🇬🇧BRIT Reacts To THE WORST HURRICANE TO HIT EVERY US COASTAL STATE!

[@Megan-ir3ze]

If you haven’t seen a Hurricane Katrina rina documentary, please watch one. I’ll never forget seeing the images/videos & the out of state license plates on cars when I was 14 years old. I live in Georgia. Our government failed them. It was one of, if not, THE worst response to a natural disaster is USA history.

[@smokeyverton7981]

I remember what Kanye said on tv about President Bush. The look on Mike Meyer's face......

[@Megan-ir3ze]

@@smokeyverton7981 every time I see that clip, I die laughing 😭😂 it was true tho

[@JPMadden]

@@smokeyverton7981 That might be the only time I've ever agreed with anything Kanye has said.

[@beccadreams4992]

I was so traumatized by what I only seen in TV, to this day I still have nightmares of whole families on the top of their homes & it was 3 days after the storm. I still cry.

[@capt.obvious9315]

I was 18 when Katrina hit us. I grew up south of New Orleans in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, my town was completely gone and unlivable for months. I just moved back home 6 years ago.

[@DominusLuna]

Imagine being in a cold dark wet place and just waiting for help. Hunger. Filth everywhere. Not much clothing. No comforts. No communication. Lost or dead loved ones and pets. You fall asleep somehow from exhaustion and wake up and nothing has changed. The suffering is real and you're still in it. And it's raining again.

[@JennyJohn50]

Great reaction Kabir! Im a 49 yr old native Houstonian who has spent a good amount of time in neighboring Galveston. There is a "haunted" hotel in Galveston still standing today, where a man helped gather and identify the bodies of loved ones from the Galveston hurricane, including those of his wife and son. Tragic story, obviously. And on Katrina, I was 7 1/2 months pregnant with my daughter when it hit, her dad & his entire family were from the outskirts of New Orleans and all evacuated here. I agree with an earlier comment - I recommend a Hurricane Katrina documentary. We did find out just how much we all love and are willing to try and help each other. To bad we so quickly forgot what we learned.

[@SpearM3064]

The best way to protect against hurricanes is to build a circular house so the wind doesn't have any flat surfaces to push against. Also, build it on stilts to protect it from flooding. Of course, building a circular house is going to play havoc with your interior layout, which tends to rely on generally rectangular rooms...

[@nathanstroud2223]

2851 Marshall Blvd, Sullivan's Island, SC 29482

[@janeknisely4383]

My late husband was 6 weeks old when Hazel hit (born 9/3/1954). His mom was all alone because his dad was in the Navy and out on his ship. She carried him in her arms thru the hurricane until she reached her mother's house. He was her first baby. She was 18 years old.

[@dennisswainston411]

I've lived in Florida since 1964 so I've seen more than my share (been in the Eye of 2 Hurricanes). I provided technical support for airports in the Florida Keys 2 days after Andrew struck. To get to the keys I had to fly to the only south Florida Airport that was open in Palm Beach. I then took a chartered Cessna 182 down the coast to the Marathon Airport on Vaca Key . The flight was surreal as we flew below 5000 ft. the entire way down the Miami Beaches. The farther south we flew, the more damage we saw. We flew directly over the town of Homestead and Homestead Air Force Base. For as far as you could see, there were no buildings, no trees, no vehicles. All that was left were the runways and the streets...

[@protonneutron9046]

In Florida houses are now concrete block. That helps with post flood recovery as your main structure doesn't rot.

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

It doesn’t really matter much what the walls are made of. Both a hurricane and a tornado first takes off the roof. The house is then going to collapse in 100 mph plus winds no matter what it’s walls are made of. Also for those built right on the coasts, the storm surges often wash the sand from beneath the house. The house will then collapse into the water no matter what the walls are built of. Then you have trees being blown at your home at 100 mph. Brick homes will not withstand that either. These storms are just so violent, it’s hard to build a home that will withstand them. The biggest success has come from wooden houses with amazing amounts of clamps holding it all together.❤️

[@themourningstar338]

Though the video is about hurricanes, another thing to point out about brick buildings is that they really suck in earthquake prone areas. Masonry/brick buildings usually get lots of damage and have a tendency to break apart and crumble into rubble, whereas wood frame structures have flex and fair much better.

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

@@themourningstar338 That is absolutely true and whatever disaster might bring a building down, if it’s going to fall on your head, it’s better if it’s not brick or stone lol🐝🤗❤️

[@laurataylor8717]

I remember when Hurricane Andrew happened. I was young at the time and didn't understand the full devastation, however years later when I moved to Florida hurricanes where my biggest concern. I remember back to coverage of Hurricane Andrew and thought every hurricane was that insane. What I didn't realize is while coastal states like Florida do get hit a lot it's not usually as bad as that.

[@lynnegulbrand2298]

Hurricane Katrina was the worst one I've been through. I live in Biloxi and stayed with a work mate because they didn't want to stay alone. I couldn't get back to Biloxi for 3 days and the phone lines were down. I didn't know if my mom and brother were still alive. When I finally got back I was so happy to see them. My work place was completely destroyed so we were off work for almost 2 months. Thank God they still payed us.

[@LadyOfSummer]

I'm from the area that Hazel hit (Brunswick County, NC) and grew up on the horror stories. One house on Holden Beach (a barrier island) got sent up the river and was found roughly 12km away from it's original spot and down the Lockwood Folly River. Like literally every hurricane gets compared to that one - it's the queen of storms according to local history.

[@katrinacash6393]

Hurricanes that cause massive damage and/or fatalities, like Katrina and Andrew, have their names retired and will never be used again. Smaller storms that don’t affect land and are inconsequential will have their names used again after a length of time. As a native Floridian born in the 1950’s I have experienced many hurricanes.

