5 Deadly Natural Phenomena America Has That Britain Doesn't

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  • When it comes to natural phenomenon, Britain ain't got nothing on the United States. Here are 5 deadly natural phenomena America has that Britain doesn't
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  • @dwayneharris9591
    @dwayneharris9591 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3210

    When picking a place to live in America, you also have to pick the disaster you want to endure.

    • @harrysweeten9417
      @harrysweeten9417 4 ปีที่แล้ว +170

      Never has a truer statement been made. In N.J. we get hurricane's and the rere blizzard.

    • @irritated888
      @irritated888 4 ปีที่แล้ว +239

      Snake River plain in Idaho. Other than a small fire here and there its fantastically low every other disaster.
      Until Yellowstone goes kablooie.

    • @dawnjackson6299
      @dawnjackson6299 4 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      Why I don't live in California...

    • @kaned5543
      @kaned5543 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      I live in coastal Southern California and I do love it but GodDAMN if there aren't a few tradeoffs hahaha

    • @kaned5543
      @kaned5543 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@irritated888 also didn't y'all just have an earthquake

  • @EmperorofPenguins
    @EmperorofPenguins 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1233

    Wait till he learns that Yellowstone is a supervolcano that is overdue for an eruption...

    • @R.M.MacFru
      @R.M.MacFru 4 ปีที่แล้ว +189

      Or that one of the worst fault lines runs through St. Louis and the last time it went off in the 1850's the Mississippi River backwards.

    • @filthycasual8187
      @filthycasual8187 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      It's not "overdue." Stop listening to sensationalist bullshit.

    • @brianlammers2743
      @brianlammers2743 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      @@filthycasual8187 I grew up in St Louis, New Madrid has been thought to be over due for some time.

    • @jmitterii2
      @jmitterii2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Yeah, but us living in the US, particularly my Idahoan bum, we'll be the lucky ones dying quickly. Instead of slowly due to volcanic induced global winter for 2 to 3 years. In short, everyone on earth will be screwed if and when the caldera event happens.

    • @johnathandunn9326
      @johnathandunn9326 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      oh we are so f*cked when it does

  • @2ndrangersww2
    @2ndrangersww2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    Imagine what the first Europeans must've thought of America, a land with strange people, animals, and almost biblical natural disasters

    • @patroberts5449
      @patroberts5449 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Wish it had kept them away, but sadly for the natives it didn’t….

    • @Queina1
      @Queina1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Well considering how many of them were puritans, probably considered them wrath of god for punishing sinners.

    • @timothyarmstrong3801
      @timothyarmstrong3801 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      They thought we had biblical locusts too

    • @henryhall9623
      @henryhall9623 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@patroberts5449no one here is "native," not even the "natives" (so called.) Look it up.🇺🇸

    • @adreabrooks11
      @adreabrooks11 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@timothyarmstrong3801 We did have Biblical locusts. The Locust Plague of 1874 is the worst locust swarm in recorded history. It was 1800 miles long, 110 miles wide, and devastated the Great Plains. Their species name (Caloptenus spretus) means "despised." Laws mandating the elimination of the Rocky Mountain locust, as well as the adoption of different farming cultivars/techniques led to the precipitous decline of the species, and the last one was sighted in 1902.

  • @callapratt7927
    @callapratt7927 3 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    I’m from New England, I was actually working while a tornado tore through Springfield Massachusetts and legit watched it go by as a woman in front of me tried to order a sandwich and couldn’t understand why I was closing

    • @LanMandragon1720
      @LanMandragon1720 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I'm from S. Illinois when I was in first grade out school had a skylight. I literally watched a tornado from directly above me through it tornados are crazy.

    • @medicwebber3037
      @medicwebber3037 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      My sister lived in Westfield at that time. It lifted two streets away from her house and set down two streets later... phew!

    • @helRAEzzzer
      @helRAEzzzer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I grew up on the Massachusetts north shore. That tornado really fucked me up. I have relatives that live just outside Springfield - so i was worried abouth them - and even over here, north of Boston, the sky and calm before it hit was incredibly ominous. I was already in my 20s then but I LOVED the Wizard of Oz movie as a kid and was always told growing up that Massachusetts couldn't get tornadoes because of the terrain (that part of the movie TERRIFIED me). It was extremely hard to comprehend that we had an F3 hit....

    • @benjaminmorris4962
      @benjaminmorris4962 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Either she's super brave/hardy or she has zero survival instincts 😂

    • @imhere653
      @imhere653 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@benjaminmorris4962
      Or completely famished.

  • @quigongym5206
    @quigongym5206 4 ปีที่แล้ว +677

    West cost: earthquakes
    Mid west: big tornadoes
    East coast: hurricanes
    The south: *shrugs* a little bit of everything

    • @SmallSpoonBrigade
      @SmallSpoonBrigade 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Washington gets earthquakes, occasional tornadoes, occasional cyclones and we have several of the most dangerous volcanos in the world.
      In other words, Californians go back, it's far more dangerous up here. Perhaps you should go somewhere safe like Oregon.

    • @24framedavinci39
      @24framedavinci39 4 ปีที่แล้ว +147

      The south has the worst of them all: humidity

    • @erinstanger416
      @erinstanger416 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@24framedavinci39
      As someone from Arkansas, I can also agree. 😀

    • @natk7596
      @natk7596 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@24framedavinci39 as someone from North Texas, I can agree with that!

    • @quarkedbutt8711
      @quarkedbutt8711 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Facts lol

  • @madonnawayne4130
    @madonnawayne4130 4 ปีที่แล้ว +964

    Advice: if you buy a home in the Midwest, don't buy one without a basement.

    • @allisk8001
      @allisk8001 4 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      In lots of places, the water table is too high for basements. You'd probably want to invest in a tornado shelter.

    • @malisiastahl3299
      @malisiastahl3299 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      If it's made of brick or stone, you should be fine even without a basement.

    • @zackarynigbor7821
      @zackarynigbor7821 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Or a second storie cuz that 1st floor door is going to get barried in snow once Mother Nature comes in April to tell you winter isn't over yet

    • @kansasgoldilocks
      @kansasgoldilocks 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      I grew up in a home without a basement in Kansas. We had to go to a community shelter whenever the sirens went off. It sort of gave me weather PTSD. I live in New Mexico now, where it's a bit windy in the spring and the summers have violent monsoon rains. I basically freak the F out, even though there aren't tornados here. It's just unnerving. I'm getting used to it little by little though.

    • @josephtucker7181
      @josephtucker7181 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Dont get a basement or a crappy tornado shelter go all out and get a nuclear shelter.

  • @MistDancer
    @MistDancer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +189

    Greetings. I'm a native North Dakotan, presently an old man living in a more temperate region. Growing up I lived through many blizzards which have to be experienced to be believed. Anyway you asked about tornado stories. I was 16 years old and was sitting on the front porch of my home as a storm roared into town. My dad came to the doorway to suggest I go into the basement. I looked up into the pitch black sky ready to make a snide teenager statement when a barrage of lightning lit the world and revealed a tornado going by me about 50 yards away and going about 50 mph. It is an event I've never forgotten. Mostly in those years I saw the sad aftermath of their passage. Have a good day.

    • @ajb.822
      @ajb.822 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Wow. We almost never actually get one here in western ( Dunn co. ) WI, but serious watches most summers. But a deadly one happened when my dad was young, a man about his age I grew up knowing, a fellow local dairy farmer, lost his parents & baby brother to a silo going down on top of them. More recently, and strangely enough while I was living in northern IL for a few years, where they get more actual tornadoes more often, there was one not too far from my home town area back home. But while we have nearly as bad of winter weather, the severe cold etc. here, we don't have it quite as bad as ND ( would here all the temps etc. when listening to the weather radio carefully, on the farm ).

    • @MistDancer
      @MistDancer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@ajb.822 The whole northern stretch from Idaho through to New York has one variation of another of the weather that looks good on Hallmark cards but otherwise has to be lived through to be believed. The Derecho that blasted Iowa last August brought back big memories for me, boy howdy.

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Whoa! If that would happen today, the teenager wouldn't seek cover until he had taken a vid of it.

    • @moviegirl1100
      @moviegirl1100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      wow. I would have probably needed a clean pair of pants after that. I Live in NC and have been very luck to have gone through a tornado (knock on wood) they have hit around where I live but have never personally affected me before.

    • @MistDancer
      @MistDancer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@moviegirl1100 I pray that you always remain safe from such catastrophes. The one I witnessed did a great amount of damage.

  • @KenR1800
    @KenR1800 3 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    A couple of thoughts. The largest earthquake actually occurred in New Madrid, Missouri in the early 1800's. Alaska also gets some very strong quakes, close to 9.0. Also a hurricane doesn't have to be a category 5 to be bad. Even a "mere" tropical storm can be devastating.

    • @infledermaus
      @infledermaus ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Alaska suffered the 2nd largest earthquake in history after the Chile earthquake of 1960, a magnitude 9.5. On Good Friday, 1964, Alaska experienced a magnitude 9.2 quake resulting in wide spread destruction and very large tsunami that killed people in Hawaii, Japan and California to name a few locations where tsunami came ashore. The quake lasted 5 minutes.

    • @angelacrabtree2847
      @angelacrabtree2847 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That quake caused the Mississippi to flow backwards temporarily, or is supposed to have.

    • @ssokolow
      @ssokolow ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Deep Dive did an excellent half-hour video on that named "Why Earthquakes in the East are so much more Dangerous". While I still HIGHLY recommend people watch it, the TL;DR for the title is that the underlying rock is much more solid, which causes the energy to transmit much further and more strongly and absorb and dissipate less. (i.e. The bedrock behaves more like a ringing bell and less like something that makes a thudding or thwacking noise when hit.)

