this might sound crazy but for the southern states 100° and 40C isn’t even that bad. we could survive in that pretty easily. it’s 100° and 40C with bad humidity that gets us.
You know you've been in the desert too long when you can say "It was a little warm when I left town today - it was 105". I said that in McCarin airport in Vegas and the lady looked at me like I had just grown a second head.
It's interesting. Having grown up with the humid summers of the midwest, I actually prefer humid heat over dry heat. Though to be fair, I feel like I'm in the minority even among midwesterners. I think it has to do with the fact that I don't sweat much.
I live in AZ and that is so true. We don’t have much humidity. It’s a dry heat and I’ll take 110 degrees Fahrenheit over the freezing cold any day. I’m used to the heat. It’s still miserable in June. It’s not uncommon to have 15 days straight of heat that never goes below 113F (45 C). 100 degrees is actually quite cool for the months of June, July, August and September.
"So, basically in America, don't mess with Mother Nature." I have lived from tundra to desert and this one is true. Pay attention. The weather can kill you.
and the weather will kill you long before spiders or snakes or bears, ive been an amateur survivalist most of my life.. only two animals worry me...badgers, and skunks. and even the skunks, usually don mess with them, they dont mess with you... american badgers however... nothing like the british story book badgers. ours, like our possums(compared to australian ones), are some sort of demonic thing(our opossums are mostly harmless, just look hidious) from the mind of dali or giger...
But the spiders? Come on, widows and brown recluses are prevalent in my area (indiana) but the odds of dying from a black widows bite is like being struck by lightning. Though he is wrong about brown recluses being reclusive or non-aggressive as they are a roaming spider and you very likely will encounter them if you live near them and they are as aggressive as say a wolf spider.
I lived in Arizona, in the second hottest city without humidity, and I strongly agree. Summers in the town I lived in were at the highest 130 degrees Fahrenheit, and it's insanity. I walked out beside the town's bridge, and it was burning out (it was 120 degrees) and I had no water. The lowest temperature in my town there was 25 degrees F.
Maybe it's just where I live, but Brown Recluse and Black Widows are extremely common. I bought a truck load of firewood last year and found a dozen throughout the logs. And I could guarantee anyone with a garden or shed has a black widow living within the property.
Yep, live in the country in south Georgia and I kill a couple of black widows every year in my carport. Brown Recluses less often, but every once in a while. Have several friends who have the nasty scars from the Brown Recluse bites.
They're pretty common throughout the South; but, like with snakes, so long as you don't actively antagonize them, and don't stick your hands or feet anywhere that you can't see, they aren't generally a problem. It is extremely rare that anyone actually dies from spider or (native) snake bites. So long as you seek prompt medical attention, the vast majority who get bitten will survive.
@@randlebrowne2048 I live in deep south of Illinois near Kentucky and Tennessee. We get Black Widow and Brown Recluse bites and while irritating and they suck, anyone who's not been sheltered their entire life can home medicate. Western and Eastern Diamondbacks are rare encounters but happen. Even then if you don't F with em they'll leave you alone. If they strike most hospitals have antivenom within 50 miles.
@@Cubs-Fan.10 Yeah, I'm about 30 minutes drive from Sweetwater, Texas. It's home to the world's largest annual rattlesnake roundup. Snakebites are *sill* very rare.
@@Tammisherry Wooden houses, especially the older ones, were built with cross ventilation in mind. Also, natural ventilation from a cellar to the attic provides ventilation, with the hot air rising and exiting.
I feel like the Brits are particularly good at retaining their accents when they live in other places. My British dad lived in the US for about twenty years and I think his accent still sounded distinctly British. And you know that Americans love British accents so it's probably to your benefit to keep it if you come here.
Unlike my dad lol! He's lived here for almost 35 yrs and you wouldn't know he was born in another country. Certain words you'll hear an accent but that rarely happens.
My friend Dani 😂 omg. She never lost her accent. And she was such a great sport. She would repeat things a billion times for our amusement. Particularly, the words "garage" and "bubble paper" but there were so many others.
11:50 fun fact. Alaska has deserts, too. Everyone thinks of deserts as "hot and dry." But in reality, heat has no impact on whether or not an area is a desert. Its all about level of dryness. Antartica is also mostly a desert. They're called polar deserts.
You are indeed righ! But I want to clarify that deserts are defined by the level of precipitation, not dryness. Dryness implies there's no water anywhere, but as you said, Antarctica is considered a desert. There's obviously water everywhere, but it snows very little each year; hence why it's defined as a desert.
@@KyaKramer well yeah. That was what I was meant with dryness. I guess maybe that wasn't the best word to use. But by dryness, I was meaning very small amounts of precipitation.
Right I live in Washington State, and most people not familiar with it wouldn't think so, but a very large portion of the eastern side of Washington (east of the Cascade mountains) is desert.
Ironically in places like Arizona and the Southwest you’re more likely to have houses made from Stucco or Concrete because it can be cooler. Frequently you’ll see brick on the outside of a wooden house for aesthetics rather than structural integrity of the house. Also parts of the Southwest can get to 47-50C almost every year
You see this in the Southeastern US as well. A wooden house with a thin brick facing. But not at all part of the structural integrity of the home. Not to say that there are not traditional brick homes, but as a general rule brick is aesthetic not functional. And the walls of houses are pumped with insulation to help regulate the temperature.
Regarding the different regions of the US, the United States is the only country that has all of Earth's five climate zones: tropical, dry, temperate, continental, and polar.
@@Perfectly_Cromulent351 This classification is very problematic. A major drawback is that it is empirical and, therefore, flawed.. The causative factors of climate have been totally ignored. Thus, the air masses, which form the very basis of modern climatology, could not find any place in Koppen's classification. Therefore, The United States is the only Country with all five climate zones that occur naturally.
You are correct. Some people refer to the empirical system on this subject. The problem with that is the fact that it is only based on observation and experience rather than scientific facts and data.
Also, one thing he forgot to mention about IHOP's Pancake Day is that they serve "all you can eat" pancakes that day. So you can get free refills on your pancakes and your drinks!
When we moved from California to Georgia, I told my Scottish in-law exactly how many miles we were going to drive and then calculated the distance in kilometers. She said I had to be mistaken. I rechecked the math. Then I calculated how far that distance would take you across Europe. If she drove from her village in Scotland the distance between our old home in California and our house in Georgia, she'd be in Bagdad.
@@i2ndsight Oh, I'm not doubting you! It's just that blows my mind! I don't think much of a 36 hour drive since I've driven from west Idaho to Chicago to see my mom each year, sometimes a couple times a year.
I’m a native of Washington State where you can find the following: Live volcanoes, glaciers, a rainforest , desert, the Grand Coulee Dam, the Cascade mountain range, temperate weather on the coast, and -20 F winters on the eastern side of the state. I love the diversity! I feel like I’ve left something out, but you get the idea! We also have rattlesnakes and black widow spiders and this is where sightings of Sasquatches (Big Foot) run rampant! Washington state does not disappoint!
I thought we had a rainforest in the continental US, but I wasn't certain. The natural diversity of our land and weather really is pretty amazing! I'm assuming there are rainforests in HI, although I've never been down there. Seems like I watched a documentary that said the US had examples of every kind of ecological system.
@@CarolBondOldDragonMama not only does Hawaii have a rainforest, it also has the place with the most recorded annual rainfall. It’s a mountain top on Kauai. Cool, huh?
I lived for two years in the area southwest of Seattle and Tacoma. Sasquatch awareness was definitely a thing. Never saw one, but I'll swear on my death bed I heard one '"roaring" in the dark of the night. (Something was howling, and it was larger than a wolf and only marginally smaller the a grizzly.)
Alaskan here. Most of our homes are wooden: they ride out the earthquakes by flexing like ships riding a rough sea. Construction technology developed in Alaska and other cold regions make our homes warm and tight. With double- or triple-paned windows, super-insulation and the cozy wood stove, I am warmer in my home in the winter than in the summer.
I was living in Anchorage as a child when the 9.2 earthquake happened in 1964. That quake had a lot to do with the kinds of houses they build in Alaska now. Still love and miss Alaska!
@@raej1307 The most recent Anchorage quake, 7. something, did no structural damage, but it did shake loose the fire suppression systems in some buildings, resulting in floods. Also, some underground water and drainage systems were damaged. Hotels in Fairbanks, which does have hot summers, have air conditioning.
Where i live we have a family owned place with a sandwich menu very similar to Arby's. Its called Mr. B's Best Beef. It opened back in the 60s. The meat quality is so much better than Arbys, and locals know it, that Arbys never lasts aound here. 🤣
I didn’t know pancakes were a special holiday food in England. That’s awesome, I grew up eating pancakes a couple times a week. It’s just a breakfast food here. Maple syrup and butter on top.
In Canada 🇨🇦 Shrove Tuesday is celebrated by the Catholics but anyone can come and pay for a plate of pancakes. We also have pancake 🥞 breakfast at any holiday like Canada day or town/ city days
@@ANNEWHETSTONE our ones r thinner n usually bigger but it does depend on wot size frying pan is used. We also mainly use sugar and lemon (although we do use other things like nutella). Once the toppings are one, we then roll them up so it's like a long tube n then eaten
@@dilligaf73 I have made the pancake roll ups for the kids with peanutbutter as a treat but mostly I make the thicker flapjacks with butter and syrup for breakfast. I'm in the American south.
Albeit extremely rare in some states, tornadoes have occurred in all 50 states In states that get hurricanes, tornadoes can spin off of hurricanes quite frequently
I came to say just that. You usually have a tornado or ya know Several spin off during a hurricane. So that’s fun. Sarcasm. I can joke I’ve been through no less than ten hurricanes.
Yes, exactly. I don't *think* we get them here on the east coast as much as people in Tornado Alley get them, but yes, where I'm at in SC, we get tornadoes several times a year, particularly when a hurricane has made landfall.
Wooden Exterior? No matter what the house is made of, all house are supposed to insulated. So no matter what part of the USA you live in, the weather stays Out and the Heating or Air Conditioning stays in. So the inside of any house Can be regulated and not affected by it's make up. But our roofs can effect temperatures (minimally) though more expensive, having metal roofing instead of shingles is a thing. And with A/C (air conditioning), not everyone has a "window shaker" like what he is showing in the windows. Houses tend to come with "Central A/C" it is piped through the ceilings or floors... starting at a centralized Unit usually located outside next to the house and ending at vents in each room.
If you're familiar with vinyl siding it's designed to look like painted wooden siding. Wood shingles or shakes are another exterior cladding that has transitioned to vinyl and other materials. Wood's not a common choice for the façade in new construction because of the maintenance needs. There are some really nice custom homes that make use of wood, and opt to stain or seal it instead. Of course the way we frame and façade our houses today didn't become popular until the mid-19th century.. so before that houses were made from clapboard and log. Log home, that would definitely be a wooden exterior. :)
I live in New Mexico, where black widows and stucco houses are common. They used to be adobe, mud and straw. I lived in an adobe house when I grew up. Really helped insulate the cold air inside, and stayed warmer during the winter.
So I lived in the northern part of Alabama growing up and we actually had as many or more tornadoes than actual “Tornado Alley”. And we had some quite severe ones that hit our area as well. In fact, there was one subdivision in my town that had a brick wall surrounding it and after about the fifth time a tornado hit the wall and knocked it over they just stopped bothering to rebuild it so now it just sits there as half a wall and has for 10 years at this point. Most tornadoes aren’t deadly if you know your safety protocols and pay attention to the weather. Here we keep weather radios which are special emergency radios that sound alarms and alert you of impending weather issues and then talk to you to tell you exactly where the storms are including names of tiny villages and farming communities in the path of the storm so that people can take shelter. In fact, it gets so minute you’re likely to be left saying to yourself “Where is that? I’ve never heard of it!” And if you live in a city or town they have sirens placed on top of schools, fire stations, and public buildings that will sound if there’s a tornado warning. The sirens spin around in a circle so they create this eerie undulating sound that kind of sounds like a Tibetan singing bowl.
We can definitely get tornadoes in different parts of the country outside of Tornado alley. I don't live anywhere near tornado alley, but my area can get small ones on occasion that are usually less deadly but will sometimes cause damage.
Honestly, I’ve lived in tornado alley for years - they’re just such a part of life that I didn’t think about it. Turns out, I still very much live in tornado alley and the most deadly tornado ever in Texas hit here.
Adding onto this. We had a decent sized one in Virginia a few years ago but it was the first one of note I've seen since I've been alive. It can happen, but it's rare.
Most states have delt with a tornado in some fashion, but most are infrequent and relatively week and small, f0 or f1. Wind speeds of 73 to 112 mph (112 to 180 kmh). Tornado alley is called that because of the frequency and size of the tornados. The Oklahoma city area got hit by f5 tornado's twice in the span of a 5 years I think. And they were about a mile wide, or 1.6 km. Similar in size to the one that hit Joplin a few years ago. Wind speeds around 200 mph (321 kmh) or more.