[@tonyortiz5312]

What part of Dade were you in?

[@acguyer]

I’ve also watched a documentary on hurricane history in Florida, and there are records from like 200 years ago and even records from over 1000 years ago with stories from natives.

[@ellenstrack6274]

They hit the East and Gulf Coasts. NOAH makes a list of 20 storm names a year. Once you run out the names they go to the Greek names. Run through them and they get numbers. Once a storm in season hits a Tropical Storm status and gets a name. A few years ago we went through the list, Greek and were into numbers by the end of season. Hurricaine season runs from July thru the end of November. A few years ago a few hurricaines.. but we ran the entire list of names, the Greek list and were on storm 10 by end of season.

[@ESUSAMEX]

Florida gets more hurricanes than any other place on Earth. When my brother moved to Florida in 2004, he was hit by 4 hurricanes in the first month he lived here.

[@jen-a-purr]

I live in the hurricane torn state of Florida. They keep getting stronger and stronger each year. You can prepare for hurricanes you can’t prevent the damage. Irma still strikes fear in me.

[@jasonregister3494]

I was in hurricane Hugo. I remember it very well. I was in the same area where you saw the fishing boats. I can tell you from experience that seeing a huge fishing boat stuck at the top of a tree is something that you don't really forget.

[@Julieroo28]

I lived in Wild Dunes during Hurricane Hugo. Never been back!

[@tammyharris6645]

Another crazy thing about Katrina is families were separated when they evacuated and it was weeks before they were able to be reunited

[@kazeryu17]

I lived in Pensacola when Katrina hit, and a sizable chunk of the current population is hurricane Katrina refugees. FEMA built massive trailer parks to temporarily house refugees that seemed to go on forever, and when the trailer parks closed, many people either couldn't afford to move back to New Orleans, or they had put down roots in pensacola and decided to stay. This is probably the same situation in other cities near New Orleans, where refugee camps were built.

[@janetmoreno8909]

The Hurricane Committee at the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization (WMO) decides on a list of tropical storm names as a part of its annual meeting. The committee doesn't base their names on specific people, but it chooses common names that are likely familiar to the people of the regions experiencing them. For Atlantic hurricanes, there is a list of names for each of six years. In other words, one list is repeated every sixth year.

[@stayfly3000]

In addition, I think if a hurricane is catastrophic (deadly and/or costly), they remove it from the list of names so it won't be repeated again.

[@robertjohnson3128]

I live in New Jersey. I remember going to see the roller coaster in the freaking ocean. I was both stunned and sad because i always went to the boardwalk as a kid

[@loveit7484]

I dont thank any building could withstand hurrican damnage. Even if you sunk deep pipes to secure foundation rest of the house would still be affected. Its amazing the sheer power of water.

[@bamachine]

The names come from a predetermined list and once hurricane season officially opens for the year, they name the first one after the "a" name on the list, next hurricane or tropical storm gets the "b" name. So Katrina was the 11th storm of the 2005 season.

[@lowlybird9128]

I was in high school in Charleston when Hugo hit. We went outside when the eye passed us directly overhead. It was absolutely still and quiet, very eerie. I still have a framed photo of the radar when the eye hit Charleston hanging in my house.

[@robertjohnson3128]

Most people where i live on the Jersey shore have raised their houses on pilings to be above the flood water. Theyve also put up giant dunes along the beaches to protect from storm surge

[@liddybird3608]

I was in Camille as a kid. Luckily inland near Durham. We were visiting family friends and were stranded there for a week.

[@ajwhitworth8803]

I live around Narragansett Bay, mentioned in the 1938 New England Hurricane section. We actually still have some remnants of the past connected to this. One that comes to mind is actually Narragansett Town Beach, which has a huge storm wall near the town center. The beach line itself was dropped by 15-20 feet so that the wall is like a railing on the sidewalk on the other side. Some have complained that it looks ugly so we should get rid of it; our town's main revenue comes from tourism, so making things look nice is always on people's minds. The Hurricane of '38 is always why we don't take the stormwall down.

[@MarkMeadows90]

The Hurricane Andrew bit with all those homes destroyed remind me of the April 27, 2011 tornados that ripped through Alabama, especially in the Tuscaloosa and Phil Campbell/Hackleburg areas. Such devastation it left behind.

[@impresarioe6824]

I grew up in coastal Virginia in a brick house. Yes, water can still get in and do damage. The average amount of major hurricanes (category 3 and above) a season is three, while major storms around 7. This can vary from year to year though. The states he mentioned are generally the only states affect by hurricanes. Warm water is the best friend of hurricanes, so the pacific coast will usually not see one as the water is too cold. Though it is not impossible. Most hurricanes we get form off the coast of Africa in the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean and travel westward to the even warmer water of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. The naming system started in the 50s. There is actually an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization that names both Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes. There are only six lists of names for each that get cycled through every six years. For example, the names used in 2016 are the names used this year. Those not retired from this list will show up again in the 2028 season. Usually names of really destructive hurricanes will never be used again.

[@ithilnin123]

Excellent points made here!

[@judithgreenwood6247]

I’m an east coast gal, and I lived through many of those. The first one I remember was Edna in Maine as a small child. I saw many more after the storm scenes when I lived in the south. As to home construction, the ruined houses that struck you in Florida after Andrew are concrete. It didn’t help. Our house in Maine was a 200 year old wooden home, and we had broken windows, roof damage,and a 200 year old maple tree was uprooted. The house stands to this day.

