I lived in Moore during that tornado. It was devastating. We took refuge in the movie theater and the hospital and bowling alley right next to it were destroyed. An elementary school was hit and we lost several small children. It is definitely a risk living in tornado alley.
@ulisesurbina71842 жыл бұрын
Hey Kabir, I don't know if you saw, but in the video of the rockslide, there was a man standing underneath the rocks and also gets away just in time.
@lesliehermanns6152 жыл бұрын
Lightening will usually travel the frame of the vehicle and exit through the tires. It is actually pretty unusual to die from a lightning strike or downed power lines inside a vehicle. This is why they tell you if you hit a power pole and the wires fall on your car to remain inside, call for help, and wait until the power is shut off. It's when you exit the vehicle that you are in danger.
@Jeeperskip2 жыл бұрын
It is when a person steps out of the vehicle one leg at a time that they are in danger as they have just grounded themselves. If you must exit the vehicle with live power lines atop it simply launch/jump out ofand away from the car like a bird with both legs at once. As long as one leg is not touching the ground you are safe.
@vanhattfield8292 Жыл бұрын
@@Jeeperskip Better to do as she suggests because id there is water present or you land on a downed wire, it wont matter how you jump out of the vehicle, you are going to fry anyways.
@benjaminscott81982 жыл бұрын
If power lines fall on your vehicle or struck by lightning, you're actually pretty safe since the metal surrounding the people inside directs the electric charge around them and into the ground.
@webbtrekker5342 жыл бұрын
Those "tunnels" are called snow sheds and are built in areas of known avalanches. We have had numerous of those built in Washington State. There have been some built along Railroad lines as well.
@karmanwilmot16482 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. I was wondering why he said you WOULDN'T want to be under it during a avalanche; it actually protects you from them and aren't supposed to collapse.
@hardtackbeans97902 жыл бұрын
2:15 You are thinking UK weather. Monsoons can be another level. Poles shouldn't blow down even during strong strait line winds. But a very strong wind with something blowing in it (like someone's roof) can easily knock down some & the rest would follow like dominos. In the US they would probably be more resistant but maybe not much more. 8:41 Millions of volts (no one estimates billions that I know of) with 10,000+ amps doesn't need more than a second. The light given off makes it very hard to estimate the 'girth' of a lightning bolt. 10:21 Everest straddles China & Nepal.
@dlcalbaugh2 жыл бұрын
Mount Everest is a peak in the Himalaya mountain range. It is located between Nepal and Tibet, an autonomous region of China.
@daricetaylor7372 жыл бұрын
Those drivers in Spain would have actually been much safer in that "tunnel". Those cement tunnels are actually put there in order to save vehicles from an avalanche. They are put up in areas that are extremely prone to avalanche activity. You will see them often covering train tracks when going through steep canyons here in the US also.
@andrewthezeppo2 жыл бұрын
I thought #2 was a lot scarier than #1 because those boulders were huge and there was so much more traffic in both directions. I'm from the Midwest so I've lived through a lot of tornados in my time. One of the most memorable was when we were at the beach and saw one form across the lake. My mom called the news station from a payphone and the weather team wasn't even aware of it! We got in the car and high tailed it home.
@loisfreeman16462 жыл бұрын
They had a lightning strike that hit water. It was horrible. Where I live in Bruceville, Texas, a tornado with a magnitude of 5 hit just South of Salado, Tx flatteningJarell, Tx. A few yrs later a tornado had hit Jarell, Tx again flattening everything.
@frederickknapp53402 жыл бұрын
Having been to Thailand, I call tell you that if American or UK electrical codes were enforced there the whole country would be shut down. It's amazing to see how things are on the poles,
@SilvanaDil2 жыл бұрын
That lightning might be one of the few authentic pieces of footage out of Xinjiang....
@christianoliver35722 жыл бұрын
If you ever happen to see a tornado here's how to know what you should do: If it's moving from left to right or the other way round then stay where you are. On the other hand if it looks like it's just 'stalled' or 'standing still' you might be in trouble. Tornadoes look fairly similar when they're coming towards you as they do when they are going away from you. So if it looks like it's not moving: If you have a basement or a storm cellar - go there!! Otherwise get the mattress from your bed, get into your bathtub, put the mattress over you, and pray!!
