SHOCKED BRIT Reacts to "Top 10 Worst US Hurricanes in History!"

[@MoreAdamCouser]

It's my Birthday (give me the present of a follow? 🤣) 🎉 www.twitch.tv/adamcouser

[@ianloeb1672]

1:24 Yes Everyone felt my wrath that week

[@trumankim6484]

Can you please react to why “New Orleans’ geography sucks” by real life lore? It has more information on why the city is so vulnerable

[@am74343]

Happy birthday, Adam!! 🤩🤩🍟🍔🧁🍰🍬🍭🍮🍦🍧

[@kathleenbrooks6677]

Happy Birthday 🎉🎂

[@Benshaus]

Happy birthday!

[@yugioht42]

A hurricane name is retired once it hits a certain threshold of damage estimates. Ian was retired because of that, Katrina was also retired, Andrew was also retired.

[@hannahb.375]

Crazy that it’s all happening in a general lifetime too

[@TheSkyGuy77]

Helene might be retired after this latest one.

[@internetexplorer9990]

The 1900 storm also had its name retired

[@MrTech226]

Death threshold is also a factor for retirement of the name. Helene will join the club.

[@CodeXRambo]

Oh I always heard that a name was retired when it hit a certain death toll

[@stormangelus6638]

Okay, a few things: 1) that open circle is called the Eye of the hurricane. Inside the eye, it's beautiful - calm, quiet, & peaceful. But that is surrounded by the eyewall - the edges of the eye - where the winds are the worst & when the back end of the hurricane hits, it's worse because it usually brings higher wind speeds & faster atmospheric flow, which is the storm energy the hurricane is drawing behind it. Vicious stuff. 2) Yes, 125 billion. Hurricanes are brutal. Tornadoes are less controlled but destructive for a relatively short time period. Hurricanes sometimes will stay put for DAYS & dump an unholy amount of rains, causing flash floods & drownings. We've become better about predicting them partly because of advancements in Sciences, but the other reason is because some weather scientists go up in a big ass plane & fly through the eyewall to get measurements. That's a video I'd love to see you go over: hurricane hunters. Also, you wanna see some beauties of tornadoes & lightning? Check out Pecos Hank on YT. He's been a stormchaser over 20 years & he's amazing.

[@isaacsucks]

pecos hank the undisputed goat

[@DS-ub1jm]

Yeah just ask the big bend in Fl, 3 hits in 18 months

[@Tyleya]

**In my Hamilton voice** In the eye of a hurricane There is quiet For just a moment A yellow sky ....I'll see myself out

[@mahailaclay6057]

LOVE PCOS Hank! He covered the Easter Sunday outbreak in 2020 here in Mississippi. I lost two family members in that outbreak. Absolutely heartbreaking, but he did an awesome job on covering it!

[@emminet]

@@Tyleya Agh I had that copied and ready to paste and you beat me to it!

[@FishingAddictNE]

Hey Adam if you didn't already know, Hurricane Helene hit Florida as a Category 4 hurricane on Thursday. She has swept entire neighborhoods away in Florida and has caused some of the worst flooding in North Carolina, Virginia, and other states that we have ever seen. Dams are breaking due to excessive floodwaters and entire towns have been engulfed by water. It is the worst hurricane we have seen since Ian and if this video were made after Helene, there is a good chance it would be on this list.

[@darknessinmusic]

It also spawned tornadoes in GA. Plus we have had tons of flooding in poor areas and gas stations were inflating prices to $10 a gallon.

[@kaiwest5960]

entire towns were swept away in appalachia area as well. Chimney Rock is gone. The Iron mountain area is HURTING as well. Western North Carolina and Eastern Tenessee were decimated by flooding in the mountains, in areas without the infrastructure to handle it. People are still trapped.

[@theamazingguzzardo]

"Katrina's gonna be the worst one." 1900 Galveston Storm: "Hold my beer."

[@novastardom2689]

the fact it was third surprised me

[@markvolpe2305]

I thought it was going to be Hurricane Hugo.

[@boddaboom77]

I'm on number 7 right now. My guess is Andrew. I was like 10 years old and had just visited some family in Homestead, FL. Went back down with my dad to get his aunt and her family to come stay with us in AL while they rebuilt...I'll never forget the sights, sounds and smells I experienced as a young boy during those few days. Absolutely crazy and incredibly sad. I didn't realize how significant it was at the time, but as I've grown, I can't i.agine going through what those people did back then. ETA: Well, I was way off. How in the world is Andrew not even on the list? By his own criteria, Andrew held a couple of the records he was judging by until several of the post 2000 storms that didn't even make the list either.

[@jamiefrontiera1671]

if you ever want to be amazed, look up the building of the sea wall in response to the storm of 1900, and then all the buildings they had to raise in elevation for it. There is a picture of a stone church on hundreds of jacks in order to raise it up a few feet

[@14Rocket]

Galveston is also tragic. There was a meteorologist that collected enough data that supported his prediction of the hurricane hitting the city. They had like half a day at least to evacuate, and no one believed him and stayed in the city to die.

[@belvagurr403]

As a native of the Gulf Coast area we are a big target of hurricanes. Had one last month another coming this week.

[@oskney3329]

Stay safe!

[@VicCarnage]

I’m in Tallahassee, we’re all prepping as we speak- stay safe!!

[@alex.bradford]

I live on the gulf coast and was a young child when Ivan and Katrina hit, so obviously I have a huge fear of storms thanks to that🙃

[@chanmi1957]

I'm in Texas about 50 miles in from the Gulf. I was affected the worse by Harvey. Houston was under water. We had airboats going up and down the streets rescuing people. I remember one weather guy said our rain total was comparable to the amount of water that goes over Niagara Falls.

[@koolaidjammer7108]

Yep got one headed right for me in 2 days

[@belvagurr403]

That’s the eye of the storm, winds are calm in the eye.