Wood buildings are also better at withstanding earthquakes, because they can bend instead of break. I live in Southern California now, and houses here are not allowed to be built out of brick, because of earthquakes. There are hundred-year-old brick buildings downtown, but they are required to be retrofitted for earthquakes.
I am in Kentucky in the US and we have Tornados, we had tornado drills in school growing up and they test the civil defense sirens once a week all year round. We also have brown recluse and black widow spiders here. Our summers are very 🥵. Over 100 degrees Fahrenheit with heat indexes into the 110’s, and the winters can go well below zero, so the houses have to be very well insulated. And Arbys is amazing, they specialize in very large roast beef sandwiches! Delicious 🤤
Hello, neighbor! I'm in Tennessee, and yes, grew up with tornadoes, black widows in my shoes, and brown recluses in my bed when moved upstairs in our 100yo wooden house!
@@auntrori yep! I was born in Ky and lived there 30 years, moved to TN and have now lived here 31 years. You don’t put on a shoe without shaking it out first. That goes for clothes you haven’t worn in awhile too… just in case.🐝🤗❤️
I live in the Mojave desert. It's hot as hell for 4 to 5 months, comfortable for about a month, and then cold the rest of the time. We get about 2 weeks of fall and 2 weeks of spring.
I live in tornado alley, but in my 54 yrs I've never seen a tornado. I've experience many tornado warnings and have taken shelter in the storm cellar. However the state I live in has experienced many devastating tornadoes. The movie "Twister" was filmed here. I've never seen a brown recluse spider, but have re-homed many many many black widow spiders. Such a pretty spider and the babies are so cute!
One thing you shouldn't miss out getting over here is to get a nice big stack of American pancakes. You don't fold them here, you smother them with whipped butter and drown them in maple and berry syrup. Yum!
There are lots of places you can live where you might be in a rainforest but be within an hour drive if desert, alpine mountains, and coastal climate. You could surf in the morning and snowboard in the afternoon..that was life when I lived in Portland OR. It’s crazy..
I had a brown recluse bite me twice in one night. Didn’t feel a thing. Saw the places the next morning, pretty much knew what it was. I had to go into work the next day so since I was a medic and knew what it was I was just going to wait and see the ER Dr. the next morning and by the time I got to the ER the skin at both sites was necrotic and the size of a dime. Was on high dose antibiotics for a while but they cleared up. I’ve also had patients of black widow bites and it’s ugly. The pain it causes is not something I ever want to experience.
I grew up in Las Vegas, still here in fact. I was never allowed to turn the garden hose (we just call it hose) on by myself because that's where the Black Widow spiders like to be, near the coolness of the water. I saw them lots of times though, including the red spot (they say hourglass shaped, but it just looked a bit like a blob to me) on the female. One thing not on the list that we encounter here in the desert Southwest is scorpions. I had lived here nearly 40 years before I saw one, but that one stung me! Pain like I've never felt!! It stung me on the tip of my toe, but the pain went all the way up to my knee, and it lasted for days. I wanted to burn my house down, but a cooler head prevailed and I sold it & moved across town instead. Love your videos!! Oh, I almost forgot. The highest temperature I've ever experienced here in LV was 127 Fahrenheit. The blacktop in the parking lot was actually sticky, like soda had been spilled on it, but it was actually a little melty from the heat.
I'm on the mid-east coast. I have not only been through 3 hurricanes (2 were severe) and 1 tornado that ripped the roof off of my friend's house and tore the elementary school down.
If you like pancakes, try a McDonald's McGriddle for breakfast! It's a gift. A breakfast sandwich with two thick pancakes with built-in syrup. A-mazing!
I live in Ohio and that isnt really near tornado alley but we do get tornados here more often than you would think. I swear the weather here in Ohio is bipolar since it was about 70°F today and sunday we have a chance of snow. I rarely have Arby's but when i do i love it. And yes we do have Aldi's here. My mom shops there sometimes
Uhg... Why did I read your comment and check the weather? High of 39° F Sunday? Yuck! I am not ready for that crap. I've been in Ohio all my life and I'd rather deal with the 100°.
Pretty much anywhere in the Great Plains will have crazy fluctuations in weather, due to the unobstructed blasts of arctic air that can sweep down with little notice.
Ohhh, the thing about deserts.....very dry heat. You do not realize how much water you are sweating out because the sweat evaporates immediately. I tend to walk around guzzling water constantly while there. We got to 113 degrees in WA State and people DIED.
It all depends on what region you go to. Some regions are part of the Tornado Alley, but Florida is known for Hurricanes, and California is where you will experience earthquakes and wildfires most of the time. Although California is always fun specially in the winter because where can you ski in the morning and then go to the beach to swim in the afternoon.
I think a person’s reaction to extreme weather phenomena depends on what they grow up with. I’m originally from Long Island, NY and we had our fair share of hurricanes. It was always quite exciting to go to the beach to watch the waves. My husband is from Ohio, and used to tornado warnings. He was scared of hurricanes when he lived on LI. Moving to Ohio, I’m terrified of tornadoes, and he brushes off tornado warnings. What a pair. 😆
I think this is absolutely a true statement. I grew up in the southeast where both hurricanes and Tornadoes can be somewhat common. But I would lose my mind in an earthquake or blizzard.
@@dennisdavis9537 That's so funny. I grew up in Massachusetts and I always used to think that our area was the best natural disaster wise because the only really dangerous weather phenomena are blizzards, and blizzards in my opinion were always the least dangerous weather so long as you weren't homeless. I think this probably goes for wild animals as well. We have black bears in Mass, but I'm not afraid of them. I would be terrified to live in an area with alligators, venomous spiders/scorpions, etc. (we also get some flooding and tropical storms but they are both usually very mild).
So true. My cousin's from Southern California and I'm from Texas (tornado alley). They were staying with us during the spring tornado season and would get so freaked out by just tornado watches. They thought they were going to die when there was a warning. As these happen a lot during both tornado seasons, he was flipping out often. He got so embarrassed over it. But I was like, "dude, I've never been in an earthquake or a wildfire. If that happened I'd be crying in a ball on the floor." His reply was "but earthquakes are nothing." It all depends on what you're used to. (He did say that wildfires are genuinely terrifying so that one may be universal!)
Tornadoes CAN occur anywhere, technically, but Tornado Alley they are very common. And, I believe, they are more powerful, on average, than in any other area that commonly sees them. That being said, the east coast sees the most tropical storms/hurricanes. The west coast has to deal with earthquakes and volcanic activity, being part of the Ring of Fire. Hawai'i has to deal with typhoons and volcanic activity. By the way, the only difference between a typhoon and a hurricane is which ocean they form over.
In the southwest adobe are the coldest houses because they're made of half a meter thick mud bricks. So it stays a nice 60-70 degrees fahrenheit year round.
Wood houses are very structurally sound, one of the major reasons that they are sound containing, or blocking, is that we typically have (from the outside in), some sort of siding, then a vapor barrier (usually Tyvec), then sheeting (OSB or CDX), then 2" or larger (at least in northern states) foam insulation board (typical nomenclature is the color of the insulation, we use a ton of blue board which is the 2"), then we have the studs (16" on center) and in between these studs is more insulation either sprayed or "blown in" or fiberglass insulation and then sheet rock or "drywall". All of these layers stacked together create an exceptional sound barrier and this is not their original purpose, but more like a happy accident that seems to help in more than one way. The only sound in or out that you can usually hear is from doors or windows because they do not have as many layers and rely on seals that fail after years of use. Brick houses do not offer much for insulation, they are very hot in the summer and very cold in the winter, they are extremely susceptible to temperature. I find myself commenting on your videos a ton, would love to connect on Facebook or snap or something and just have you pick my brain and I'll pick yours about specific questions about each country, born and raised American, and very happy to answer questions about this country or North America in general.
The Olaffson Hotel in Port au Prince, Haiti, is of wooden construction and 100+ year old. Graham Greene lived there. It comes through the earthquakes and hurricanes just fine because it flexes. The Montana Hotel, of modern concrete construction, collapsed in the major earthquake.
Stucco is a cement-type mixture made of Portland cement, lime, sand and water. It is a thin finish coat that goes on the outermost layer of residential and commercial constructions. Modern stucco has polymers and other agents for increased flexibility that improves its resilience. This is what houses are made of in the hot states like: AZ, CA, TX all the way to Florida. I’m sure you’ve seen them in Florida.
You can find tornados relatively frequent in other states. We had a small tornado on the north side of Chicago where I live last year. Alaska isn't snowy all the time....in the summer it can actually get in the high 30s (C) in the interior around Fairbanks.
I live in an old 2 bedroom log cabin in the mountains of Arizona. While most wooden houses still use insulation and drywall interiors, my house is just logs. But logs hold small pockets of moisture that retain heat in the winter and cool temps in the summer. So it's natural insulation. But log cabins do have to be maintained over the years more than brick or standard wood plank houses (a sealant between the logs needs to be replaced periodically. And the wood has to be treated to prevent pests, mold, etc.). And since they are made from whole trees, it's not practical for large populations. But I do love my log cabin.
I am in So California and only two days of 38 degrees C would be lovely. Now try weeks during the summer months of 38 C or higher. If you don't have AC in your home you could quite literally die. The only homes I know of in my area that may not have AC are the ones near the ocean and even some days if we are in the middle of Santa Ana weather conditions it can get hotter at the beach. Santa Ana weather conditions btw are when the winds blow in a westerly direction bringing hot air from the deserts. Otherwise mostly the air blows in an easterly direction from the cold pacific ocean out towards the deserts. Also, I believe there is a law in Arizona that homes must have AC as it gets so hot.
NorCal here where it snows in the winter and it's easily over 100°f (38 C?) in the summer. I spent s couple of years in Santa Maria (close to Santa Barbara) I consider it SoCal but they call it Central Cal and the weather is perfect year round, didn't have or need AC and never once used the heater. There are very light sprinkles they call rain but nothing close to torrential sideways rain I'm used to. In the summer I would call my parents just to tell them their low (temp) was my high. I love loved the weather but missed mountains, pine trees and wildlife and family (not necessarily in that order) so I moved back to NorCal. No tornadoes in Cal but we do have earthquakes. Not so many in NorCal but we get one once in a while. Why aren't there any spiders in England? I've seen black widows (red hourglass i.d.'s them) and a couple of brown recluse (their bites aren't pretty) but I've never lived near scorpions.
I was in Southern Oregon this year during the "heat dome" and where I lived, almost no one has AC so people were literally dying from heat stroke. They had to open up "cooling stations" for the public. It was an insane time. It reached over 120 where I was at and frequently over 110. I was lucky enough not to have the power go out on my AC, lol.
The consistent hot weather is why I moved back to Pa. from the south. Although,Georgia has seasons the warm weather just lasts too long for me.I don’t know how you guys in California and Florida do it. And Christmas time how do you celebrate that holiday in warm weather? Lol I guess it’s normal if it’s all that you know. I grew up where it snows during the winter and I had a hard time celebrating the winter holidays down south. Now I might add it’s not warm during Christmas but Thanksgiving was a little challenging. Lol
@@Kim-427 Calif doesn't have the God awful humidity of the south, so we can easily have 10 days straight of over 100° we always say "it's a dry heat" which means nothing until in my case, experiencing the humity of the great state of Texas and it does make a difference. I hate hot and humid. And we usually have snow during the winter and lots of rain which produces much of California's water.
@@ronronniemeyers Heat is heat and too many days of it is too much for me.It’s just the idea of too many days of sun in a row. I don’t care if it’s dry heat moist heat or whatever. I need my seasons specifically defined. Lol
I live in Western Massachusetts, we had quite the crazy tornado in 2011, yes it was deadly and spanned 36 miles. The damage can still be seen from the air.
Born and raised in Michigan here. Yes, there are tornadoes here - every year. Most homes here have basements which are used as storm shelters. We have an extensive tornado warning system across the state which saves lives.✨ Also, here in Michigan we have a grocery-department store chain called Meijer. Meijer was actually doing the superstore thing decades before Walmart showed up anywhere in Michigan. There are Meijers in almost every town here. It's a much better alternative to Walmart and the Meijer family aren't the greedy gits that the Waltons are, either. ✨ Arby's is my favorite fast food, too. No, they don't have burgers; they are a 'shaved' roast beef sandwich chain, though they do have ham and chicken sandwiches, as well. ✨ Pancakes can be eaten any time of the day or night, 365 days a year in the USA. IHop, Denny's, Cracker Barrel, Waffle House, Bob Evans (which is a regional chain), and many other restaurants serve pancakes and other breakfast foods all day (and some all night, too). Sometimes pancakes are the main dish and sometimes they're the side dish, but they always come with butter (or margarine) and a little pitcher of maple syrup - or some other type of topping, if you request it. IHop gives you a syrup assortment to choose from, but most traditionally serve them with maple syrup. My favorite toppings are Butter Pecan syrup or just butter and brown sugar because I'm not a fan of maple. I prefer fruit toppings - actual fruit, not syrup or jam - on waffles, not pancakes. ✨ As far as spiders are concerned, there are lots of spiders here in the USA, but most of them are harmless and they're useful for insect control, especially flies and mosquitoes. Spiders are a big diet staple for birds, frogs, and other critters, too. You will see at least one if you stay in the USA for any length of time but remember - 99.9999 of them are harmless.