@strpdhatldy2 жыл бұрын
The peak of Mt. Everest is in Tibet, which was 'annexed' by China. The climb to Everest can be started in either Tibet or Nepal because the mountain straddles the border.
@jamestaylor29202 жыл бұрын
That's why the Dalai Lama is exiled in India since 1959. China "annexed" Tibet. I wonder what China would call it if the Tibetan Government in exile declared that it "annexed" China? Maybe Russia will try expanding into China?
@trevormalone79742 жыл бұрын
Was looking through the comments for this, glad someone said it
@strpdhatldy2 жыл бұрын
@@jamestaylor2920 Like Russia "annexed" Crimea and is working on the rest of Ulkraine 😔
@jamestaylor29202 жыл бұрын
@@strpdhatldy I was hoping that Russia would turn their eye toward China so the two could expand into each other and leave the rest of the world in peace.
@karenedwards67132 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid a pinetree in our front yard was struck by lightning, and we watched the yard light up. You could see exactly where all the tree roots were and the sap in the tree was cooked. We burn wood and my job was to split wood each day after and to fill up the rack with wood. Pine is usually a soft wood and I could split most of it with a ax and mallot, but the wood struck by lightning was way too hard for me to split. That pine was as hard or harder than oak. I will never forget the burn marks 25 feet from the trunk that was in the yard. This was a old growth pine that was hit.
@louisejohnson60572 жыл бұрын
That's amazing! I hate to see healthy trees killed, even by nature.
@Thetequilashooter12 жыл бұрын
I saw a lightning strike during the monsoon season in Arizona. It was around 100 feet away from me when I was driving. I still can vividly remember how thick and bright it was. I don’t have a clue how anyone could live after being hit by one.
@kurtsgirl20022 жыл бұрын
Just before the telephone poles fell with electrical explosions, a man on a motorcycle was righting through all that😳
@kimberlys84222 жыл бұрын
Being from "the sunshine state" of Florida I've been through so many hurricanes/ tropical storms I know better than to drive through it! I understand some people are adrenaline junkies but at the same time, there are people who couldn't seek refuge and "battened down the hatches" and died.
@Peri2C2 жыл бұрын
The powers lines went down because of a sudden down burst of wind which can be as strong as a tornado. Those poles weren't leaning over like they were poorly maintained. Look at the NSSL National Severe Storms Lab and NWS National Weather Service websites for more info about severe storms. Watching for popping power lines at night was part of out training as severe storm spotters for the NWS when I started with the University of Oklahoma Police Dept while still an undergrad student. We would on occasion have to go to the top of one of our high-rise dorms or in the football stadium press box which were the tallest structures in the city to see if we could locate a funnel at night after the NWS has a general location and tracking on radar. The NSSL is located on that campus, and it's worth a tour if anyone visits Norman, Oklahoma. This was in the 1980s and 1990s, and now the technology is even better. They can track funnels block by block and estimate the time of arrival. BTW, the huge tornado later in this video went through Moore, Oklahoma which sits on the north side of Norman. That unfortunate city has been hit by two of the largest tornados ever seen in the state.
@neshobanakni2 жыл бұрын
The Spanish avalanches: I had no idea Spain was so mountainous. Also, note how English language has infiltrated throughout the world - their reactions to the snow falls.