[@koolaidjammer7108]

Until the eyewall comes around and blends everything around you to rubble

[@HeadR47]

Wind hammers you from one direction, then the eye comes and it's calm, then the back end hits from the other direction.

[@lesprentice4816]

It's calmer then what you just experienced but it's still windy as hell

[@RuffianTux]

We still talk about Camille often down here. I've lived in the bay (Bay St Louis) for about 20 years. When Camille hit, she wasn't very big but she was incredibly strong. The storm surge only just made it to the train tracks about a mile inland but her wind totally flattened the Bay and Waveland. Katrina, meanwhile, was enormous. Her winds were impressive but nothing we haven't dealt with before. Her trouble came from the storm surge. Where Camille only put about a foot of water on my parent's property south of the tracks by the beach, Katrina had somewhere around 20-30 feet of water over the roof of our house. There are still many places in town where you can go and see bare slabs, nearly horizontal-growing trees, and long-since-abandoned flooded buildings from Katrina. This isn't a pity story, though. We live here and we love living here. Before any major storm, hundreds of hurricane parties occur all up and down the coast and out on the river. Basically, you and all your neighbors go out the night before the storm and throw a block party and cook all of the food that's going to be spoiled or destroyed when the storm hits. It's a macabre final send-off for your house and belongings before you leave town and see what's left when you come back.

[@belvagurr403]

My grandfather was working on train tracks during this 1928 hurricane, an old Seminole man warned the crew to leave and that a great storm was coming. He came several days with his warning but they didn’t listen. Hours before the storm hit the men decided to leave and take shelter. When the storm was over the tracks were gone.

[@magenta97344]

Which hurricane?

[@chevand8]

I lived in Bradenton, Florida in 2005, and I actually visited New Orleans a month before Hurricane Katrina. I remember it very distinctly. Somehow I dodged an enormous bullet-- the hurricane passed over Florida _just_ south of me, before slamming into New Orleans. The reason why Katrina was so devastating for the city, as I learned during a guided tour of the cemeteries when I was there, is because the bulk of the city is built _below_ sea level, on a piece of land that is surrounded on three sides by water: the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River, and Lake Ponchartrain. The seawalls and levees are absolutely essential to the city's continued existence. When Katrina hit New Orleans, it was enough to breach the levees, which in turn flooded the city. In addition, the disaster was compounded by FEMA's incompetent slow response in reacting to the crisis, and governmental failures at every level up the chain, from local to state to federal.

[@amandataylor1166]

I agree with your comment 100% with everything you said except Katrina made landfall in Mississippi, not Louisiana & as a Category 3 at the time of landfall, not a category 5 like most believe. With the outer bands of Katrina causing a storm surge that went into Louisiana added with the total rainfall amount causing a high enough flood to breech the levees turning New Orleans into basically a giant “bowl”… even though Louisiana had known for years directly warned by the military who built the original levees that they had needed to be replaced due to previous storms & wear & tear or something like this definitely would happen, the state still did nothing until after it had finally happened. It is because of this catastrophe in New Orleans, Louisiana which is what the storm is most remembered for that most either forget or don’t even know that Katrina made a direct hit in Mississippi & never made any type of landfall in Louisiana. Also, Katrina *WAS* a category 5 hurricane during its lifespan but *NOT* when it made landfall in Mississippi & because of how the hurricanes are recorded, since it did become a category 5 at one point, it’s recorded as a category 5 but that wasn’t the strength it was at when making landfall.

[@charlayned]

We were supposed to be in New Orleans the weekend it hit. We cancelled because of the storm. One of my favorite places, O'Flaherty's Irish Channel Pub closed and never reopened. I included in, and the aftermath of the storm, in the first book of my vampire series as a memorial to the city that we love so much. We've not been able to go back since then, which is sad.

[@michelleespino9814]

I was in college in Florida at the time and my university welcomed Louisiana students. Our professor held a meeting to discuss the situation. We all sat in a circle and the other students who were all White BTW, just went on and on about how the victims deserved no sympathy, they had every chance to leave but stayed to protect their pot! Others said they stayed because they knew they could loot afterwards. They went on and on about them being lazy criminals unworthy of rescuing. I sat in shock and remained quiet until I walked out of class. When the New Orleans students arrived, many of them had emotional trauma and rashes that ended abruptly at the chest, from wading through the polluted water. I recall one young student's empty stare as he explained pushing bodies left and right as he waded through his city. Now we have empathy for the victims but when this was going on, we most certainly did not.

[@charlayned]

@@michelleespino9814 I was back in college at that time too (oldest living student in all my classes, granny) and when the kids from NOLA came in, we were all scrounging for textbooks for them. I know I handed over a few and even bought a couple for one girl. We tried to welcome them and let them know that we were sad their lives had been upended.

[@michelleespino9814]

@@charlayned I’m glad that your classmates had empathy. I don’t recall anyone treating them poorly upon arrival but before they came 🤦🏾‍♀️ no compassion.

[@lagniappe1727]

As a lifelong New Orleanian I am old enough to have lived through 2 of the storms on this list - Camille and Katrina. To answer your question, that middle part of the hurricane is called the eye, and I have experienced several. It is the most calm, peaceful, and still environment you can imagine. It's weird because the eyewall which surrounds it is the absolute worst part of the storm. You are in the middle of that and then it's like someone flips a switch, and everything stops and becomes quiet. Then you get to the other side and another switch is flipped and you are back in the worst of it. And now Florida is about to take the brunt of what could be a very bad hurricane. Your neighbors in Louisiana are thinking about you guys - stay safe!