[@garyedwardgray7549]

As a meteorologist myself, I have to commend the guy who made this video. There can be a great debate about some of these. For example, was The Great New England Hurricane of 1938 the worst one? It’s very debatable. It is likely their worst storm, but it was TECHNICALLY determined to be post-tropical when it hit. I think he did an excellent job trying to parse this. For the record, an interesting fact… since many people think of October being on the downturn of hurricane season… the most intense hurricane ever to hit the East Coast north of Florida actually occurred in October. It was Hazel in 1954. It was not only intense, a Category 4. But it’s rapid transition to an extratropical cyclone allowed it to maintain much of its intensity inland. It produced hurricane force winds all the way up into Canada. It tracked through western NY and elevated surfaces in NYC still got hurricane force wind gusts. Hazel was huge. It is, IMO, the worst East Coast hurricane ever. It’s breadth easier astonishing. Another interesting hurricane fact is something he mentioned… Andrew’s worst damage was from straight line winds. That’s VERY unusual. Storm surge is almost always the worst factor. Or, if a storm stalls, inland fresh water flooding can be the worst problem. The wind gets all the news, but it does the least damage. Andrew was an exception. It hit an area not very surge prone, and it produced extreme winds. They tell you to “run from the water and hide from the wind”. In other words, evacuate storm surge areas and just hunker down elsewhere, where wind will be the biggest factor. Andrew is the one and only time I remember that advice being wrong. You really needed to run from the wind as well. Most deaths were from people crushed in the rubble of their wind flattened homes. Andrew was a crazy storm.

[@jariemonah]

11:30 One hurricane per state? LMAO. You're lucky to see rain in states like Nevada. This video is about states on the Atlantic & Gulf coast that actually get hurricanes.

[@TracySmith-xy9tq]

My mother experienced the 1938 hurricane from Rhode Island. She was 14, and she and her Dad watched it coming up the Narragansett Bay in East Providence. They were on relatively high ground and escaped unscathed.

[@patrickhalbert6377]

My dad showed me pictures he took of Camille's aftermath after returning from serving in Vietnam. He had to clean up naval bases and local ports while providing general aid, search and rescue, demolition and cleanup to residential areas. One picture that he has that still blows my mind is one of a cargo ship pushed 200 yds inland and capsized. Yes the Captain Phillips style/size cargo ship.

[@rodneysisco6364]

I live on a small barrier beach island just off the south shore of Long Island . Hurricane Sandy hit us with a 17 ft . high storm surge ,,our entire island was under water . We had no power for a month and no heat for the entire month of November ,more than 10,000 cars were destroyed just on our little island ,all of the streets were lined with discarded furniture and appliances that people pulled out of their homes afterward . It was all hauled away and piled about 40 feet high in a field about 400 hundred yards long by 100 yards wide . Also thousands of trees were destroyed . Houses here were being rebuilt and repaired for more than 5 years afterwards .

[@Cilas08j3slavaukraine]

I’m in Galveston tx and have a family member who was there during the 1900 storm. There is a letter/will he wrote in case he died which he didn’t and that note is now stored in the museum of the 1900 storm on the strand in Galveston. The details first person account is absolutely horrific and the amount of death was overwhelming. This is why we have a massive sea wall now and the city sits up higher.

[@joshpavlik3343]

Unfortunately there’s really no way to protect against hurricanes it just to be prepared. Yes building codes and construction does help but doesn’t stop it all together plus storm surge is unavoidable. Andrew was the last Cat 5 until Michael in 2017. I was in Florida for Irma and rode it out luckily it had weakened to a cat 1 by the time it passes over where I was.

[@lindarogers2271]

I will never forget Hurricane Andrew. I've been in a lot of Hurricanes but the sound of the winds and hearing trees tumbling with the sound of stucco and cement walls falling was very scary. I had never been so scared in my life. Especially not knowing what most of the sound was. Houses are boarded so abject want fly in the windows. Seeing the city after Andrew was truly a shock Seeing it on TV was nothing like Seeing it live. I cried when I saw the damage. Apartment buildings looked like large doll houses. Entire front of them were off you can see each floor with the furniture. It looked like a war zone. Nothing standing. I remember my aunt friend was telling us about her neighborhood. She said when her house started to shake and fall they ran out to the neighbors but each house they ran to was falling before they could reach it. Their entire street of houses was blown down. I had trees and my property wall was knocked down. So I was truly blessed. My electric radio was still on when the lights came on Patti Labelle was singing " When You Are Blessed ". Never a truer statement because my family and I still had our homes standing with little damage. ❤

[@cooperwiggins226]

Something interesting about Hurricane Hugo in 1989. My family is from Florence Soith Carolina which is around 100 miles north of Charleston where the storm made landfall and roughly 60 miles inland. My Father had turned 17 3 days before the storm hit and always said to me that the weather stations said the storm was going to turn northward and miss us but it didn't so everyone had a holy shit moment when they realized it wasn't going to turn. The night the storm hit he was at his very first job at Harris Teeter supermarket and CBS 13 News interviewed him hanging plywood over the windows of the store. They didn't have power in the city for 3 weeks and my Grandfather was in the National Guard so he responded in Charleston and Myrtle Beach. This placed got turned upside down

[@Trenton-om9qs]

Hurricane Katrina happened in August 2005 and I was born in March of 2005. I live in Ohio so we weren't really affected by it but watching documentaries and videos during my "weather phase" I learned how awful and destructive it was especially in New Orleans. Houses being 30 feet underwater and all the destruction and death is so erie

[@jerellebowens4367]

Just want to let you know Kabir it really doesn’t matter if you live in a brick/cement house or a wooden house these storms remind us of the true power of Mother Nature

[@reedperrino6772]

I was raised in New Jersey from birth and was 12 when Sandy hit us. It was the first time I actually felt scared by weather, that I remember, even though I lived 10 minutes from the Delaware river, on the west side of the state, and got it way better than the shore, we still had no power for 15 days and Halloween trick or treating had to be rescheduled because it made landfall oct. 29th or 30th.