@aks42042 жыл бұрын
I live in CT which is right next to the NY, & is on the East coast . I drove cross country with my parents at the age of 17 to go visit my brother who moved to CA. It took 4 1/2 days to drive from CT to CA. My father drove from 6:00am to dinner time around 7:00 pm. That’s about 13 hours of driving per day. We only stopped to eat or to use a restroom. The days were long while driving there. Also, we went during the summer. The car we drove had no Air Conditioner in it. That was enjoyable being stuck in the desert with no A/C, said no one ever!! LoL 😂
@corinnepmorrison18542 жыл бұрын
Glad you made it safely to see your brother!! I lived in So Cal until I was almost 60 years old... Experienced both the Sylmar and Northridge Earthquakes...plus several smaller quakes... Now, at 76...I live with on a mountaintop in Buford, Wyoming... Extremely different weather for this So Cal girl!! ❄️🥶❄️🥶❄️
@touchstoneaf2 жыл бұрын
Land/mudslides are scary to me because they literally happened every single spring where I grew up in idaho. Most times to get to the little towns like the one I lived in, you have to drive through these river canyons with these precarious little mountainside roads carved into them. What killed me about that is, every year when a mudslide caused by spring melt and runoff would take out a road, everybody acted like it was this gigantic shock, and everybody acted completely unprepared. It just never made sense to me. It was unfathomable that everybody would be so shocked when, you know, water runs downhill. If there's melt up in the mountains (which is gonna happen, duh), it's going to try to get to the river... which is next to the road, so of course it's going to cross the road. But every year, the mudslides would take out the road and everybody would complain about it like it was this horrible personal insult from Nature. In the meantime, since that was usually about the only way to get out these little mountain villages, everybody was trapped in there till they cleared it away, and they could gouge the prices really high for groceries in the little mercantile. In a town where most people were ranchers barely scraping a living, the people who owned the little general store had a Lamborghini. They could charge $4 for a gallon of milk in a time when usually it was no more than a dollar. The river, because of these landslides, had such big boulders in it it's famed for kayaking all over the world. People call it the Staircase. I grew up having barbecues with people from as far flung the places as Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, Germany, because we would just invite the kayakers to come to our summer events. I loved it because everything is so damn isolated most other ways, there.
@janfitzgerald36152 жыл бұрын
Few people talk about avalanches? He’s never been to Washington State. We talk about avalanches all winter. they occasionally shut down parts if I-90 for avalanche control, the parks and ski resorts mark off avalanche danger areas, you can check the avalanche danger rating if your going out for winter sports like cross country skiing.
@webbtrekker5342 жыл бұрын
We only have 5 passes through the Cascade mountains. Once winter hits one (the highest, at almost 5500 feet) is closed for the season. Two are above 4000 to 4500 feet. The most heavily used is in Interstate 90 at about 3000+ feet, the lowest. The most southern is at 3100+ feet and is on the Oregon border way south of the big population centers.
@NotSoFast712 жыл бұрын
Mount Everest is on the border between China and Nepal. Most climbers ascend from the south, which is in Nepal. The actual summit is in Nepal. But, of course, China claims there is no Nepal at all, but that it's also China. Much like several other places in the region.
@gotham612 жыл бұрын
The summit point is on the border.
@willardwooten95822 жыл бұрын
That's not a tunnel , it's an avalanche shed. We have them in Washington but the ones on I-90 have been replaced by bridges so the. snow funnels underneath the bridges . Now the new covered part of the freeway is a way for animals to cross the freeway without getting hit by cars .
@laurameadows4775 Жыл бұрын
A few years ago, I was driving home from work. It was clear skies looking back and a thunderstorm looking forward. I knew bad weather was coming, and I had to drive into it to get home. I didn't expect it to get that bad. It was like someone fkiped a switch. I was driving down the road when all the sudden it started raining, thundering, lightening, extreme winds, and hail. A tree nearly fell on top of my car. It must have hit a power line because I saw the brightest green flashes I have ever seen. It was right next to the car. Then lighting to the ground. I ended up turing around and going an extra 40 minutes out of the way, so I could take a different route away from the storm. Visibility was so bad you could hardly see 10 feet in front of the car. When i got home I found out it was was a microburst. My scariest driving experience ever. I hope i never see anything like it again.
@greggwilliamson2 жыл бұрын
In the 1st clip, I wasn't as amazed by the power lines falling (Navy Vet, been there) as I was by the guy on a freaking motorcycle!!! I ride, so I know.
@tcthompson39942 жыл бұрын
Keep up the videos mate
@brandonjvl19872 жыл бұрын
The may 20 2013 Moore oklahoma tornado was the 4th tornado to strike that city since 1999. The city is a suburb on the south side of oklahoma city and is itself a fairly good size city encompassing a large area. Moore was hit in 1999,2003,2010, and 2013. In fact the 1999 F5/EF5 tracked close to the path of the EF5 2013 tornado and even crossed paths at one location. Moore has been extremely unfortunate with tornadoes but often has some type of severe weather event every year.
