Inside a Category 5 Hurricane Simulator

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Hurricanes, typhoons, and tropical cyclones are Earth’s most powerful storms, capable of unleashing destruction and death on coastal areas worldwide. As climate change warms Earth’s oceans, we face more risk of storms rapidly intensifying into category 5, sometimes in less than a single day. Being able to predict these rapidly intensifying storms will save lives, but studying hurricanes in detail is difficult and dangerous. So in order to improve our understanding of hurricanes, scientists have built a machine that can create hurricane conditions indoors. #weather #hurricanes
Filmed at the Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. SUSTAIN Laboratory at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami sustain.rsmas.miami.edu/
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[@joshyman221]

I’ve lived through a few hurricanes, including a cat 4 one. They are quite scary but one thing to note is that the worst damage can actually come from huge gusts. Even cat 2 hurricanes can knock over trees with a large gust.

[@patheticprepper4496]

You're asking someone that can't figure out how a hat works

[@letterslayer7814]

@@patheticprepper4496 ouch that hurts

[@Vegeta8300]

The deadliest and often times most damaging aspect of a hurricane is water. The storm surge, torrential rains, and flooding are the big dangers. Winds can, of course, cause damage and death too. Both the sustained and gusts affect buildings and debris differently. Sustained is like getting punched repeatedly. Gusts are like an extra hard and fast punch. So while a gust can certainly do some damage. A lot of times houses, trees, etc can't stand the assault of the sustained winds. The gust then finish them off or cause an extra mess. Now, if we are talking tornadoes that hurricanes often produce, then those winds will do serious damage if high enough. Despite all that, wind damage is usually sporadic. The path of a tornado, a few houses here and there, etc. Where as the storm surge can drive 10, 20, 30ft wall of water for miles. Destroying most in its path. Drowning is the leading cause of death from hurricanes and other tropical storms, if I recall correctly. Ok, I've rambled enough. There could be new info I'm not aware of. Edit: had to add back in so,e stuff that got deleted.

[@NukeRadius]

Damn, I didn't know cats fall out of the sky

[@Ben_The_First]

@@Vegeta8300 thats just an average day in the philippines.

[@jehiahmaduro6827]

165 mile/hr. is the cat 5 minimum. I survived Hurricane Irma in the British Virgin Islands in 2017, which some meteorologists wanted to put in its own category. It had sustained winds of 195 miles/hr. and wind gusts in excess of 200 miles/hr. It ripped the grass off the hills. We saw bear dirt! Striped the paint off concrete walls. collapsed many building including some concrete ones. The Hurricane was a direct hit with the eye passing over the capital Road Town. Then as if that wasn't enough we got hit with a 2nd category 5 Hurricane a few weeks later, Hurricane Maria. Thank God it wasn't a direct hit because there was no shelter. Everyone was exposed.

[@catalintimofti1117]

holy smokes

[@CharliMorganMusic]

I can't even comprehend what that would be like. It doesn't even sound like something from this planet. I want you to be lying.

[@jehiahmaduro6827]

@@CharliMorganMusic I wish I were.

[@jehiahmaduro6827]

@@CharliMorganMusic If it wasn't for the majority of residential construction being made of concrete, there may have been a lot more deaths. In total there were only 4 out of a population of 30,000.

[@rzrsixfour6182]

Thank god indeed because it was a direct hit over here in PR and in some parts winds were recorded at around 240mph from what I heard. All the trees in the island ended up naked

[@InsTAus793]

I don't live in an area that gets cyclones (Melbourne, Aus), but we do get sustained wind storms from weather fronts that bring winds upwards of 110-120km/H. Those alone unsettle me and I can never sleep during them. I can't imagine how terrifying it would be enduring a category 5 cyclone/hurricane like cyclone Yasi that hit Queensland

[@VasiliNyks]

Moved to the Philippines in 2019. Had my first ever real-life experience of being in the eye of the Typhoon here in Moalboal, Cebu this past December 16, 2021. Upper Cat 4 Typhoon with >220km/h sustained winds and 260 km/h gusts. Never been that terrified in my life before.