[@aliV1127]

Yes we was without power for that long as well . .it was miserable lol we stood in line for hours trying to buy a generator. They ran out of generators fast.

[@TheJerseyNinja]

And the Nor’easter that brought snow like a week later was crazy

[@anthonyzarate9807]

I'm so glad you are doing a reaction that Weatherbox did! I watched one of his ffirst tornado videos. It was tracking tornado paths on Google Earth. Swegle Studios has great videos like that too. I highly recommend both channels. P.S. Weatherbox has a real talent for explaining the weather to the average person so they can understand it better. Also, Tornado Forensics has a really good video on the Smithville EF5 from April 27th 2011.

[@Darth_Lunas]

Always some government assistance. My family lives in North Carolina and we've been hit HARD. Hurricanes usually stick to the Southern states. Usually. 🙁 P.S Grats on 70k.

[@kristinanelson7143]

I’m from the New Orleans area. We’re accustomed to getting hurricanes every year. As you can imagine, our homeowners insurance is outrageous. Sometimes as much as the actual mortgage itself and most have very high hurricane deductibles. And, on top of the homeowners insurance premium, some areas are subject to flooding and require a separate flood policy. The government doesn’t rebuild the homes but they did offer loans with a low interest rate so families could rebuild immediately.

[@jariemonah]

14:41 lol hurricanes usually hit multiple states or sometimes just Florida lol. But to answer your question, since there are multiple hurricanes a year, sometimes all happening at once, they name them in alphabetical order. For example, Hurricane Sandy was after Hurricane Rafael and before Hurricane Tony.

[@blakerichardson1519]

I wasn't alive for Hurricane Hugo but my mom went back home to her parents and they all grouped together in the hallway. She said it was straight out of a horror movie just sounding like trains were everywhere. It knocked a tree over that crashed into the hallway but missed everyone by a few feet

[@jenniferpecha4393]

I'd heard about the 'train' sound for years. I heard it myself during hurricane Irma. Thats exactly what it sounded like, too.

[@lowlybird9128]

I was there, my mom and I went outside during the eye. It was unbelievable to see all the damage, none of which we heard because the wind was so loud.

[@choomxi]

Ah Katrina. I remember being in a hotel and not really grasping how big of a deal it was until i saw coverage of a news chopper flying over my neighborhood and realized my entire life was under water. I remember seeing the very distinctive dome my neighbors had on their roof and knowing we were supposed to be right next door but only seeing water. The lovely grandpa across the street (watched me as a kid. A true treasure of a man.) decided to ride it out and got stuck in his attic. He didnt make it. The whole thing was really life changing for everyone here but we did what we do in New Orleans and we carried on and rebuilt. The city still isn't the same but we're still here.

[@barrymoreblue]

Hurricane Harvey hit Rockport, Texas in 2017 and caused $125 billion ($152.5 billion adjusted) in damage throughout the state. It’s 2nd only to Katrina for the costliest. It was a category 4 with 134 mph winds, and while it tore up the town along with Port Aransas and Port Arthur, what made it so destructive to Houston and its surrounding areas was that the storm’s forward progress slowed down to 5 mph, letting it linger and dump rain over the land for days on end. Usually, a storm will keep moving inland, but Harvey just sat there and stalled. We received 60+ inches of rain which equaled to roughly 9 *trillion* gallons of water. The rivers and bayous flooded and couldn’t drain fast enough. It’s also a coastal plain, so it’s very flat, plus all of the concrete from being a major city, there was nowhere for the water to go. Major interstates were under water and a minimum of 150k homes were flooded. It was so expansive, that a town 100 miles inland, flooded. Harvey was officially dubbed “The Thousand-Year Flood”. There are some very interesting stats and documentaries on it.

[@persnicketygoddess7960]

Born and raised on the east coast. Living in a brick house doesn't prevent flooding. Once the water resides, mold and fungus weaken bricks. Depending on the age of the home, repairs can be more costly than a "wood" home.

[@1perfectpitch]

The photos and videos of Ian do it no justice. It has to be seen to be believed.

[@melissabelle8626]

A friend of mine,her parents and older siblings lived through Camille. They climbed into their attic, figuring it was high enough up to avoid the storm surge. It wasn’t. Luckily everyone came out alive. I know you are interested in natural disasters. Look up Paradise, Ca.

[@rheahinshaw7471]

Hurricanes are named alphabetically. They always used to be female names , but now they also use male names. They start with "A" and go thru the alphabet and if they complete the letters they will start over with "A" again.

[@johnchauvin2183]

sorry, I hate say that you are wrong. If storms exceed the alphabet it goes into the Greek alphabet.

[@michaelschemlab]

Within the North Atlantic Basin, tropical or subtropical storms are named by the United States National Hurricane Center (NHC/RSMC Miami), when they are judged to have 1-minute sustained winds of at least 34 kn (39 mph; 63 km/h). The name selected comes from one of six rotating alphabetic lists of twenty-one names, that are maintained by the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) RA IV Hurricane Committee. These lists skip the letters Q, U, X, Y and Z, rotate from year to year and alternate between male and female names. The names of significant tropical cyclones are retired from the lists, with a replacement name selected at the next meeting of the Hurricane Committee. Until 2021, if all of the names on the annual name list were used, additional tropical or subtropical storms would be named with Greek letters. In March 2021, the WMO announced any additional storms will receive a name from a supplemental list, to avoid confusion caused by the Greek letter names.

