American Reacts to 5 Deadly Natural Phenomena America Has That Britain Doesn't!

[@laziojohnny79]

It's thanks to you I now shout out loud ‘‘SHOW ME ON A MMMAP!!!’’ whenever someone on telly mentions a place I never heared before, making everyone around look at me as if I'm mental.

[@williambailey344]

Yes I do that too😊

[@lovestardustuk]

Me too!!! hahaha!! Thanks JJ :)

[@wulfgold]

Can't believe JJ didn't show us where Atlanta is.

[@ruthholbrook]

@@lovestardustuk Me three :D

[@chrishickey2245]

🤦‍♀️😂

[@tracymuckle8512]

Al Murray explains why the UK doesn't really get extreme weather lol

[@jerbil9353]

This guy does my head in JJ, see you in the next one!

[@CocoaWitch]

Yeah I truly wish americans would stop listening to this guy's lies, honestly as a brit it's infuriatting watching him talk complete bollocks about stuff and be so confidently wrong

[@Grandude77]

He doesn't even mention why we don't get any of these disasters. It's because we don't deserve them.

[@nicw5574]

There are sometimes wildfires over here, like gorse fires in Cornwall, but nothing on the scale of what you have in the US or Australia. I've felt one earthquake, I was sat in a chair at my Grandparents home and the chair moved across the floor. We are incredibly lucky over here

[@stewrmo]

I must admit, I canny go this guy. I only watch for JJ. One love from Scotland. 💙

[@thedisabledwelshman9266]

can u translate what u just said please.🤣😂🤣

[@rossbrown6029]

​@@thedisabledwelshman9266 he doesn't like that Lawrence guy.

[@thedisabledwelshman9266]

@@rossbrown6029 me either lol.

[@gemmasem]

Me too. He has been there for so long he's forgotten what it's like here 😂

[@stewrmo]

@thedisabledwelshman9266 Sorry, I forgot to tone the Scottish down today! Cheers, Ross, for doing the translation. One love. 💙

[@chrisward8323]

My wheelie bin blew over once........ Armageddon

[@carolineskipper6976]

Hold my beer- All 4 of mine went over a couple of weeks ago!!!!! I know how to live on the edge!

[@Sue-Eliz]

😅

[@AlBarzUK]

I lost the roof of my … compost heap - well okay it was technically a lid - and my neighbour threw it back.

[@wessexdruid7598]

@@carolineskipper6976 Not in the hedge?

[@sonya4272]

Yeah, we get wildfires here in the UK too. Last major one i remember is Saddleworth moor a couple of hours from where i live in the North west. It went on for 3 weeks

[@gemmasem]

We had the wildfires in July 2022 here in the southeast, too.

[@klaxoncow]

The UK had a Summer, in 2022, where the temperatures hit 40C and there were some wildfires that destroyed homes. Of course, yes, this doesn't compare with what some countries experience. But, for the UK, it was totally unprecedented (and, remember, we largely don't have AC in our homes, so it was horribly unbearable for a few days). Climate change is coming to us all, unfortunately.

[@titanium_di2402]

Ceiling fan in all my bedrooms 🥶

[@JackMellor498]

Britain has wildfires in the sense that occasionally harsh heat can burn large amounts of heathland or moorland black, but these aren’t raging infernos consuming neighbourhoods Whilst we don’t have any active volcanoes as mentioned you can find ancient extinct ones. Glencoe (a popular wild glen to visit in Scotland) is the eroded and twisted remnants of a large volcanic eruption and Edinburgh Castle is built upon an outcrop of volcanic rock. Nearest volcanoes to us are in Iceland, where if a large volcano erupts the ash can reach the UK and ground air traffic as it did with Eyjafjallajökull in 2010.

[@auldfouter8661]

There could be a lot worse than that. Didn't an Icelandic volcano produce the " year without a summer " when Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstien? Harvests failed all over Europe and there was unrest. EDIT 1816's bad harvests in Europe ( with subsequent famine in Ireland and the rest of Europe were caused by the Tambora eruption in Indonesia in late 1815. However there was a disastrous eruption in 18th century Iceland which is now believed to have had serious effects in Europe - and could easily happen again when Ketla erupts.