    • @williamscoggin1509
      @williamscoggin1509 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I live in East Texas and have experienced two tornadoes up close. Definitely a good way to get your attention! 😉👍🏻🇺🇲

    • @ssokolow
      @ssokolow ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@williamscoggin1509 Funny thing is, a lot of people don't realize Tornado Alley extends up into Canada and we get the second-most in the world. If I'm reading the numbers right, we get about the same occurrence per square mile/km... we just have less absolute land area that's part of Tornado Alley.

  • @emilysundquist270
    @emilysundquist270 4 ปีที่แล้ว +643

    "Tornados don't happen every day"
    Oklahoma: "allow us to introduce ourselves"

    • @melaD333
      @melaD333 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Lol - as an Oklahoman I can definitely say sometimes it feels like that!

    • @michaeladkins6
      @michaeladkins6 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      May of last year in the tulsa area we were getting multiple tornadoes a day for nearly a month.

    • @Disavowedagent47
      @Disavowedagent47 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Not EVERYDAY thank you very much. They take a day off every now and then #livein405

    • @TimekillofPK
      @TimekillofPK 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Oklahomans: "hold my beer"

    • @hearmeout9138
      @hearmeout9138 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I lived in Oklahoma when I was young and then moved to Alabama. Tornadoes are as common to me as wins in football. 😎

  • @BurakkuHishou
    @BurakkuHishou 4 ปีที่แล้ว +509

    Fun little note: As a Kansan, we will sit out on the front porch watching a tornado until it's about 5 houses down from us.

    • @brianburkhard5209
      @brianburkhard5209 4 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      Move to Oklahoma, we don't worry till it's knocking at the door.

    • @kingpickle3712
      @kingpickle3712 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I'm from South Carolina and when I was stationed in Georgia, my fellow navy southern guys and I would get out the grill any time a hurricane would come.

    • @glowhoo9226
      @glowhoo9226 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      My dad would go outside, put his hands on his hips, look up, sniff the air and say “tornado’s coming”

    • @meanderthelost6029
      @meanderthelost6029 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      The_SCP _Foundation lol my grandma would always tell by looking at the clouds so I’m more than willing to bet he was doing the same but was convincing you all it was his nose just cuz he was a cheeky little shit. Lol he sounds like a great guy or at the very least a hilarious one :)

    • @danielhudson2949
      @danielhudson2949 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      As a Kansan myself, I personally never seen a tornado, even though we had a few close calls. That Joplin tornado came close though.

  • @thebigpussycat7475
    @thebigpussycat7475 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    My mother was born and raised in Texas she used to tell stories about the quirky behaviors of tornadoes. She once told me a story about a tornado that destroyed a house and left an infant untouched in its crib. Once an F3 tornado went past our house no more than an eighth of a mile away. I slept through it and only noticed the damage in the morning on my way to work.

    • @natebit8130
      @natebit8130 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Once, a friend of mine woke up in the morning to find his roof was missing, and the night sky was seen above.

    • @yomogami4561
      @yomogami4561 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      lol. grew up in southern wv and fell asleep one night to thunderstorms. apparently there was a tornado and everyone but me woke up. it was a mountaintop city and the tornado jumped over it. of course, it came down on a trailer park

  • @bemusedbandersnatch2069
    @bemusedbandersnatch2069 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Question: What about sinkholes? Florida gets some pretty bad ones sometimes. You know where the ground just opens up in the middle of the night with no warning and eats most of your house/possibly you?

    • @sueregan2782
      @sueregan2782 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Sinkholes in Florida are a man-made phenomenon. Caused by overpopulation, resulting in draining the aquifers. Then, when the upper layers of soil get saturated, they collapse into the empty caverns where the water used to support the upper strata.

    • @arasdeeps1852
      @arasdeeps1852 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@sueregan2782 While what you say is partially true, that's only for some of the recent ones. There are sink holes in Florida that have been here for hundreds of years as well, and folks didn't get their water from aquifers back then. Most of the underground stone in Florida is limestone, leading to the possibility of the ground just wearing away over time until the surface just collapses.

  • @courtneyphillips1234
    @courtneyphillips1234 4 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    The stuggle:
    If you live in tornado ally- build your house low and have a basement
    If you live in a flood zone- put everything on stilts and basement is a bad idea
    If you live in both at the same time- suffer

    • @5thRing
      @5thRing 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      A houseboat in a hole in the ground.

    • @AlphaMom55
      @AlphaMom55 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      *alley

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I can't imagine living off ground level, like I used to have a 3rd floor bedroom when my family lived near DC but now? A ranch style manner house is enough altho I do currently live in a 3rd floor flat so I guess I'm back up here

    • @hailexiao2770
      @hailexiao2770 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      If you live in both at the same time, pretend you're in Miami and build a concrete house on concrete stilts

  • @zach6360
    @zach6360 4 ปีที่แล้ว +206

    "All these natural disasters... It's almost like this whole place is built on thousands of Indian burial grounds...."-Internet Meme

    • @Ycekhold
      @Ycekhold 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Yo Ma *"You **_only_** moved the headstones!"* FTFY.

  • @midnightodellewest1999
    @midnightodellewest1999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    I grew up in Illinois and I distinctly remember the eerie combination of the windy air going suddenly and sickeningly still to the point it just 'felt weird'. Then the air turning this creepy yellow. It wasn't just the sky above you that was yellow, like with a sunset, it was the air surrounding you. It felt like you were living in a movie and somebody changed the color filter and also hit the pause button. Then it would smell like rotting apples, that's when you knew it was getting close. We didn't have a basement so we would kneel on the hallway floor where there were no windows. We would have to face the wall then cover ourselves with a thick blanket and curl into a ball with our hands over our head and neck.

    • @catcrazy8
      @catcrazy8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Great discrption!

    • @midnightodellewest1999
      @midnightodellewest1999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@catcrazy8 Thanks!

    • @teaeyedoubleguhur
      @teaeyedoubleguhur 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      My mom noticed how the sky would turn yellow on a spring 50 years ago when South Carolina had a number of tornadoes, We think one touched down close to our house. We had taken shelter in the basement, but dad noticed this one tree that had been twisted off.

  • @hananovinger
    @hananovinger 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I have ashes from Mt. St. Helen from the eruption from the 80’s. I stole it as a kid from my grandparents 😅

    • @kiwin7119
      @kiwin7119 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My parents were in Salt Lake City, Utah and heard a roar and saw windows shake in their frames. Hot damn, that must have been a big event.

    • @HEllis-qu5nn
      @HEllis-qu5nn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wowwww.... that was a hardcore event.

    • @RapidsLurker15
      @RapidsLurker15 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My great-grandmother had ashes from Mt. St. Helens that she collected when it rained down.
      I live in Oklahoma.

  • @pattymelt6577
    @pattymelt6577 3 ปีที่แล้ว +220

    As a child, I lived on a farm in the Midwest. We were on a party line. After tornadoes, the party line would be abuzz. "I have the top to somebody's silo here, and a shaggy brown dog. Anyone seen my mailbox or patio table?" I loved the adventure of checking the fields and ponds for our neighbors' missing items.

  • @kayleekat8895
    @kayleekat8895 4 ปีที่แล้ว +307

    And if you think you’re safe in the American desert, you’d be wrong because we’ve got sandstorms/dust storms and monsoons.

    • @lavenderandwine
      @lavenderandwine 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I moved from Kansas to Arizona a few years ago and the first year I saw a massive dust devil that even had my roommate who was born there going wtf. The monsoons were wonderful to experience because it was almost like being back home.

    • @darrenmclaughlin1362
      @darrenmclaughlin1362 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Flash floods.

    • @RobGamesOn
      @RobGamesOn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I was born in New Mexico and can attest to this. Dust devils were the desert version of tornadoes. I was always fearful of those blackish brown walls that were sand storms in the distance. I live in Georgia now and deal with severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding, black ice in the winters, COVID-19 like mass panic but with bread and milk for those awesome milk sandwiches instead of toilet paper when a snowflake falls.

    • @louisc.gasper7588
      @louisc.gasper7588 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      And don't let's get started on scorpions and rattlesnakes.

    • @Apollonos
      @Apollonos 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Don't forget the sandworms!

  • @jengeorge9919
    @jengeorge9919 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I grew up in the Midwest before moving to Brazil for a while. I never considered how weird my childhood tornado drills would seem to my Brazilian friends.

  • @fulanadetal6099
    @fulanadetal6099 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Recently had a harrowing experience with a tornado last year in Chicago. I was out running errands with my kids (we were on one of those long tail cargo bikes where the kids sit on the rack in the back). It was cloudy and everything seemed ok outside. I stopped to pick up some McDs a few blocks from my apartment. My husband was on his way home from work. He was going to stay and work longer but something told him to just come back home and not stay. After I pick up the food I get the tornado warning on my phone to seek shelter immediately. As I’m rushing home the cloudy grey sky suddenly turns dark and I can see the supercell forming in the sky right above our neighborhood. I’ve seen supercells and tornadoes on tv but seeing it in real life is really something else, and I’m outside on a bike with my kids which makes it even scarier. I’m a few streets away from my home and my husband is calling me to get back immediately. The rain and winds start and debris and tree branches are flying everywhere. I’m riding against the wind and can barely see anything because there is sooo much rain. I was terrified and just praying we would get home safe. The only way I was able to ride so fast with all that rain and wind going against me was the adrenaline. My kids had no idea the danger we were in. My daughter was just laughing and amused the whole way (we nicknamed her StormChaser after this incident). We get home and my husband is outside our home just screaming “GET IN!!!”. We ran inside with the kids and he went outside to grab the bike. Luckily we made it home safe. The supercell moved towards the lake (Lake Michigan) and touched down in the Rogers Park neighborhood (on the north side of Chicago next to the lake) where it made its way to the lake and turned into a waterspout. I know I’ll definitely never forget this experience and will always remember that feeling of awe and terror at seeing the supercell forming right before my eyes. I’ve lived in the US my entire life but we don’t get tornados often in Chicago so I never thought this was something that would happen to me. Definitely gave me a bigger respect for how unpredictable Mother Nature is. And if you guys ever get a tornado warning take it seriously and get the f**k outta there to shelter immediately, the weather can go from nice to deadly in literally seconds. Tornadoes form fast!