[@allyzapena1001]

Ditto. Would not recommend ever.

[@luismiguel129]

This i the same thing, but i was born in the Philippines, same date and same category, I lived in Lapu-lapu, Cebu and i experienced 120 km/h winds, Thankfully, the winds were not that strong.

[@greatmonsterr]

Pretty normal here in the philippine

[@VasiliNyks]

@@greatmonsterr Well, I disagree. An upper Category 4 or even Cat 5 Typhoon is not very normal, especially over northern Mindanao and Central Visayas. Odette was the strongest Typhoon to ever hit Cebu City in recorded history. Yes, in southern Leyte Typhoons make landfall more frequently, but even then, Cat 4 and 5 is still not pretty normal.

[@fatimaanias3329]

Typhoon Odette a category 4 - 3, Dec 16, 2021

[@katietoole8345]

Hurricane Michael was another one that went from "not a big deal" to a 5 in less than a day. It was terrifying. Thankfully, the death count was very low because most of the towns in it's path were rural areas, but many lives were destroyed and displaced, and the whole area is actually hotter because so many millions of trees were downed.

[@katietoole8345]

@@sonalm4805 Immediately afterwards. Not in the subsequent months and years.

[@jamielonsdale3018]

8:20 I'd say its like driving over sequential speed bumps. As the wind packs the waves up, you get to a point where the wind isnt really dropping into the troughs as much. Imagine driving at 30mph over speed bumps. Rough ride. Now imagine driving over the same surface at 120mph. The tires are skipping from peak to peak, and the road surface almost seems flat again. Get the natural frequency of the suspension to interact with the road surface just right, and the ride can be incredibly smooth considering the surface. I suspect there will be a similar natural frequency of the waves and atmosphere at which point they largely decouple and excess energy dumped into the system doesn't impart as much energy into the waves, and mainly just makes the windspeed higher. Energy cannot be created or destroyer, only converted. If the oceo-atmospheric interactiom coefficient drops, the proportion of energy converted also drops. Now I have no idea how good my speed bump analogy is, thats just a guess. I'm fairly confident on my underlying logic though.

[@besmart]

This is a good analogy too! Nice

[@geoff5623]

Like a rally car over a washboard dirt road

[@lakrids-pibe]

There's a classic action movie where they drive a truck with nitroglycerin on a stretch of extremely rough road called "the washboard" and they have to keep a certain speed to not explode. It's called *Le Salaire de la peur* (1953) and was remade as *Sorcerer* (1977)

[@lordgarion514]

Speed bump analogy, not that great. It seems like it would be a rough ride, but thanks to the speed, your suspension actually gets to do its job properly. So most speed bumps are actually better at speed. Also, energy can in fact be created and destroyed. That particular law isn't actually a law, it's more of a statement of probability.

[@jamielonsdale3018]

@@lordgarion514 You have me intrigued. How can energy be created? Please give me an example. The same for it being destroyed, if you don't mind. I love to learn.

[@johnjob9523]

As someone who witnessed hurricane Maria in 2017 I can just say that the real thing is 100x more terrifying. And the howling winds are eerie

[@titotheripper]

I'm from Puerto Rico and I can confirm that this hurricane was something else. It's power was scary as hell.

[@BengalLancer]

@Don't read profile photo okay I won't

[@johnjob9523]

@@titotheripper I experienced it in Dominica, right as it went from 1 to 5 in no time

[@adams7707]

That was one of the most deadly hurricanes in history.

[@spoicat5459]

@Don't read profile photo I did

[@smurfyday]

I'd have liked to hear more about how they keep the hurricane inside the cage, how the glass don't break, what sensors are inside, how the cameras stay intact, etc.

[@yoshtg]

please use the internationally / worldwide used metric units in your title (km/h) even for the US viewers so that they learn the metric units, too

[@kermitthemutantlevitatingf7836]

I remember when Hurricane Michael hit, the days before they kept slowly raising the expected intensity it would be when it made landfall. I remember waking up the day that it hit, after hearing it was only going to be a category 2, to seeing that it was a strong category 4 and would make category 5 just before it made landfall.