[@judithmitchell9065]

I remember the fires of 1976, probably because they came down my road. Thankfully, the damage was mainly to farmland, moorland and hedgerows - a couple of houses locally were lost though. We've had a few more since then. Our wildfires tend to be started from arson, negligence or sun reflecting off litter like glass rather than spontaneously like in hotter countries such as the USA and Australia. I read somewhere that the UK gets more tornados each year than the USA - it is just ours our so much weaker and of shorter duration so we don't tend to notice them until they damage buildings.

[@gennytun]

We do have wildfires occasionally in the UK, but on a very much smaller scale and frequency compared to other parts of the world. Summer of 2018 was very dry and large areas of wild moorland had fires. Even the small area of wild grassland called a Common on my doorstep had a fire that summer which burnt off most off the dry grass and damaged some of the trees. This is in a built up area but luckily no houses were damaged and certainly no people. It's been interesting watching the natural regeneration on the Common over the past 6 years. Re the fire map of UK, the East of the country is generally much drier than the West, all that rain comes over off the Atlantic and gets dumped on the west coast.

[@rosemarymcgrory-eb2gd]

I never knew that about wild fires in the uk , and I was born in the uk .. I guess I learn something new everyday 😊

[@wessexdruid7598]

Wildfires are usually defined as in woodland or brush. We VERY rarely have tree fires in the UK - ours are not dry enough or contain enough oil, like overseas. We certainly have grass, gorse and peat fires, but they do not usually move with anything like the same speed.

[@roowyrm9576]

I remember one UK earthquake, about 18 years ago. I was living in Bristol, on the top floor of a high-rise block, near the city center. I was lounging in bed, reading, when , all of a sudden the room swayed. I thought I was experiencing a vertigo spell...until I realised that my bed had actually been moved across the room (by around 12 inches). Interestingly, my son ( living in the same place) didn't even notice. I have also felt two smaller earth tremors. In 1970s the UK had a run of extremely hot summers. There were wildfires in many places, many of which were started by human carelessness.

[@davidberesford7009]

The easiest way to live through a natural disaster is vicariously. Keep Reacting!

[@TheWebcrafter]

10:30 - HURRICANES, which start in the ocean, are well-defined systems of showers and thunderstorms with a well-defined circulation center with maximum winds of 74 mph (64 knots) or greater. Hurricanes are categorized by the Saffir-Simpson Scale. The categories range from 1 to 5 with 1 being the weakest and 5 being the strongest.

[@shmokinsweet]

The morning after the 1986 hurricane, my brother got up early to walk to work, he thought it was a bit windy but wasn't concerned until a shopping trolley appeared from a side street behind him and seemed to start following him for about half a mile, it totally freaked him out in the end , there was no one else in site, he said it was spookily quiet even with the wind and he started to think the trolley was possessed and after him lol

[@tommurray3744]

i was on a ferry on the Irish sea when that hit

[@auldfouter8661]

1987

[@GayJayU26]

Our village nine miles east of Manchester has been evacuated three times, Moreland fires, floods and a 4/5 strength tornado.

[@ulyssesthirteen7031]

First time I've ever seen someone comment on KZbin that I actually know (of)! Unrelated but share same surname.

[@GayJayU26]

@ you are Florence's son?

[@ulyssesthirteen7031]

@@GayJayU26 yes!

[@tonyjohnson1405]

I've witnessed two tornadoes in the UK.. one went right past me and took up some rubbish on the building site I was working on.. the other was pretty spectacular as the farmer who's home we were working on was in a field close by had been waiting for a dry day to mow his field no sooner had he finished when a big ( for UK) spiral went through the field and took up loads of the long hay and we watched both in amazement and with a sense of humour as half his crop disappeared into the distance.. I took pictures but I don't know where they are now

[@fishtigua]

We do have many tail-ends of hurricanes in the UK. I've been through 7 Caribbean hurricanes, lost our house in Antigua one year. The 1987 one in England didn't make the morning news in Hamburg, where I happened to be up a shipyard crane 80m in the air, when the wind suddenly hit.

[@snowfirma5423]

I have seen corn fields ablaze quite a few time and they are scary . Fortunately emergency fire service come out quick and get then usually in control.