    • @bseidem5112
      @bseidem5112 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You were praying. He was listening, granting wishes everywhere.

    • @irhonda31
      @irhonda31 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow, you had me captivated with this story! I’ve lived through some big quakes in CA, but that tornado story is SCARY.

  • @allieoop7024
    @allieoop7024 4 ปีที่แล้ว +214

    In Oklahoma they say, “when the tornado sirens go on, the lawn chairs come out”. Lol

    • @Kaya084
      @Kaya084 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Lol. Yes. For sure. 😂

    • @NicholasAdeptus
      @NicholasAdeptus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Lol! My old man used to say “the best thing about tornado sirens is you get to meet the neighbors!”

    • @tbella5186
      @tbella5186 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Put the kids and dogs in the basement, then meet the neighbors in the middle of the road.

    • @Rainbow_Painbow
      @Rainbow_Painbow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Unbelievably accurate. Could have one coming right at us and we’d probably wait until we felt it before we got inside a shelter.

    • @avengingmime
      @avengingmime 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Tornados: the hurricanes of the Midwest.

  • @somedudefromohio365
    @somedudefromohio365 4 ปีที่แล้ว +353

    Growing up in Ohio, we did tornado drills as often as fire drills, and actually had to put it into practice a couple times.

    • @LifeInAConcreteBox
      @LifeInAConcreteBox 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      I'm also from Ohio and old enough to remember when they used to make us open the classroom windows during drills to, "equalize the pressure". One of the many silly myths we used to believe about tornadoes!

    • @marcusshaner7066
      @marcusshaner7066 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Ohio here as well! Trumbull county.

    • @amymason6234
      @amymason6234 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Vince P When I lived in Brisbane, Australia as an exchange student in 87-88, I was at school one day and the sky turned green. I told my teacher I was getting out of there (a 2nd floor room with 3 walls of windows) because a tornado was coming. I was told I was crazy, they don't have tornadoes there. I responded, Iam not crazy. I have seen a green sky twice in my life, and twice tornadoes ripped through the town. Not long after we were all told we had to stay (it was time to go home from school). My teacher wanted to put us in this porch area below the classroom that was open. I said no way in hell was I going there, either. I said I am going to go sit in that field over there. My teacher told me, that was stupid, I would be right out in the open. I said it beats under here. This is going to create w wind tunnel and makes the winds even stronger. I said laying down in s field is safer. Well my teacher and 7 of my friends went with me. Then the sky turned blue again and everything was ok. My teacher told us the next day, a cyclone had hit Paupa New Guinea and that was the reason it looked like there was going to be a tornado. The teacher wanted to know how I knew the fieldwould be safer, I told her I spent alot of time in the hallways at schoo, sitting on the floor with my head between my knees and while we were all practicing for a tornado they also told us what to do if a basement with no windows, bathroom with no windows, or a hallway with no windows was not available to us. The internet was just beginning to become available, so she did research the old fashioned way, in a library, and found out I was right. I told her, they could have suspended me for being sassy to a teacher, but there was no way I was going to sit in the classroom, or in that area under the classroom no matter what. What I had been told todo my entire life contradicted what I was being told to do.

    • @LostNspace-jn1ds
      @LostNspace-jn1ds 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      From the O also and yep I think once a month we did drills for fire and tornados

    • @tracywhited
      @tracywhited 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I’m from Dayton Ohio. We had 15 tornadoes last Memorial Day two F-5’s went right over my house. They actually aren’t that rare lol.

  • @tchase4726
    @tchase4726 3 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    I’ve said similar myself: the US has HUGE weather compared to Europe in general (though it seems that climate change is starting to mess with the weather over there). As a Midwesterner I’m obligated to go out on the porch & stare at the sky whenever there’s a tornado warning, instead of actually seeking shelter, & I’ve seen some massive awesome terrifying clouds. Also your countryman Neil Gaiman said as an Englishman he only *thought* he knew what winter was before he moved to Minnesota 😊.

    • @kimworkman2425
      @kimworkman2425 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      In my family we stand outside and watch.the tornadoes till the house starts spinning

    • @bob7975
      @bob7975 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@kimworkman2425 They aren't really dangerous until they get close.

    • @oneproudbrowncoat
      @oneproudbrowncoat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      On the other hand, we never did have a Great Stink like London did.

    • @pickyyeeter
      @pickyyeeter ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bob7975 Just like bullets

    • @InfinitusMortem
      @InfinitusMortem ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As you should! That's proper tornado procedure for the Midwest.

  • @garysturner1
    @garysturner1 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Lawrence, I'm originally from Massachusetts and have experienced mumerous hurricanes. I lived in L.A. for many years and experienced severe brush fires, mud slides and quite a few earthquakes, including the 6.7 1994 Northridge earthquake. (We moved out of CA shortly thereafter). Since then we've been in metro Denver, where we've had a couple of smaller tornadoes. If you move around enough, you get to see quite a lot of what the USA has to offer 🙂.

  • @rebeccatrishel
    @rebeccatrishel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +501

    I've seen so many tornadoes I can tell from the color of the sky if one's coming

    • @coldfoot99
      @coldfoot99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      As a young boy growing up in south western Ohio we knew that if the sky turned green to the west during a storm it was time to head to the basement, quickly. Got very little warning in those days of tornadoes on the way.

    • @rebeccatrishel
      @rebeccatrishel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@coldfoot99 exactly

    • @midwestmatthew9752
      @midwestmatthew9752 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      @JM Saultz I know that smell well. There can also be indicators much earlier in the day. More than once I've been out and about on a beautiful, sunny summer day, and my friends and I have commented "feels like tornadoes might be on the way," and sure enough, they show up later that evening. It's hard to put your finger on what it is, but I think it has something to do with the attitude of the wind and a certain brassy look to the sky.
      Also, "the calm before the storm" is a very real phenomenon.

    • @Dracule0117
      @Dracule0117 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      @@midwestmatthew9752 Part of that instinctive foreboding is probably also our bodies subconsciously sensing the drop in barometric pressure as the storm approaches.

    • @381delirius
      @381delirius 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Same

  • @ReformedSooner24
    @ReformedSooner24 4 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    Well, when your nation encompasses so much land, and particularly so many climates and varying terrain, these things happen.

    • @kathryngeeslin9509
      @kathryngeeslin9509 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      That's our attitude, but I was surprised to learn that our weather is more extreme than most. Our area explains the sheer number of storms, but not their strength.

    • @lairdcummings9092
      @lairdcummings9092 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@kathryngeeslin9509 it's geography; warm gulf of Mexico water, turbulent air coming over the Rockies to suck the warm gulf air up into the plains, where the colder turbulent air and the warm wet air mix, then nice flat prairies to act as a nice thermal sink to produce columns of rising air... And not a land feature to be seen to break up the tracks of the storms.
      Perfect blender for creating titanic thunder cells.
      I used to spend afternoons watching the cells build and grow; rows and columns of massive anvilheads, marching across the sky like soldiers at parade.

    • @alonespirit9923
      @alonespirit9923 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lairdcummings9092 Brings to mind this, "Missouri has a continental type of climate marked by strong seasonality. In winter, dry-cold air masses, unchallenged by any topographic barriers, periodically swing south from the northern plains and Canada. If they invade, reasonably humid air, snowfall and rainfall result. In summer, moist, warm air masses, equally unchallenged by topographic barriers, swing north from the Gulf of Mexico and can produce copious amounts of rain, either by fronts or by convectional processes. In some summers, high pressure stagnates over Missouri, creating extended droughty periods. Spring and fall are transitional seasons when abrupt changes in temperature and precipitation may occur due to successive, fast-moving fronts separating contrasting air masses."
      --> I would not have guessed that last bit about rainfall, "All of Missouri experiences "extreme" climate events, and such events must be considered part of the normal climate. Though infrequent in occurrence and often very geographically restricted, these �disturbances� produce environmental changes that may not otherwise have happened and that may be relatively long lasting in their effect. Among these extreme climatic events are high-intensity rains, protracted drought, heat waves and cold waves, ice storms, windstorms, and tornadoes. These climatic events, in turn, may lead to other environmental disturbances such as floods, fires, landslides, and abrupt changes in plant and animal populations and distributions. High-intensity precipitation characterizes all regions of Missouri. The town of Holt in northwestern Missouri holds the world record for a high-intensity rain, having received 12 inches within a 42-minute period on June 22, 1947."
      Source: Climate of Missouri, Wayne L. Decker Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri

  • @instafruit5121
    @instafruit5121 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I moved to America from a country with no earthquakes. To say that I was scared sh!tless because of the aftershocks from the Napa valley earthquake a few years ago is an understatement....

  • @morganschiller2288
    @morganschiller2288 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    We had an odd RARE winter tornado touch down just east of Cleveland. It carved up our local public golf course. Knocked down five trees, bounced back up and dropped on ONE sole persons home, destroyed their house and the neighbors weren’t even touched. Our FD/PD and whole city came together to help this family. So rare to get them up by the Lake.

    • @glenmacnicol7825
      @glenmacnicol7825 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My grandfather was a captain on the iron ore ships and survived the "White Hurricane" of 1913. Bodies washed up on the shorelines.

  • @Tijuanabill
    @Tijuanabill 4 ปีที่แล้ว +246

    I feel like mother nature trying to murder Americans in new and unique ways has made us who we are. =D

    • @BrianHall33
      @BrianHall33 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      She was bored and got creative with us. We got stubborn and creative right back

    • @sharikraft1706
      @sharikraft1706 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Tijuana Lol. You’re probably right

    • @colormedubious4747
      @colormedubious4747 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      That's why we get along with Australians so well!