[@karangupta4615]

Having been inside category 5 storms or Super Cyclonic Storm as we call them in India, I can confirm, its ridiculously scary, we came out of our rooms to find tin roofs wrapped around all the pillars, entire door frames pulled out of the structure, the biggest trees brought to the ground.

[@glauberglousger6643]

Hurricane/Gale force winds can pick up a light person This seems like a way to test Hurricane resistant materials

[@batguy39]

*Gale Force allows for double turns.*

[@Rapitor]

Wind/water isn't the hard part to build resistance for. it's the debris that gets ya.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

@@Rapitor Truth! I've seen tests of storm shutters where they load a length of lumber (2x4?) into an air cannon to simulate a hurricane throwing it at the structures they are testing.

[@denniskessler7983]

I live in south west Florida and during hurricane Irma on September 10th 2017 I was very glad to be living in a newly constructed house in Ruskin Florida. It was truly hurricane proof to withstand a category 4 storm. We had no damage. Maybe we were just lucky like some are, but then again.

[@justicewillprevail1106]

The worst hurricane I’ve experienced was hurricane sandy. It was very frightening. Post hurricane, I saw my neighbors house smash into halves by large tree that had fallen onto it, there were huge trees pulled up from the roots from the wind. It was devastation. I will always Respect and fear Mother Nature.

[@des_antilles]

As a Caribbean islander, I'm used to majestic nature, but when i visited Dominica (not the DR), I was blown away. They call it the nature island and it's such an apt name. Landing via plane, it looks almost completely untouched because everything is green. After hurricane Maria hit, all you could see were naked trees standing on the bare brown soil of the mountainous landscape

[@DeviilReaper]

'Nuke into the eye of the storm' who's the genius who came up with that idea?😂

[@lourainevillalon3852]

it's actually an interesting topic that was asked in Kyle Hill's Because Science series around 2018 i think. i guess people are always like nuclear bomb vs. everything, see what wins lol

[@Johnithinuioian]

It's not that bad of an idea when you consider how overpowered nukes are. The blast force alone should blow apart any weather system.

[@RomanNardone]

Are these models to scale? I was just curious if tensile strength of water would affect the results of how the "hurricane" would affect structures

[@herbfst]

And that is why people have started not trusting scientists. They like to extrapolate from incomplete data. Testing materials that are fresh and putting it through 10000 cycles isn't the same as years in the sun.

[@lars3509]

There exists a method to correlate lab scale to real scale. The idea comes from the Buckingham Pi-Theorem, which states that you can describe any system which is governed by n independent variables and those variables have m physical dimensions, than the system can be perfectly described by some equations with n-m dimensionless coefficients. So what you do is you derive those dimensionless variables, measure their correlations in a lab and than can apply them to the real world. Since they have no dimension (e.g. no length scale) they describe the real system aswell as the model system, as long as you now which non-dimensionless variables are needed to describe it. I don't know exactly how they derive their models for the real world, but i guess they do not include the surface tension into their models, because the pressure acting on the surface due to high wind speeds and forces due to high momentum impact of drops will exceed the forces through surface tension by multiple magnitudes.

[@AnthonyTrudeau]

Yeah uh, water doesn't have tensile strength.

[@RomanNardone]

@@AnthonyTrudeau en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_tension

[@jennifersaar1611]

3,000 psi.

[@AvengedKyle]

Being in Central FL in 2004, I was young but man do I remember being hit by 4 hurricanes back to back and not having power for a long time. I know it’s only a matter of time until we get a bad one again.

[@jasonzervos]

Just a small request here. Because most people are more familiar with km/h cause of cars speedometers, could you use this instead of m/s? It's like ft/s and mi/h. None knows how fast 242 ft/s is. In any case, fantastic video as always!