@disciple162 жыл бұрын
The flashes you see at the bottom of the tornado is power lines going down. Storm chasers call them "power flashes".
@AppalachiaRRlover2 жыл бұрын
Yes half of it is in Nepal the other half in Tibet
@ESUSAMEX2 жыл бұрын
The safest place to be other than a building during an electrical storm is in a car because of the tires. Just make sure all the windows are closed and do not open the door or touch any metal part of the car. The tires protect you from the electricity. On night at about 3AM a telephone pole fell in front of my friend's car and exploded. The entire street and area went dark in seconds. My friend quickly was able to swerve before getting hit by the falling pole. I also saw a huge telephone pole get broken in half by strong winds during a hurricane. Planting pole deep in the ground holds the pole better and such, but it will not stop the upper part of the pole from breaking in high winds.
@JosephRussellStapleton2 жыл бұрын
It's not the tires. If your vehicle doesn't have a metal exterior (and most importantly a metal roof), you're screwed if you get struck.
@Banyo__2 жыл бұрын
Myself and a co-worker were seconds away from being struck by lighting. We were at work ironically trying to get some visitors at our museum inside from the outdoor water area because there had been several lighting strikes about a mile away. This lady and her kids were taking forever to move, and finally we'd just gotten them in the door and CRACK!!! My entire vision went white, and the next thing I knew, my co-worker and I were on the floor, but neither of us knew how we got there. It was insane. I can still hear the sizzle sound when I think about that crap and I'm still pissed to this day that I could have died because this lady wanted her kids to play for 5 more minutes despite our warnings.
@sonyawasmer23442 жыл бұрын
Dude, a bolt of lightening has 1.21 Gigi watts … enough to power a Delorean back to 1955! 🤷🏼♀️😉🎥
@knightspearhead57182 жыл бұрын
Powerlines getting knocked over is pretty common in strongwind areas
@TreyM16092 жыл бұрын
Bought my own dashcam last month. Everyone should have one
@angelablackwell9002 жыл бұрын
I'm from Oklahoma and we do indeed get massive tornados that strike at any time of day or night. They have hit schools with children, and taken out whole towns. The town of Moore has had the worse of them in recent years.
@kimberlyrice42942 жыл бұрын
Electrical poles are typically embedded 3x the frost limit in cold climates, others depend a great deal on the composition of the soil. Not a complete answer but better than nothing.
@HappyValleyDreamin2 жыл бұрын
Happy Super Bowl Sunday Kabir!
@tjk200081 Жыл бұрын
Kabir, the widest tornado on record was 2.6 miles wide. 😮 It occured in El Reno, Oklahoma, on May 31st, 2013. That's the tornado that killed 3 storm chasers.
@alexandria16802 жыл бұрын
I remember driving through a hurricane when living in Florida. The drivers on the highway were acting crazy. It was ridiculous. I had to go 70mph to not get rear ended, but I could barely see in front of my car. I got off the highway as quickly as I could but recall seeing a few tornadoes spawning (only one of which formed into the real deal) while trying to get home. It was insane. I also remember my folks trying to evacuate Florida during a bad hurricane, but the flooding was already so bad that the water was halfway up their E350 van so that we couldn't open the doors.
@kennybaker78212 жыл бұрын
Kabir you should look into a show or a future video it’s called “Live Rescue” it’s just like “Live PD” but it’s with the EMS and Fire Departments in the US I know you would love it
@brianrigsby79002 жыл бұрын
Check out one of those incredible close up lightning strike vids next
@jaycooper28122 жыл бұрын
The winds from a typhoon get up to 150 miles per hour.