    • @GodfryM29
      @GodfryM29 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I believe it is punishment for what happened to the Indians/Native Americans.

    • @tuckinatorinator787
      @tuckinatorinator787 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I'm convinced this is why older generations have a hard time believing in Global Warming here. If they weather has gotten worse we've barely noticed. Nature was trying to kill us since we first got here. Disease, Wind, Rain, fire or even the Earth opening to swallow us, it's so common we barely flinch at it.

  • @BritIronRebel
    @BritIronRebel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    " Mother nature has it in for you".... Nearly made me spit out my coffee! Great line....

    • @x31omega
      @x31omega 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mountain dew burns coming out the nostrils. That line killed me.

    • @drunkbuzzard3237
      @drunkbuzzard3237 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mother Nature brought you into this world and she can take you out.

  • @JeanSomerset
    @JeanSomerset 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    As a native of northeastern Wisconsin, I so appreciate you covering the Peshtigo Fire, which has historically been overshadowed by the (far less deadly) Great Chicago Fire that occurred on the same day. Accounts of the Peshtigo Fire are horrific. People sought safety by lowering themselves into wells and were then boiled alive. Eyewitnesses reported that the air itself became fire-a literal firestorm that reduced woods, buildings, and bodies to ash in a matter of minutes. Many townspeople only managed to survive by taking refuge in the waters of the Peshtigo River as the fire raged over their heads. It’s a little-known tragedy that deserves wider recognition, in light of the 1,500 human lives lost and the vast destruction of forest, wildlife, and property.

  • @AnasatisTiMiniatis
    @AnasatisTiMiniatis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    From Texas: Tornado warnings are an annual occurrence here, and I've personally had 7 close encounters including one that put our family car in a tree.
    Edit: I included the stories in a reply below.

    • @AnasatisTiMiniatis
      @AnasatisTiMiniatis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      In more detail:
      When I was a little kid, a tornado hit our apartment complex. Our apartment was undamaged, but the apartment building across the parking lot was missing a chunk of its roof, and I got to watch our car fall out of the tree it was in. It went on to take the roof off of an Albertson's grocery store.[EF3]
      A year later, a tornado touched down next to us while we were driving and was traveling parallel to a couple hundred yards away. We quickly turned around and went the other direction. [It looked like an EF1; I don't remember if I ever heard the official report on it.]
      A few years later, a twin vortex tornado touched down within our neighborhood. It was barreling down our street heading directly toward us. Two blocks down, it took a sudden left turn, and missed us. [EF2]
      A year after that, a particularly wide tornado stalled on top of my elementary school while we were in class. [EF2]
      About a decade later, a tornado destroyed the windshield of my mother's van while we were sleeping. It was parked in our very short driveway. The house was undamaged aside from a damaged fence and a few missing shingles.[EF1]
      A couple years later, we were driving near Houston, on the more inland side, when it was hit by a hurricane. The intent was to make a retreat from the vulnerable area. Just as urbanization turned to fields, a total of three weak looking tornadoes touched down all in different directions surrounding us. Thankfully, none of them hit us, but my mother was notably shaken.
      Last year, a tornado approached my apartment. I watched it pass by about 4-5 blocks away from my apartment balcony. [EF2]

    • @bob7975
      @bob7975 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AnasatisTiMiniatis We had one jump over our house when Gilbert came through, and we didn't even know it. We only became aware when we realized all the pets were huddled together in the back of a bedroom closet. These animals basically hated each other normally, so it was quite an eye-opener to find them there and realize what must have happened. The tornado itself was so huge you couldn't really distinguish a proper funnel cloud, so it looked like it was just a really low bank of clouds. But it tore up the airport nearby and wrecked a lot of private planes that had been stored there to protect them from the storm surge on the coast.

    • @WriterOfMany
      @WriterOfMany 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AnasatisTiMiniatis God loves you 🤯 I'm terrified of tornadoes (even have nightmares of them) and all of this just makes my skin crawl

  • @n701204x
    @n701204x 4 ปีที่แล้ว +179

    As a native Californian I dont even get out of bed for earthquakes.

    • @adriennegormley9358
      @adriennegormley9358 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Not a native but a long term resident here. One place i worked back before tje web and email we had magnitude pool. Make your guess put in your quarter then listen to the local news station give out what the usgs in menlo said the magnitude was. To this day i can still guess within 0.2 what ill find on the usgs site a minute later. And have freaked out some of my o.line friends.
      Me: baby quake? 3.5-3.8. Lemme check.
      Friends: huh?
      me after checking: usgs says it was 3.6 epicenter abt 1 mile south of Hollister. Def baby quake.

    • @kristie9144
      @kristie9144 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Same. If it shakes longer than a handful of seconds or increases, I might sit up and take notice. Otherwise nah. No point.

    • @baddog711
      @baddog711 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@adriennegormley9358 We definately don't even wake up for those.

    • @beachie
      @beachie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      During the last three quakes, I nudged my dog to stop scratching because I thought that's what was moving the couch. Rest assured, when I realized they had been quakes, I apologized to him. He grudgingly accepted the apology.

    • @7RockyHorror4
      @7RockyHorror4 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That's so funny to me. I've lived here in SoCal all my life, and I am so terribly afraid of earthquakes! We had a tiny little shake a couple nights ago and I was instantly poised and ready to grab baby, dog and cat and bolt the hell out of there LoL

  • @BVSchaefer
    @BVSchaefer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    When I was a kid in Iowa, back in the 1970s, my dad would get drunk, make popcorn & BBQ on the front porch in anticipation of the approaching tornado.
    My mother would huddle us all into the basement with a battery operated radio, some candles & matches and some large tins of reserve water.
    The kids would sit back, listen to the radio, eat snacks and watch my mother panic and scream obscenities to my dad upstairs.
    Ah, the good old times.

    • @starman6280
      @starman6280 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Are we related? (see my comment above)

    • @RuminatingWizard
      @RuminatingWizard 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Tornadoes aren't that predictable and they don't last very long.

    • @animikokala
      @animikokala 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Growing up in Tennessee, we'd argue with my Dad as kids about wanting to sit outside with him to watch the tornados. You could say he wanted to protect us, but I know the truth; he just wanted to ruin our fun. :p

    • @leadpaintchips9461
      @leadpaintchips9461 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@RuminatingWizard They're not, but the storms that produce tornadoes are.

    • @RuminatingWizard
      @RuminatingWizard 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@leadpaintchips9461 No. They aren't. Supercells develop in minutes tornadoes even faster. What retard would grill in the 6 minutes it would take for that to happen and unlike the wizard of Oz you'd most likely never see the tornado. I've been in 4 hurricanes. You could actually plan a hurricane party. Tornado parties don't exist.

  • @barbaramollmann5990
    @barbaramollmann5990 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I was a little girl of 8 in 1964 when we went on a camping vacation driving from Ohio to Colorado and back. I don't remember the state but I do remember seeing the tornado funnel heading towards us. My dad put the pedal to the metal and our 63 Ford Falcon hit it's top speed limit. That was a great vacation! First encounter with tornado, rattle snakes, and bears oh my!

  • @writerlisakaye
    @writerlisakaye 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As a Hoosier, I'm comforted to know that when you lived here, you were never one of those idiots who stood out on their porch watching/filming an oncoming tornado. I've lived through several of them, most notably the 1965 Palm Sunday Outbreak, May 1974 (was in a car driving swiftly when a tornado formed a few miles behind us, and most recently, September 2002 when my apartment sustained little damage but a house across the street had it's entire roof torn off.

  • @brendak75
    @brendak75 4 ปีที่แล้ว +250

    San Franciso earthquake was bad. However there was a series of earthquakes that happened 1811 -1812 called the New Madrid earthquakes. They took place in Illinois and Misouri. They were so violent that the Missippi River flowed backwards for 3 days, created an island in the river, and communities were completely wiped out. Experts have said were suppose to have another.

    • @lm1314
      @lm1314 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I was checking to see if someone wrote about those earthquakes. They had 7 between 6.0 and 7.5 magnitude. It was a blessing that the area wasn't populated like it is now. Since the rocks in the eastern United States have few active faults to interrupt the propagation of seismic waves, ground vibrations from earthquakes generated in the region may travel thousands of miles. Shortly after the earthquake began, ground shaking was felt as far away as Canada in the north and the Gulf Coast in the south. Eyewitness accounts noted that the shaking rang church bells as far away as Boston, Massachusetts, and brought down chimneys in Cincinnati, Ohio, about 360 miles away.

    • @alanrobinson4318
      @alanrobinson4318 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      The Alaska quake, recently upgraded to 9. on the Richter scale.

    • @AcridSoul
      @AcridSoul 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Iowa's only island is on the Mississippi, it's called Sabula.

    • @AmberWool
      @AmberWool 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The little town I remember living in in Southern Illinois has flood gates in case the New Mad-rid ever gets angry again. There's a rest stop on 55 that does a really good job of showing where the the fault line is and what happened in the 1800's.

    • @operator0
      @operator0 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It's very interesting reading the accounts of the settlers about that series of quakes. The people slept outside, in the winter, for more than a month because the ground didn't stop shaking in between the second and third quake.

  • @constancedowning1490
    @constancedowning1490 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    You forgot floods and mudslides. I'm a midwest girl-- yes, we really do go out to watch the tornadoes lol

  • @leeann4900
    @leeann4900 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    We're a Big, 'n Bold Nation, and so are our disasters ... sadly. 🇺🇸❤️🇬🇧

  • @rustyreturns9754
    @rustyreturns9754 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    At first you annoyed me. Now I cannot miss an episode. I am often amazed at the amount of research you do relating to American history. A great deal of information you present is unknown to far too many Americans. Kudos to you, sir.