[@TheJerseyNinja]

Sandy was absolutely insane for a category 1. Not to mention like a week later we got a bad nor’easter that brought snow while a lot of us still had no power and flooding. Also it’s the largest hurricane ever on record

[@Gonzotabb]

Hide from the wind, run from the water. One thing to remember about hurricanes is storm surge. After living in Florida for almost a decade this is something you learn quickly. New homes are built to handle the wind, but that strong house will be nothing but a concrete coffin if you get 12 feet of water surging taking down your doors and busting through your windows, climbing up your stairs. If you live in these areas you are intimately aware of things like flood maps and evacuation zones.

[@louisianagirl480]

I live in Pass Christian, MS. Our town got completely wiped in Katrina. Both of my kids go to schools built after Katrina because the original schools got washed out into the gulf. You still see signs of Katrina all over Harrison and Hancock County, MS.

[@TwinMama-jv3zb]

The Galveston storm is fascinating to read about if you like reading. I had relatives living there through the storm, and we have furniture that has the water mark on it showing how high the water was in the homes. Men tied their wives and children to poles to prevent them from floating away in the floodwaters. After the storm they raised the island which is also super neat to read about. There are several mansions still on the island that made it through the storm and you can tour them and hear about the history of the homes and families. I suggest reading The Windows of Heaven and A Weekend in September.

[@summeronio9751]

That's my hometown.

[@NissieShay]

Thanks for the book recommendations. Isaac's Storm is also a good one.

[@TwinMama-jv3zb]

@@NissieShay yes! I couldn't remember the name of that one, but that's a really good one to read too!

[@spinalobifida]

Hurricane Ian's eye landed 30 miles south of me. I seen some roofs ripped off, big oak trees and big limbs blocking roads and knocked out power for me for about a month. I had 100+ mph winds for hours because it was so slow.

[@DannyNomad]

There absolutely are ways to build against hurricanes. There are homes built that have taken direct hits from a category 5 with little to no damage. Naturally it will cost you more money, but at least you still have a house at the end of the day. It involved sinking concrete pillars deep down to bedrock, and building it high enough to avoid surge, many hurricane hooks to keep your roof on, and serious window protection. It can be done, it is just expensive.

[@MeigetsuNoSeishin]

Having worked in a building made with a lot of cinder blocks and concrete, I can tell you from experience that it doesn't help much. The wind and water Will find a way, and if They don't then the things that they're flinging around at high speeds certainly will! I lived in Central Florida during Irma and one of the only casualties in my area was caused by a tree branch being ripped from one of our parking lot trees at the nursing home I worked at and launched it through the roof and second floor of the house across the street to severely injure someone on the ground floor. It wrenched the awning off the building I was in, broke windows and cinder block walls alike on the second of 4 floors.

[@stephenriddell8376]

Well I went thru Hurricane Camille 1969, 🌀 2nd strongest storm to hit North America. It hit 20 miles to the West of us and brought the worst conditions of the storm. I was in the USAF at Tech school 2 miles from the beach. We were in a 3 story concrete bldg. We all had to be put in hallways as the windows could break. It's was noisy as the window blinds would clang with the wind gusts.Hitting in the middle of the night we had winds from shore at 195 mph until the instrument was blown away. Our building was at 28ft above sea level. Storm surge was 26ft leaving huge piles of debris. I could go on but...

[@trudyshaw5615]

In the 1970's my family was stationed in Tampa Florida from Germany. A hurricane formed in the gulf but didn't make landfall around Tampa, in fact it just sort of meandered around for a number of days. Because of the wind and rain it did millions of dollars of damages before heading north. In fact it was said that it was the costliest hurricane that never made landfall.

[@stob100]

Yes sir it's crazy! I myself been through 12 hurricanes living in south and Central Florida. The state does have building codes designed to withstand hurricane force winds, but unfortunately the existing homes are grandfathered in and will sustain damage. My house was built in 2019 and is reinforced Block. As long as you use common sense and evacuate coastal areas and stay in a safe place it's very survivable. Hurricane Wilma didn't make your video but we lost power for 1 month. And in a state with 90% humidity and temps at 40 degrees C. It's miserable. As far as naming storms the NOAA names them ahead of the upcoming season and they start from A and go through the alphabet til Z. Than if there is more they go to Roman numerals.

[@Nygiantsrocks2007]

I’ve been through a lot of hurricane living in Fort Myers too

[@JenKnee423]

I live in SE PA and even though we aren’t on the coast, we got hit REALLY hard here. Without power for a few weeks in some parts, lots of downed trees, flooding, buildings destroyed. National Guard patrolling.

[@sandrataylor3723]

The U.S. National Hurricane Center started the practice of naming hurricanes in the early 1950's. Now, the World Meteorological Organization generates and maintains the list of names. The names of extremely damaging hurricanes are retired. Examples are Katrina 2005, Florence and Michael 2019. There is no building that can withstand a hurricane's wind and the flooding that accompanies them. I've lived in Sarasota, Florida which is on the west coast of Florida and now live in North Carolina where back in 2016, Matthew caused significant flooding. We had 5 feet of water in our home and lost everything. We had to wait 3 months in shelters and motels until our house was made livable again.