"Do you hear your neighbors." First off, there is a lot of space between each house. There is a full backyard, front yard, and two side yard of grass. Britain may have touching houses but not America. (Except for New York and New Jersey) In apartments, you might hear your neighbors. It depends on how cheap. With the construction of wooden buildings, foam insulation is placed in a section between each wall to keep in heat and cold.
Of course we can still hear our neighbors when they have loud parties. I haven’t seen many drunken teenagers in front lawns like in the movies, but I do hear a lot of music coming from neighbors’ backyard.
I happily lived in a townhouse for 13 years. It met our lifestyle at the time. However, modern US townhouses have concrete fire barriers between the homes. These do a very good job insulating noise. If my neighbors were really rocking out, of course I could hear it. But usually, no.
@@happycook6737 Sometimes the "common wall" required to be an attached house is a basement wall, with dirt on top. It looks like two free-standing hoses, but the common wall is out of sight. think it is bit of a tax or zoning dodge.
Depends on your region...in Chicago...especially Italian families, they speak at volume 20...arguments can get up to 60 or higher! Yeah, you can totally hear these people, and they might even drag you into the argument by asking out loud "Hey neighbors, you believe the set of balls on my wife over here?!" 🤭 Aww Jimmy, that wasnt nice!
I wonder if the U.K. has fire ants: Those are FAR more common in parts of the U.S. than the other things mentioned, and you can have some serious reactions. They’re even deadly to some people. When I first moved to South Florida, I stepped barefoot on a fire ant mound and my foot blew up like a balloon. I thought I developed diabetes or something! Turns out once a colony bites you (it’s rarely just one bite), subsequent bites will itch and annoy you, but the reaction is less severe.
I second this. When I first moved to Florida I didn’t know about fire ants. I found out real quick. Those little bastards love to wait until there’s like 50 halfway up your leg before they all bite at once!!!
The US has Aldi, a relatively newcomer in the US. The first Aldi opened here in 1976. Aldi in the US is the same as Aldi in the UK (Aldi Sud). US also has Trader Joes, which is Aldi Nord from Germany. Both were started by the Albrect Family. We also now have Lidl. Trader Joes (TJs) differs from Aldi and Lidl in that TJs does not do the weekly finds of non-grocery goods. All three are great stores, with great prices but much smaller than the traditional US supermarket. About spiders: I have never seen a brown recluse. My daughter had black widows in her garage when she lived near Richmond, Virginia. My son-in-law caught one in the house on a wall. We put it in an airtight plastic container to show my other daughters. It died in that container, and they got rid of the whole thing several years later when they moved! About tornados: I have lived many places. I experienced a tornado in Georgia (did not see it). We had very tall pine trees in our back yard and they seemed to bend almost double with the winds. The tornado blew out a lot of windows and knocked down a lot of signs in the town. We did not have any damage. Now I live in Northern Virginia. We have had tornados in the area (Metro Washington DC), but again, I have never seen one. We have weird weather in the DC area. We often have very high winds that knock down trees. Some years we get back to back blizzards that leave a foot or more of snow. Some years, no snow at all! Spring and summer, we can have really violent thunderstorms. It a wonderful place to live!!! (Really, it is!!) Thanks, Kabir! Take care and stay safe!
Built a house in Florida and had to cut down a number of trees to do it. The black widows, losing said tree homes, decided to move into the garage. Eventually they got smaller and disappeared, but the first ones we found were the size of golf balls.
Wood houses are sound proof about the same. Wooden clad houses are still thick walled. Layer of cladding, layer of insulation amidst the frame and a layer of plasterboard inside of that.
The southeast is also called Dixie Alley for tornadoes. (Louisiana,mississippi, alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida) not only tornadoes hit here yearly but also hurricanes and 40C summers with 80% humidity and 0C winters with wind chill. Southeast is where the weird weather is at.
Actually, Alaska has deserts. Contrary to popular belief deserts do not have to be hot, it just has to have little rain. If an area receives no more than 25 centimeters (10 inches) of rain per year, it is classified as a dessert. As a matter of fact, the worlds largest dessert is the Antarctic desert in Antarctica.
@Atheos B. Sapien so offering information to somebody that can give them knowledge as a snowflake? That is news to me. But just so you know a snowflake is a person who is easily triggered. And the easily offended. That my friend is exactly what you just did. That classifies you a snowflake and you have been inducted into the snowflake Hall of Fame.
@Atheos B. Sapien Okay, I am off work now. Now allow me to offer you some friendly advise.....1). A snowflake is someone who is easily offended (which you were by the way you responded to my friendly comment) Did you not see the likes my comment received? Did you not see the like (heart) that Kabir gave me? 2). I have been commenting on Kabir Considers videos for a long time offering him friendly insight.. 3). Kabir is considering (no pun intended) to make a stop by my place while he is visiting the Dallas/Fort Worth area. 4). My ancestry is from England. 5). The ONLY person that was easily offended (the very definition of a Snowflake) was you because of my moniker. Take some time to do some introspection....I know there is a better version of you somewhere in that snowflake covered heart.
We have Black Widows where I live and they can get pretty big. However unless you are immuno-compromised, elderly or a toddler a bite from a Black Widow won't kill you. The thing to worry about with a Brown Recluse is infection that can get extremely serious. There is the risk of being allergic to them but as far as I know, these are not included in an allergy test. If someone knows please correct me if I'm wrong!
Add Hobo spiders to the list. Hobo spiders are in the same family as the brown recluse (i think). They are a field spider that came to the NW US on container ships to the West coast and have since been working their way east. I've treated some awful infections from them. They move very quickly! So we have 3 dangerous (not necessarily deadly) spiders in the US now!
@@auntrori I've seen that too. I was in the Air Force and there were some at our firing range. You would see people jump when grabbing a target because they found one. Unfortunately one of our instructors was bit and ended up in the ER because she turned out to be allergic. Didn't know it and didn't realize until a red line appeared on her inner arm and started moving up towards her chest.
Midwest and midsouth have an abundance of both brown recluse and tornados. Brown recluse like cardboard, so we store things in plastic totes. But in my area apartment complexes (where cardboard is also abundant) like to use dried pine needles as mulch. Brown recluse LOVE that stuff.
I found your channel because I love Lawrence!! I'm so glad to find you. I love your channel too!! And my bathroom gets over run by black widows every summer. And we get small tornados every year even though I'm not in Kansas.
Having had the pleasure of living for many years in the midwest and southern US, I have been blessed to encounter brown recluses, black widows, and tarantulas. Have also seen many other kinds that were huge and seemed dangerous, even though they weren't. Here, we're basically taught to be cautious around spiders, even though most are more helpful than harmful.
And the best way to reduce spiders in the house is to reduce bugs that get in. Weatherproofing is not just good for energy efficiency and reducing your bills, it also keeps the creepy crawlies out as well.
I found it interesting that you mentioned the hotter, dryer states such as Arizona and New Mexico to possibly have more wooden houses. In actuality its far more common for these states to have houses with a stucco facade than wood.
Brown Recluse and Black Widows can actually be found in a lot of places. Surprisingly a widow bite can be as bad as a normal spider bite or deadly, depends on the severity of reaction. I live in Oregon and we have both of those spiders. Widows will be found in the house while a recluse or our hobo spider is typically found in wood piles or maybe if you have a cellar/basement with a lot of junk in it. It depends on the location for wood houses. In the Pacific Northwest there are a lot of wood houses or hybrid wood and brick while on the east coast there are more brick houses and a smattering in between. Most people have pancake mix in the house or can pick it up at most grocery and convenience stores. But I do love an IHOP run.
Brown recluses - southern Maryland, there was one hanging out under a bench at a senior home a few years back. Bit someone too. Black widow - Mom walked into the nursery in Idaho (late 1950s) and saw one hanging over the crib.
yea you have to worry about tornadoes in a lot of parts of the us. (when i was younger i lived in coastal nc) and there would be the occasional tornado. the worst thing though was the tornado drills at school they really hurt your back youd have to be on the floor hands over head in this really straining position. if there was an actual tornado you could be in that position for an hour etc
We stand on our porches and watch the storms/ tornadoes in the Midwest(Illinois), but honestly for the most part they hit wide open areas more. Every couple of years they seem to try and take out sections of towns.
Homes made of wood are actually mostly soundproof. You might hear the odd piece of lawn equipment occasionally and a very loud argument though. The biggest fear though is fire but thanks to the pressure treated wood we use in all construction here it’s mostly taken away as the wood smolders not burns so we can detect and put the fire out quicker. The pressure treated wood is kinda our take on fireproof wood. Basically logs are compressed to get every bit of moisture out of the wood which that moisture is collected for something else we can make from it. The moisture is then replaced with a chemical soup while slowly steaming the wood to make it take more of it in. The wood is left to dry then cut to whatever size the order is and sent out to job sites and home improvement stores to get bought and used. This wood has a huge advantage as it basically doesn’t rot and is nearly fireproof making it useful for outside and inside jobs. It’s because fire suppression systems are ridiculously expensive and only businesses can afford them but wood is cheap and a great first step in stopping fires.
6:16 this summer in the area where I live, Western Oregon in the southern Willamette Valley, we had a summer high of 111°F or 43.889°C. It was INTENSE and fairly uncommon for this area and I believe it was a record. Air conditioning is used in our area but I don’t have it in my house. I just use fans and deal with it. Right now here in mid December, it’s 45°F or 7°C and raining as usual. We’re getting snow in the high Cascade mountains. Summer is far away.
it gets extra fun in this part of the country (central NC) in the winter months, because it never stays very cold for long, typically being about 40° F… while every Australian is complaining about how unbearable the 40° heat is, and I spend several seconds with complicated equations surrounding my head before I realize that they're not talking about the same 40°
The one thing Arby's DOESN'T have is burgers 😂 Their main thing is their Roast Beef sandwich. They also do brisket, turkey, etc. Their tag line is "We got the meats".
Living in NJ, we’ve had a record number of tornadoes this year and quite a few big ones as well. It’s been insane. But even still, I have never seen one in person besides 1 that started to form during a big storm and then fizzled out and never actually touched down
I live in a state that is in tornado alley. Spring time (March-May) is when the majority of storms roll through and may potentially cause a tornado. We have warning systems in place to help notify people of bad weather. I have lived here for almost 2 decades and have only been in a handful of tornadoes 🌪
I’m in central FL. Most of our houses are concrete block to withstand hurricanes. When Hurricane Charley hit a micro burst (tornado-esque) went through our yard. You could see it’s path. Also I can confirm no AC is no fun in the summer when it’s too rainy to keep the windows open so its 90+degree F and the humidity is 90+%. Not fun at all and thankfully the shopping malls could open so people had somewhere cool to go.
4:42 It's still a big job, but it's "easier" to move the house to elsewhere. US does both, sure, but you can split a large wooden house in sections before getting it back together. I don't think you can for a brick house.
The things Laurence worried about always make me laugh. I'm 55 years old, and do a lot of hiking and camping, and I have never once seen a poisonous spider. Nor have I ever worried about a tornado, as I've never lived in any of the areas where they happen with any regularity. (I guess technically there *could* be a tornado in some of the states where I've lived, but you can get them in the UK too, apparently, and nobody there ever worries about them either). People really only worry about tornados in areas where they're regular occurrences, and our poisonous spiders are so reclusive and so relatively harmless (as a healthy adult, you would have to be *very* unlucky to die of a spider bite) that it was kind of a revelation to me the first time I saw this video and realized that people from the UK think about the US very much in the same way that we think about Australia -- which is the place that most North Americans think of as the Land of Terrifyingly Lethal Veneomous Things Oh God I'll Be So Scared About Them If I Ever Visit Down Under! Laurence's sense of amazement that wooden houses are warm and dry never fails to amuse me, because when I was a kid my grandparents moved into a stone house, and from that moment until their deaths, they could seemingly *not* stop talking about how cold and damp and poorly-insulated houses made of stone were, and how they would never have bought that house had they known this about them. Given that modern wooden houses are basically just great big insulation balloons, it wouldn't surprise me if they really were better insulated than stone or brick, but at the time, I secretly suspected that my grandparents were just getting *old,* and that that was the real reason they were feeling the cold and damp so much more.
No brick or stone houses where earthquakes are they will crumble and fall in on you. I live in tornado area and blizzard. You need to pay attention to the weather.
Wood homes are not attached. If its a town home that's attached to a neighbors home, it usually has a firewall, which is a wall between the townhomes made of brick or cement blocks. So not we really don't hear the neighbors if we lived in an attached home. (Of course their are exceptions (older homes where the insulation was old newspaper 😂).
I lived in Wisconsin when I was young and a tornado came through our small town. Three blocks away, there was vast damage and it destroyed an entire shopping center! The bottom of the tornado when it touches the ground, can be narrow or many miles wide. I live in Oregon where we worry most about wind (broadly wide over perhaps half or a quarter of the state.