[@1224chrisng]

m/s is the official SI unit for speed, it's the scientific way to measure velocity, using km/h is just unscientific

[@jasonzervos]

@@1224chrisng I know. I absolutely do. It's just that in every day life you don't using m/s so you don't completely understand it. At least I feel that way…

[@jamielonsdale3018]

A better solution would be to use all of the common usage units. Why choose when there is plenty of screen space to display m/s, ft/s, mph and kmh? That way the scientists have their unit, Americans and Brits can use mph, Europeans can use kmh, and as there are almost certainly people who use ft/s, even they aren't being left out.

[@mehmeh2255]

i absolutely know how fast 242 ft/s is, viscerally- that is the kind of wind where a pinecone will hit you like a rubber bullet

[@TheQuackinator]

Not a perfect solution, but if you're using windows 10, your pre-installed calculator also has a setting for things like speed conversions, you can change it in the burger menu in the top left corner of the app.

[@Blake-jl8lh]

I remember coming home after a cat 4 hurricane and seeing palm trees broken (which almost never happens) one snapped off and then flew about 10 yards and stuck itself in the ground

[@glauberglousger6643]

Next: making a Tsunami indoors, (Already done, wave machine) Making a wildfire indoors, Making a nuclear accident indoors...

[@MGSLurmey]

Volcanic eruption indoors. Earthquake indoors. Asteroid impact indoors. Gamma-ray burst indoors.

[@Johnithinuioian]

@@MGSLurmey This is why violent video games are bad.

[@stickboi9589]

I'm from maldives, on the equator where im pretty safe from hurricanes or tornados, the only thing is Maldives also happens to be the flattest country in the world (between 1 and 1.5m above sea level) . So sea levels rising is very bad for us

[@Mr.Qwertyzer_Official]

It says u live in Australia

[@bans3368]

this is pretty cool. i live here at bicol, Philippines and i till you typhoon are not to be miss with, ive seen people gets there arm cut off with a flying metal. and hit by a branch of tree ljust like a 1/4kg but makes an equal distractive power of beng hit with a truck. and squash his hand. i think its tyhoon reming.

[@maiamaiapapaya]

As a Floridian, I appreciate the fact that you posted this the day after the start of hurricane season. Really interesting stuff!

[@posadasmark]

I've experienced it first hand here in Bohol, saying that it sounds like a passing plane is an understatement...

[@brendakrieger7000]

Hurricanes are terrifying..I live in Southeast Texas..we get a lot of hurricanes. Harvey and Laura were devastating🌀

[@nurk_barry]

I lived in Baton Rouge during hurricane Katrina, and it was devastating. I attended LSU at the time and we were able to use watercraft to navigate the campus for several days. Needless to say, it brought untold death and destruction to the surrounding area for years to come. In 2007 I finally moved back yo Houston, and since then we’ve had several more bad ones. We love living in coastal areas until nature’s wrath comes.

[@ellyjett]

I live in New Orleans so unfortunately I’ve already met a few a hurricanes, and our season just started. But very thankful scientists are intensely studying them and how to make our coastlines safer.

[@waynecribbs8853]

I lived through Hurricane Andrew as a kid. Quite terrifying. Do not recommend. Thanks for the video!

[@carlalicandogisma2261]

Super Typhoon Hian/Yolanda that hitted in the Philippines is super unimaginable and traumatic.

[@k.c1126]

The Philippines have gotten some EPIC cat 5 storms over the years ... But Haiyan is the one that immediately comes to mind ...

[@safaiaryu12]

My family lived basically on the beach in Florida during Hurricane Andrew. My earliest memory is of cleaning up from Andrew. We moved to Missouri, as far from the coast as we could go, lol.

[@ramondavi5436]

Great video!

[@Xehemoth]

Watching a hurricane and experiencing a hurricane is similar to watching sports and playing sports -- Only THIS sport can kill you in about 100 different ways, completely unexpectedly and suddenly. The wind is obvious, but storm surge usually gets 7-12 feet, which basically goes halfway up your house. So go to the roof and problem solved right? No. Even if that 150MPH winds dont blow you off the roof - or impale you with something as stupid as pinestraw your chances of dying are much higher due to this: These are not calm waters; If your house isn't rated for it, the house will break under the immense pressure, sending you to a horrific and painful death -- and you WILL die if this happens. You have NO hope, no matter how well you swim.