[@kazeryu17]

It doesn't matter what your house is built from when it's under water. Also, hurricanes spin off tornados that can easily leval a stone/brick/concrete house. Once the roof is ripped off, houses loose alot of structural integrity. I took a meteorology class in college, and the professor said that one of the biggest killers in hurricanes is the pressure drop. Many elderly people retire to the coast. When the pressure drops dramatically in a hurricane, it makes it difficult for elderly people to stay awake, and it puts them into a deep sleep, so they end up drowning in there sleep when the storm surge floods their house. I have personally experienced many hurricanes including Ivan, Dennis, and Katrina when I lived on the Florida panhandle, as well as super typhoon Paka when I lived on Guam . I now currently live in Virginia, and I still have to remove a 40' tree that fell into my back yard from hurricane Ian.

[@Traci2000]

I don't know who gets to pick the actual name for each storm but these days, we go with alphabetical order for every storm that makes it to a certain level. Andrew, Brandon, Camille, David ect. That also gives you a clue to just how many tropical storms and hurricanes have sprung up so far during that particular season. I just hope we don't end up circling around again. Nobody wants to see hurricane Aaron, lol.

[@NolmDirtyDan]

The east coast is the only place that gets hurricanes, so it wouldn't be one per state, the water isn't warm enough on the west coast for hurricanes

[@themourningstar338]

Yup, the Pacific coast waters are pretty damn cold. I've lived in the west my whole life, and have never experienced a hurricane. The few that form in the equatorial Pacific always peter out and fall apart by the time they get to Baja. If there's any moisture left in the storm system when it gets to northern Mexico and the states we get summer rain storms in the southwest and intermountain west. If there's a lot of moisture left we'll get gully washers and flashfloods. We also can get high sustained winds coming off the Great Basin Desert which cause their own brand of damage. But west and east have totally different weather patterns and climate, and have different types of extreme weather/natural disasters.

[@GingerLady57]

FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) was established on April 1, 1979. This government agency assists with many natural disasters including hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes etc…

[@JPMadden]

1) The Wikipedia page for Hurricane Ian indicates there were at least 157 deaths and $50 billion in property damage. 2) It is possible to protect relatively small areas against hurricane storm surges. This video mentioned the flooding in Providence, Rhode Island, from the Hurricane of 1938. After another severe storm in 1954, the city built the nation's first hurricane barrier. 3000 feet (910 m) long and 25 feet (7.6 m) high, it is located where the city's river meets the saltwater bay. The gates have been closed on several occasions, preventing flooding of the city's center. It remains one of the few barriers in the U.S. After the catastrophic damage of Hurricane Sandy in 2012 ($84 billion in 2022 dollars), there was a brief discussion of spending tens of billions to build massive hurricane barriers for New York City. The "responsible" people said we can't afford to spend that much money, even though we just had. Such barriers might pay for themselves after only one storm, but that's in the future, so it apparently doesn't matter. It should be a national disgrace that the U.S. has lost the political will for such projects. As for the technical expertise, just talk to the companies in The Netherlands who have built their amazing dikes. 3) I suppose it's possible that houses with brick outer walls could be cleaned of the mold and mildew that result from flooding, but everything inside the houses would still need to be replaced. Making matters worse, hurricane storm surges flood coastal houses with saltwater. 4) At 10:25, I don't know what assistance was provided by the federal government after Hurricane Hazel in 1954. The federal agency which now coordinates disaster relief -- FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) -- was created in 1979. Nowadays, there is private flood insurance and some federal insurance for areas too high-risk for private companies to even offer insurance. Each time a severe storm strikes, the wisdom of this federal insurance is questioned. 5) Hurricane Andrew prompted a review of house building codes in Florida. I could not confirm this today, but I seem to remember that the severe damage you saw was in recently built neighborhoods, while nearby older homes received much less damage. In the 1980s there was a wave of government deregulation, both good and bad. It's possible that the newer, destroyed homes were either built under a lax building code or the code was ignored. Some of the destroyed homes were held together with little more than staples. 6) Atlantic hurricanes began being named in 1950 by the U.S. National Hurricane Center, but this is now done by the World Meteorological Organization. A list of names is published, one for each letter of the alphabet, to be used for the upcoming hurricane season. The first storm is given the "A" name. Until 1978, all of the names were female. 7) At 16:35, the video says that several ships reported the existence of the Galveston hurricane of 1900. But that was before radio, so a report could only be made in person, either in port or at sea to another ship heading for a port. Even with telegraphy on land, it would be remarkable if any such warning was received in time. 8) The estimated death toll of 8000 in Galveston is horrific. But that pales in comparison to the worst storms worldwide, most of which have occurred in the Bay of Bengal. I googled "deadliest typhoons" and found a list of 36 storms that killed more than 12,000. Twelve killed at least 100,000, including Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar in 2008. The worst was the Great Bhola Cyclone, which killed 300,000-500,000 in Bangladesh in 1970.

[@jenniferpecha4393]

I'll never forget standing in front of the TV watching reporters say they'd been able to drive in after Katrina. And yet .... somehow the Government couldn't get the aid in to the people in a timely manner.

[@jwrow350]

Hurricanes are so devastating because they move slow and pound areas with the high wind sometimes for days

[@ESUSAMEX]

I am originally from NY and I lived through Superstorm Sandy or Hurricane Sandy. A tree in my yard was pulled out of the ground and landed on some sheds I had in my backyard. If it had fallen in the opposite direction, it would have landed in my living room where I was sitting. If that had happened, I wouldn't be writing this post because I would have been killed. Brick makes the home stronger but that doesn't mean the home will survive or people will be safe. The big killer in hurricanes is the water. Water traps people and drowns them. In a brick home there is no escape because you cannot dig your way out. Water also causes many illnesses. Many people have died after the hurricane due to the water producing mold and the mold gets into the human body and slow kills it. The safest place in a tornado is below ground or in a basement. In a hurricane, a basement is the worst place to be. Now that I reside in Florida, I lived through Ian, but Ian did not hit my area directly. It just was left without power for 10 hours or so. And produced two tornadoes. Since Ian, Florida was hit with another hurricane named Nicole. Nicole went over my home but caused no damage. Towns north of my location were badly damaged. I tried to count how many hurricanes I have lived through and my count would be about 10. I have also gone through 2 tornadoes this year in Florida and one earthquake in 1999 in Mexico. Florida gets so many hurricanes that people who have lived all their lives here do not worry about hurricanes until they reach a category 3 or more.