[@dilligaf73]

We rarely get wild fires in England, but a few years ago, we had several. One that made the main news was a small village on the outskirts of london called Wennington. I know a few of the ppl who lost everything to it. Some of them are still waiting for their new house to be built. There were a few positives. My friend Tim made sure every resident was out of their house. There were no human deaths. Only 2 animals died. The church hall was condemned, but there wasn't enough money in the pot to have it removed and a new one built. The fire burnt the hall down, so that was a big lump sum no longer needed to find

[@CocoaWitch]

yeah the only thing we don't have is volcanos, this guy is known for being full of crap, he still maintains that there is no such thing as a mixer tap in the UK 🙄

[@sallyannwheeler6327]

We do have wildfires. They were several in the seventies. My dad was a firefighter chief and always said they were the worst because of possible wind change entrapping them.

[@ChrisShelley-v2g]

Firefighter chief, are you sure that you don't mean Fire Station Chief Officer?

[@sallyannwheeler6327]

@ 🤦🏻‍♀️Really!Are you going to split hairs over that?! Shouldn’t you be focusing on how brave all these firefighters are! My dad used to come home stinking of smoke from them and if blood from serious accidents etc etc etc. But never mind you just worry about that

[@ChrisShelley-v2g]

@@sallyannwheeler6327 and so did my brother

[@carlgibson285]

The backyard at my previous home was a tornado hotspot, with around 20 to 30 every year. Luckily they were always tiny and the only things picked up by them would be leaves or whatever litter had blown in from the street 🌪

[@shirleymoffat3338]

When that earthquake struck Lincolnshire, an ornament fell off my shelf. It didn't break. However, I was living in Hastings when the 1987 'hurricane' struck. It was pretty bad but because it was overnight, it could have been much worse. Three people died in my town. My work place , on the top of a hill, was hit hard and papers were strewed all over the hillside. It was a government building...😮

[@stopanimalcruelty298]

Seen a tiny tornado in uk and a tiny earthquake in geography lesson while in high school. We have very strong winds being on the coast of the Irish Sea . We get about 3 inches of snow about every 7 years or so , that’s it.

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

Firenadoes not uncommon in big fires in Australia

[@aaropajari7058]

Puritanicalsm is also a natural phenomenon in the US.

[@titanium_di2402]

And arguably causes more devastation...

[@davidhines7592]

we get wildfires here in the UK. we also get european windstorms here, which are not hurricanes (technically no warm core, they have cold and warm fronts) but do have hurricane force winds. there is a whole wiki on medicanes (mediterranean hurricane like storms which even develop an eye) and another on european windstorms.

[@SIartibartf4st]

I survived the great Swansea earthquake of 2018. Fallen buildings, up routed trees, floods and fires were all things that didn't happen with it. I didn't have any damage at all, just felt a bit of a shake..

[@WookieWarriorz]

And natural disasters are the least of your worries. The UK TOTAL has 600 homicides per year, this number in the USA is over 20,000 with Chicago alone having more than the UK. One USA city has more murders than the entirety of the UK with nearly 70 million people. Your road traffic deaths are over 10x ours too.

[@bodizmoner2838]

When we do on a rare occasion, we get a hot dry summer, we get wild 🔥 usually started by some idiot lol

[@klaxoncow]

Yeah, we get the "tail end" of the hurricanes, after they've travelled the Atlantic. But, like, most of the energy has been lost by then. So we do get stormy weather blowing in from the Atlantic and the winds can get up to 60mph and such. But it's not too deadly by that point.

[@DavidSmith-cx8dg]

We are an Island so we don't have the continental weather systems . We do have wildfires in the very rare event of a hot summer , and a lot are due to people being unaware of danger as our climate is normally so damp . Winter storms from the Atlantic can be very strong and damaging but usually the remains of hurricanes that have lost much of their strength . All in all the sort of thing Lawrence is describing is pretty terrifying .

[@robertgrant4987]

Hey JJ. I live in the southeast of England in a place called Southend on sea. As you know, the very subject of weather is a hot topic here 😊 Although few and far between, the reason for there being more forest fires in the South East is due to the difference in temperature. The southeast corner is normally far warmer and dryer than the rest of the country.

[@wessexdruid7598]

And, in the winter, often colder, due to the continent.

[@stevec5922]

The Lincolnshire earthquake got worse the further you were from the epicentre. I believe one person was killed by a falling chimney stack about 100 miles away.