  • @sdstewart100
    @sdstewart100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Wait until he learns that where I live (Memphis, TN) is sitting directly on top of a fault line that is scarily overdue for an earthquake.

    • @AnasatisTiMiniatis
      @AnasatisTiMiniatis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      - sneezes in Yellowstone -

    • @angiect3791
      @angiect3791 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah.. Mineral, VA already did that.

  • @nkelly5851
    @nkelly5851 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    Never thought I'd hear an English person say they miss English weather lmao

    • @BritIronRebel
      @BritIronRebel 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @TheRenaissanceman65 Can get a bit soggy though, as in floods of late...

    • @msmreviews8408
      @msmreviews8408 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Most Europeans will eventually miss Europe, at least most recent emigrants. The only recent emigrants that feel like they won the lottery by being in the USA are possibly south and Central American, Asians, Africans, and only if they were poor in their country.

  • @taralemon32
    @taralemon32 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    You should read up on the tornado that struck Greensburg KS and almost wiped the entire town off the map! It was an EF-5 and a MILE wide! My grandma/ grandpa and uncle all lived there when it happened. It was a VERY scary night until we knew they were all ok. There were not many casualties, but alot of people (my family included) lost everything. It happened on May 4, 2007.

  • @GaramondGourmond
    @GaramondGourmond 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I live in CA and people are always saying "Oh, Gosh. You must be terrified of earthquakes!" and I reply, "No. I'm more terrified of the hundreds of wildfires we have each year and the endless droughts we have." The last three summers have been nothing but ash-fests. Gray skies and ash all over your car when you wake up in the morning. We had one fire in the Santa Cruz mountains last year that was less than 25 miles from us. Scary!

  • @flyinggirl3121
    @flyinggirl3121 4 ปีที่แล้ว +225

    I was 3 years old and living in Washington state when Mount St. Helens erupted. I remember asking my parents why it was dark (at about 2 pm) and later why it was snowing (watching the ash fall outside). They told me about the eruption, but it didn't really make sense at the time. We have home movies of my dad sweeping ash off the roof of his shop. And as he cut his hay crop, ash billowed up behind the swather. He had to sharpen the blades on the swather after every pass down the field because the ash dulled them so quickly. Amazing!

    • @brrjohnson8131
      @brrjohnson8131 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      In "80 my car was repainted & it was supposed to be sanded before the clearcoat put on. Instead, my hubby and I drove it to Seattle for a long wk-end then back to Idaho.
      When we got back & washed off the thick coat of ash, the rough coat of paint felt like glass. No one could have polished it smoother.
      It was an amazing surprise.

    • @mwhitelaw8569
      @mwhitelaw8569 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I was less than 70 miles from it when she popped.
      It was incredible to me , as the year before I was on top of it staring at the vent.
      We're all still waiting for Rainier

    • @Liutgard
      @Liutgard 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I was in high school when it blew. We lived in Lake Tapps, about 30 minutes east of Tacoma, up on the hill. Was a Sunday morning, and we were getting ready for church. Heard a muffled *WHUMP* and my mom said "I think the mountain blew!" My dad scoffed and insisted that it was maybe a car accident, or maybe just something falling over. We got to church and everyone was abuzz with news oh the eruption. Ha, Dad!
      We didn't really get any ash, but Eastern WA did, the Toutle valley, and the Portland metro area. Quite a few people still have jars of ash that they collected.

    • @wehvgirlpwr
      @wehvgirlpwr 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You must have lived in Eastern Washington.

    • @danielm5535
      @danielm5535 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Volcanic ash is basically sand and aerated glass (pumice). It’s been used for millennia as a smoothing/sanding compound.

  • @Kryptyd23
    @Kryptyd23 4 ปีที่แล้ว +251

    As a Californian life is just constantly that “I’m in danger” meme

    • @nateroo1486
      @nateroo1486 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      More like the "This is fine" dog, lol

    • @incisivecommenter5974
      @incisivecommenter5974 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @40hecklerusp better than the fascist red state ANY.DAY.OF.THE.WEEK

    • @zachdaniel6285
      @zachdaniel6285 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Incisive Commenter
      Nah. Capitalism rocks.

    • @ryansanada8073
      @ryansanada8073 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Incisive Commenter have fun in your bread lines

    • @incisivecommenter5974
      @incisivecommenter5974 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@zachdaniel6285 Rocks what?

  • @alanpurser9022
    @alanpurser9022 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I was born in Kansas and lived in most of the southern states. In 63rs I have been through (that I can remember) 4 minor earthquakes, 3 hurricanes, 1 blizzard (you left those out) and more tornados than I could even count. But one thing you have to remember about tornados is there is no 1 storm 1 twister rule. A single storm can produce 2,3 or several tornados as it moves. My response at this point in my life is to sit in the recliner and watch roku while my family hides in the bathroom with a mattress to cover them up. Something else you might want to include that I doubt Britain has are heat waves, where people literally die from getting too hot. I really enjoy your broadcasts. Keep up the good work.

  • @AmandaWspoon
    @AmandaWspoon ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Texoman here, I have seen Tornadoes the most, but our heat/droughts probably have been the worse. 100 days of 100F+ was a thing a few years back.

  • @Jim87_36
    @Jim87_36 4 ปีที่แล้ว +216

    As a side note: Mt. St. Helens didn't erupt. It friggin exploded. Erupt was definitely not the right word.

    • @DemitriVladMaximov
      @DemitriVladMaximov 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      It is called a pyroclastic eruption. Caused by high silica magma under great pressure, they are explosive eruptions to be sure.

    • @daniellbondad6670
      @daniellbondad6670 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      +James Lucke Whether a volcano oozes lava or ejects ash at supersonic speed,it is called an eruption either way.

    • @barbaro267
      @barbaro267 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Funny that you brought up the word "side" when also mentioning Mt. St. Helens and exploding. That thing did not blow its top. No, it blew its side out!

    • @Heavywall70
      @Heavywall70 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      In fact it’s last eruption was less than twenty years ago.

    • @tarab9081
      @tarab9081 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      To be fair first the top of the mountain fell off and then exploded.

  • @arnoldsherrill6305
    @arnoldsherrill6305 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Having your emergency radio or your smartphone with that app ringing in the middle of the night with a warning alert is a heart-stopping moment , and everyone who has ever experienced that knows exactly what I'm talking about

  • @revsla
    @revsla 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I live in Tennessee. I have experienced tornados, earthquakes, and wildfires. Thankfully no hurricanes or volcanos. It's just part of life in America.

  • @carmaela2689
    @carmaela2689 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I live in Pennsylvania,which geologically is quiet. Yet several years ago we had a small quake. We also get tornadoes. A few yearsago, we got 5 tornadoes at once and I watched it carry a barn roof. You just never know, regardless of where you live.

  • @unusualattempt
    @unusualattempt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    In Alabama, if there is a slight chance of snow, schools either cancel or get delays. Now if there is a 100% chance of tornados we go to school, no cancellations, or delays.
    It doesn't help that our newer built schools are built as functioning storm shelters.

    • @hearmeout9138
      @hearmeout9138 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I live in Alabama and actually what happens is that an hour before the tornadoes are forecast to start dropping from the sky, the schools cancel the rest of the day and send all the kids home and the daycare schools close and demand that the kids be picked up forcing many parents to sit in stop-and-go traffic going apoplectic while sirens are blaring and the meteorologists are saying, "Don't be in a manufactured home or a car because that's where most people die."

    • @Kaya084
      @Kaya084 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I’m from Oklahoma and that’s how it is here. Back when I was a kid and in school, late 80s through the 90s, our tornado drills were, go sit in the hall, head down, arms over your head. Let’s not worry about the fact that each end of the hall was solid glass doors to the outside. 😂😂

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Was visiting Phoenix once in January, we got 1/4 inch of snow and the whole city shut down!

    • @peoples_7736
      @peoples_7736 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That used to happen to our school system too, however after the 2011 tornadoes hit, and hundreds of kids were still stuck in school ( the high school chemistry labs got hit), the school system wised up a little.

    • @unusualattempt
      @unusualattempt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@peoples_7736 I remember that storm. That was I was referring to. There was a pretty bad storm somewhere either in the late 90s or early 2000s, that killed a bunch of students. After that they allowed parents to pick up their children during really bad storms and caused schools to be built as shelters. I remember sheltering in the halls in 2011 over my lunch tray licking up the mash potatoes. We haven't had anything to bad since the 2011 storms and we never really had to ever use it. I think we practiced and used code reds (active shooters) more.

  • @robertgronewold3326
    @robertgronewold3326 4 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    Yes, we do like our tornadoes here in the US. Back in the early 80's, my mom's car was actually picked up by a small tornado and planted on the other side of the highway she was driving on. No damage other than a cracked window, because thankfully the bulk of an overpass bridge seemed to have altered the wind enough that it didn't flip her car. Then, when I was about 14, our farm got narrowly missed by a tornado. It ripped down all the trees in our front yard, but didn't damage our house. However, it did rip the metal roof off our neighbors barn, which clipped our chimney as it passed over and then planted at a 45 degree angle into our hay field. The next morning, our neighbor, who was not all together stable mentally, came over with the police saying that we had stolen his barn roof. Lets just say the officer didn't make a fuss for OBVIOUS reasons. haha

    • @SuperDrLisa
      @SuperDrLisa 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Lolol

    • @mythdefied9070
      @mythdefied9070 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      damn, was your mom wearing her brown pants?