[@Cheryltwin2012]

Every region of America gets some kind of bad storm. The southeast gets the hurricanes, the Midwest gets tornadoes, the west gets earthquakes. No place in the country is safe from weather disasters, so moving from Florida to escape the hurricanes to Texas just is pretty much useless because of the tornadoes. Plus, blizzards still hit pretty consistently, though not like we used to get back in the 70's. The National Weather Service began naming hurricanes in 1954, but only gave them girl's names. They would go through and name the storms alphabetically as they formed. In the 80's, they started giving them boy's names, which is why you have hurricanes named Andrew, Hugo and Ian. They go through the alphabet as many times as necessary in order to get them all named. I'm old enough to remember Hurrican Betsy (1965) and Camille (1969). I was working at a Shopko store in September, 2005 when Katrina hit. We took all the bottled water, coffee, sheets, blankets and other necessities off our shelves and sent them to the areas that needed them. As for government assistance, the President or governors of states hit can declare a national emergency or declare an area a disaster area and the government gives funds to help with clean up, infrastructure repair and fixing up buildings and homes. The Red Cross and Salvation Army also are famous for being on the scene of natural disasters. The resilience of Americans in the face of such disasters is one of the many reasons I'm proud to be an American. Watching people come together to help each other was heart warming.

[@buddystewart2020]

Hurricanes in the USA are named by the National Hurricane Service. They go alphabetically and cycle through. They used to use all female names, at some point they varied it up with male and female names. Here's some info from their web page on the topic. Since 1953, Atlantic tropical storms had been named from lists originated by the National Hurricane Center. They are now maintained and updated through a strict procedure by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization. The six lists above are used in rotation and re-cycled every six years, i.e., the 2022 list will be used again in 2028. The only time that there is a change in the list is if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name for a different storm would be inappropriate for reasons of sensitivity. If that occurs, then at an annual meeting by the WMO committee (called primarily to discuss many other issues) the offending name is stricken from the list and another name is selected to replace it. Several names have been retired since the lists were created. Here is more information on the history of naming tropical cyclones and retired names. If a storm forms during the off-season, it will take the next name in the list based on the current calendar date. For example, if a tropical cyclone formed on December 28th, it would take the name from the previous season's list of names. If a storm formed in February, it would be named from the subsequent season's list of names. In the event that more than twenty-one named tropical cyclones occur in the Atlantic basin in a season, or more than twenty-four named tropical cyclones in the eastern North Pacific basin, any additional storms will take names from an alternate list of names approved by the WMO

[@kathygreenbean3132]

My aunt was to be married in 1969, when her husband to be was stationed at aUSAF base in Biloxi, Mississippi; then hurricane Camille hit. He was not allowed to go on leave to be married because they assisted with clean up! So they were married a few weeks later!

[@texadian339]

"The name selected comes from one of six rotating alphabetic lists of twenty-one names, that are maintained by the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) RA IV Hurricane Committee. These lists skip the letters Q, U, X, Y and Z, rotate from year to year and alternate between male and female names." (see Tropical Cyclone Naming article on Wikipedia for further sources) But basically, each "tropical storm" and "hurricane" are designated a name, trading off between "male" and "female" names. And I believe they try not to recycle the names of anything previously named which ended up being significant.

[@jacobevenson8702]

13:12 That destruction in the picture was all mobile homes. Even a low end Cat 1 would do serious damage to those.

[@nacy55]

Funny thing is my daughter's name is Kamille and my youngest son is named Andrew. Two very powerful hurricanes. I didn't think about that when I named them.

[@aurisaptientiael4938]

I swear as a child I had a t-shirt that said "I survived hurricane andrew" with a cartoon of a guy holding boards over his head

[@Alex-kd5xc]

Pros of being from New Mexico: no hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis or really any major weather events. Cons: we have lots of drugs, crime and poverty. Also gets super hot in summer. I’m still deciding whether or not this is a fair trade-off for not having to drown in a hurricane 😂

[@chazkahenry6047]

I can say from personal experience, from living in Delaware, North Carolina, South Florida, Oklahoma and New Mexico, that it is in the eye of the beholder. I've been through some wicked blizzards and nor'eastern's in the northeast, I've done tropical depressions to CAT 4 hurricanes in FL, DE, NJ, PA, NC, OK, and NM. Oklahoma and NM were crazy, the storms had been so freaking big and powerful that the one in NM was still a tropical storm when it got to us, and the one in Oklahoma was still a CAT 1. I have blessedly never experienced a massive earthquake, but I've experienced enough to know I will never live in California, that's a big nope for me. It's not natural. Those were in DE, NC, FL and OK. The ones here in Okie stopped when the fracking stopped though. I have also not had the any major tornado experiences,thanks be to God, maybe some tree pickers, EF1 and EF2's at most. But those are scary. Every place I've lived gets wicked hot in the summer and has ultra high humidity. Now NM can keep it's dry heat and meth. If I have to ever live through another dusty convection oven level heat blowing dust and White Sands on my sweaty face it would be to soon. Don't get me wrong, I love it there,I just can't stand that part and the meth and endless poverty. But there is a beauty there and the peoe are so lovely. You could die tomorrow weather be damned, go explore the states, don't just stay on the Land of Entrapment,if you live in Oklahoma long enough you'll join the locals when the side a go off drinking a beer on the front porch looking for naders

[@joyceellis9722]

No. brick helps with wind but flooding does the most damage. The storm surge.