[@texashookem22]

I've lived through 3 direct hits while growing up/living in Houston, TX: Alicia in 83, Ike in 2008, and Harvey in 2017. A deep dive into Harvey will blow your mind. We were using johnboats on highways and in neighborhoods, boating up to 2nd floor windows and rooftops to pluck people off of them and bring them to safety. Harvey dumped a total of 24.5 TRILLION gallons of water in total, which is greater than the amount of water that flows over Niagara Falls over the course of one year, and it weighed so much that it literally compressed the earth's crust by one inch. But to answer your question about the eye of the hurricane, I'll never forget standing outside as the eye of Alicia crossed directly over our house. The dark and ominous churning eye wall stood out in stark contrast to the bright blue sun filled sky filling the eye, as birds that had gotten trapped in the eye wall circled above repeatedly. So to answer your question, yes, it's safe to be out in the eye...just make sure you're back sheltered by the time the next eye wall hits, bc that's where the strongest winds occur.

[@melanieruiz1643]

The circle is called the eye, 2:11 this is where it is mostly calm although you will eventually have to go through the rest of the hurricane while it passes.

[@kellygriffin8232]

As a person whose never lived outside the American south, I’m every state I’ve lived in we’ve experienced a hurricane or two. Hurricanes are normal to us. Btw, Adam gets so shocked and pauses with his shocked face for so long that everytime he does it I’m always wondering if my phone is buffering or not and then he’ll blink or something and I’ll go “oh it’s just Adam’s shocked face, the internets fine.” Lmao 🤣 Also, Katrina was on my sisters birthday, five days after mine, and we couldn’t do anything for her birthday bc of the hurricane so we just stood in her garage with the door open on lawn chairs and watched. 🤷🏼‍♀️ RIP SIS I love ya

[@MichaelJohnson-vi6eh]

Here in Maryland we frequently catch the tailend of hurricanes as they come up the coast. The high winds push the water from the Chesapeake Bay up all the rivers and there is a lot of flooding. One time a co-worker of mine lost her car because the flood waters climbed a steep hill and her car floated away. My neighbor across the street still has wind damage on his house from the last time a hurricane came through. Oh yeah TREES. Hurricanes cause thousands of trees to fall over smashing cars and blocking roads and damaging electrical wires. After a hurricane, you are lucky if you can get out of your neighborhood or turn on a light switch even for a relatively weak one.

[@ArleneAdkinsZell]

My late husband and I would hike in Southern MD and in VA after hurricanes, climbing over blow down and reporting blockages to trails and Hurricane Isabell caused us to be without power for almost a week, I don't think people realize just how far hurricane winds reach.

[@OldMusicFan83]

I remember getting out of school for a week in 79 from Bell. Flooding. Lived in Severna Park at the time.

[@manxkin]

As others have noted, that’s the eye of the hurricane with calm winds. Electrical fires, ruptured gas lines fires. We were in New Orleans visiting relatives when Camille started approaching. We packed up and headed back up north. Precipitation: rain fall or snow fall. We’ve received rainfall from hurricanes all the way up here in northern Illinois.

[@MariJeanMelissa]

Camille! I was 12 and visiting cousins in Miami. It was before the Interstate system was complete and we couldn't get out. Our Daddy had stayed home in Central Florida and was on the phone but couldn't do anything to help. Camille moved into the gulf and as the gulf world watched on tv, she just sat and grew into the monster but it was hours of not knowing where she would go when she started moving again. And it was straight north, so we missed it but it was only by luck because nothing to be done.

[@MariJeanMelissa]

5th. gen SW Florida. We're readying for Helene as we speak. Supplies are in, water in the tub, I'll pick up the last of loose stuff in the yard in the morning. For us, we are on the south side and will see mostly water. For Debbie, earlier in the summer, I was stuck in for 5 days due to flooding. I think I'm ready. It has been a fairly light and late season. A couple years ago with Ian, we were in the eye wall and reached cat 5. NOT gonna do that again. We have a genny so it is just a matter of sitting put and waiting for water to go down. When I was a lil girl, Donna and Camille were experiences. These were both pre-interstate system so even though we had hurricane tracking, there was little way to evacuate. After Camille and a bit of cleanup, we drove over to Mississippi. We ate at a restaurant across the road from the gulf. Behind the restaurant was a huge barge. Nobody knew if it had flown in winds or the waters floated it over.

[@chrisvibz4753]

stay safe ok and God bless you ill pray for you floridians. Love from Kentucky

[@MariJeanMelissa]

@@chrisvibz4753 Thx! I think we're set. I have a Gullah Bottle Tree to take apart tomorrow otherwise it is just waiting. My Mama's family were from Kentucky before moving to SW Florida. Muhlenberg County. Hard to imagine that was the frontier when they moved there.

[@koolaidjammer7108]

I know how you feel, I was in the eyewall when Michael hit in 2018 it was chaos, and it slowed as it hit land so it was just constant wind and rain all through the night

[@chrisvibz4753]

@@MariJeanMelissa Ikr. im from Trimble co

[@gachaluna2708]

Texas gulf coast. Alicia, Allison, rita, ike, and numerous others that were either cat 3-5 or just caused so much damage they retired the names. I hope everything turned out ok for you and your family

[@chadgagnon9236]

Friend of mine was down there during Hurricane Maria, getting married. When the hurricane hit they were in a kind of safe area that could withstand high winds of even a cat4. But, as they were there, he said the ceiling and tiles were moving like they were on water from the extreme winds. The "Eye" came over, they were able to get out and see the damage done and the workers were able to assess the damage and structural integrity of the building they were in and concluded to use the secondary space that was stronger, for the second half of the hurricane. When it was over, they came out to see the original room was destroyed and almost completely gone. The winds EXCEEDED what was reported with gusts at a mind blowing 250-300mph. The storm surge alone, pulled the ocean away from Florida's shore for miles.

[@Isennia]

With an estimated death toll of 4645 deaths not 3000. This storm was downplayed by the US government and the local government. There’s a time before and after Maria. There’s damaged left to this date.