    • @bridgetsclama
      @bridgetsclama 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Good times, right? LOL

    • @jeffbrooks5580
      @jeffbrooks5580 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mythdefied9070 I was when I was in on ....memorial day Dayton Ohio

  • @leahparker9033
    @leahparker9033 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My friend's greenhouse business was hit by a tornado. Moved his house several inches. They were hiding in their storm shelter under the house and so survived. Greenhouse plastic gone and galvanized steel supports twisted like pipe cleaners. Plants gone, of course, their income for the year. Thousands of pine trees ripped off, the remaining trunks twisted like clay. It took him a long time to recover.
    Edit: I should mention this was northern Wisconsin.

  • @BitsOfThisNThat
    @BitsOfThisNThat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have been in 2 tornados here in Ohio.. 1. driving home, it engulfed our car. We were in the eye of the thing. 2.At our home. 10-12 (very very very) large trees uprooted. Missing our home and animal's home by just a few inches. One tree landed on our Pet's home (at the very front of it) missing him by a foot.

  • @scarletstar3168
    @scarletstar3168 4 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    4:16 Yellowstone. I am terrified when I think about Yellowstone.

    • @christelheadington1136
      @christelheadington1136 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      We made it through 2012.

    • @ssssaa2
      @ssssaa2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      There are a few other volcanoes just as large globally the next to erupt probably won't be yellowstone.

    • @battleship217
      @battleship217 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ssssaa2 honestly the cascades are far more likely to erupt than Yellowstone

    • @scarletstar3168
      @scarletstar3168 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Google made me change my name damn it ya but it still scares me.

    • @goldenknight578
      @goldenknight578 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@battleship217 Only because of the minor problem of there technically being three active volcanoes in WA at the moment.

  • @CrazyEagleXXIX
    @CrazyEagleXXIX 4 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    I’m from the Mississippi Gulf Coast, my family lost our house and everything we own in Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Definitely a scary experience. We are good now thankfully :)

    • @triskellian
      @triskellian 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I remember this one well.It was a mere four weeks we got hit by Rita.It was the first time our family and friends had to evacuate.Our homes were spared but the trip was not very pleasant!

    • @ChristChickAutistic
      @ChristChickAutistic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My best friend and her family lived in Gautier at that time, they got out, but lost most everything they had too.

    • @sarahhoover2539
      @sarahhoover2539 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I was in Livingston perish Louisiana during hurricane Katrina. We were the lucky ones and didn’t lose our home. Many of our friends and family did. I’m glad y’all are ok now. It was a scary experience but showed how many people stick together and helped.

    • @tyreedillard
      @tyreedillard 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I was just west of Baton Rougue when Rita hit, ironiclly volunteering in response to katrina.

    • @satsunada
      @satsunada 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I had family in Gulfport that got out early. When they came home, they had a new lawn ornament in the back yard: a casino. Casino's in Mississippi are illegal if put on land (you read that right) so all of them .. ALL OF THEM.. are on barges somewhere. The one in Gulfport lifted out of the ocean with the swell and a completely flattened anything in it's path with thousands of tons of barge, poker chips, and buildings just riding the waves like a surfer. It parked itself fully on some of the neighbors property but not before flattening my distant relative's house down to the slab.. and it was cracked, scarred and had all the pipes bent out.

  • @RobGcraft
    @RobGcraft 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    “Tornados don’t happen every day”
    Oklahoma and the rest of the Tornado Alley: “B R U H”

  • @tokiobabe99
    @tokiobabe99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Agreed with that last point. Blizzards here in Alberta equal staying inside, wearing extra sweaters, and complaining about the cold. I can tough that out.

  • @abrad6901
    @abrad6901 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    I keep remembering the Joplin (Missouri) tornado in 2011 where 158 people died. It hit the hospital...

    • @briannataylor8046
      @briannataylor8046 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      My aunt lives in Joplin and I remember that day the rest of the family all lives in PA and we were all freaking out when we saw the news and no one could get a hold of her. Thank God she was ok though

    • @randa0283
      @randa0283 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      As a Joplin native, yeah. It was terrible. My family (husband and daughter) were very lucky. We were less than half a mile from the path of the tornado, and if my husband had been at work that evening, like he was asked to be but turned down the hours, he would have been in a building that was hit. So, yes, a scary day in our local history.

    • @LJBSullivan
      @LJBSullivan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I remember seeing the aftermath in TV and thought that was the worst sight I'd ever seen of a natural disaster. Wiped to the foundations. Prayed so much for all of you there. Awful purely awful.

    • @garydean0308
      @garydean0308 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I drove through there a few days later on my way to OKC. The damage was profound.

    • @JakeSnake07
      @JakeSnake07 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@garydean0308 I'm from Oklahoma myself, and we sent a *lot* of people to help. Unsurprisingly, we've gotten pretty good at tornado recovery here.

  • @leifhietala8074
    @leifhietala8074 4 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    "Look at all those actives volcanoes," he says, indicating the American west coast while not mentioning how Iceland is completely obscured by all its red triangles.

    • @lairdcummings9092
      @lairdcummings9092 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Iceland has many, many volcanos, but when you get right down to it, is still a fairly small island.

    • @TedBronson1918
      @TedBronson1918 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Laird made my point. Iceland is actually rather small. I wouldn't want to be on Iceland if they all decided to erupt, but the Pacific Rim volcanoes (not just those on the west coast of the US) put Iceland in the backwaters, even though your island is famous for its volcanoes

    • @Donosauros_Rex
      @Donosauros_Rex 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      you also can't forget about the one really big volcano in the US

    • @leifhietala8074
      @leifhietala8074 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Donosauros_Rex If Yellowstone ever lets go, no one Earth is ever going to forget it - those that survive, that is.

    • @Donosauros_Rex
      @Donosauros_Rex 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@leifhietala8074I don't doubt that, if anyone survives it will be remembered in history books for hundreds if not thousands of years and will make all recorded eruptions before it seem like childs play

  • @spmarei
    @spmarei 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    And our blizzards are no jokes either, South Dakota experienced a 2013 thunderstorms/blizzard that killed 100,000 cattle and horses...

  • @stevenwoeste7428
    @stevenwoeste7428 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    In 1974 there were a series of very deadly and strong tornadoes that went through Ohio (where I lived at the time) preceded by softball sized hail. It was truly an expression of raw power that I remember to this day.

  • @carolinefelsted1298
    @carolinefelsted1298 4 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    "Here's a map of all the active volcanoes in Britain"
    Britain: none

  • @kj8840
    @kj8840 4 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    What, no love for sinkholes. While they aren't as flashy as earthquakes, there's nothing like the ground silently opening up and swallowing a car dealership with some nice sports cars or a couple lanes of I-4.
    I guess not deadly enough since I believe 4 people have ever been killed in Florida by sinkhole.

    • @JJoy-bk8yr
      @JJoy-bk8yr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      He probably left sinkholes out because Britain has them too?
      I had been expecting avalanches, but they do happen in Scotland. I guess that is why they aren't in the video either.

    • @illogicerr3769
      @illogicerr3769 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nope. Florida is going to have to up it's game to make the list. :)

    • @80sGamerLady
      @80sGamerLady 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@illogicerr3769 Hah. True. We have hurricane parties here in FL. They only scare me cat 4+ or when they spawn tornadoes.

    • @keithgolden77
      @keithgolden77 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@80sGamerLady I so miss hurricane parties! And tornado BBQ

  • @louisejohnson6767
    @louisejohnson6767 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I lived in Western Canada when Mt. St. Helen's exploded. It was loud enough for me to hear it.

  • @catmom1322
    @catmom1322 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When I was younger, living in central Indiana, I endured a tornado. It must've gone right past us, but the noise! A train ran through our house.

  • @roguescape
    @roguescape 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    We advise you to stay indoors and seek shelter during a F5 tornado
    OKlahoma: I’m ain’t afraid of no twister I’m just going to watch it

    • @Dracule0117
      @Dracule0117 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      To be fair, nothing short of an underground shelter or one of those (relatively) new above ground armored rooms is going to survive getting hit by an EF5 anyway. Might as well check it out- your outcome is almost certainly going to be the same regardless if you can't get in one of those places.

    • @Kaya084
      @Kaya084 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Any time I get tornado watch or warning alerts, I automatically go outside. My boyfriend thinks I’m crazy and refuses to spend more than a couple minutes outside with me. I tell him it’s fine, I know if/when a tornado is heading our way. He just side eyes me and walks back in the house. 😂

  • @isaiahwelch8066
    @isaiahwelch8066 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    Actually, tornadoes happen every year. Just like we have "road construction season," we also have "tornado season."
    And, the "Big One" may actually be from the New Madrid fault line, which moves more in the eastern US than people like to admit -- and, if you research the New Madrid fault line, it could be potentially be a 9.5+ on the Richter scale.

    • @Demonologist013
      @Demonologist013 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or even the Wasatch fault line in Utah

    • @Ammo08
      @Ammo08 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I live right on top of the New Madrid Fault...

    • @isaiahwelch8066
      @isaiahwelch8066 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Ammo08 : I lived near it 6 years ago, in Southern Illinois.

    • @Ammo08
      @Ammo08 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@isaiahwelch8066 if that puppy slips like it did in 1812 everything from St Louis to Memphis is coming down..

    • @isaiahwelch8066
      @isaiahwelch8066 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Ammo08 : I'd say everything from St. Louis to Pittsburgh -- because the Alleghenies are on that fault line as well.

  • @sethmaki1333
    @sethmaki1333 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A couple years ago I was driving through southeastern Colorado and an EF4 twister hit nearby. It was maybe a couple miles south of me, but it was so big that it nearly filled the whole horizon. As there was no place to take any shelter, I just kept driving. Definitely an experience I'll never forget.

  • @michellepost5232
    @michellepost5232 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    These Lost in the Pond videos are really interesting. I lived decades in Kansas and never once encountered a tornado. Topeka and Wichita used to have alot, especially in Spring. My town never had even one, of which I was always thankful. I have never encountered a tornado while being elsewhere, either.