[@AceSpadeThePikachu]

Being that I live in eastern Ontario, I've never seen a hurricane up close, but I HAVE seen destructive winds. Back in September of 2018 an EF 2 and an EF 3 tornado tore a path of destruction through my home city, ripping roofs off of buildings, flattening entire neighborhoods and leaving almost 1 million people without power (including me) for almost a week. Just less than two weeks ago we were hit again by a wind phenomenon called a "derecho," which caused even MORE widespread damage than the 2018 tornadoes because it was sustained winds in one direction of over 195 kilometers (about 120 miles) per hour over a period of almost an hour across hundreds of square kilometers. Hundreds of thousands without power for over a week (though my house still had power amazingly), thousands of trees knocked over into roads, power lines, fences and houses (a huge maple toppled over in my back yard crushing the back fence) and many major roads are STILL closed because of the massive ongoing clean-up operations.

[@TCAPChrisHandsome]

I highly advise if you live in the South East US, you should buy storm shutters (not the cheap ones, the stronger ones) with a decent locking mechanism. My dad lived in Gulfport, Mississippi when Hurricane Camille came through, and he had glass from debris all in his house for weeks after it. We screwed sheets of plywood to our windows during Katrina, which was pretty effective, but we also lived in Hattiesburg (which is about 60 or 70 miles away from the coast) during Katrina.

[@Beryllahawk]

Interesting video - having survived a cat 5, yeah, seriously, DO NOT RECOMMEND. Though I'd be interested to also see what science says about how those mangroves survive storms. That machine is awesome, but something that I don't think would be easily modeled is the effects of all that rain, too - soaking the soil as it does, and often preceding the storm surge by hours or even days. Quite a lot of trees went over in that particular big storm, because their roots couldn't hang on to the soil anymore, there was just too much water, and yet it wasn't really a flood: it just had been raining steadily for a couple days before the storm even made landfall, so the whole region was completely soaked, you know? So how does nature handle that? It's both wonderful and kinda frustrating, that all these problems are so very complex!

[@adams7707]

Really cool video! Yesterday the atlantic hurricane season started so we're likely to see some monster storms in about 2 to 3 months.

[@Bxu021]

This is so beautiful lol, the mist of water and the waves looks so interesting

[@ozzymendoza3216]

Omg you came to south beach wow crazy been watching you for so long it’s trippy seeing you where I’ve been so many times

[@wraith0127]

I'm wondering if the leveling off of the wind's increasing drag from the ocean waves is caused by something similar to boundary layer separation that sometimes happens on airplane wings? Or is it perhaps moving so fast, it's creating vortices in the trough of the wave when it reaches a certain speed, similar to the vortex created in the bed of a pickup truck driving at highway speeds? I could be completely wrong, but I love how this channel always makes me think.

[@petestah101]

Nice one, Joe!

[@HeinzeC1]

This video would have been a great collaboration with Tom Scott. I love visiting cool places to learn about cool things.

[@DLCS-2]

Love it , thank you !

[@losjojo]

I went through Hurricane Andrew. I know those winds. I've lived in Florida my whole life.

[@krazzorkunashagi6426]

Great video! I'll be back when a typhoon hits Miami lol

[@sylviahoffman9440]

You still get a High Five cause your videos are so interesting and fun to watch. 🙌

[@leftcoastbeard]

It'd be interesting how the temperature difference (between sea water and atmosphere) also impacts the intensity of the storm.

[@vroomvroom4061]

I understand the challenges of making wind go 200 miles per hour artificially, but to let everyone know NASA, Northrup Grumman, and lockheed martin have hypersonic wind chambers capable oof re-enacting mach 5 winds

[@sstevocamaro]

Wow! That’s an awesome model

[@mijsie0540]

The netherlands here, just this month had there first tornado. A small one with not much impact. But the main thing is thatvit was predicted,we never had one. Its so weird.

[@timbomb374]

Got a big wind tunnel at my uni, only saw it go up to 10 m/s and that was already pretty intense.