[@melissamichalak3024]

In the 1900 storm, many buildings were destroyed, and people were swept to sea. You can only have estimates of the people that were lost because there were no bodies. Also, the flooding made caskets come out of the ground, so it was hard to know if the bodies were freshly dead or older pre-deceased bodies. The best guess is about 8,000 people in Galveston County died. If you want to learn more, Isaac's Storm is a fantastic read about what happened.

[@charlayned]

I agree, Isaac's Storm is wonderful. I also have a first edition (1900) book, published in Chicago, of the stories first hand from the people who survived. The Complete Story of the Galveston Horror. Written by the Survivors. There is a copy of the book for free to read on Project Gutenberg's website under that name.

[@emilyhaas6136]

Thirding "Isaac's Storm." There are also seem decent documentaries about the Galveston Hurricane that I believe can be found online. (I'm old and watched them on The Weather Channel back in the day).

[@MarieJackson-sp3be]

The 1900 storm was one of the worst.

[@33gles]

The 'EYE' of a hurricane is a calm spot, it's really eerie. I've been in two of them in all the hurricanes I've seen. The problem with the eye, is that generally the highest shearing winds are in the eyewall around it, and they change direction relative to the ground as the storm moves, so things that are hit by the eye get the worst twice, but from both directions.

[@lauracosby7382]

You might want to check out, The National Hurricane Center online. As you are going to FL next month. It hasn't formed yet, but it will be hitting as a hurricane soon. I live in Dothan AL, and am prepping for it. As I am pretty sure we will lose power. I am basically north of Panama City Beach, FL. So, I well remember Hurricane Michael. We lost power for 2 weeks here. It is so hot right now in the South, ughh!

[@wolffange90]

Native Floridian, we got one coming on Thursday. If you haven’t already I’m sure there is a video on the 2004 hurricanes. Charley, Frances, Jeanne and Ivan… 4 in 2 month time period. We lost power for two weeks during Frances. Hurricane Dorian wrecked the Bahamas in 2019 as a category 5. Then went straight towards the east coast. My parents who were in direct path evacuated to my place inland. If the storm had moved about 50 miles west their house would probably not still be standing and would have gotten a direct hit from the eye wall.

[@Golladan]

Oh man. Dorian really did a number on Bahamas.

[@frand9174]

I live about 40 miles east of Tampa, Florida. We've been tracking a storm coming off the coast of Africa for about 2 weeks now. It's currently in the Gulf of Mexico, heading towards the "big bend" area of Northwest Florida. It's expected to make landfall sometime between late tomorrow night and early Thursday morning as a category 2 or 3 storm. It will last throughout the day and leave the area on Friday. This is the third storm to hit the same area this season. Hurricanes are so dangerous because of the intense wind and the enormous amount of rain. They are hundreds of miles wide, covering vast areas. They can take days to move away. I am fortunate this time around because I live inland and not in the storm's direct path. But with a storm system like this, no one is completely safe. Hurricanes spin counter clockwise. The east side of the storm is called the dirty side. Circulating bands of wind and heavy rain come through at intervals for hours on end. These bands generate huge thunderstorms that, in turn, generate tornados. I'm sure that at some point tornado watches will be posted in my area. Tornados are likely to form. We can only hope they dissipate quickly with no great harm to anyone. Hurricane season is very stressful. Watching a storm system for weeks as it develops, and then dealing with its imminent arrival, is nerve wracking. There's another system brewing in the Atlantic right now. So we start the process all over again throughout October. November marks the end of hurricane season. It can't come soon enough.

[@megaascension2748]

That thing is going to be nasty. The northeast corner of the hurricane is always the worst.

[@cherihabegger9856]

Stay safe. I hope you have evacuated. I have family in New Orleans that have lived through many hurricanes. They luckily decided to evacuate to Dallas for Hurricane Katrina.

[@sandrarhodes42]

I live in Virginia where Camille regained strength and came though my area. I live 15 miles from where 27 inches of rain fell overnight, killing 114 not including the 37 still missing to this day, on August 19, 1969. I was 7 years old but I remember my father went out on search and rescue and then search and recovery. Even today, in parts of the Wood Mills area, you can still see reminders of mud slides and areas where complete houses were washed away and buried.

[@annepinkerton6280]

Bless your heart! LOL Inside that "circle" is the eye of the hurricane. I've always heard it's calm and serene in there but I don't want to try and find out! Unfortunately, I remember most of these, especially Camille. I had a boyfriend on the coast and I live about 6 hours north in central Mississippi. It blew the roof off part of Mama's house hundreds of miles from the coast! Remember reading about some people who rode a mattress on the water out of a second floor room in one of the motels down there. All the places I visited as a child were gone ... well, the good majority of them. We rode to the coast (Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi) in 2001 after a hurricane and when we passed a mausoleum, there were drawers missing. That gave me nightmares for a while and I have not stepped foot in the water there since! I hear we have another one headed this way. Just finished with the one that hit Texas! We won't be able to rest until the end of October with all this should stop! All that water around all the houses ... I just KNOW there were alligators all up in there!!!!

[@kateg7298]

We were dead center under the rain bands of Harvey in Galveston and Texas City. It churned for 3 days and we were so glad that we sheltered in Texas City. We're protected by Archimedes screws on the back side of the loop and out by the Texas City Dike. I looked at a lot of houses before I bought and when I came to look at my house with a realtor, she apologized because the street was torn up because they were putting in 10 foot drainage pipes under the street. I said that's my house, right there. Our poor friends in League City and Webster lost their houses, their pets and all their belongings. We took in everyone that we could. It was an awful time and my heart goes out to anyone hit by a hurricane.