5:29 - I grew up in a cinder block home. The first home I owned was wooden, second and third as well. I now live in a slab brick home. I think the wooden homes have the most charm and character. Here in the states it is like owning a vintage guitar or a vintage car....they are just cooler.
On the wood house questions: short answer is it depends. Newer wood houses are better insulated to weather, sound and bugs. Ants will always find a way in, and the spiders find a way in to hunt said ants, it's just a fact of life. My favorite type of spiders are jumping spiders since they tend to to be "friendlier" than the others. They also do a good job of keeping pests out of my vegetables.
Wolf spiders are also good to have around. They are predator spiders and keep pest insects away. Just don't step on a mother, unless you want thousands of babies scattering.
@@cassieberringer7427 yeah I feel you. It's an eye opening experience. I was sweeping up in the house and hit one and it looked liked hundreds of tiny marbles with legs.
When you visit us here in America , you should go visit Alaska ( no , there's no snow year round ) beautiful country out there . To give you a look at Alaska , check out Somers in Alaska ( they live in North Pole , 11 miles south of Fairbanks )
I worked with a nurse who is married to someone in the armed forces and the lived in Fairbanks. She hated it cause things could only be flown in and it was so isolated in winter.
For the record, a lot of people do not have a wooden houses. I've seen British people hear this fact and suddenly think we all have houses made of wood. Also with your question about noise, they aren't like one slab thick. A lot of houses have a wooden structure with brick or stone.
Ahh , every Apartment and house that I have ever lived at was and is made of wood , virtually everyone I know lives in an all wood house or mostly wooden house .. this includes family members and friend and co-workers .. Just came back from Florida as well and every house and condo we saw was made of wood , we have travelled to California a dozen times and nearly every home and condo there was made of wood or mostly wood .. so I don't know where you live that has houses built of brick or stone , but I have only seen a small percentage of homes made of anything but wood ...
I’m in God’s country, Washington state, so I will sit with my umbrella, (It’s very rainy) under our volcano (MT ST Helen’s) waiting for the big one (Earthquake), but it is so so beautiful here.
I live in southern Washington and I've been near tornados twice. Once one touched down near my elementary school during recess and the second it touched down near my work.
I live just outside Indianapolis and yeah you’re bound to eventually see the odd brown recluse but as their name suggests they tend to just run and hide. They do pack a punch with their bite though.
The whole deadly spider thing really depends on where you live. I lived in rural southern California most of my life and I've seen many black widows and know a few people who have been bitten and had to go to the hospital. But on a whole, it is not too common in the cities.
Tornadoes are common in many parts of the country, I've gotten to participate in several. Venomous spiders that are dangerous sure. Stop by my shop and I can show you dozens of brown recluse and probably a few black widows. I see people calling them poisonous, nope, venomous, yes, two different things. Arby's is good but it isn't something I go out of my way for although their horsey sauce and Arby's sauce are really good.
In the desert, the wooden houses with cheap exterior called stucco works rather well, windows usually are meant to face away from place where the sun will shine in directly. Now I live in the East, I've only lived here for a few days but it was raining yesterday, and I don't have a thick jacket and it was freezing, at most 10 degrees Fahrenheit.
Lawrence didn't mention Scorpions or rattlesnakes or tarantulas. As for desert areas, of course the Mojave is most well known . The largest sand dunes in North America are in southern Colorado and are enormous, like a couple thousand feet tall. Colorado is the highest state in the lower 48. You can see herds of Bison in Colorado too, and of course Elk herds, which you wouldn't find in the UK. The continental divide runs smack dab down the middle of Colorado.
He’s not joking about dying in the summer heat. We have a lot of people who die in the summer or suffer heat stroke. A/C is a must have in most of the states
@@kabirconsiders Born in Alabama but moved to Wisconsin. The humidity ain’t no joke in Alabama. Now live in WI and it gets really cold in the winter and really hot in the summer. Not as hot as Alabama but the humidity is pretty bad in WI too.
Poisonous snakes are more of a threat in US than spiders . Both brick & wooden houses are framed/built out if wood. Its just the exterior surface that is different . Probably 1/3 of houses in US are brick.
A well insulated house, whether brick or wood or stucco, will keep heat OUT as well as keeping it in. Many of the traditional houses in the desert SW are adobe or cob houses. I have lived in all of those and the true adobe are the coolest, by far. Using the natural heating of the sun as a guide,a passive solar adobe house is the real winner. The only thing better than that is a specific type of construction outside of Taos, NM that I have heard called earthship houses. These houses also include airflow and evaporation for cooling. I have NOT lived in one of those but wish I did. Am debating earthship vs the inflated balloon aircrete houses for my next and final build. We will see. The creepiest spiders in the US in MY eyes are the tarantulas crossing the highway at dusk in W. Texas. I wonder if anyone has ever put them on TH-cam? Or even captured them on camera? My daughter always wanted to keep the occasional tarantula or scorpion that managed to get into our home but I was quick with a very loud NO!
I was once driving on a country road in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in California- near dusk, when up ahead it looked like the road was covered with loose black rocks - but as I approached, the "rocks" all started moving - you can bet that I neither stopped nor slowed... the one and only time that I've seen tarantulas migrating. Definitely creepy.
@@theblackbear211 - I had NO CLUE that they had migrated at all, let alone that far West and North. ::::::shudder::::::: I am afraid to Bing, or Google, how wide their territory has spread.
@@maobfh Remember that much of California is desert and desert grassland. The prickly pear is a native plant on the southern California coast. Scorpions and Tarantulas have long been native to California. I had friends in elementary school with "pet" Tarantulas. As for Tarantulas, in the US, they can be found basically anywhere from the Mississippi river, west to the Pacific Coast, and from the Mexican border, north to a line roughly equal with the northern borders of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, and Missouri. Despite their appearance, they are relatively shy and reclusive and slow to rile.
@@theblackbear211 - the California desert is not a new concept for me and the Mojave, Death Valley, 29 Palms, etc., are proof of that. Every one of my siblings but one have lived in Southern California at one time or the other. Though I never lived there, I taught there and flew in and out of LA 3+X each month. But, in my mind, tarantulas were located just in the dry desert areas of Texas and the few that crossed the New Mexico line were quickly swallowed by the roadrunner. I looked at a map of the tarantula after commenting and was appalled to see the area it covered. Now, in my mind, I see bands of tarantula pacing back and forth on the west banks of the Mississippi just trying to find a way across. Another group of them are tunneling, trying to go under the river but (so far) they tunneled east too soon and created an ant pond. The random moss ropes hanging in the trees have been placed there by more adventuresome tarantulas trying to catapult each other onto passing barges. With several brothers, cousins and neighbors, someone always had a pet turantula but I was not impressed. Not frightened, then, just thought it was mean. I remember sitting on the porch, somewhere in Texas, waiting for my sister to come home from school. I was just sitting in a rocking chair, about 4, and my Irish grandfather came flying out the door with a broom and started batting at my leg. He knocked a turantula off my leg and into the yard and began pummeling it to death. My parents were about 15 seconds behind him, my father was ready to put him down and my mother was sure he had broken my leg. He wasn’t a complete moron and the worst he might have done was to scratch my leg, but I don’t think he even did that. None of that insanity frightened me, I felt bad for the turantula and sorry for my grandfather not knowing better. And, as my parents were never the hysterical type, I thought they over reacted and without their interference I might have stopped him from killing it. Assuming that he did. The spider scenes in Harry Potter did not frighten me but the sight of hundreds of big spiders, with the setting sun and car headlights making their legs look very very long has always been just a little (a lot, frankly) too creepy for my taste. Seeing THAT is what gave me a real fear of them. One is fine, no I don’t want to hold it, but hundreds? No thank you! Having lived from the Panhandle of Texas, all around the mountains of New Mexico, traveling throughout and often through Arizona and Utah and living in Colorado not to mention the frequent trips in California and I had never seen tarantulas anywhere outside of West Texas. I need to give Vermont or Finland serious consideration for relocation. : D
@@maobfh Thank you so much for sharing your story... It is quite striking the number of locations that we have mutually spent time in. My Parents were in fact married in 29 Palms, and while I grew up with a number of moves - my father was in construction, I had an aunt and uncle who lived there for close to 60 years. I also lived in Ruidoso, NM while the reservoir was being constructed for the resort on the Mescalero Apache reservation. Later in life I spent a several seasons working in Big Bend National Park - in the back country. I'm with you... Tarantulas as individuals are just another creature - though I admit, they trigger my "ick" factor... but yeah... the image I saw on that country road, gives me an involuntary shiver, just to think of it. I have to admit though, the Black Widow tops my list of dislike - mostly because I have encountered far more of them, and had more "up close, and personal" encounters. I can suggest my current local - the Pacific Northwest, as a Tarantula free zone... :-) Thanks for the interaction.
subscribed, and set notifications. im from texas, worked as a truck driver, and want to start adding commentary to your vids! ive seen most of the country, and it would be fun helping to dispel certain myths.
I live in Southwest Ohio, which is not "tornado alley". We have devastating tornado about every 30 years. By devastating, I mean...wiping a city off the map devastating. If you're curious, you can look up Xenia, OH tornado (1974) and Dayton, Oh (2019)
I don't think there is an Arby's in Sonoma county (Calif) anymore. We have; Jack in the Box , Carls Junior, McDonald's, Burger King , Taco Bell, KFC, A&W, Wendy's, even Sonic. But Arby's burned in the recent fires. Strange, the Taco Bell next door didn't.
We do hear a fair bit of "road noise," but I feel that that is more likely due to the windows and doors than the actual construction of the home. Most homes have insulation of some type in the walls, so that would cut down on some of the noise...
We did not get air conditioning until after I graduated from High school and left home. Summers were challenging. I make my plan cakes on the thin side. I like to use the like tortillas with my over easy eggs after using one to dip in the yolks
I’ve lived in Atlanta Georgia all of my 63 years and have had 2 tornado encounters. In 1990 our home was destroyed by a tornado and two years ago a tornado came upon me while in my car. I barely escaped with my life. In spring and summer we regularly have tornado warnings when strong thunderstorms blow through. Still, I’m the exception and most people never experience a tornado in person. Luckily the tornado that hit our house came just a few minutes after my wife and I had left for work and had taken our young children to the grandparents house. Several houses in our neighborhood were hit but no one died, although there were some injuries.
this might sound crazy but for the southern states 100° and 40C isn’t even that bad. we could survive in that pretty easily. it’s 100° and 40C with bad humidity that gets us.
Bingo! The humidity is a killer.
You know you've been in the desert too long when you can say "It was a little warm when I left town today - it was 105". I said that in McCarin airport in Vegas and the lady looked at me like I had just grown a second head.
It's interesting. Having grown up with the humid summers of the midwest, I actually prefer humid heat over dry heat. Though to be fair, I feel like I'm in the minority even among midwesterners. I think it has to do with the fact that I don't sweat much.
I live in AZ and that is so true. We don’t have much humidity. It’s a dry heat and I’ll take 110 degrees Fahrenheit over the freezing cold any day. I’m used to the heat. It’s still miserable in June. It’s not uncommon to have 15 days straight of heat that never goes below 113F (45 C). 100 degrees is actually quite cool for the months of June, July, August and September.
So true! I lived in Las Vegas for 14 years and any weather above 100 felt the same. But go to Florida with 90 degrees with humid, and I’ll pass out 🤣
"So, basically in America, don't mess with Mother Nature." I have lived from tundra to desert and this one is true. Pay attention. The weather can kill you.
and the weather will kill you long before spiders or snakes or bears, ive been an amateur survivalist most of my life.. only two animals worry me...badgers, and skunks. and even the skunks, usually don mess with them, they dont mess with you... american badgers however... nothing like the british story book badgers. ours, like our possums(compared to australian ones), are some sort of demonic thing(our opossums are mostly harmless, just look hidious) from the mind of dali or giger...
Same I've lived in both Northern Minnesota and Southern California and experienced tornados and earthquakes.
@@andrewthezeppo "There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad choice of clothing."
But the spiders? Come on, widows and brown recluses are prevalent in my area (indiana) but the odds of dying from a black widows bite is like being struck by lightning. Though he is wrong about brown recluses being reclusive or non-aggressive as they are a roaming spider and you very likely will encounter them if you live near them and they are as aggressive as say a wolf spider.
I lived in Arizona, in the second hottest city without humidity, and I strongly agree. Summers in the town I lived in were at the highest 130 degrees Fahrenheit, and it's insanity. I walked out beside the town's bridge, and it was burning out (it was 120 degrees) and I had no water. The lowest temperature in my town there was 25 degrees F.
Maybe it's just where I live, but Brown Recluse and Black Widows are extremely common. I bought a truck load of firewood last year and found a dozen throughout the logs. And I could guarantee anyone with a garden or shed has a black widow living within the property.
Yep, live in the country in south Georgia and I kill a couple of black widows every year in my carport. Brown Recluses less often, but every once in a while. Have several friends who have the nasty scars from the Brown Recluse bites.