[@blitzofchaosgaming6737]

I went through Hugo. Worked through it at a famous yellow and black 24 hour diner. Spent 18 hours on the floor of office since it had no outside walls. Pretty scary stuff for a 16 year old. Was far enough in land that we weren't evacuated, but we should have been. 6 days till we had power even 50 miles inland. Not a time I really care to try to remember much of.

[@jamesedwards2483]

A Lot Of People Seem To Forget That Hurricane Michael Hit The FL Panhandle As A Cat 5!!

[@joeday4293]

As destructive as hurricanes are when you know they're coming, imagine one showing up as a complete surprise. That was the case in living memory. Accurate weather forecasting has saved literally countless lives. As for how we have statistics on storms from as far back as the 19th century, it's simple: they were written on paper, and the paper survived. We have had wind speed meters and such for some time. Here in Florida, cinder block was a common construction method for decades in the mid-20th century, and they are highly storm proof - but when a category 5 storm decides it wants your house, it will take your house.

[@vandergrad]

How do you protect yourself from hurricanes? Basically, you don't. The biggest issue is storm surge. Bad enough to have several feet of water crashing in waves against any standing structures, but that water action also undermines foundations and also picks up big heavy objects like cars that act like battering rams. So building with "stronger" materials isn't the fix you might expect it to be. If the storm is big enough and bad enough, you can't do much to stop it from doing major damage to your property. -- Oh, and the names come from a running list developed by the World Meteorological Organization. Because so many tropical storms develop then die out without ever touching land, names can get reused over time. But if a storm causes major damage they will retire that name.

[@SkewtLilbttm]

For the record, Mobile (Alabama) is pronounced MOH - BEEUHL (rhymes with a drawled "yo peel").

[@carolyn512]

On another note, if the damage and loss of life is high enough the name of the hurricane is remove from the pool to never be used again. Names are cycled every 6 years so if one (such as Hugo and Katrina) was so bad then it will be deemed inappropriate to use again.

[@acguyer]

Hurricane Andrew which you paused at changed the course of development in Florida. They had to update all of there codes for building and development afterwards. Like you’d aid they were noticing the difference between what structures were destroyed and which ones stood.

[@wendellgee11]

The names are determined in alphabetical order, the first hurricane of the season starts with A, then they are alternating male and female every other storm.

[@garlandragland]

One of the reason the death toll was so high for Katrina was people didn't leave, either because they didn't have the means or they were being stubborn and believed they'd been through hurricanes before and been fine and this one would be no different. They were, of course, very wrong. Growing up in NC the two hurricanes I remember the most were Fran and Floyd. Floyd was mostly a rain event but it stalled out over the state and completely flooded entire towns, destroying them. Fran, on the other hand, was a wind event. About a week before Fran we had Hurricane Bertha, which wasn't bad except it produced a lot of rain. The ground therefore got very, very wet. So what happened was when Fran came with all that wind and more rain trees literally came down by their entire root structure because the ground was so wet and loose. Fran also took a direct path from the coast to inland NC to the Triangle area of the State (Raleigh/Durham). The eye even passed nearby. This was unexpected and these areas do not typically see storms this powerful. There were powerlines and trees down everywhere. I was like 12 years old and had never seen anything like it. We didn't have power for two weeks

[@brittanyjemison8363]

& this is why I say Pennsylvania is probably one of the best states to live in when it comes to weather , we barely get anything at all !

[@LucasgamerX_YT]

Could you check out the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season animation by Force thirteen. This season would by go down in history as the most active year in history sense 2005. Which had very notable hurricanes. Hurricane Dennis c4, Emily, C5, Katrina C5, Rita C5, and hurricane Wilma c5. Most c5s in a season still holds that record

[@AnneBiebrich]

I live in central Florida and the worst for us was when 3 hurricanes in a row within 3 weeks pounded us

[@diningpopcorn]

hurricane names are chosen by a list basically they have a alphabetical list of names that are used based on the month and date. Most hurricane names are reused every year besides names that are tied with deadly/traumatizing hurricanes for example Irma, Katerina, Andrew, and most likely Ian will be retired

[@tonyortiz5312]

The worst hurricane I’ve been was hurricane Andrew in the Miami and Maria in Puerto Rico. In total of 5 in my life time.

[@miamianz]

i lived through andrew when your windows buckle and wobble u know its going to f stuff up you could hear folks crying on the radio saying the roofs fly off. it was horrible took about 10 yrs for miami dade county to recover.

[@davidstephens6462]

Yes, brick, stone and poured concrete structures do fair better than wood frame homes. The people that get hit most, the Mayan Riviera in Mexico, build these types of homes. Most of the resorts on the coast are poured, steel reinforced, concrete, including the roofs, or framed up with concrete blocks with steel reinforcement and filled with concrete. There are no drywall or plaster interior walls, everything is stuccoed. This let's them trash and dry it out, paint and repair any damages, replace furniture and windows, and be back open in a couple of months.

[@mildredpierce4506]

2:57 That to me looks like a house boat and not a house that was fixed on solid ground before floating away. People do live on houses that are on the water.

[@Nygiantsrocks2007]

Gone through hurricane Charlie turn at the last second hit my hometown in Florida