[@randykillman6475]

I was in Bay St. Luis Mississippi for three weeks after Katrina as a volunteer. For perspective... I saw a line of semi-trucks as far as the eye could see show up and the line was that long all day. They loaded up with debris and drove away with it. This happened everyday for the time I was there. This effort did not put even a dent in what had to be removed. Fortunately there was also a line of trucks with fresh water, food. clothes and supplies - medicine too

[@nickf5892]

Cat 3+ projected to make landfall on Thursday morning!!

[@kimasp7482]

Yep! I'm in Florida......here we go!

[@paradoxicalpoet1525]

It's expected to make landfall around Apalachicola Florida, just in case someone didn't know.

[@JerridCook]

This Texan is hoping that y'all stay safe Florida!

[@kimasp7482]

@@JerridCook Thanks darlin, I'm hunkered in my bunker and have lots of snack..LOL

[@JerridCook]

@@kimasp7482 that's the absolute best way to be prepared for a hurricane in my experience. Hope all goes well for y'all. We had one back in July (Beryl) but it wasn't as bad as what's headed y'all's way though.

[@RoniFromTN]

When I was in the US Army back in the early '90s (yes, I'm old LOL), the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers flooded. Our MASH unit went to the boot heel of Missouri to lend assistance and there were caskets & skeletons floating about. Driving around, we saw nothing but water. It was saddening because underneath the water was people's livelihood. Their crops, livestock, and houses were wiped out.

[@hollywagner1679]

Was that in 93?

[@RoniFromTN]

@@hollywagner1679 Yes, it was.

[@OldMusicFan83]

Me, 80s Army raising my eyebrow at you!

[@charlayned]

@@OldMusicFan83 Me, graduate of high school in 75 look askance at both of you. :)

[@OldMusicFan83]

@@charlaynedha ha

[@erinzelnio8359]

There's a really good documentary about the Galveston Hurricane somewhere on the web. The reason it was so devastating is it started out a beautiful day, and the beaches and waterfront was packed. One meteorologist kept demanding the city issue a hurricane warning, but the city refused to. Based on the common understanding of hurricane behavior at the time, the storm was predicted to hook around and hit Florida. This scientist kept insisting his own modeling was correct, and unfortunately he was proven right. However, based on that storm and that scientist, understanding of hurricane behavior underwent a drastic change for the better. It was an undeniable tragedy, but ended up being essential for the advancement of meteorological science.

[@darrinlindsey]

Something that the narrator didn't know is that Galveston is a barrier island. The whole island itself isn't half the size of what Houston is now. So, it could've never been the hub that Houston has become (the 3rd largest city in our country). But, Galveston recover, and now has the most awesome sea wall structure anywhere in the U.S.

[@jamiefrontiera1671]

the building of the seawall and how they basically raised up a whole island does not get enough credit and attention outside of houston/galveston area

[@MrDdeded]

Guy is obviously a shitlib he literally said not to live along the gulf coast bc he’s scared of rain from a Floridian we can’t be friends after that

[@Owlincoup]

Adam, I live in Houston TX. I was hit directly by Harvey. It was a ridiculous amount of rain. The highway looked like the Amazon river. It was mind blowing. The hotel we got evacuated to started flooding in the middle of the night. We were on the first floor. We were piling blankets and towels to try and stop the room from flooding. If I can find pictures and videos I'll send them your way.

[@ColoradosBackyard]

Ever since I discovered your channel, you are by far one of the most entertaining KZbinrs to watch. Happy birthday and keep the videos coming!

[@icaruswindrune7116]

Well, for your comment at 5:45, just look up the Great Hurricane of 1780. Likely a CAT 5 and also had around 22,000 to 27,000+ fatalities.

[@PaulsWanderings]

Adam, Ian can no longer be used to name a hurricane but you can name your child, Ian.

[@george217]

Don't want to have to differentiate between Ian number 1 and Ian number 4, etc.

[@boroblueyes]

The highest winds are near the eyewall. The eye could have blue sky for a few minutes before the other side of the eyewall hits. Hurricane Michael did over $40K damage to my boat shelter. It dropped a 250 year old, 120 tons of an Oak tree on top of my boat shelter. 2 boats, my tractor, 4-wheeler, zero turn mower, my John Deere mower and my pristine 1996 Honda Prelude were crushed. Since 2012, I've had 3 hurricanes come over with my farm in the dead center. Thankfully I'm far enough inland that the winds were finished some. Happy birthday dude! Oh, if you like old movies, "Key Largo" is set in the 30's in the Florida keys and stars Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson and Lauren Bacall. It's a banger!

[@titusnero999]

Wow the timing is impeccable considering we have a Hurricane coming in the next couple of days here in Florida.

[@heartnsoul9093]

Stay safe.

[@deebonvillian1185]

We’re New Orleanians and my mom spoke a lot about hurricane Audrey. I was 13 when Camille hit the Gulf Coast and we had 100mph winds by our house, lost power, and rained like crazy. Camille tore up most of highway 90 also. That story about the hurricane party is REAL. There was an apartment near the beach and they were having a “hurricane party” because they didn’t believe a storm that strong was coming. The complex was blown off its foundation and torn apart. One woman was blown into a tree which broke almost every bone in her body. She’s the only one who survived. When we finally got back to Gulfport, there was nothing left. No road, no houses, no trees, nothing. Big antebellum houses on the coast… all gone.

[@traceyangel2681]

Born and raised in South Florida I’ve been through half dozen storms. I was 14 when Andrew hit we were without power for 2wks. Some neighbors were completely wiped out.

[@Neal7891]

Lived in Hialeah when Andrew hit. Watched a canoe get impaled into a tree like a lawn dart.

[@traceyangel2681]

@@Neal7891 I will never forget seeing Homestead gone Pompano Beach was spared major damage no power for 2 wks it was miserable.