No Brown Recluses here but plenty of Black Widows. I've seen well over a hundred in my 35 years of life.
They're pretty common throughout the South; but, like with snakes, so long as you don't actively antagonize them, and don't stick your hands or feet anywhere that you can't see, they aren't generally a problem.
It is extremely rare that anyone actually dies from spider or (native) snake bites. So long as you seek prompt medical attention, the vast majority who get bitten will survive.
@@randlebrowne2048 I live in deep south of Illinois near Kentucky and Tennessee. We get Black Widow and Brown Recluse bites and while irritating and they suck, anyone who's not been sheltered their entire life can home medicate. Western and Eastern Diamondbacks are rare encounters but happen. Even then if you don't F with em they'll leave you alone. If they strike most hospitals have antivenom within 50 miles.
@@Cubs-Fan.10 Yeah, I'm about 30 minutes drive from Sweetwater, Texas.
It's home to the world's largest annual rattlesnake roundup. Snakebites are *sill* very rare.
Actually, adobe houses are perfect for desert living. If the walls are thick enough, adobe does a good job keeping the heat out.
I lived in an abode house. Warm all winter and cool all summer :)
@@Tammisherry Wooden houses, especially the older ones, were built with cross ventilation in mind. Also, natural ventilation from a cellar to the attic provides ventilation, with the hot air rising and exiting.
My brother live in one here in Tucson and its all I want now. cool during the summer without the AC on.
I feel like the Brits are particularly good at retaining their accents when they live in other places. My British dad lived in the US for about twenty years and I think his accent still sounded distinctly British. And you know that Americans love British accents so it's probably to your benefit to keep it if you come here.
Unlike my dad lol! He's lived here for almost 35 yrs and you wouldn't know he was born in another country. Certain words you'll hear an accent but that rarely happens.
My friend Dani 😂 omg. She never lost her accent. And she was such a great sport. She would repeat things a billion times for our amusement. Particularly, the words "garage" and "bubble paper" but there were so many others.
11:50 fun fact. Alaska has deserts, too. Everyone thinks of deserts as "hot and dry." But in reality, heat has no impact on whether or not an area is a desert. Its all about level of dryness. Antartica is also mostly a desert. They're called polar deserts.
You are indeed righ! But I want to clarify that deserts are defined by the level of precipitation, not dryness. Dryness implies there's no water anywhere, but as you said, Antarctica is considered a desert. There's obviously water everywhere, but it snows very little each year; hence why it's defined as a desert.
@@KyaKramer well yeah. That was what I was meant with dryness. I guess maybe that wasn't the best word to use. But by dryness, I was meaning very small amounts of precipitation.
Right I live in Washington State, and most people not familiar with it wouldn't think so, but a very large portion of the eastern side of Washington (east of the Cascade mountains) is desert.
Wow Good information Thank you
I know, I live in the Mojave and we got 4 inches of snow last February.
Ironically in places like Arizona and the Southwest you’re more likely to have houses made from Stucco or Concrete because it can be cooler. Frequently you’ll see brick on the outside of a wooden house for aesthetics rather than structural integrity of the house. Also parts of the Southwest can get to 47-50C almost every year
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I was so about to type this comment and then low and behold....well said, well said...
@@johnpolston1796 me too
Stucco or adobe is the basic house in Tucson, Arizona
You see this in the Southeastern US as well. A wooden house with a thin brick facing. But not at all part of the structural integrity of the home. Not to say that there are not traditional brick homes, but as a general rule brick is aesthetic not functional. And the walls of houses are pumped with insulation to help regulate the temperature.
Regarding the different regions of the US, the United States is the only country that has all of Earth's five climate zones: tropical, dry, temperate, continental, and polar.
China is actually tied with the US with 18 different koppen climate zones.
Japan too
@@Perfectly_Cromulent351 This classification is very problematic. A major drawback is that it is empirical and, therefore, flawed.. The causative factors of climate have been totally ignored. Thus, the air masses, which form the very basis of modern climatology, could not find any place in Koppen's classification. Therefore, The United States is the only Country with all five climate zones that occur naturally.
You are correct. Some people refer to the empirical system on this subject. The problem with that is the fact that it is only based on observation and experience rather than scientific facts and data.
Not only does it have all five categories, it has the subcategories too. From Af to EF
Also, one thing he forgot to mention about IHOP's Pancake Day is that they serve "all you can eat" pancakes that day. So you can get free refills on your pancakes and your drinks!
When we moved from California to Georgia, I told my Scottish in-law exactly how many miles we were going to drive and then calculated the distance in kilometers. She said I had to be mistaken. I rechecked the math. Then I calculated how far that distance would take you across Europe. If she drove from her village in Scotland the distance between our old home in California and our house in Georgia, she'd be in Bagdad.
😲 Shuddup...get outta here...are you kiddin me?!
@@msmaj4895 2,700 miles East by Southeast. Measure it your own self.
@@i2ndsight Oh, I'm not doubting you! It's just that blows my mind! I don't think much of a 36 hour drive since I've driven from west Idaho to Chicago to see my mom each year, sometimes a couple times a year.
Even going from the Texas Panhandle down to South Padre beach, it's like 1400 kilometers, all in one state.
I’m a native of Washington State where you can find the following: Live volcanoes, glaciers, a rainforest , desert, the Grand Coulee Dam, the Cascade mountain range, temperate weather on the coast, and -20 F winters on the eastern side of the state. I love the diversity! I feel like I’ve left something out, but you get the idea! We also have rattlesnakes and black widow spiders and this is where sightings of Sasquatches (Big Foot) run rampant! Washington state does not disappoint!
I spent 18 months near Tacoma and I loved it!
I thought we had a rainforest in the continental US, but I wasn't certain. The natural diversity of our land and weather really is pretty amazing! I'm assuming there are rainforests in HI, although I've never been down there. Seems like I watched a documentary that said the US had examples of every kind of ecological system.
@@CarolBondOldDragonMama not only does Hawaii have a rainforest, it also has the place with the most recorded annual rainfall. It’s a mountain top on Kauai. Cool, huh?
@@valerieunger211 yes that is cool!
I lived for two years in the area southwest of Seattle and Tacoma. Sasquatch awareness was definitely a thing. Never saw one, but I'll swear on my death bed I heard one '"roaring" in the dark of the night. (Something was howling, and it was larger than a wolf and only marginally smaller the a grizzly.)
Alaskan here. Most of our homes are wooden: they ride out the earthquakes by flexing like ships riding a rough sea. Construction technology developed in Alaska and other cold regions make our homes warm and tight. With double- or triple-paned windows, super-insulation and the cozy wood stove, I am warmer in my home in the winter than in the summer.
I was living in Anchorage as a child when the 9.2 earthquake happened in 1964. That quake had a lot to do with the kinds of houses they build in Alaska now. Still love and miss Alaska!
@@raej1307 The most recent Anchorage quake, 7. something, did no structural damage, but it did shake loose the fire suppression systems in some buildings, resulting in floods. Also, some underground water and drainage systems were damaged. Hotels in Fairbanks, which does have hot summers, have air conditioning.
California here. Same. Wood sways better in earthquakes.
No burgers at Arby's. ROAST BEEF...and the menu is delicious
Yas
They call chicken sandwiches burgers too.. so he knows it’s roast beef, they just call it a burger.
Where i live we have a family owned place with a sandwich menu very similar to Arby's. Its called Mr. B's Best Beef. It opened back in the 60s. The meat quality is so much better than Arbys, and locals know it, that Arbys never lasts aound here. 🤣
It’s only a burger if there’s a pattie. Speak English Brits. 😉
Arby’s is sooooooo goooooooood.
The state of NC has arctic tundra and subtropical and everythibg in between.
I didn’t know pancakes were a special holiday food in England. That’s awesome, I grew up eating pancakes a couple times a week. It’s just a breakfast food here. Maple syrup and butter on top.
In Canada 🇨🇦 Shrove Tuesday is celebrated by the Catholics but anyone can come and pay for a plate of pancakes.
We also have pancake 🥞 breakfast at any holiday like Canada day or town/ city days
They also don't look or taste anything the same as in America
@@dilligaf73 how are they different?
@@ANNEWHETSTONE our ones r thinner n usually bigger but it does depend on wot size frying pan is used. We also mainly use sugar and lemon (although we do use other things like nutella). Once the toppings are one, we then roll them up so it's like a long tube n then eaten
@@dilligaf73 I have made the pancake roll ups for the kids with peanutbutter as a treat but mostly I make the thicker flapjacks with butter and syrup for breakfast. I'm in the American south.
Arbys is known for its thinly sliced roast beef sandwiches. It's great.
You forgot their Potato Cakes too!
Arby’s = RB’s = Roast Beef 😋
Albeit extremely rare in some states, tornadoes have occurred in all 50 states In states that get hurricanes, tornadoes can spin off of hurricanes quite frequently
I came to say just that. You usually have a tornado or ya know Several spin off during a hurricane. So that’s fun. Sarcasm. I can joke I’ve been through no less than ten hurricanes.
Yes, exactly. I don't *think* we get them here on the east coast as much as people in Tornado Alley get them, but yes, where I'm at in SC, we get tornadoes several times a year, particularly when a hurricane has made landfall.
Wooden Exterior?
No matter what the house is made of, all house are supposed to insulated.
So no matter what part of the USA you live in, the weather stays Out and the Heating or Air Conditioning stays in.
So the inside of any house Can be regulated and not affected by it's make up.
But our roofs can effect temperatures (minimally) though more expensive, having metal roofing instead of shingles is a thing.
And with A/C (air conditioning), not everyone has a "window shaker" like what he is showing in the windows.
Houses tend to come with "Central A/C" it is piped through the ceilings or floors... starting at a centralized Unit usually located outside next to the house and ending at vents in each room.
If you're familiar with vinyl siding it's designed to look like painted wooden siding. Wood shingles or shakes are another exterior cladding that has transitioned to vinyl and other materials. Wood's not a common choice for the façade in new construction because of the maintenance needs. There are some really nice custom homes that make use of wood, and opt to stain or seal it instead. Of course the way we frame and façade our houses today didn't become popular until the mid-19th century.. so before that houses were made from clapboard and log. Log home, that would definitely be a wooden exterior. :)
I live in New Mexico, where black widows and stucco houses are common. They used to be adobe, mud and straw. I lived in an adobe house when I grew up. Really helped insulate the cold air inside, and stayed warmer during the winter.
So I lived in the northern part of Alabama growing up and we actually had as many or more tornadoes than actual “Tornado Alley”. And we had some quite severe ones that hit our area as well. In fact, there was one subdivision in my town that had a brick wall surrounding it and after about the fifth time a tornado hit the wall and knocked it over they just stopped bothering to rebuild it so now it just sits there as half a wall and has for 10 years at this point. Most tornadoes aren’t deadly if you know your safety protocols and pay attention to the weather. Here we keep weather radios which are special emergency radios that sound alarms and alert you of impending weather issues and then talk to you to tell you exactly where the storms are including names of tiny villages and farming communities in the path of the storm so that people can take shelter. In fact, it gets so minute you’re likely to be left saying to yourself “Where is that? I’ve never heard of it!” And if you live in a city or town they have sirens placed on top of schools, fire stations, and public buildings that will sound if there’s a tornado warning. The sirens spin around in a circle so they create this eerie undulating sound that kind of sounds like a Tibetan singing bowl.
We can definitely get tornadoes in different parts of the country outside of Tornado alley. I don't live anywhere near tornado alley, but my area can get small ones on occasion that are usually less deadly but will sometimes cause damage.
Honestly, I’ve lived in tornado alley for years - they’re just such a part of life that I didn’t think about it. Turns out, I still very much live in tornado alley and the most deadly tornado ever in Texas hit here.
Adding onto this. We had a decent sized one in Virginia a few years ago but it was the first one of note I've seen since I've been alive. It can happen, but it's rare.
That's how it is here in Utah. We had one a few months back, just under 20 miles from my house, but we had no idea until it was over. Pretty small.
Texas and Ohio get quite a few tornados..
Most states have delt with a tornado in some fashion, but most are infrequent and relatively week and small, f0 or f1. Wind speeds of 73 to 112 mph (112 to 180 kmh). Tornado alley is called that because of the frequency and size of the tornados. The Oklahoma city area got hit by f5 tornado's twice in the span of a 5 years I think. And they were about a mile wide, or 1.6 km. Similar in size to the one that hit Joplin a few years ago. Wind speeds around 200 mph (321 kmh) or more.
Wood is still the building material that’s easy accessible. Even apartment buildings. Drywall and insulation keeps the noise out
Wood buildings are also better at withstanding earthquakes, because they can bend instead of break. I live in Southern California now, and houses here are not allowed to be built out of brick, because of earthquakes. There are hundred-year-old brick buildings downtown, but they are required to be retrofitted for earthquakes.
Plus American homes are generally farther away from their neighbors than in Europe. There's less noise to insulate against.