[@phoenix-xu9xj]

People who didn’t experience it will probably think it wasn’t much. It was terrifying. The shaking was bad enough, but it was the noise that frightened me most. It was literally the Earth roaring. 😮

[@watfordjc]

According to the BGS, the largest possible earthquake in the UK is a 6.5, with a magnitude 4 expected every 2 years, and a magnitude 5 expected every 10-20 years (magnitude 6 is too infrequent for an estimate). 20-30 quakes are felt per year. London had wildfires in 2022, with the London Fire Brigade starting a wildfire response vehicle pilot in 2024. The UK does have/possess active volcanos (along with their associated violent earthquakes), but they are nowhere near the UK. For example, the South Sandwich Islands (~2,200 miles south of Rio de Janeiro) is a chain of volcanic islands, 8 of which are active volcanos. It is virtually impossible for the UK to be hit by a hurricane as we're too far north for them to form, and once they swing away from America and start heading east they lose their hurricane qualities. The Great Storm of 1987 was not caused by a hurricane because the storm didn't form in the tropics (hurricane definition prerequisite). If a sub-/post tropical storm or winter storm that hits the UK has hurricane-speed winds, as its not a tropical storm it can't meet the definition of hurricane or typhoon. Hurricane [Name] might be referred to as post-tropical storm [Name] or the remnants of tropical storm [Name] when it is heading for the UK, with winter storms being named by the British/Irish/Dutch meteorological services. The UK gets 30-50 tornados per year, and I recall someone once grouping them into two categories. IIRC, most UK tornados fall into the "couldn't knock over a cup of tea" category.

[@stephenhodgson3506]

On average the UK has 30 tornadoes per year but we did get 104 in 1981. The other deadly thing we don't have in the UK is a Super Volcano or Caldera's however the US has eight.

[@carlgibson285]

I'm pretty sure the UK average is way higher than 30 tornados per year since I used to get that many every year in the backyard of my previous home. They were always tiny though and would only pick up stuff like leaves and empty crisp packets that had blown in from the street.

[@jaidee9570]

Britain has such dull weather I moved somewhere that has really exciting weather... Thailand. In the north of Thailand this year we've had extensive flooding and we're currently experiencing a very cold winter. The flooding was mostly because of excessive rain falling in other places and ending up in Thailand, but it was still devastating flooding. By "very cold winter" I mean really not that cold, last night in Chiang Mai the temps dropped to 13 degrees, tonight it could drop to 12! Sound mild but if you're accustomed to 30 degrees 13 feels cold. Generally Thailand weather consists of a rainy season, the name suggests it not exactly unexpected, then hot, hotter, hottest, with the north being a bit colder than other areas in December and January. Hottest since I've lived here is 41 degrees C but 100 miles south of here last year the highest temp recorded was 51 degrees C, and even when used to high temps that kind of temperature kills people.

[@MattWhite-vh6xh]

As Al Murray states "We don't have earthquakes in this country. Why? Because we don't deserve them." As for hurricanes, they tend to roll up the E coast of the USA then slingshot off Cape Cod, sending them in our direction. There's not much left by the time they've crossed the Atlantic.

[@mana3735]

"A sequence of more than 100 earthquakes started in the Greater Manchester area of the United Kingdom on October 19, 2002. Three temporary seismograph stations were installed to supplement existing permanent stations and to better understand the relationship between the seismicity and local geology. Due to the urban location, the events were experienced by numerous people. The first earthquake that was felt occurred on 21 October at 07.45.15 (UTC) with a magnitude 3.2 ML. A few hours later at 11.42.34, there was a magnitude 3.9 ML earthquake, the largest in the sequence, which was strongly felt throughout the Greater Manchester area. About 22 seconds later, there was another earthquake with a magnitude 3.5 ML. Numerous smaller earthquakes occurred until the last event on 30 November 2011."

[@mana3735]

I live in Manchester and every dry summer we get there are wildfires on the moors. We get the smoke over the city.

[@Stuffed_Cat]

I have to disagree with some of my fellow commenters. Being Britain, we don't get wildfires. We get fires that are everso slightly unruly.

[@wessexdruid7598]

They're not 'wild' fires - they're gorse, grass or peat fires.

[@GrahamAckrill]

Remember the Market Rasen earthquake as my metal bed rattled in Hull during the early hours and mum ringing me to ask if I had felt it.

[@jonathanpringle8238]

the uk has numerous volcanos but are designated as dead/extinct, but that does not mean that one day they might erupt. the most famous is arthurs seat in edinburgh. just because they say never does not mean its true as one day it could come back to life.

