spiders, and a few extra black widows for good measure.
Oh, and the jaywalking thing is mostly a relic of the past, and only gets enforced by roid raging cops who get off on using their power. Much like tornadoes and black widows, it's not really something to worry about until you're the unlucky SOB who gets singled out.
Hahaha, you crossing your fingers while pushing up your glasses at 5:24 while saying you haven't encountered those poisonous spiders in 13 years was gold! Subtle, and awesome.
Should come to Southern California, black widows are all over the place, if I had to I'm sure I could go find one right now. They make their home in just about any dark place like sheds and the space under your house. I once was asked to clean out someone's cellar, there were literally dozens of them down there in webs all over the place, it was like something from a horror movie. I am not particularly afraid of spiders but I would go nowhere near it once I had a peek inside. There are also brown recluse spiders and you rarely see them because, as their name suggests, they are very reclusive. Generally, no one sees them until after they get stung by one.
In Missouri the tornado alarms usually just make us go out on the porch to see.
Very clever.
Well done 👍
I thought y'all might like to know, I saw 3 chickens cross the road the other day
My chickens cross the road at least twice a day. They always look both ways and have never been cited for jaywalking.
My chickens don't cross the road anymore. We keep them pinned up. Raccoons, stray dogs, lynx and foxes all think they are tasty.
Now thats intresting.did they say why?
@@daisysoup158 Sadly, they did not
The road into town, there was a family with some chickens free roaming.
Passed one chicken in the middle of the road one time. Had some tread marks on her feathers.
Jaywalking is a crime that was created by the brand new auto industry in the early 20th century. Motorists weren't used to their newfound speed, and pedestrians weren't either. A lot of people got hit, and in order to save the burgeoning industry from lawsuits, jaywalking was declared a crime.
Its a sport in the uk ,see if you can get across the road with out getting run over
@@geoffpriestley7001 Same in Boston. Even if you cross on the corner, where you should (in the USA), cars don't give a shit. They go anyway.
@@DrVVVinK it's more also geared towards cities like LA, Newyork, small towns no one cares at lest now, i have been jaywalking for 20 years in my small town in u.s.
it makes sense with places with lots of people and cars though or main roads with high car count and speed
@@knightwolf3511 even in cities no one except bored cops care.
Another thing is that nobody wanted to do it because yes getting hit by a car isnt very fun and being called a Jay was something very offensive back then
I lived 45 years in the Midwest and never saw a live tornado. The closest i came was the Xenia tornado in 1974, about 20 miles away. I was out paying with friends when the clouds turned a weird pea green color and our mothers yelled at us to go inside. Found out the devastation the next morning.
Some time in the 90s, a tornado touched down in the NE Cincinnati suburbs. Driving up I275, i saw one warehouse that was hit by the top of the tornado and it looked like someone had taken a scoop out of the building with a giant 100' wide ice cream scoop.
I live in New Jersey, and we did get some Tornados recently during a hurricane. It happens, and it’s very scary because it’s New Jersey. You don’t expect one to hit, but they still do.