I am in Kentucky in the US and we have Tornados, we had tornado drills in school growing up and they test the civil defense sirens once a week all year round. We also have brown recluse and black widow spiders here. Our summers are very 🥵. Over 100 degrees Fahrenheit with heat indexes into the 110’s, and the winters can go well below zero, so the houses have to be very well insulated. And Arbys is amazing, they specialize in very large roast beef sandwiches! Delicious 🤤
Hello, neighbor! I'm in Tennessee, and yes, grew up with tornadoes, black widows in my shoes, and brown recluses in my bed when moved upstairs in our 100yo wooden house!
@@auntrori yep! I was born in Ky and lived there 30 years, moved to TN and have now lived here 31 years. You don’t put on a shoe without shaking it out first. That goes for clothes you haven’t worn in awhile too… just in case.🐝🤗❤️
One of my favorites from Arbys is their chicken bacon swiss sandwiches.
I live in the Mojave desert. It's hot as hell for 4 to 5 months, comfortable for about a month, and then cold the rest of the time. We get about 2 weeks of fall and 2 weeks of spring.
I live in tornado alley, but in my 54 yrs I've never seen a tornado. I've experience many tornado warnings and have taken shelter in the storm cellar. However the state I live in has experienced many devastating tornadoes. The movie "Twister" was filmed here.
I've never seen a brown recluse spider, but have re-homed many many many black widow spiders. Such a pretty spider and the babies are so cute!
One thing you shouldn't miss out getting over here is to get a nice big stack of American pancakes. You don't fold them here, you smother them with whipped butter and drown them in maple and berry syrup. Yum!
There are lots of places you can live where you might be in a rainforest but be within an hour drive if desert, alpine mountains, and coastal climate. You could surf in the morning and snowboard in the afternoon..that was life when I lived in Portland OR. It’s crazy..
I had a brown recluse bite me twice in one night. Didn’t feel a thing. Saw the places the next morning, pretty much knew what it was. I had to go into work the next day so since I was a medic and knew what it was I was just going to wait and see the ER Dr. the next morning and by the time I got to the ER the skin at both sites was necrotic and the size of a dime. Was on high dose antibiotics for a while but they cleared up. I’ve also had patients of black widow bites and it’s ugly. The pain it causes is not something I ever want to experience.
I grew up in Las Vegas, still here in fact. I was never allowed to turn the garden hose (we just call it hose) on by myself because that's where the Black Widow spiders like to be, near the coolness of the water. I saw them lots of times though, including the red spot (they say hourglass shaped, but it just looked a bit like a blob to me) on the female.
One thing not on the list that we encounter here in the desert Southwest is scorpions. I had lived here nearly 40 years before I saw one, but that one stung me! Pain like I've never felt!! It stung me on the tip of my toe, but the pain went all the way up to my knee, and it lasted for days. I wanted to burn my house down, but a cooler head prevailed and I sold it & moved across town instead.
Love your videos!!
Oh, I almost forgot. The highest temperature I've ever experienced here in LV was 127 Fahrenheit. The blacktop in the parking lot was actually sticky, like soda had been spilled on it, but it was actually a little melty from the heat.
I'm on the mid-east coast. I have not only been through 3 hurricanes (2 were severe) and 1 tornado that ripped the roof off of my friend's house and tore the elementary school down.
In Florida, besides hurricanes, we definitely do get tornadoes. Anywhere a weather front can collide with another, you can get tornadoes.
If you like pancakes, try a McDonald's McGriddle for breakfast! It's a gift. A breakfast sandwich with two thick pancakes with built-in syrup. A-mazing!
I don't like pancakes and I don't like McDonald's..... But man I do love the occasional McGriddle.
@@LetsgoVegas I’m confused, how do you eat the McGriddle if you don’t like pancakes?
I live in Ohio and that isnt really near tornado alley but we do get tornados here more often than you would think. I swear the weather here in Ohio is bipolar since it was about 70°F today and sunday we have a chance of snow. I rarely have Arby's but when i do i love it. And yes we do have Aldi's here. My mom shops there sometimes
We have snow Sunday!? I had the windows open today in Columbus.
Uhg... Why did I read your comment and check the weather? High of 39° F Sunday? Yuck! I am not ready for that crap. I've been in Ohio all my life and I'd rather deal with the 100°.
Ja! Yes! I loved in Akron in the 90ies and yes, tornados are “normal”
Columbus.
Pretty much anywhere in the Great Plains will have crazy fluctuations in weather, due to the unobstructed blasts of arctic air that can sweep down with little notice.
Ohhh, the thing about deserts.....very dry heat. You do not realize how much water you are sweating out because the sweat evaporates immediately. I tend to walk around guzzling water constantly while there. We got to 113 degrees in WA State and people DIED.
It all depends on what region you go to. Some regions are part of the Tornado Alley, but Florida is known for Hurricanes, and California is where you will experience earthquakes and wildfires most of the time. Although California is always fun specially in the winter because where can you ski in the morning and then go to the beach to swim in the afternoon.
I think a person’s reaction to extreme weather phenomena depends on what they grow up with. I’m originally from Long Island, NY and we had our fair share of hurricanes. It was always quite exciting to go to the beach to watch the waves. My husband is from Ohio, and used to tornado warnings. He was scared of hurricanes when he lived on LI. Moving to Ohio, I’m terrified of tornadoes, and he brushes off tornado warnings.
What a pair. 😆
I think this is absolutely a true statement. I grew up in the southeast where both hurricanes and Tornadoes can be somewhat common. But I would lose my mind in an earthquake or blizzard.
@@dennisdavis9537 That's so funny. I grew up in Massachusetts and I always used to think that our area was the best natural disaster wise because the only really dangerous weather phenomena are blizzards, and blizzards in my opinion were always the least dangerous weather so long as you weren't homeless.
I think this probably goes for wild animals as well. We have black bears in Mass, but I'm not afraid of them. I would be terrified to live in an area with alligators, venomous spiders/scorpions, etc.
(we also get some flooding and tropical storms but they are both usually very mild).
So true. My cousin's from Southern California and I'm from Texas (tornado alley). They were staying with us during the spring tornado season and would get so freaked out by just tornado watches. They thought they were going to die when there was a warning. As these happen a lot during both tornado seasons, he was flipping out often. He got so embarrassed over it. But I was like, "dude, I've never been in an earthquake or a wildfire. If that happened I'd be crying in a ball on the floor." His reply was "but earthquakes are nothing." It all depends on what you're used to. (He did say that wildfires are genuinely terrifying so that one may be universal!)
Lol And Missouri geta ice storms, tornados, flash floods and both temperature extremes. Sometimes in one week.
I live in CA and brush off earthquakes.
Tornadoes CAN occur anywhere, technically, but Tornado Alley they are very common. And, I believe, they are more powerful, on average, than in any other area that commonly sees them. That being said, the east coast sees the most tropical storms/hurricanes. The west coast has to deal with earthquakes and volcanic activity, being part of the Ring of Fire. Hawai'i has to deal with typhoons and volcanic activity. By the way, the only difference between a typhoon and a hurricane is which ocean they form over.
In the southwest adobe are the coldest houses because they're made of half a meter thick mud bricks. So it stays a nice 60-70 degrees fahrenheit year round.
Wood houses are very structurally sound, one of the major reasons that they are sound containing, or blocking, is that we typically have (from the outside in), some sort of siding, then a vapor barrier (usually Tyvec), then sheeting (OSB or CDX), then 2" or larger (at least in northern states) foam insulation board (typical nomenclature is the color of the insulation, we use a ton of blue board which is the 2"), then we have the studs (16" on center) and in between these studs is more insulation either sprayed or "blown in" or fiberglass insulation and then sheet rock or "drywall". All of these layers stacked together create an exceptional sound barrier and this is not their original purpose, but more like a happy accident that seems to help in more than one way. The only sound in or out that you can usually hear is from doors or windows because they do not have as many layers and rely on seals that fail after years of use. Brick houses do not offer much for insulation, they are very hot in the summer and very cold in the winter, they are extremely susceptible to temperature. I find myself commenting on your videos a ton, would love to connect on Facebook or snap or something and just have you pick my brain and I'll pick yours about specific questions about each country, born and raised American, and very happy to answer questions about this country or North America in general.
The Olaffson Hotel in Port au Prince, Haiti, is of wooden construction and 100+ year old. Graham Greene lived there. It comes through the earthquakes and hurricanes just fine because it flexes. The Montana Hotel, of modern concrete construction, collapsed in the major earthquake.
Stucco is a cement-type mixture made of Portland cement, lime, sand and water. It is a thin finish coat that goes on the outermost layer of residential and commercial constructions. Modern stucco has polymers and other agents for increased flexibility that improves its resilience.
This is what houses are made of in the hot states like: AZ, CA, TX all the way to Florida. I’m sure you’ve seen them in Florida.
You can find tornados relatively frequent in other states. We had a small tornado on the north side of Chicago where I live last year. Alaska isn't snowy all the time....in the summer it can actually get in the high 30s (C) in the interior around Fairbanks.
I live in an old 2 bedroom log cabin in the mountains of Arizona. While most wooden houses still use insulation and drywall interiors, my house is just logs. But logs hold small pockets of moisture that retain heat in the winter and cool temps in the summer. So it's natural insulation. But log cabins do have to be maintained over the years more than brick or standard wood plank houses (a sealant between the logs needs to be replaced periodically. And the wood has to be treated to prevent pests, mold, etc.). And since they are made from whole trees, it's not practical for large populations. But I do love my log cabin.
@The Crazy Hobo I lived in a log cabin in Maine, I loved it.
I am in So California and only two days of 38 degrees C would be lovely. Now try weeks during the summer months of 38 C or higher. If you don't have AC in your home you could quite literally die. The only homes I know of in my area that may not have AC are the ones near the ocean and even some days if we are in the middle of Santa Ana weather conditions it can get hotter at the beach. Santa Ana weather conditions btw are when the winds blow in a westerly direction bringing hot air from the deserts. Otherwise mostly the air blows in an easterly direction from the cold pacific ocean out towards the deserts. Also, I believe there is a law in Arizona that homes must have AC as it gets so hot.
NorCal here where it snows in the winter and it's easily over 100°f (38 C?) in the summer. I spent s couple of years in Santa Maria (close to Santa Barbara) I consider it SoCal but they call it Central Cal and the weather is perfect year round, didn't have or need AC and never once used the heater. There are very light sprinkles they call rain but nothing close to torrential sideways rain I'm used to. In the summer I would call my parents just to tell them their low (temp) was my high. I love loved the weather but missed mountains, pine trees and wildlife and family (not necessarily in that order) so I moved back to NorCal. No tornadoes in Cal but we do have earthquakes. Not so many in NorCal but we get one once in a while. Why aren't there any spiders in England? I've seen black widows (red hourglass i.d.'s them) and a couple of brown recluse (their bites aren't pretty) but I've never lived near scorpions.
I was in Southern Oregon this year during the "heat dome" and where I lived, almost no one has AC so people were literally dying from heat stroke. They had to open up "cooling stations" for the public. It was an insane time. It reached over 120 where I was at and frequently over 110. I was lucky enough not to have the power go out on my AC, lol.
The consistent hot weather is why I moved back to Pa. from the south. Although,Georgia has seasons the warm weather just lasts too long for me.I don’t know how you guys in California and Florida do it. And Christmas time how do you celebrate that holiday in warm weather? Lol I guess it’s normal if it’s all that you know. I grew up where it snows during the winter and I had a hard time celebrating the winter holidays down south. Now I might add it’s not warm during Christmas but Thanksgiving was a little challenging. Lol
@@Kim-427 Calif doesn't have the God awful humidity of the south, so we can easily have 10 days straight of over 100° we always say "it's a dry heat" which means nothing until in my case, experiencing the humity of the great state of Texas and it does make a difference. I hate hot and humid. And we usually have snow during the winter and lots of rain which produces much of California's water.
@@ronronniemeyers Heat is heat and too many days of it is too much for me.It’s just the idea of too many days of sun in a row. I don’t care if it’s dry heat moist heat or whatever. I need my seasons specifically defined. Lol
I live in Western Massachusetts, we had quite the crazy tornado in 2011, yes it was deadly and spanned 36 miles. The damage can still be seen from the air.
Born and raised in Michigan here. Yes, there are tornadoes here - every year. Most homes here have basements which are used as storm shelters. We have an extensive tornado warning system across the state which saves lives.✨ Also, here in Michigan we have a grocery-department store chain called Meijer. Meijer was actually doing the superstore thing decades before Walmart showed up anywhere in Michigan. There are Meijers in almost every town here. It's a much better alternative to Walmart and the Meijer family aren't the greedy gits that the Waltons are, either. ✨ Arby's is my favorite fast food, too. No, they don't have burgers; they are a 'shaved' roast beef sandwich chain, though they do have ham and chicken sandwiches, as well. ✨ Pancakes can be eaten any time of the day or night, 365 days a year in the USA. IHop, Denny's, Cracker Barrel, Waffle House, Bob Evans (which is a regional chain), and many other restaurants serve pancakes and other breakfast foods all day (and some all night, too). Sometimes pancakes are the main dish and sometimes they're the side dish, but they always come with butter (or margarine) and a little pitcher of maple syrup - or some other type of topping, if you request it. IHop gives you a syrup assortment to choose from, but most traditionally serve them with maple syrup. My favorite toppings are Butter Pecan syrup or just butter and brown sugar because I'm not a fan of maple. I prefer fruit toppings - actual fruit, not syrup or jam - on waffles, not pancakes. ✨ As far as spiders are concerned, there are lots of spiders here in the USA, but most of them are harmless and they're useful for insect control, especially flies and mosquitoes. Spiders are a big diet staple for birds, frogs, and other critters, too. You will see at least one if you stay in the USA for any length of time but remember - 99.9999 of them are harmless.