[@cantabilewoman]

My grandmother (who lived many years in the US when my dad was a kid, we're Icelandic) told a horrible and despicable story from what happened after the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. The citizens were forced to go across the Golden Gate Bridge and stay there because they were told it was too dangerous to go back into the city. When they were finally allowed to go back every single home had been robbed, not by criminals no! by THE POLICE, THE MAJOR and those in charge! 😳 That is beyond f'd up and what's even more criminal is nothing was done about it, the citizens got no justice.

[@lisanelson9979]

In Northern Ireland, we do get wild fires, in the mountains.

[@gamingtonight1526]

As a Brit, I was working in Texas when a category 2 hurricane went through. That was scary, let me tell you, and yet it was a baby hurricane!

[@craigtimoney]

I was in hull on a building site saw a column, and said to my uncle, "What is that?" It hit the site, took up a lot of dust, and we realized it was a tornado. we we're on a scaffold, and it shook us a little, then past directly past us. We went back to work.

[@CJLloyd]

Wildfires are very rare in Britain because almost all the forests are strictly managed by the Forestry Commission, who have rigorous rules requiring firebreaks and water sources being pretty much everywhere. The only other habitats that are susceptible to fires would be the heathlands, which are also carefully managed for the same reason. The open land we have is largely farmland, and farmers have their own ways to stop fires. Once you get to truly open land, you've either ascended too high, and thus it's too cold for fires, or you're too far north, with similar consequences.

[@guypainter]

Fun fact: England has more tornadoes per sq mile per year than anywhere else in the world... they're just not very big.

[@carolineskipper6976]

I think the biggest environmental challenges we have here in Britain are flooding, which has become a perennial problem in recent years, and cliff falls and coastal erosion. Not life threatening in most cases, but very damaging to property.

[@wulfgold]

JJ - you should check out Al Murray The American Dream - great British comedian and serious History expert, it's all in-character as a stereotypical Brit pub landlord.

[@dannyjspring]

He's completely wrong about Britain getting hurricanes. It's actually impossible for Britain to get hurricanes because the season around Britain isn't tropical. Michael Fish (mentioned by the guy you are watching) was correct when he said there wasn't a hurricane coming to Britain. On Tornadoes, Britain has more per square mile than America (due to Britain being far far smaller than America).

[@Swivel360]

It amazes me how people still harp on about the Michael Fish "Hurricane". Michael was technically correct it wasn't a hurricane. It started as a hurricane in the Caribbean, but by the time it came across the Atlantic, it had lost a lot of its power. It was basically an extremely strong storm

[@vaudevillian7]

We do have wildfires in the UK, I did a training course on it, but certainly not on the scale you have

[@carriesherlock3920]

I’ve encountered 2 earthquakes in the UK, my office chair moved during one and the other woke me up by rattling the windows. Terrifying 😂😂😂

[@ConnorDunn-p5r]

Now and again where i live the hill tops have a bad fire that last a week village can be told buses cant run

[@mattbentley9270]

Wild fires very very rare in uk there was one about 15 years ago right near me in bracknell forest, acres and acres burnt down but not near any houses

[@katherinebirkett4706]

The 1987 storm was of non-tropical origin, and did not have any of the structures you'd see in a tropical cyclone. Sea surface temperatures around the UK are simply nowhere near high enough to sustain them. Sea temps need to be 26 degrees C or higher to generate the required heat energy for cyclogenesis. Michael Fish DID say there would be strong winds, and this was backed up by the BBC's daily Shipping Forecast. What they DIDN'T factor in was the 'stingjet' or 'weather bomb' phenomenon which made the storm much more intense than anticipated. It is much better understood today. The storm also took a more northern path than forecast. It was believed that central and northern France would bear the brunt. Tornadoes - if you measure how tornado-prone a country is by the number of tornadoes reported per square kilometre of a country's land mass, then the UK is more tornado-prone than the USA. To add to that, we HAVE had tornado outbreaks. In the late morning and afternoon of 23rd November 1981, 104 tornadoes touched down across Wales and parts of northern, central and eastern England. To date, it is still recognised as the largest recorded tornado outbreak (lasting 5 hours and 26 minutes) in Europe. Earthquakes - I live not far from the epicentre of the 2008 quake and, as an Earth Sciences nerd, I enjoyed it on a very nerdy level. There WAS damage. It caused quite a few chimneys to topple on to streets, and as it happened 3 minutes before 01:00 AM (Feb), nearly threw my poor dad out of bed. It registered 5.2 on the intensity scale, and was the strongest quake since 1984's Lleyn Peninsula quake in Wales, which measured 5.4. Not surprising, since NW Wales is the UK's most seismically active area. FUN FACT: most of the mountains in western Scotland once formed part of the Appalachians. When Pangaea broke up, they separated and our side drifted across the seas, with most of Scotland towards England as a land mass called Laurentia.