@Austintwo32 жыл бұрын
ayy Newcastle Oklahoma lol 35 minutes from my current house and 15 from were i grew up
@buphoon14522 жыл бұрын
2:25 I'd be scared to even drive over that shit.. ive seen so many videos of ppl getting electrocuted, im always wary of that stuff now
@kingjellybean97952 жыл бұрын
China likes to think they own all of Mount everest lol
@justchillin67932 жыл бұрын
The guy with the power lines would have been fine as long as he stayed in the car. Your car is a perfect faraday cage even lightning wouldn’t bother you
@bagnome2 жыл бұрын
I'd be more concerned about the falling power lines crushing the car, or at least, puncturing it to where it is no longer protecting the occupants.
@timglennon68142 жыл бұрын
Did you know that if you are in a car and it gets hit by a bolt of lightning you won’t die. Oh, and if a live power cable hit your car whilst you are in it you will be safe if you stay inside your car.
@andrewthezeppo2 жыл бұрын
yep the tired are rubber so that's what keeps you safe but you have to stay in the car until help comes.
@JosephRussellStapleton2 жыл бұрын
@@andrewthezeppo No. The metal exterior directs the lightning to the ground. The only thing that would be an electrical hazard in your vehicle, generally speaking, would be if a utility pole fell directly on your car and broke through the exterior. Then, if you didn't get crushed by the pole, the power lines would electrocute you.
@JosephRussellStapleton2 жыл бұрын
@@andrewthezeppo If your vehicle doesn't have a metal roof, the tires won't protect you if your roof gets struck.
@Austintwo32 жыл бұрын
from someone that lives in tornado alley and has worked for a power company, strong winds will knock over any power line, no matter how secure they are.
@rachaelmalandrini16862 жыл бұрын
Yes the wind can topple poles
@gwenstjohn18742 жыл бұрын
WOW!
@timhuffmaster35882 жыл бұрын
In the Moore, Oklahoma tornado two of my nephews and their wives lost both their homes and their businesses. It was truly devastating.
@777Timberwolf2 жыл бұрын
those tunnels are anti-avalanche. seen it on KZbin in Canada train deliveries, they have the same tunnels for trains as for those cars you see here. (shelter)
@JuanMedina-qq6kl2 жыл бұрын
Kabir, live streaming you watching the Super Bowl would be cool
@katiesliving34712 жыл бұрын
Watch the movie "Twister". It's about tornados. 🌪
@BenjaminDenverstone2 жыл бұрын
Tornados are no joke. The most powerful are known as F5 tornados. They can take something as innocent as a toothbrush and turn it into a projectile. When you receive word of such weather, go inside and to a basement if possible. Don't mess around.
@georgephillips36252 жыл бұрын
Just bring extra underwear and toilet paper. Lol 🤣😆🤣
@karmanwilmot16482 жыл бұрын
It gets pretty stormy here in Washington (especially near the ocean). Once it was really windy, lots of rain, and nonstop lightning and I was about to step out from our car port covered area when suddenly 10ft in front of me lighting struck out gravel driveway. It startled the heck out of me 😆. It made quite the dent in the ground with some darkened rocks here and there. Wish I recorded it 😅.
@ItsaJday2 жыл бұрын
If you watch the section of the video where the landslide hit the three vehicles, you can see some poor soul running for their lives, on the left side of the road!!!
@dstamour6252 жыл бұрын
Also the heat of a transformer that blows is hot. It turns sand around them into glass
@georgephillips36252 жыл бұрын
The widest tornado was about 2.5 miles wide
@spaceshiplewis2 жыл бұрын
Those tunnels are there to protect you. You WANT to be in those tunnels when an avalanche happens and not just trapped your car. You can get buried by many tons of snow, giving you a limited breathing time. Your car can get flattened by ice or tree debris. Your car can get pushed off the mountain and fall to your doom or lost and unseen by rescuers. If you are buried and your car is still on, you could get carbon monoxide poisoning. If you are buried and your car is off, you can freeze before help arrives. Serious injury can occur including broken glass in body, crushed limbs, frostbite, broken neck or spine, face trauma, concussion, whiplash, or stab wounds; all made worse by the sheering cold and snow. Rescue workers may not be able to get to you soon due to the winter terrain, weather, or the avalanche itself. If your car fell off the mountain, then it becomes even harder to perform a rescue. Heaven forbid you are thrown out of the car which would then expose you to the bare wind and elements and make you even harder to find than if you are in your car. If you are in an avalanche, drive into those concrete bunkers and stay there until you are sure that the avalanche is settled. If you plan to drive on a mountain pass bring a blanket, glass and seatbelt breaker, road flares/emergency lights, food and water, a sat phone or radio and tell a contact where you are going and when to expect you to be there and call. Hopefully you won't need any of those supplies but nature is stronger than you, so be prepared.