[@baronwaffles391]

Back home in Charleston we got these every year growing up.

[@laplace607]

As someone who lived through a cat 5 hurricanes, a simulation will never show the true impact and awe that they produced. That said, sims are good for research.

[@carlo7784]

i experienced typhoons in the philipines such as: typhoon haiyan cat5,typhoon goni (cat5),typhoon kammuri(cat.4) and they were all a nightmare as i live here in the philipines.

[@nitzeart]

Very interesting video. And Amazing job for these researches. I wonder if the water inside salty or to the density of ocean water and if that has a significant role. I doubt it affects much because at these scales mass and energy are much more important factors. Just curious. Also, do they try (can the machine) adjust temperature parameters? That one seems a much more important factor to consider, especially with the climate crisis.

[@clarkkentmalabanan5626]

I remember Yolanda in the Philippines flying Galvanized Iron Sheet its used as roofs and it spins while flying and it can chop someone dogs where getting lifted and even a 15meter tall mango tree was knocked off and it lasted for more than 2 weeks

[@SITNI]

I love this videos! Oh algorithm show me more of those instead of endless music videos!

[@aindividual9234]

Awesome vid joe, can you put other measurements besides mph, inches and feet, on the screen for international viewers. Would be much appriciated

[@thiagopollo]

Very nice!

[@SquirrelASMR]

I like the new channel name, it's more powerful.

[@way-13]

I absolutely love these kind of episodes and the ones you did a while back where are you and your team split up to go investigate different aspects of human impacts on climate change a.k.a. when you went to Africa

[@GlenHunt]

In south Florida I'm fine with up to cat 2. Just a day or two's worth of cleanup and maybe some minor repairs. At cat 3 I start to get nervous.

[@roguedogx]

8:33 C5 corvette owners know this feeling all too well. I have head it described as "absolutely terrifying"

[@JustMonica_31]

I saw this machine on Josh Gates’ ‘Expedition Unknown.’

[@kdogW-iw6oq]

I’ve been in one hurricane, a cat 1. It scared the crap out of me. I can’t imagine how scary a cat 5 would be!

[@DaellusKnights]

After wrecking Florida, Andrew was back up to a Cat 5 by the time it swung up into the Gulf and directly hit the coast immediately south of here (Morgan City, La.). It made landfall about 18 miles south of where I'm sitting now, and we were stuck here. If you think what you saw in that tank was terrifying, beleive me it's nothing compared to the real thing. 😳 Walking around town after the storm, we saw the literal entire roof of the ice house from across the river almost a mile away sitting in between two buildings on the landside of the seawall, completely intact. 😱 Nature is certainly a force to be respected.

[@knightshade6232]

Wow nice indoor pool.. 😍

[@CaptainHalibut]

“Sorry babe, I’m gonna be home late tonight. Me and the boys are hanging out in the hurricane machine”

[@Amicodablack]

I happen to be visiting Miami when andrew hit...and just recently survived hurricane dorian on abaco in the bahamas..I met a guy that clocked 250 mph gusts..talking containers rolling like plastic bags..but it's good to see people learning them..other then the destruction they're actually a site to see.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Please keep us updated as to your scheduled trips to that region, so we know when and where the hurricanes will hit! *I'm kidding of course. My family likes to joke about some people "bringing the rain" when they visit from other states.

[@Amicodablack]

@@MonkeyJedi99 I got it..lol..but i think its gonna be wild ride from here on out..climate change and so on-ive experience more hurricanes then my grand parents..but there's island that haven't been hit like the western bahama islands..but then hurricanes can be the size of hurricane floyd.

[@JoseRodriguez-qs6qi]

Living in Houston sometime the slower hurricanes are worse because of how much rain they bring

[@DirtRider999]

Looks relaxing.

[@Shootafam02124]

This is pretty cool. My fear is conspiracy theorist will watch this video and say the government has machines that can create hurricanes outdoors. Another awesome video. Keep up the great work!