[@CathyCrolla]

i remember an earthquake which came from under the sea, i felt it and then went back to sleep.

[@VelvetVoice]

'Lost in the Pond' dude has definitely had vocal presentation training from Christopher Morris. Either that or he's just watched BrassEye and The Day Today an awful lot.

[@enemde3025]

"We don't have earthquakes in the UK because.... we don't deserve them !" AL MURRAY.

[@dangermouse0480]

God doesn't sh*t on his own doorstep

[@adylevene4318]

Is he from Yorkshire then?.

[@juliaforsyth8332]

The UK does have eatrhquakes, just not that frequent or big.

[@chrisbamber2762]

On average there are around 30 tornadoes a year, these rarly hit populated areas, there was one late last year in Luton ( around 35 miles from London). Also they use a different scale (referred as tnumber instead of f number)wurh the most powerful being a t9 tornado hirting lincolnshire in 1666

[@zee2012]

In the UK we get 200 to 300 earthquakes a year

[@peterbrazier7107]

1987 Great Storm turned the Town of Seven Oaks into One Oak. 🤣🤣🤣

[@gingersperg]

I remember watching one of your videos which was interrupted by an earthquake. Can anybody recall what video it was?

[@avpmobi]

The UK gets more tornadoes per area per year than anywhere else in the world. They are of course weaker and cause less damage. UK 2.3 tornadoes per 10,000 sq kilometers as opposed to USA 1.3 per the same area. Statistics by University of Manchester.

[@Swivel360]

And a lot of them are just off the coast so don't do much damage on land

[@benjames9158]

5:45 thought he was gonna say the doctor who pilot

[@krisstone3991]

Yellowstone is one Super Volcano ,and would destroy America ,and send the world in to a mini ice age .

[@Masque54]

Volcanoes in the USA? One word...Yellowstone!

[@briankeniry219]

The Great storm of 1703 was a destructive extratropical cyclone that struck central and southern England on 26 November 1703. High winds caused 2,000 chimney stacks to collapse in London and damaged the New Forest, which lost 4,000 oaks. Ships were blown hundreds of miles off-course, and over 1,000 sea men died on the Goodwin Sands alone. News bulletins of casualties and damage were sold all over England - a novelty at that time. The Church of England declared that the storm was God's vengeance for the sins of the nation. Daniel Defoe thought it was a divine punishment for poor performance against Catholic armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.

[@cyrus2728]

biggest wilfirde in britain was 19000 acres somewhere in scotland

[@winnac01]

This is the reason why 500 years ago the US was populated by a race of Bedouin and why most of Europe has thousands of years of history.

[@lisanelson9979]

And for the record.. NI is UK, not Britain. We have had tornados. But hey ....just ignore NI?!!!

[@Sparx632]

NI is not Great Britain but it is included in the term “Britain” which is just another way of saying “the UK”.

[@gerardburns2500]

we have wild fires on the moors in the UK

[@waynegray2284]

Yes we have wildlife here in the UK but not as big as yours over they

[@marieparker3822]

And he hasn't even mentioned wolves, mountain lions, bears of different kinds, sasquatch, dogmen, alien abductions . . .

[@StreamReaper]

Great channel man but this guy is more American than British and gets a lot of things wrong… I have stopped watching all reactions with this guy.

[@Tony-c7z9t]

Well JJ the truth about no volcanoes in Britain, is a historic one, way way back during the stoneage the people realised the probable dangers from volcanoes, so started devising a plan to butt plug them, but a few thousand years later in the bronze age they were still struggling to come up with a solution to the problem, so after a meeting of tribal elders (this meeting was at Stonehenge by the way), they decided to shelve the problem and wait for the iron age, at last the iron age arrives and they succeeded in butt plugging all the volcanoes, however due to this success it caused a few problems in South East Europe, namely around Rome, so the Romans decided to invade Britain with the main purpose of unplugging our volcanoes. And the rest is history.

[@jeffree9015]

I saw an avalanche once. No one was in it though. About the closest ive been to anything.