"Do you hear your neighbors."
First off, there is a lot of space between each house. There is a full backyard, front yard, and two side yard of grass. Britain may have touching houses but not America. (Except for New York and New Jersey)
In apartments, you might hear your neighbors. It depends on how cheap. With the construction of wooden buildings, foam insulation is placed in a section between each wall to keep in heat and cold.
Of course we can still hear our neighbors when they have loud parties. I haven’t seen many drunken teenagers in front lawns like in the movies, but I do hear a lot of music coming from neighbors’ backyard.
Umm, many places in the USA have townhouses which are called row houses in the UK. But in the USA there is NO stigma in living in an attached home.
I happily lived in a townhouse for 13 years. It met our lifestyle at the time. However, modern US townhouses have concrete fire barriers between the homes. These do a very good job insulating noise. If my neighbors were really rocking out, of course I could hear it. But usually, no.
@@happycook6737 Sometimes the "common wall" required to be an attached house is a basement wall, with dirt on top. It looks like two free-standing hoses, but the common wall is out of sight. think it is bit of a tax or zoning dodge.
Depends on your region...in Chicago...especially Italian families, they speak at volume 20...arguments can get up to 60 or higher! Yeah, you can totally hear these people, and they might even drag you into the argument by asking out loud "Hey neighbors, you believe the set of balls on my wife over here?!" 🤭 Aww Jimmy, that wasnt nice!
I wonder if the U.K. has fire ants:
Those are FAR more common in parts of the U.S. than the other things mentioned, and you can have some serious reactions. They’re even deadly to some people.
When I first moved to South Florida, I stepped barefoot on a fire ant mound and my foot blew up like a balloon. I thought I developed diabetes or something!
Turns out once a colony bites you (it’s rarely just one bite), subsequent bites will itch and annoy you, but the reaction is less severe.
We do , got bitten couple of hrs ago bloody horrific 😖
I meant yrs not hrs lol
I second this. When I first moved to Florida I didn’t know about fire ants. I found out real quick. Those little bastards love to wait until there’s like 50 halfway up your leg before they all bite at once!!!
The US has Aldi, a relatively newcomer in the US. The first Aldi opened here in 1976. Aldi in the US is the same as Aldi in the UK (Aldi Sud). US also has Trader Joes, which is Aldi Nord from Germany. Both were started by the Albrect Family. We also now have Lidl. Trader Joes (TJs) differs from Aldi and Lidl in that TJs does not do the weekly finds of non-grocery goods. All three are great stores, with great prices but much smaller than the traditional US supermarket.
About spiders: I have never seen a brown recluse. My daughter had black widows in her garage when she lived near Richmond, Virginia. My son-in-law caught one in the house on a wall. We put it in an airtight plastic container to show my other daughters. It died in that container, and they got rid of the whole thing several years later when they moved!
About tornados: I have lived many places. I experienced a tornado in Georgia (did not see it). We had very tall pine trees in our back yard and they seemed to bend almost double with the winds. The tornado blew out a lot of windows and knocked down a lot of signs in the town. We did not have any damage.
Now I live in Northern Virginia. We have had tornados in the area (Metro Washington DC), but again, I have never seen one. We have weird weather in the DC area. We often have very high winds that knock down trees. Some years we get back to back blizzards that leave a foot or more of snow. Some years, no snow at all! Spring and summer, we can have really violent thunderstorms. It a wonderful place to live!!! (Really, it is!!)
Thanks, Kabir! Take care and stay safe!
Trader Joe's was a local chain from Los Angeles, purchased by Aldi Nord in 1979. Aldi has expanded TJ Nationwide since then.
Built a house in Florida and had to cut down a number of trees to do it. The black widows, losing said tree homes, decided to move into the garage. Eventually they got smaller and disappeared, but the first ones we found were the size of golf balls.
Wood houses are sound proof about the same. Wooden clad houses are still thick walled. Layer of cladding, layer of insulation amidst the frame and a layer of plasterboard inside of that.
The southeast is also called Dixie Alley for tornadoes. (Louisiana,mississippi, alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida) not only tornadoes hit here yearly but also hurricanes and 40C summers with 80% humidity and 0C winters with wind chill. Southeast is where the weird weather is at.
Actually, Alaska has deserts. Contrary to popular belief deserts do not have to be hot, it just has to have little rain. If an area receives no more than 25 centimeters (10 inches) of rain per year, it is classified as a dessert. As a matter of fact, the worlds largest dessert is the Antarctic desert in Antarctica.
@Atheos B. Sapien seems like you need to learn what a snowflake really is.
@Atheos B. Sapien so, replying to a comment is a snowflake?
@Atheos B. Sapien I was on break at work. I heard a notification. I replied. That's a normal thing for a human being.
@Atheos B. Sapien so offering information to somebody that can give them knowledge as a snowflake? That is news to me. But just so you know a snowflake is a person who is easily triggered. And the easily offended. That my friend is exactly what you just did. That classifies you a snowflake and you have been inducted into the snowflake Hall of Fame.
@Atheos B. Sapien Okay, I am off work now. Now allow me to offer you some friendly advise.....1). A snowflake is someone who is easily offended (which you were by the way you responded to my friendly comment) Did you not see the likes my comment received? Did you not see the like (heart) that Kabir gave me?
2). I have been commenting on Kabir Considers videos for a long time offering him friendly insight.. 3). Kabir is considering (no pun intended) to make a stop by my place while he is visiting the Dallas/Fort Worth area. 4). My ancestry is from England. 5). The ONLY person that was easily offended (the very definition of a Snowflake) was you because of my moniker. Take some time to do some introspection....I know there is a better version of you somewhere in that snowflake covered heart.
We have Black Widows where I live and they can get pretty big. However unless you are immuno-compromised, elderly or a toddler a bite from a Black Widow won't kill you. The thing to worry about with a Brown Recluse is infection that can get extremely serious. There is the risk of being allergic to them but as far as I know, these are not included in an allergy test. If someone knows please correct me if I'm wrong!
Add Hobo spiders to the list. Hobo spiders are in the same family as the brown recluse (i think). They are a field spider that came to the NW US on container ships to the West coast and have since been working their way east. I've treated some awful infections from them. They move very quickly! So we have 3 dangerous (not necessarily deadly) spiders in the US now!
I've seen the infection from a brown recluse, and it was disgusting. It just ate away at her thigh.
@@auntrori I've seen that too. I was in the Air Force and there were some at our firing range. You would see people jump when grabbing a target because they found one. Unfortunately one of our instructors was bit and ended up in the ER because she turned out to be allergic. Didn't know it and didn't realize until a red line appeared on her inner arm and started moving up towards her chest.
Midwest and midsouth have an abundance of both brown recluse and tornados. Brown recluse like cardboard, so we store things in plastic totes. But in my area apartment complexes (where cardboard is also abundant) like to use dried pine needles as mulch. Brown recluse LOVE that stuff.
I found your channel because I love Lawrence!! I'm so glad to find you. I love your channel too!!
And my bathroom gets over run by black widows every summer. And we get small tornados every year even though I'm not in Kansas.
Welcome to the channel Elizabeth :)
Having had the pleasure of living for many years in the midwest and southern US, I have been blessed to encounter brown recluses, black widows, and tarantulas. Have also seen many other kinds that were huge and seemed dangerous, even though they weren't. Here, we're basically taught to be cautious around spiders, even though most are more helpful than harmful.
And the best way to reduce spiders in the house is to reduce bugs that get in. Weatherproofing is not just good for energy efficiency and reducing your bills, it also keeps the creepy crawlies out as well.
“Every day is pancake day” is the American motto to live by 😂
I found it interesting that you mentioned the hotter, dryer states such as Arizona and New Mexico to possibly have more wooden houses. In actuality its far more common for these states to have houses with a stucco facade than wood.
and a lot of block construction. Although wood is now king.
Brown Recluse and Black Widows can actually be found in a lot of places. Surprisingly a widow bite can be as bad as a normal spider bite or deadly, depends on the severity of reaction. I live in Oregon and we have both of those spiders. Widows will be found in the house while a recluse or our hobo spider is typically found in wood piles or maybe if you have a cellar/basement with a lot of junk in it.
It depends on the location for wood houses. In the Pacific Northwest there are a lot of wood houses or hybrid wood and brick while on the east coast there are more brick houses and a smattering in between.
Most people have pancake mix in the house or can pick it up at most grocery and convenience stores. But I do love an IHOP run.
Brown recluses - southern Maryland, there was one hanging out under a bench at a senior home a few years back. Bit someone too. Black widow - Mom walked into the nursery in Idaho (late 1950s) and saw one hanging over the crib.
yea you have to worry about tornadoes in a lot of parts of the us. (when i was younger i lived in coastal nc) and there would be the occasional tornado. the worst thing though was the tornado drills at school they really hurt your back youd have to be on the floor hands over head in this really straining position. if there was an actual tornado you could be in that position for an hour etc
We stand on our porches and watch the storms/ tornadoes in the Midwest(Illinois), but honestly for the most part they hit wide open areas more. Every couple of years they seem to try and take out sections of towns.
Homes made of wood are actually mostly soundproof. You might hear the odd piece of lawn equipment occasionally and a very loud argument though. The biggest fear though is fire but thanks to the pressure treated wood we use in all construction here it’s mostly taken away as the wood smolders not burns so we can detect and put the fire out quicker. The pressure treated wood is kinda our take on fireproof wood. Basically logs are compressed to get every bit of moisture out of the wood which that moisture is collected for something else we can make from it. The moisture is then replaced with a chemical soup while slowly steaming the wood to make it take more of it in. The wood is left to dry then cut to whatever size the order is and sent out to job sites and home improvement stores to get bought and used. This wood has a huge advantage as it basically doesn’t rot and is nearly fireproof making it useful for outside and inside jobs. It’s because fire suppression systems are ridiculously expensive and only businesses can afford them but wood is cheap and a great first step in stopping fires.
6:16 this summer in the area where I live, Western Oregon in the southern Willamette Valley, we had a summer high of 111°F or 43.889°C. It was INTENSE and fairly uncommon for this area and I believe it was a record. Air conditioning is used in our area but I don’t have it in my house. I just use fans and deal with it. Right now here in mid December, it’s 45°F or 7°C and raining as usual. We’re getting snow in the high Cascade mountains. Summer is far away.
Love that he says pop!
it gets extra fun in this part of the country (central NC) in the winter months, because it never stays very cold for long, typically being about 40° F… while every Australian is complaining about how unbearable the 40° heat is, and I spend several seconds with complicated equations surrounding my head before I realize that they're not talking about the same 40°
LOL
Thought they said 40 as in Celsius that would translate to 104°F? I played it back, he did say 40C.
The one thing Arby's DOESN'T have is burgers 😂 Their main thing is their Roast Beef sandwich. They also do brisket, turkey, etc. Their tag line is "We got the meats".
Living in NJ, we’ve had a record number of tornadoes this year and quite a few big ones as well. It’s been insane. But even still, I have never seen one in person besides 1 that started to form during a big storm and then fizzled out and never actually touched down
I live in a state that is in tornado alley. Spring time (March-May) is when the majority of storms roll through and may potentially cause a tornado. We have warning systems in place to help notify people of bad weather. I have lived here for almost 2 decades and have only been in a handful of tornadoes 🌪
I’m in central FL. Most of our houses are concrete block to withstand hurricanes. When Hurricane Charley hit a micro burst (tornado-esque) went through our yard. You could see it’s path. Also I can confirm no AC is no fun in the summer when it’s too rainy to keep the windows open so its 90+degree F and the humidity is 90+%. Not fun at all and thankfully the shopping malls could open so people had somewhere cool to go.
4:42 It's still a big job, but it's "easier" to move the house to elsewhere. US does both, sure, but you can split a large wooden house in sections before getting it back together. I don't think you can for a brick house.
The things Laurence worried about always make me laugh. I'm 55 years old, and do a lot of hiking and camping, and I have never once seen a poisonous spider. Nor have I ever worried about a tornado, as I've never lived in any of the areas where they happen with any regularity. (I guess technically there *could* be a tornado in some of the states where I've lived, but you can get them in the UK too, apparently, and nobody there ever worries about them either).