@spaceshiplewis2 жыл бұрын
And I do believe there is usually a location designation sign in those tunnels to communicate to rescuers where you are trapped. And I did copy and paste part of my response from Lav Luka's channel because it is an important life alert. THOSE TUNNELS WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE.
@xyzcomp082 жыл бұрын
If anything like the power lines fall on your car, don't get out! Typically, you aren't well-earthed, but as so as you step out, crispy critters for you.
@SilvanaDil2 жыл бұрын
Despite having snowy mountains, Spain really sucks at Winter Olympic games. At least you guys in the UK have an excuse. 🙂
@reneehomen22262 жыл бұрын
Mt. Everest is in Nepal and Tibet I believe.
@JustMe-gn6yf2 жыл бұрын
Yeah we get some nasty tornadoes here in central Oklahoma
@michaelschemlab2 жыл бұрын
Mount Everest is on the China-Nepal Border, so technically it’s in both China and Nepal
@anacristinacruz50712 жыл бұрын
China invaded Nepal and made the country and his territory parte of China. Nepaleses all Over the world are figthing for the independente of their country. If the electricity cords falls on top of your car, nothing happens to you as long as you stay inside the car. If you want to leave the car, you have to do it as long as you jump with both feet. If you don't do that, you will be electrocuted instantanantly.
@cajunspice482 жыл бұрын
Check out the video of Hurricane Katrina in the US
@george2172 жыл бұрын
Actually, if a power line falls on your car you should stay in the car if possible as the car becomes sort of a Faraday cage. It's when you touch the car AND the ground that you become a crispy critter...
@msnonni2 жыл бұрын
I love your channel!!!
@kabirconsiders2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much :)
@blinkdude1822 жыл бұрын
@ 6:07 that's what she said!
@nightsspell3682 жыл бұрын
~* I would of backed up under that bridge... have a lil protection ... an air pocket maybe hehe... good vid :) *~
@theblackbear2112 жыл бұрын
Pecos Hank has his latest Video out! Tornados of 2021!
@dstamour6252 жыл бұрын
You don’t get the weather like a lot of places do. Like the first one you got that amount of rain and the wind speed from a monsoon is insane. Like where I live about 9 years ago we had an October storm. It broke but snow and ice everything. Leafs were still on trees. It came in like crazy. I was doing fall clean up and then when like it was known we went and grapped posts and places them so we knew when plowing. Only was bad. I think it was 2.5 million people were with out power. I didn’t get it back tell day 15. It took us 2 and a half hrs to go 1.5 miles in the truck bc getting around all the downed trees and crap. We decided to go and get the chainsaws we grabbed the chippers and were just clearing the road.
@claregale90112 жыл бұрын
Mother nature can be brutal at times , they were some lucky people on those clips .
@joannamcpeak75312 жыл бұрын
A sticky situation..
@cfromcass2 жыл бұрын
You tell the guy "dude turn around and go the other way" What did he do he turned left and drove straight under the other power lines that haven't fallen yet.
@charlenemorris55162 жыл бұрын
U sound very educated
@kennethfrawley2 жыл бұрын
OMG! That vid got it massively wrong! Mt. Everest is in NEPAL, end of!
@gotham612 жыл бұрын
The summit of Everest is on the China-Nepal border.
@valme62642 жыл бұрын
I live in the Lightening Capital of the US, and people do not have near enough respect for it. They get too comfortable and complacent.
@raphaelpaz84762 жыл бұрын
mount everest is in Nepal
@douglascampbell98092 жыл бұрын
Mount Everest is on the border of China and Nepal.
@theclarksvillepiper92022 жыл бұрын
The boulders weren't that big. We had one in Tennessee that shut down the interstate for months. Some of those were bigger than a house.