[@BichaelStevens]

Pascal, you're a little unintelligent rodent

[@kingoliever1]

3:55 "this is extremely dangerous" "but you can just make it" "yes" "let´s go"

[@joanhoffman3702]

Just watching the hurricane simulator in action on this video was terrifying.

[@ajakethompson]

I want to know what happens to all the air that gets blown through the machine, how do you expel it from the facility. Is there some process used to slow it down first? I guess if you just expand the out vent to be even bigger it would slow down, but I'm still curious how it was done. Any reason they don't just blow the same air through over and over, maybe it's the water that gets in it.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

The water picked up could be of harm to the fans and the structure of the intake, possibly. Another factor could be controlling the results. When you take in basically still, dry-ish air, you can know what fan settings result in what wind speeds, but recycling your output could skew your results. All of what I typed above is just my non-specialist thought experimentation.

[@blitzrohan]

This is definitely gonna gain sentience and escape out of that building

[@RoyCyberPunk]

It has to be noted that in Puerto Rico most deaths occurred in the aftermath as there was no power a lot of people that depended on medical equipment that ran on electricity perished as a result. Its why so many people are adopting solar energy to avoid and minimize the possibility of that tragedy ever happening again as much as possible.

[@jonathan1640]

Does anyone here experienced being hit by rain while the wind is blowing strong? those really feel like a handful of small stones thrown at you as wind blows periodically... typhoon haiyan made me experienced that plus water more that 4 meters tall

[@NavajoNinja]

With scale, how far can u make models smaller till the water would be thick like oil? Just always wondered about that with scale models that use water.

[@samrakita4279]

I love how the lever is labeled with sharpie.

[@kaitlyn__L]

When you said the part about mangrove forests and coral reefs instead of empty beaches, I thought “well no wonder we get so much worse flooding now!”

[@Mawirick]

1:20 "A hurricane is going to make landfall right near where I am standing right now" *Miami, Florida* Well that didn't age well.

[@AdityaChaudhary-oo7pr]

AMAZING !!

[@kiniburk]

Appreciate having the host not screaming at the camera with a panicked voice for 8 minutes.

[@max_wuz_here6031]

I live there! Great video.

[@gabrieltorres6704]

I survived Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico on 2017. That was one of the most terrifying experiences I have ever witnessed. The island was a waste land. At least 4,000 people dies and thousands more went missing. Everything destroyed, crops, livestock, houses, buildings, cars, trees, entire forests. No running water and no electricity for months. No food, no medicine, people dying from illness because of the lack of medicine. Every single road was blocked. Gigantic mudslides and floods everything. It was a true nightmare.

[@rdcyoutubediary]

Thank you. Be Smart didn't forget what happened back in 2013 in the Philippines.

[@casuallystalled]

My family got very up close to Hurricane Sandy. Our house had 12 ft. of water in it

[@donevans1884]

interesting video , brilliant .

[@lucidmoses]

After the fact it kind of makes sense. Water has a finite weight so at some point it has a max resistance.

[@Kloud22]

Wow I like the vid😊

[@mjh6941]

I love to see that also in the States scientific and good researched videos can be produced without beeing polemic.

[@dragonrider4253]

I wanna see the fan(s) that make this thing work. Maybe the wave machine too.

[@MrShaclakclak]

I lived in West Plam for a while. I ended up moving North away from the coast. The flooding was getting worse each storm. On a more sad note, I don't see the current Governor putting serious effort Into the situation. They seem more concerned with getting people emotionally distraught over misunderstandings.

[@Memessssss]

I been through a few and its creepy asf when u look outside during the night

[@Stroke2Handed]

One thing to note, is building regulations have changed since '92. All new construction in Florida has to use hurricane rated fasteners.

[@raven11356]

I was 10yrs old and living in the Upper Keys when hurricane Andrew hit Homestead.

[@osasguy1979]

how many typhoons pass through your country every year? Filipinos: yes.

[@charleseddypayet4945]

Hurricanes can be devastating, no matter their categories. It depends on the topography, density and infrastructures. We have anti-cyclonic construction standards and there have been few incidents. Rain and the following landslides are deadly on the other hand.

[@simplyme8009]

Thanks