People really only worry about tornados in areas where they're regular occurrences, and our poisonous spiders are so reclusive and so relatively harmless (as a healthy adult, you would have to be *very* unlucky to die of a spider bite) that it was kind of a revelation to me the first time I saw this video and realized that people from the UK think about the US very much in the same way that we think about Australia -- which is the place that most North Americans think of as the Land of Terrifyingly Lethal Veneomous Things Oh God I'll Be So Scared About Them If I Ever Visit Down Under!
Laurence's sense of amazement that wooden houses are warm and dry never fails to amuse me, because when I was a kid my grandparents moved into a stone house, and from that moment until their deaths, they could seemingly *not* stop talking about how cold and damp and poorly-insulated houses made of stone were, and how they would never have bought that house had they known this about them. Given that modern wooden houses are basically just great big insulation balloons, it wouldn't surprise me if they really were better insulated than stone or brick, but at the time, I secretly suspected that my grandparents were just getting *old,* and that that was the real reason they were feeling the cold and damp so much more.
I’ve experienced one to many tornadoes 😂
No brick or stone houses where earthquakes are they will crumble and fall in on you. I live in tornado area and blizzard. You need to pay attention to the weather.
Wood homes are not attached. If its a town home that's attached to a neighbors home, it usually has a firewall, which is a wall between the townhomes made of brick or cement blocks. So not we really don't hear the neighbors if we lived in an attached home. (Of course their are exceptions (older homes where the insulation was old newspaper 😂).
I lived in Wisconsin when I was young and a tornado came through our small town. Three blocks away, there was vast damage and it destroyed an entire shopping center! The bottom of the tornado when it touches the ground, can be narrow or many miles wide. I live in Oregon where we worry most about wind (broadly wide over perhaps half or a quarter of the state.
5:29 - I grew up in a cinder block home. The first home I owned was wooden, second and third as well. I now live in a slab brick home.
I think the wooden homes have the most charm and character. Here in the states it is like owning a vintage guitar or a vintage car....they are just cooler.
Yes, we do hear neighbors, neighbors dogs, and the occasional critters. Aaaaaand they are not exactly the best insulated.
On the wood house questions: short answer is it depends. Newer wood houses are better insulated to weather, sound and bugs. Ants will always find a way in, and the spiders find a way in to hunt said ants, it's just a fact of life. My favorite type of spiders are jumping spiders since they tend to to be "friendlier" than the others. They also do a good job of keeping pests out of my vegetables.
Wolf spiders are also good to have around. They are predator spiders and keep pest insects away. Just don't step on a mother, unless you want thousands of babies scattering.
@@njd4291 Yeah, found that out the hard way. it was 2 am. not a fun night.
@@cassieberringer7427 yeah I feel you. It's an eye opening experience. I was sweeping up in the house and hit one and it looked liked hundreds of tiny marbles with legs.
When you visit us here in America , you should go visit Alaska ( no , there's no snow year round ) beautiful country out there . To give you a look at Alaska , check out Somers in Alaska ( they live in North Pole , 11 miles south of Fairbanks )
I worked with a nurse who is married to someone in the armed forces and the lived in Fairbanks. She hated it cause things could only be flown in and it was so isolated in winter.
For the record, a lot of people do not have a wooden houses. I've seen British people hear this fact and suddenly think we all have houses made of wood. Also with your question about noise, they aren't like one slab thick. A lot of houses have a wooden structure with brick or stone.
Ahh , every Apartment and house that I have ever lived at was and is made of wood , virtually everyone I know lives in an all wood house or mostly wooden house .. this includes family members and friend and co-workers .. Just came back from Florida as well and every house and condo we saw was made of wood , we have travelled to California a dozen times and nearly every home and condo there was made of wood or mostly wood .. so I don't know where you live that has houses built of brick or stone , but I have only seen a small percentage of homes made of anything but wood ...
I’m in God’s country, Washington state, so I will sit with my umbrella, (It’s very rainy) under our volcano (MT ST Helen’s) waiting for the big one (Earthquake), but it is so so beautiful here.
I live in southern Washington and I've been near tornados twice. Once one touched down near my elementary school during recess and the second it touched down near my work.
I live just outside Indianapolis and yeah you’re bound to eventually see the odd brown recluse but as their name suggests they tend to just run and hide. They do pack a punch with their bite though.
Yes someone who was on the set for the Alec Baldwin movie might lose his arm due to a recluse bit.
@@fred6059 oh really?
The whole deadly spider thing really depends on where you live. I lived in rural southern California most of my life and I've seen many black widows and know a few people who have been bitten and had to go to the hospital. But on a whole, it is not too common in the cities.
You're right, its the effin' rattlesnakes in that yard pile you gotta worry about.
Tornadoes are common in many parts of the country, I've gotten to participate in several. Venomous spiders that are dangerous sure. Stop by my shop and I can show you dozens of brown recluse and probably a few black widows. I see people calling them poisonous, nope, venomous, yes, two different things. Arby's is good but it isn't something I go out of my way for although their horsey sauce and Arby's sauce are really good.
In the desert, the wooden houses with cheap exterior called stucco works rather well, windows usually are meant to face away from place where the sun will shine in directly.
Now I live in the East, I've only lived here for a few days but it was raining yesterday, and I don't have a thick jacket and it was freezing, at most 10 degrees Fahrenheit.
Lawrence didn't mention Scorpions or rattlesnakes or tarantulas. As for desert areas, of course the Mojave is most well known . The largest sand dunes in North America are in southern Colorado and are enormous, like a couple thousand feet tall. Colorado is the highest state in the lower 48. You can see herds of Bison in Colorado too, and of course Elk herds, which you wouldn't find in the UK. The continental divide runs smack dab down the middle of Colorado.
He’s not joking about dying in the summer heat. We have a lot of people who die in the summer or suffer heat stroke. A/C is a must have in most of the states
Yeah I've heard it can get craaaaazy hot in America. When I was in Florida I couldn't stay outside for long, the humidity was insane
@@kabirconsiders Born in Alabama but moved to Wisconsin. The humidity ain’t no joke in Alabama. Now live in WI and it gets really cold in the winter and really hot in the summer. Not as hot as Alabama but the humidity is pretty bad in WI too.
Poisonous snakes are more of a threat in US than spiders .
Both brick & wooden houses are framed/built out if wood. Its just the exterior surface that is different . Probably 1/3 of houses in US are brick.
A well insulated house, whether brick or wood or stucco, will keep heat OUT as well as keeping it in. Many of the traditional houses in the desert SW are adobe or cob houses. I have lived in all of those and the true adobe are the coolest, by far. Using the natural heating of the sun as a guide,a passive solar adobe house is the real winner. The only thing better than that is a specific type of construction outside of Taos, NM that I have heard called earthship houses. These houses also include airflow and evaporation for cooling. I have NOT lived in one of those but wish I did. Am debating earthship vs the inflated balloon aircrete houses for my next and final build. We will see. The creepiest spiders in the US in MY eyes are the tarantulas crossing the highway at dusk in W. Texas. I wonder if anyone has ever put them on TH-cam? Or even captured them on camera? My daughter always wanted to keep the occasional tarantula or scorpion that managed to get into our home but I was quick with a very loud NO!
I was once driving on a country road in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in California- near dusk, when up ahead it looked like the road was covered with loose black rocks - but as I approached, the "rocks" all started moving - you can bet that I neither stopped nor slowed... the one and only time that I've seen tarantulas migrating. Definitely creepy.
@@theblackbear211 - I had NO CLUE that they had migrated at all, let alone that far West and North. ::::::shudder::::::: I am afraid to Bing, or Google, how wide their territory has spread.
@@maobfh Remember that much of California is desert and desert grassland.
The prickly pear is a native plant on the southern California coast. Scorpions and Tarantulas have long been native to California.
I had friends in elementary school with "pet" Tarantulas.
As for Tarantulas, in the US, they can be found basically anywhere from the Mississippi river, west to the Pacific Coast, and from the Mexican border, north to a line roughly equal with the northern borders of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, and Missouri. Despite their appearance, they are relatively shy and reclusive and slow to rile.
@@theblackbear211 - the California desert is not a new concept for me and the Mojave, Death Valley, 29 Palms, etc., are proof of that. Every one of my siblings but one have lived in Southern California at one time or the other. Though I never lived there, I taught there and flew in and out of LA 3+X each month. But, in my mind, tarantulas were located just in the dry desert areas of Texas and the few that crossed the New Mexico line were quickly swallowed by the roadrunner. I looked at a map of the tarantula after commenting and was appalled to see the area it covered. Now, in my mind, I see bands of tarantula pacing back and forth on the west banks of the Mississippi just trying to find a way across. Another group of them are tunneling, trying to go under the river but (so far) they tunneled east too soon and created an ant pond. The random moss ropes hanging in the trees have been placed there by more adventuresome tarantulas trying to catapult each other onto passing barges. With several brothers, cousins and neighbors, someone always had a pet turantula but I was not impressed. Not frightened, then, just thought it was mean. I remember sitting on the porch, somewhere in Texas, waiting for my sister to come home from school. I was just sitting in a rocking chair, about 4, and my Irish grandfather came flying out the door with a broom and started batting at my leg. He knocked a turantula off my leg and into the yard and began pummeling it to death. My parents were about 15 seconds behind him, my father was ready to put him down and my mother was sure he had broken my leg. He wasn’t a complete moron and the worst he might have done was to scratch my leg, but I don’t think he even did that. None of that insanity frightened me, I felt bad for the turantula and sorry for my grandfather not knowing better. And, as my parents were never the hysterical type, I thought they over reacted and without their interference I might have stopped him from killing it. Assuming that he did. The spider scenes in Harry Potter did not frighten me but the sight of hundreds of big spiders, with the setting sun and car headlights making their legs look very very long has always been just a little (a lot, frankly) too creepy for my taste. Seeing THAT is what gave me a real fear of them. One is fine, no I don’t want to hold it, but hundreds? No thank you! Having lived from the Panhandle of Texas, all around the mountains of New Mexico, traveling throughout and often through Arizona and Utah and living in Colorado not to mention the frequent trips in California and I had never seen tarantulas anywhere outside of West Texas. I need to give Vermont or Finland serious consideration for relocation. : D
@@maobfh Thank you so much for sharing your story... It is quite striking the number of locations that we have mutually spent time in. My Parents were in fact married in 29 Palms, and while I grew up with a number of moves - my father was in construction, I had an aunt and uncle who lived there for close to 60 years.
I also lived in Ruidoso, NM while the reservoir was being constructed for the resort on the Mescalero Apache reservation.
Later in life I spent a several seasons working in Big Bend National Park - in the back country.
I'm with you... Tarantulas as individuals are just another creature - though I admit, they trigger my "ick" factor... but yeah... the image I saw on that country road, gives me an involuntary shiver, just to think of it.
I have to admit though, the Black Widow tops my list of dislike - mostly because I have encountered far more of them, and had more "up close, and personal" encounters.
I can suggest my current local - the Pacific Northwest, as a Tarantula free zone... :-) Thanks for the interaction.
I lived in Las Vegas and loved the desert, deserts in the US have mountains so it's quite nice.
subscribed, and set notifications. im from texas, worked as a truck driver, and want to start adding commentary to your vids! ive seen most of the country, and it would be fun helping to dispel certain myths.
I live in Southwest Ohio, which is not "tornado alley". We have devastating tornado about every 30 years. By devastating, I mean...wiping a city off the map devastating. If you're curious, you can look up Xenia, OH tornado (1974) and Dayton, Oh (2019)
“I’ve never seen an actual spider…” is….. is Great Britain Ecologically Sterile or something? Not trying to be rude! I’m genuinely curious!
Its just too cold most time.
We do have very small spiders big as a quarter EG. Theyre not dangerous...
Washington State…we have earthquakes and volcanoes.
Let’s go Brandon!
I don't think there is an Arby's in Sonoma county (Calif) anymore. We have; Jack in the Box , Carls Junior, McDonald's, Burger King , Taco Bell, KFC, A&W, Wendy's, even Sonic. But Arby's burned in the recent fires. Strange, the Taco Bell next door didn't.
We do hear a fair bit of "road noise," but I feel that that is more likely due to the windows and doors than the actual construction of the home. Most homes have insulation of some type in the walls, so that would cut down on some of the noise...
Arby’s nasty as hell💀
We got Biden and you don’t! Jokes on us lol
We did not get air conditioning until after I graduated from High school and left home. Summers were challenging. I make my plan cakes on the thin side. I like to use the like tortillas with my over easy eggs after using one to dip in the yolks
Yep I shop at Aldi all the time, and so did my dad, and grandparents before they passed
I’ve lived in Atlanta Georgia all of my 63 years and have had 2 tornado encounters. In 1990 our home was destroyed by a tornado and two years ago a tornado came upon me while in my car. I barely escaped with my life. In spring and summer we regularly have tornado warnings when strong thunderstorms blow through. Still, I’m the exception and most people never experience a tornado in person. Luckily the tornado that hit our house came just a few minutes after my wife and I had left for work and had taken our young children to the grandparents house. Several houses in our neighborhood were hit but no one died, although there were some injuries.