[@Philly62_fan]

4:11 The name Ian is allowed in the US. If another storm I named storm happens in 2028, it will be named Idris. The WMO has a list of names that changes every 6 years

[@C4ptainoodles]

I'd also like to bring up that after hurricane Katrina, the government seriously failed to aid the suffering survivors. Additionally, In some cases, survivors seeking refuge were shot instead of helped, even by those working for the government.

[@MarieJackson-sp3be]

The lack of help was because the president was little shrub Bush, who went on vacation. And as for the shootings (true), even though I love New Orleans, the missing link can be found there.

[@michelleespino9814]

I was in college when it happened, and I met many of the refugees firsthand when they came to my university. I can tell you that the public sentiment at the time was that they were criminals and not victims.

[@highro13]

Living through Sandy was insane. It was like the Day After Tomorrow. Half of Manhattan flooded, the subways & tunnels were closed due to flooding, you could see all the skyscrapers flicking on and off until half the skyline lost power. I remember having to carry my dog at the time a few blocks where I lived in Brooklyn to a hotel because my building lost power & the basement walls were cracking. It closed the New York Stock Exchange for a few days, which never happens.

[@ellenstrack6274]

Live on the Jersey shore near where Sandy came on shore. You are right the storm surge was unbelievable.

[@tiamarrow6366]

I’m from Long Island and it was horrible. One of my uncles and cousin lived in the town of Freeport at the time and they lived by Nautical Mile, and when the storm surge came in….their house flooded and they nearly drowned. My parents and I got lucky because where we lived on Long island was further inland far from water.

[@NoThankUBeQuiet]

It's because you have built in front of the dunes which protect you from the tide flooding. Especially in NJ. Yes there would have been damage either way but fucking with sand dunes is BAD idea they are vital for a reason

[@devinlamigo5818]

( 8:39 ) As a texan who lives within thirty miles of where Hurricane Harvey made landfall, it was really, really bad. Our neighborhood/community on Padre Island ( The bear eyeline between the city of corpus christi and the gulf of mexico) was luckily spared from significant damage due to a last-min northern shift of Harvey's eye(wall) but we had friends and cousins who lived in Port Aransas, (essentially ground-zero for landfall damage and distruction. The damage was incredible. I estimate the storm surge to be at least 12 ft (~4m). We were helping a friend who owned a beach rental house located ~.5 mi (.08 km) from the beach and a good 10-15 ft above mean sea level. The house still flooded, and we had to remove the lowest meter or so of sheetrock along every wall, pull out all low-lying waterlogged furniture/other property, and place it outside in the ever-increasing piles of streetside hurricane debris waiting to picked up when trash services resume. We also spent part of the day cooking a Costco 40-pk of hamburgers for first-responders and other families. Our family brought in the burgers since we had evacuated south to near the Mexican border, where there were a couple locations. I both loved and hated those days of my life. I loved helping other people and seeing the impact that our cookout had on the struggling community, but I also hated seeing all of tge trash, mold, and damaged properties as well as the hurt on first reaponders and people who rode the storm out. Port Aransas has a weird road system with 2 routes in/out of town. Port Aransas is located on Mustang Island (meaning no direct overland routes away from town.) One route is a ferry across the Corpus Christi Ship Channel (Obviously closed during the storm for safety reasons) athe other is a direct ~18 mi (28.9 km) road to Padre Island, where our community is located. Padre Island, in turn, has one ~4 mi (6.4km) long bridge, called the John F Kennedy Causeway that taverses Laguna Madre and has a 50+ ft (15m+) arching section to accomidate ship traffic on the Padre Island side. This bridge finally connects with 'Flour Bluff', a connected peninsula on the mainland with road access out of town. Anyway, long story short, if winds get too strong, the JFK bridge will close, cutting off both Padre Island and Port Aransas from any overland routes to escape in case of flooding/storm surge.

[@gramalinda750]

I vividly remember hurricane Camille; our house flooded, I was only 9 years old. Go look, right now at hurricane Helene currently taking aim at Florida….. and storm chaser Reed Timmer will go there and drive a rental car straight through it. He’s nuts, but he’ll show you exactly what the storm is doing, LIVE. Love you and look forward to your KZbin posts daily!! Thank you!! 😊

[@ziggystarlord]

I live in North East Texas, about 30 min from Oklahoma and maybe an hr from LA. I remember some of the more recents that have happened since Katrina.. Katrina was devasting and we spent a whole semester that year just gathering bottle water, canned good and other supplies. I went to Texas Coast a few years after Galveston was hit in recent years, many people just put properties up for sale because they would cost more to fix than worth.. Heck, I've lived in tornado ally my whole life, and only this year experienced hurricane force straight aligned winds at 2 am... I'm terrified of tornadoes , yet this put the fear of God in me. I thought our house was about to crumble . We get floods frequently, usually flash floods, we get tornado warnings often... I've bunkered down more than once in my life during a warning, had multiple funnel clouds pass over my jobs... But that wind is the most terrible sound I've ever heard. We contemplated moving to the coast but that changed my mind. I'll deal with the tornadoes.

[@Proudtman]

Precipitation is a fancy way of saying Rain

[@LadyBeyondTheWall]

This is the second British channel I've seen that doesn't know what the word "precipitation" means. Am I the only one who finds that.. odd? lol 😂 I've just.. never known anyone who didn't know what that word meant!

[@cherylflam3250]

@@LadyBeyondTheWallAnd think about how much of it they get in the U.K.

[@NoThankUBeQuiet]

I mean not strictly. It's any water falling from the sky. Snow sleet and hail also count

[@jgnauman22]

The worst I've experienced was Sandy. I live in the mountains of Eastern Pennsylvania so it didn't seem all that bad as it came through. When I woke up the next morning to see how many trees had been torn down it was shocking. My area was out of power for 10 days.