  • @janicewolk357
    @janicewolk357 4 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    When the sky turns green and birds stop singing head for the SW corner the basement. I am from Indiana and have been in three earthquakes in the East, one very major tornado, several smaller tornadoes, three hurricanes and One blizzard.

    • @wulffy54914
      @wulffy54914 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Green sky is almost always a guaranteed tornado, Followed by the blackest skys during the tornado.

    • @ceciliag2929
      @ceciliag2929 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      wulffy54914 didn’t know that, we don’t get hardly any tornadoes in Florida but we do get freaking hurricanes!!

    • @Markle2k
      @Markle2k 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@ceciliag2929 Tornadoes are what did a lot of the damage in Hurricane Andrew. Tons of little F4s popping out of the clouds and razing my ex-father-in-law's boyhood neighborhood to the ground. The big storm and the broad winds get all of the sexy coverage, and storm surge often does the majority of the damage, but hurricanes spawn tornadoes within them.

    • @smartbecauseiam864
      @smartbecauseiam864 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I was a little kid in the 70s when a huge tornado destroyed the high school in my area of Indiana. I remember playing outside with my brothers and cousins when the sky turned a really freaky shade of green and it got really quiet. That's when my uncle rushed us all inside and crammed a bunch of scared and confused kids into an interior hallway because there was no basement.

    • @kdrapertrucker
      @kdrapertrucker 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@smartbecauseiam864 broomstick, Indiana tornado?

  • @judycolella5554
    @judycolella5554 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    "Mother Nature has it in for you..." LMAO! And I'm an American who lives in Florida, where the Hurricane season has specific start and stop dates (and from where companies that sell generators get most of their income).

    • @laurabeane8862
      @laurabeane8862 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      We're having another drought year in California. Some homeless guy hit me up for a dollar because the price of bottled water went up again. No seriously. The pantsless guy ACTUALLY took a gallon of water from the cooler at the Walgreens, paid for it, and went back to hide in the shade because it was 101(F) out .He ACTUALLY bought what he said he would with my dollar. Cool.
      (TBH, my "water" is ice brewed for a smooth taste😝)

    • @MKahn84
      @MKahn84 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If I recall correctly, Florida actually gets more tornadoes (or at least more per square mile) than Oklahoma. The difference is Florida doesn't get as many powerful tornadoes. Hurricanes AND tornadoes - that's crazy!

  • @pauljones2510
    @pauljones2510 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I saw a tornado once while I was living on Colorado. The rotating clouds apparently passed right over my house but didn't form a funnel cloud until it was several miles away. This particular tornado picked up a jackrabbit and smashed it into a barn. As far as I know, that was the extent of the damage.

  • @ahmbro42
    @ahmbro42 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Living in Oklahoma and Missouri all of my life, I have watched numerous tornadoes from my porch or windows. (Yes, we go outside and watch when tornado sirens go off)
    The closest one I’ve seen touchdown was maybe a mile away in the dead of night. We lived in a very rural area. Due to lack of sirens nearby, the only way we knew when to take cover was by listening for changes in the wind and for lightening to light up the sky enough to spot the size and location of the tornado. We were fortunate to not take damage that night, but a small newly built neighborhood 1 mile from us was destroyed.

  • @thevortex6754
    @thevortex6754 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    When Mt. Helen blew, my house was covered by ash, and I live in NEW MEXICO 😶

    • @douglasthompson9070
      @douglasthompson9070 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      They said there was ash in the stratosphere that circled the globe from Mt. Saint Helen. The cap on that volcano is growing 10 feet a year. It's probably going to blow again in the next century or two.

  • @NorthMountainFairy
    @NorthMountainFairy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    When I was a child we lived in Oklahoma where we lived trough several tornadoes.
    As a teen we lived in Texas where I experienced multiple hurricanes.
    Now I’m an Alaskan and here I’ve experienced ash fall from a volcano, many earthquakes (including that big one about a year and a half ago), and in years we don’t get much snow, the lack of an ice pack melting in spring makes the whole state burn. Some years the fire map makes it look like the entire state is on fire.
    But Alaska has so many ways it can kill you, but it’s worth the risk to exist here. Also, you can die at anytime anywhere so it’s best to just be where you want to be.

    • @veramae4098
      @veramae4098 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The death rate is always the same, everywhere, everytime. I person. 1 death.
      *Cribbed from Robert Heinlein.

    • @NorthMountainFairy
      @NorthMountainFairy 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @SWeRP Hurricane Tracking I lived there in the 70s, 80s, 90s, to the early 00s, before Mother Nature went full-on mental so snow happened lightly with years apart back then. I also lived mostly in central to southern Texas, far from where tornados were known to be. In fact, Waco was hit with a massive tornado in the 50s I believe, and it *SHOCKED* the Waco population because they were under the impression Waco would *never* get a tornado. The droughts in all too familiar with. For a while I lived in San Antonio, situated on the edge of the hill country and the desert so it had an insane identity crisis. You would have like 9 months of like no rain, but with all the creeks you still had obscene humidity! The last Christmas I spent in San Antonio I called time and temperature around midnight and it was like 85 degrees and 90% humidity. Gawd I hated living in San Antonio! You could step fresh out of the shower, dress in perfectly clean clothes, open your door and between the oppressive heat and the inescapable humidity you would be DRENCHED in sweat by the time you make it to the car.
      I’ve moved over 30 times in my life and I’ve lived coast to coast, and I can easily say what keeps me from wanting to return to Texas is the regular oppressive heat married to humidity that is constant is the thing that keeping me from ever wanting to go back there, not it’s hurricanes and tornados. I don’t consider droughts because growing up there drought was just natural part of yearly Texan hell cycle, you always expect it and always mentally crucify the assholes starting massive fires flicking their cigarettes out of cars.
      As for the severe winter storms, we created climate change and Mother Nature is kicking our asses as a response. Maybe if Texas can get some representation interested in building a solid infrastructure, they would have a power grid built that doesn’t freak out and die when it gets a little cold out. But who am I kidding? Thats silly thought and will never happen. Keeping chains in the car to throw on your tires to drive safely and winter storms aren’t that bad (speaking as an Alaskan so I know a thing or two about winter storms and traveling after they hit). We can always tell when someone has moved here from a southern state because they drive like a terrified grandma in icy conditions the rest of us have learned how to drive normally. It’s frustrating to see because they drive so slowly in their ignorance thinking they are driving safely, they are actually a hindrance to traffic making driving conditions worse. There are ways to safely travel in severe winter conditions, you just have to learn them then get the confidence to drive with your knowledge, not letting fear of the ice turn you into a danger for others.

    • @WhyZ_Guy
      @WhyZ_Guy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @SWeRP StormTracking You forgot Sharknados

  • @doop1986
    @doop1986 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I live in Oklahoma, and some swirling clouds passed over my house that eventually made an EF-4 tornado that destroyed a hospital. So... normal day in Spring in Oklahoma.

  • @saraanderson8206
    @saraanderson8206 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I appreciate all the research that you put into your videos

  • @unuxon884
    @unuxon884 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    He sounds disappointed that the 6.1 quake in Britain didn't kill anyone.

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Britain's always got villains that need gotten rid of, like Richard III or Modred, maybe he's hoping some rather nasty villain gets it.

  • @chillinvillain7800
    @chillinvillain7800 4 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    2:14 ACTUALLY!! One of the HIGHEST ranking earthquakes to be RECORDED happened in Alaska on March 27, 1964 in Prince William Sound at a crazy magnitude of 9.2!!!

    • @aliciabuck3822
      @aliciabuck3822 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      And wasn't it followed by a tsunamis along the West Coast and Hawaii? (He didn't talk about tsunamis at all - Great Britain hasn't had one since the 1700's.

    • @ToniSolin
      @ToniSolin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thank you Skittle Barf! I was living in Alaska during that earthquake! I still do... :)

    • @chillinvillain7800
      @chillinvillain7800 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Toni Solin ofc! I’m kinda a history buff, so that was something I thought deserved credit 👍🏼 Alaska is a part of the US too!!

    • @claudiamackenzie8274
      @claudiamackenzie8274 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I remember that earthquake. In fact, National Georaphic did an article on it and I kept it in a scrapbook for years. Had a picture of a woman holding onto the edge of a crevasse that opened into the earth.

    • @MarceRuz
      @MarceRuz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Really the biggest earthquake took place in the chilean city of Valdivia in 1960 with a 9,5 scale and a Tsunami. They have to up the scale for that magnitude...

  • @FryingTiger
    @FryingTiger ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nothing like the classic thunder-snow! So awesome to see in person.

  • @miloanderson2903
    @miloanderson2903 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I enjoy listening to you. Thanks for sharing your experiences

  • @gregcampwriter
    @gregcampwriter 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I haven't seen a tornado. That's because I was crouching under a table while the ceiling tiles and light fixtures were crashing down around me.

  • @snowblind630
    @snowblind630 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    When I was little, I was stuck in a car in a Walmart parking lot watching a tornado touchdown nearby. Luckily my dad got back in time and we left. About 2 or 3 minutes later and that tornado was over that parking lot. Fun times.

    • @LJBSullivan
      @LJBSullivan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Don't leave your kids in car alone, they could be hit by a tornado! Or even another car having a car accident!!

  • @taylorjenkins4517
    @taylorjenkins4517 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Lol so I’ve lived EVERYWHERE in the United States, the majority being either in the south or in Oregon and I realized that I’ve experienced every single type of natural disaster he talked about from living in all these different states 🤦‍♀️

  • @caramarie2000
    @caramarie2000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I just found you within the last couple of days, and I can't imagine how I didn't find you earlier. the ultimate type of content, British man in America 😊

  • @dianaromaine4383
    @dianaromaine4383 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I grew up on Dallas, TX. I've seen the sky turn green, we did tornado drills in school. I had to move to North Carolina to experence one. When I called the city to complain that I didn't hear sirens before it happened, they told me we don't have tornado siren's because we don't have tornadoes . My neighbors crushed house begged to differ.