[@colingregory7464]

Brits can almost always sleep thru our examples of these phenomena ! Even wildfires rarely spread to populations.

[@mana3735]

Those other states with wildfires must be dried corn, cotton and wheat fields and all that. Not so much forests.

[@mana3735]

...and if you believe the disaster movies, California also has a higher risk of a comet/asteroid/meteor impact and alien invasion.

[@daverees9344]

No wildfires,no volcano,no earthquakes in the UK. Just love Lawrences dry humour.

[@tonyollier7098]

It doesn't help that houses in the US are built from matchsticks!

[@GayJayU26]

The tornado which ripped through my. Village was cate gory four/five and the strongest in the .uK

[@rosemarymcgrory-eb2gd]

🙏🙏🙏 I am sending prayers to all impacted , by the fires in LA . Sending good vibes 😊

[@lisanelson9979]

We do in NI

[@rosemarymcgrory-eb2gd]

@@lisanelson9979 I wasn’t aware , and my father was born in NI 😊 thank you for letting me know 🙏

[@maryotoole7389]

Doesn’t news tell people get told of these things

[@Dagrdottir]

People have died in UK as a result of earthquakes...worst being 5 in Colchester in 1885 we have 200-300 detected each year last one affected us was on 12 Jan this year..vast majority we cant even feel. We do have wildfire fatalities the last I know of was in 2021 on Saddleworth Moor when 4 died. In south east we have hotter and dryer weather hence more fires. 1987 storm had 115 mph gusts. I live on Kent S E Kent coast and have seen 4. Deaths are extremely rare but there have been some. There was one where I worked which lifted a crane and fell on a car park destroying several cars. No one hurt thankfully. So we do have the same weather but we are lucky that they are a fraction of the size of those in the US. My sincere condolences to the families of the victims of the wildfires of LA.

[@gutinstinct4067]

This all made me wonder , is there a place in America where NOTHING is deadly ? Not the weather or animal/insects . just asking =-)

[@phoenix-xu9xj]

Floods , multiple times a year now.

[@amy-j5b5s]

i lived in america for 2 years, summer too hot, winter too cold. went back home to england and we have had 3 earthquakes now which have split the walls where i live. lawrence is out of date.

[@Jamie_D]

Yes we've had wild fires here, but no where near as bad as you guys get

[@Jamie_D]

Seems you got your answer later in the video anyway 😅

[@belladonnichazeyjane4887]

If I was inclined (daft enough) to believe in a god, I'd think he/she/it had it in for the USA 😅

[@markfour2841]

That guy is incredibly annoying. America, you are welcome to him. May he stay there forever !

[@cyrus2728]

welcome back to you "clink clink"

[@zeeox]

6:27 Your quick Googling has failed you again. That is not a map showing where UK wildfires generally are. It is a map of (fire) danger areas on the day when the highest ever UK temperature was recorded (40.3°C (104.5°F) on July 19th, 2022). The areas that are usually susceptible to wildfires in the UK are in fact lowland heath (of which some are in the south and east, I suppose) and moorland (mainly in northern England). And what's the cause? A lot of it is actually arson related, but it is clearly exacerbated by climate change... and also poor land management. Moorland fires, for example, are often triggered due to 'cold burn' (for grouse shooting) fires that have got out of hand.

[@mariannam7549]

Think you are amazing but as a brit, simply have to bypass any of your vids where this guy is concerned, although will always go e you a like x

[@alfhasabigsword]

...come in to watch JJLA reactd... Sees Lawrence, see ya later JJ *leaves immediately* Can't stand the man.

[@paulsigsworth4751]

There is a reason we don't get tornado's, volcano's and the big storms in the UK, we don't deserve them. lol

[@CocoaWitch]

we literally get more tornados than almost any other place on the planet they are jsut generally smaller, last less time and are on the coast mostly

[@paulsigsworth4751]

@CocoaWitch let me explain "lol" to you......

[@CocoaWitch]

@ where's the explanation of lol? Oh you looked and realised you were full of shit, gotya xD

[@paulsigsworth4751]

@ Oh dear, do I need to explain sarcasm too?

[@CocoaWitch]

@ also poor baby reporting aww diddums

[@chrisellis3797]

New content yay🎉 See it's Lawrence and turn off coz he triggers me 🤬😭

[@mrmessy7334]

Phenomena. Doop doo be do be.