[@gr8handsftl]

Tropical depressions, tropical storms, we don't really worry about at all. They are just like extended summer storms. Category 1 and 2 we keep an eye on them and don't really worry about them too much Just secure loose objects to make sure that they don't fly away and gather a few extra supplies in case we lose power for a day or two. Then you probably have a hurricane party pr something. Category 3 we really keep an eye on them to see where they're going and to see if they develop any more. Tend to be a bit more cautious. Category 4 or 5 we really start to figure things out, secure windows even more. Make sure that we have supplies because we know that we'll be without electricity for a week or more. Depending on the path and strength, we may evacuate

[@jamiefrontiera1671]

except when they get stuck. I remember in Houston during Allison, it hit as a tropical storm and then just stalled over houston for a day. since it was only a storm, no one was paying it any attention. I had a coworker at a restaurant I used to work at got stuck on a i-10 over night when they were driving home from work due to the flash flooding and traffic. They slept in the car that night and I think she said the water came within inches of the car door. It didnt cause much damage to the city, but it did remind me never to be caught out if I can help it during a storm. and then harvey happened. jesus that was a lot of water.

[@FishermanKyle]

Being in the eye of a hurricane is the most surreal thing. You go from absolute chaos to total peace in like 30 seconds. Going outside and looking up at the eye walls from the inside of the storm is one of the coolest things I've ever been able to do. Was in the eye of hurricane irma in 2017.

[@TheGuruwan2b]

I lived in Corpus Christi for years. The only hurricane I ran from was Gilbert which missed Corpus Christi entirely. I was in San Antonio which had 7 tornadoes and flooded. Took me 3 days to get home.

[@MrJesterx23]

As someone who has lived in SC most of my life and in NJ during Sandy, I never quite realized how many hurricanes I’ve experienced myself… kinda a lot…

[@weebeditz512]

When a hurricane name is retired they usually do it if it caused significant damage and loss of life also hurricane names are retired to pay respect to victims lost to that particular hurricane so they don’t use it for future storms to prevent confusion and yes you can still name you kid Ian

[@_nylemovedacc7672]

back during harvey, it mustve rained for four days straight. I remember driving to a nearby town and having to stop because just past the bridge was nothing but water- you couldnt get downtown. there were maybe 10 or so cars parked by the waters edge and groups of families all around. Some were maybe trying to pass through, some were family, or some lived in the flooded area. i was 10 at that moment and i dont think ill ever forget it haha

[@musicluver17100]

And now you're going to experience Hurricane Milton which is a hundred year storm. Hunker down and stay safe, praying for y'all and everyone else in the direct path.

[@kaylakerbs3470]

2:04 “IN THE EYE OF A HURRICANE THERE IS QUIET… FOR JUST A MOMENT” did any other hamilton fans scream this??😂

[@TheMysticalCat970]

Yessss

[@monicasojka2738]

I am on the of North Carolina near the South Carolina border and we have a 3 or 4 Hurricane Helene headed here Thursday.

[@Depression_getsMe]

Be safe.

[@taylorlawrence8252]

My foothill friends are already flooding Asheville is badddd rn

[@monicasojka2738]

@@taylorlawrence8252 Be safe

[@taylorlawrence8252]

@@monicasojka2738 you do the same, monica💙🇺🇲

[@reginairvine3919]

Louisiana here....that blank circle you were asking about is the eye...its very very calm in there. You go from 140 mph winds to dead quiet til the other side makes over your location then bam loud and windy again.

[@Valandar2]

5:45 This is actually why a lot of pre-modern Southeast Asian villages were made of very light, thin materials - far, far easier to rebuild after a typhoon or earthquake.

[@Jaxsonriverav2.2210]

Yo Adam, react to the el reno 2013 tornado if you didn't before.

[@Out-Of-Service]

I live in Cape Coral, Florida and you can see we took a direct hit from Ian on the map he showed. Writing this while Hurricane Helenea is kicking off outside right now. Ian was crazy. We had a 4 foot river of water down our street. It lasted about 9 hours in total. Florida is all sand so when we woke up the next morning, all the water was gone. My daughter found a 3 foot saltwater fish in a puddle at the end of our street. People had fish stuck in their chain link fences too. There was a 45 foot boat laying in the middle of one of our main streets. We had a mailbox from a home 2 streets away laying in our side yard. Just crazy shit you would never think you would see. I'll try to remember to email you some pictures after work tonight. As for that clear circle in the middle, that's the eye and it is dead calm in there. We briefly went outside when the eye of Ian passed over. It was like a nice sunny day for about 25 minutes and then all hell broke lose again on the back side of the storm. The back side was much worse. Ready to ride out another one. Send it!

[@ScottyM1959]

I've lived in the Gulf Coast area since 2018 and have dodged a bullet twice with hurricanes. We'll Hurricane Helene is heading our way set to arrive Thursday, so I'm praying for another miracle because I'm not in good shape. I'll try to keep you posted on how it goes. That hole in the storm is called the eye, and it's like a break in the hell around it, but it starts again. Yes, feet, but that's coastal. River rises that flooding is hell. The rivers recede, tides go back to normal, and things get dried and torn up and hauled off and rebuilt.

[@TheJerseyNinja]

I was on a cruise ship in Baltimore getting ready to head to Bermuda when Maria was coming up the coast. We had to travel south along the coast to avoid it then out to Bermuda. That was the most rocking I’ve ever felt a cruise ship

[@revgurley]

Grew up in Florida, so experienced a lot of them. But when I moved to North Georgia, I thought I was in the clear. Nope! And there's a possible Cat 3 storm headed toward the Florida panhandle and will sit over Atlanta for a while. Could see winds well over 60mph and 4-8 inches of rain in 2 days (10-20cm), in NORTH GEORGIA. I luckily don't live in a flood prone area, so I'm mostly afraid of the winds. We have a lot of old trees in the neighborhood, some 50-70ft tall. If one falls from winds two houses over, it could still hit us. We're thinking about food that can be shelf stable in case we lose power (we always lose power. It's just an Atlanta thing).