    • @SweetBearCub
      @SweetBearCub 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I too have seen the sky turn green when I lived in Florida. Preparing for various natural disasters is a fact of life here. That's not to say that they're common, but if you're smart, you'll keep a stocked bug out bag in your home and vehicle, and never let your vehicle drop below say, half a tank of fuel, in case of evacuation alerts.

    • @LostJedi26
      @LostJedi26 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's true. No sirens down in NC. It was weird moving to Missouri and hearing them on a regular basis (routine testing).
      But in NC, I think they're only active for a few seconds, maybe a minute, whereas in the Midwest, in parts they can stay grounded (though rare) for up to half an hour. That's far worse, that much more terrifying.

  • @willsmama1907
    @willsmama1907 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Missouri once had an earthquake that made the Mississippi River flow backwards and made church bells ring in Boston.

    • @josephcote6120
      @josephcote6120 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      The New Madrid fault. Not well known because the area was sparsely populated at the time.

    • @valkyrievox9972
      @valkyrievox9972 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I’ve grew up not far from the fault line on the Illinois side of the Mississippi in the town next to one destroyed by the TriState tornado in 1925. We got to have both tornado and earthquake drills in school as a result. The New Madrid quakes in 1811/1812 are estimated to be in 7-8 range, and school drills always included that we probably were due for another big one sometime “soon” geologically speaking.

    • @jgordon5316
      @jgordon5316 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yup, biggest by far. He missed out on blizzards as well. A few other noteworthy and historically devastating cat 5"s such as New York's big one that killed thousands and moved the coastline back a fair piece and Agnus of the early 70's and even Andrew that recorded the highest sustained wind, above 200mph. Wildfire that hit western Montana a decade or so ago burned an area half the size of the UK. In any given year the death toll from tornadoes in the US beat the entire lifetime of Britain. No need to worry about Yellowstone though. If it goes, he'll be buried in ash with the rest of us.

    • @prettybullet9875
      @prettybullet9875 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And rattled china in Washington D.C.

    • @cyn37211
      @cyn37211 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And rang church bells in Boston and Florida

  • @CrazyMama75
    @CrazyMama75 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've seen plenty dust bunnies in UK, mostly on council estates in London. My old man spent time in America and he often told me how he was a vender at a US version of a carboot sale (using tents instead of cars) in a field somewhere in Texas when a twister hit at one end of the field and did a horseshoe around the field before disappearing. All the venders, my father included, that were in the middle of the field were mostly unharm, just some messed up wares, but the tents around the edge of the tornadoes path were all messed up and alit of injuries. Mercifully no deaths. Dad said he'll never forget it.

  • @KasFromMass
    @KasFromMass 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Heart Attacks shoveling snow is a major killer yearly....every year.

  • @jn1mrgn
    @jn1mrgn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I thought "deadly natural phenomena" would include wildlife that can kill you like bears and mountain lions. When I think of British wildlife I think of hedgehogs.

    • @jmitterii2
      @jmitterii2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Occasional mountain lion comes down to some of the towns in Idaho. They're often mistaken for dogs.

    • @danielcarroll3358
      @danielcarroll3358 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@jmitterii2 We get them in Berkeley, along with deer, opossums, raccoons, turkeys and coyotes. Across the bay in San Francisco they even have wild parrots.

    • @kathryngeeslin9509
      @kathryngeeslin9509 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No bears around here. Lots of coyotes and bobcats, but I haven't seen any in decades (Fish and Wildlife says there are as many as ever though). Only problems mosquitoes, imported fire ants, spiders, little things. Well, one ticked off water moccasin some years ago. North Texas

    • @tanyawales5445
      @tanyawales5445 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      In Maryland I saw a coywolf when I was driving home at night from Edgewood. That thing was pretty darned big at about the size of a large German Shepherd dog and scary looking. My sister didn't believe me until I sent her a notice from the Maryland Dept. of Wildlife about coywolves with a picture.

    • @tanyawales5445
      @tanyawales5445 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jmitterii2 My son who was a small 13 year old saw a full grown mountain lion walking along the Boise River in downtown Boise, ID. He was on a bridge 15 ft. up looked down and the mountain lion looked up at him. Adrenaline kicked in and he ran straight home. My son was still a wreck hours later when I came home.

  • @deanpapadopoulos3314
    @deanpapadopoulos3314 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great stuff. Good voice acting. Thank you.

  • @pityparty9955
    @pityparty9955 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    These videos are so much fun! Thanks

  • @SS-lv6to
    @SS-lv6to 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    *tornado warning*
    My mom: What do y'all want for dinner?

  • @deborahdanielson8901
    @deborahdanielson8901 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    Here in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains, there are too many hills and trees to see tornados coming. Because I’ve also lived in New Orleans, people ask me which I fear more: tornados or hurricanes? Definitely tornado-hardly any warning and nowhere to hide. With hurricanes, you usually get plenty of warning, just very expensive to “evacuate”.

    • @AmberWool
      @AmberWool 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I like only enough time to hide, I mean take shelter.

    • @XSemperIdem5
      @XSemperIdem5 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Meanwhile I'm over here with earthquakes in Southern California. We finally have an app that might give us a few seconds of warning, depending on your distance from the epicenter. 😐

    • @dindixie
      @dindixie 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      #Deborah Danielson, you must have never experienced being in the northeast quadrant eyewall of a big hurricane as it comes ashore. That part of a hurricane is full of tornadoes. (New Orleans doesn't usually get the brunt of the northeast quadrant full force because of geography.) I've been through almost every hurricane to hit coastal Mississippi since we moved here in 1993. Including Katrina.
      I grew up in southern Michigan, spent time in Kansas during summers, and was stationed in NM, the Philippines, and TX prior to relocating here. I've experienced tornadoes, hurricanes, smaller wildfires, plus earthquakes and typhoons while overseas. (Thankfully, we missed the eruptions of Mt Pinatubo by a year.) I love living here on the coast, but hurricanes are not easier to deal with than tornadoes by a long shot. And you don't always get days and days of time to prepare for a hurricane either. Plus, a tornado is usually (although not always) a relatively quick affair. I can think of several hurricanes that stalled out with the eyewall almost directly overhead. For over 12 hours. This isn't counting the hours of dreadful anticipation as a monster storm closes in on you, nor the time it takes for the beast to finally leave your area completely.
      And if you have a hooptie old car, try to evacuate, and it breaks down within an hour or two on the side of the road as you're evacuating? The reason people died in New Orleans is because they couldn't evacuate prior to the storm, and then the levees failed. There are public shelters, but they are a last resort thing for us; you have to bring supplies, which I have been told may possibly be confiscated by workers upon entering to share with those who couldn't be bothered to bring their own supplies. We had just finished building our own mostly underground shelter just prior to Katrina, and so did not have to leave.
      Not everyone has the luxury of evacuating for hurricanes. Some people cannot afford evacuation or don't own a vehicle, some have livestock or many pets which they can't just leave behind, and others have jobs which require them to stay (emergency response personnel, maintenance, infrastructure, hospital/care home staff, process workers, etc...).
      Then there can be the extended aftermath of a hurricane. The cleanup after Katrina took a year or more in a path over 100 miles wide and deep. Folks over a huge area were without power on average for a month, and some longer than that. Communications (cell and landlines) were down or spotty for weeks. No power for AC in the sweltering heat, with natural shade gone, becuse the trees left standing were all denuded. Plus having to try to sleep in that heat & high humidity, plus the horrible bugs getting in everywhere.
      In your time in New Orleans, did you ever experience a direct hit by a hurricane, ride it out, and have to endure a protracted aftermath?
      I'll take the tornado as the lesser weather problem, especially if you live in an area where most homes have basements, plus you can buy a weather alert radio, and most phones will give you alerts with enough lead time to seek shelter.
      And yes, I have experienced tornado warnings and actual tornadoes - in MI, OH, KS, NM, TX, (two very close calls while tent camping), and some non-hurricane related ones here in MS (one that flipped our chicken coop 70 yards from the house). Hurricanes/typhoons are no picnic, and you can't always leave.

    • @bonnecherie
      @bonnecherie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I remember the one tornado I lived through in Tennessee. It came out of nowhere and just went by us in our car. Thankfully it was an F0 otherwise I'm sure we would have been tossed around 8'D

  • @larryselkirk426
    @larryselkirk426 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was within half a mile of a tornado in Denver a while back. Black (parking lot lights came on at 2 in the afternoon), lots of rain, and wind of course. Took out houses between my home and where I was working so I got to see the devastation on my commute for weeks. Also, the row of houses (about half a mile long) had some untouched homes in the path of the tornado. It was like the tornado jumped over them and then came back down to take out the neighbor's home.

  • @donnapauley8183
    @donnapauley8183 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just recently found you. I love your humor!!! I am an Air Force kid. We traveled from Homestead, FL, to Tampa and then all the way to Anchorage, AK then to Montgomery, AL. So, our last winter in Alaska, we woke up to 4 feet of snow. Our neighbor had to dig us out. Then, we had our worse earthquake. It was Christmas break and we were all napping. We lived in a mobile home, so I was woken up by the entire trailer rocking back and forth so hard I was thrown to the floor. I could hear my sister screaming and I "ran" to her room, which was hard. It was like walking in a fun house drunk. We moved to Alabama next. Our first spring there, we had a tornado drill during school, during a terrifying storm. While sitting in the school hallway, I heard the tornado go over our school. The earthquake was scarier. Tornadoes you can see coming if you pay attention or during daylight. We live in southern Indiana and have not had a tornado in our town in about 30 years. I am not a big fan of storms at night.

  • @patraic5241
    @patraic5241 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    One note. On the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The earthquake didn't kill that many people. The fires that ripped through the heart of the city After the quake is what was so lethal.