@JosephRussellStapleton2 жыл бұрын
Oh my God.
@sharcrum4 ай бұрын
Kabir, there was one tornado that was 2.5 miles wide!!!! I think it was one of the ones in Oklahoma but not sure.
@George-ux6zz Жыл бұрын
It's on the border of China and Nepal
@maobfh2 жыл бұрын
I understand your statement about infrastructure and power lines but the first video with the power lines dropping? I have seen that on numerous occasions and it was not due to poor wiring or cheap supplies or neglected systems. Heavy rain and/or wind, tornadoes and hurricanes, ice storms can ALL cause lines to come down to cause these problems. Believe me, the crews that work on the power lines are electrocuted too frequently and they would take the extra steps to secure lines if the boss was down on the ground screaming at them to wrap it up. The main issue is how can you stabilize the wires. As live wires, you cannot tie them down to better secure them. Tie them with what? They are live wires, rope will burn off, wire ties will cause a fire, plastic ties will melt. There are transformers on every pole or every other pole in my neighborhood. The glass insulators keep getting bigger, but storms will take down all kinds of things. The poles will and have come down and I forget how deep they bury them. 5 or 6 feet? I don’t know. I have friends who work the lines. One friend was a foreman who was up in a bucket- the long arms on big trucks that lift firemen and linemen high in the air to get where they need to be. He was up in a bucket with a couple of guys when lightning struck the bucket or the truck. I don’t remember. Someone called 911, one of his men went down and he was all about getting the bucket down and getting the one guy back and making sure the other(s) were okay. The paramedics checked one guy and loaded the one who went down but was back and convinced my friend to go along and get a thorough check during transport. When it was clear his guys were okay and he relaxed, he went right into cardiac arrest. No, it’s not neglect that bring those lines down and I haven’t talked to a lineman who doesn’t have a similar story to tell. They take care. Out of curiosity, the two lightening strikes that happened on a corner field in traffic? They looked like the same strike!
@JosephRussellStapleton2 жыл бұрын
That was one strike with more than one return stroke.
@janetmoreno8909 Жыл бұрын
Mount Everest spans Nepal and Tibet
@chrisfeltner2 жыл бұрын
That tornado if it's the one I'm thinking it is was two and a half miles wide and was on the ground for over 50 miles
@janfitzgerald36152 жыл бұрын
That was the Moore, OK tornado. The Quad State tornado several months ago was over two miles wide as well as passing through four states.
@chrisfeltner2 жыл бұрын
@@janfitzgerald3615 I had thought I heard them say it was more
@georgephillips36252 жыл бұрын
It's in Nepal
@virginiarobbins75392 жыл бұрын
In Fl it isn't law that you must use turn signals.. drives me insane.
@George-ux6zz Жыл бұрын
During a hurricane a power line fell in front of my car.i just picked up my feet and didn't touch anything with my hands. I didn't get shocked at all. All bcuz I wasn't grounded. Proof? Have you seen birds sitting comfortably on power lines? Of course you have. They didn't die did they. If I crawl across a power line I'll be safe as long as I don't touch anything else which would complete a circuit.
@colinvannurden30902 жыл бұрын
Lightning bolts are at most are one inch wide
@George-ux6zz Жыл бұрын
The lightening isn't really that thick. Why it looks thick is bcuz it's so bright the glow makes it look huge.
@christaylor75862 жыл бұрын
Like I said before America is a land of extremes with weather animals the army sports food people just everything is on another level?
@sharcrum4 ай бұрын
As far as I know when you're in a car and you get hit with electric lines or a lightning bolt as far as I know the rubber tires keep you from being affected if you're inside the car if you step outside the car that's a different story
@TangentOmega2 жыл бұрын
Yea, lightning Is so strong it can power a Flux Capacitor and take you Back to the Future.
@msnonni2 жыл бұрын
Just so you know not all states have tornados, and most, if they do have tornados, don't get that big.
@raylewis21212 жыл бұрын
Dash cams ARE important. Our phones can be placed in their dash-mounted holders and set on video record. Delete the vid after arriving safely to destination. This video shows that nothing’s guaranteed.