[@melodygrim471]

Yeah, we've got another one coming in the next couple days. (Batten down your hatches!) That circle part you pointed out at the beginning is the eye of the storm - it's calm, peaceful, sun is shining - and then the winds hit from the opposite direction! Yeah, it's not fun - even though lots of people still have hurricane parties! Yes, when they retire a name it won't be used again for a storm. Tropical Storm Helene is on her way in - they're saying it will be a Cat 3. Right now we're under Tropical Storm Watch, Hurricane Watch and Flood Watch. These things bring out the best in people - and, sometimes, the worst in people. We're all in the same boat, so to speak. So people share what they can, and give what they can. Yes, there are people who try to go into devastated areas and loot - taking even more from people who've already lost most of what they had. Insurance can never replace everything. Pictures, family records, keepsakes - they'll be gone. But - you have your lives and your loved ones. And, often, New friends. It's great if you have a generator, too. The longest I went without power was 2 weeks, when I lived in Houston, and 11 days in Tampa. Lost my home 2 years ago - the roof was peeled off! A tree squished my pickup. Everything inside my home was destroyed. I had gone to my son's (he lived in a HOUSE - not a motor home like I had. My husband and I had traveling plans before he collapsed) - not expecting much from the storm, so I took my guitars (just in case), my parrot, and a change of clothes - ONE change of clothes! I've been trying to rebuild since then. Didn't have insurance - I was still paying the bills from my late-husband's cancer. But we get through it. Like I said - we've got one coming in in a couple days. The rains get here before - and after - the storm's arrival. So - if you're a praying person, please pray for us

[@TurbineFlyer]

I live in Nevada where we once in a blue moon get the leftovers of a hurricane and we don't get tornadoes often. But we do get wildfires and earthquakes. We got the leftovers of hurricane Hillary and the amount of rain we got completely overwhelmed our grounds ability to absorb it.

[@twohipp2tripp]

When I was a young boy, I lived in the New Orleans area when hurricane Camille came through. I am actually from Mississippi. So once Camille came through we drove over to check on family members. As we were coming down the main highway on the golf. There were tugboats and ships washed on shore. As a kid, I will never forget that image. And to add to that I was here during hurricane Katrina. It broke my heart to see the place. I grew up as a child young man and an adult changed forever all of the landmarks and buildings that I grew up seeing on the coast were gone. You have those familiar landmarks that let you know where you are to make your turns. Many times I had to take the next road to get to where I was going. No more landmarks no more nothing. Thankfully we lived several miles north of the interstate in the county. Two storms and I will always remember as I get older. this is just part of life as you live here. And every time we bounce back, I live in Gulfport Mississippi now.

[@JPMadden]

The "Bhola" cyclone (hurricane) that struck Bangladesh and India in 1970 caused the highest known death toll, between 300,000 and 500,000. As difficult as that is to comprehend, the worst deadliest natural disaster of any type might have the Yangtze River flooding of 1931. The flooding, illness epidemics, and famine killed at least 422,000 and possibly as many as 4 million.

[@bjcm501]

Just now seeing this right after the internet came back after helene tore through the SE here in the foothills of NC. One of the worst flooding events I've seen here with shallow rooted trees and landslides all over in an area that doesn't normally get hit with hurricanes this hard

[@charlayned]

Oh I remember Hurricane Harvey VERY well, we live between Galveston and Houston. Our subdivision and small town got 52 inches of rain. My entire neighborhood, except about 7 homes, was under water, some up to the eaves of the houses. Our house was one of the 7, but the flood water came halfway up my driveway. We had an airboat in our front yard, picking up neighbors who got flooded out. My oldest son, a volunteer firefighter, spent 4 days in a boat pulling people out of the attics of homes. We did get roof damage, it rained in my living room. We're older and put out a message on the neighborhood elist asking for someone to come help us pull the wet carpet out. A guy, who said he was bored stiff since the storm, waded through deep water to come help us. We ended up putting in tile, I'm not going through that stuff again. Where does the water go? It drains off. Our neighborhood has Clear Creek that goes into Clear Lake, then Galveston Bay and on out to the Gulf of Mexico. Why Galveston got smacked so hard in 1900? It's what is called a barrier island. The only way off, back then, was on the railroad via a bridge or a ferry. The highest point was 9 ft above sea level (and that's near the Strand on the inland side of the island). Most all of the homes were wood, some brick. There were big churches (you could see them in the video, which, btw, was taken by Thomas Edison). When the storm surge hit, it knocked over homes and businesses, drowning most people. There was a Catholic orphanage on the west side of the island. The sisters tied the children to them with clothes line rope. They all sang "Queen of the Waves" to try to calm the children. When the water got too high, they run up stairs, only for that to flood and then the two buildings collapsed. The entire orphanage, except for 3 older boys who weren't on the ropes, died, one group was found on the mainland, all still tied together with the nun who was trying to help them. The boys only survived by holding on to a tree. The next day, when the sun came up, the damage was horrible. Not only people were killed, but horses, dogs, and even cattle. All piles under debris. They got men, mainly black but also others, to pull the bodies out of the rubble. They gave them whiskey to help them get through the horror. This was done at gunpoint so that the men would work through the awful things they were pulling out. At first, they tried burying the people in the water of the gulf, rowing out and pushing them into the water. Unfortunately, the waves carried the bodies back to shore. Many bodies had to be piled up and burned. This is partially why there was such a problem with the counts. Those who could be identified, and not so mangled, were put into the cotton warehouse and people filed through trying to find family members. In some cases, whole families died together, no one to claim the body or identify them. Once the cleanup was done, the city build a 17-ft seawall on the Gulf side of the island. Then, one of the most amazing feats of engineering happened--they jacked up every building that was left standing and pumped sand from the gulf into the city and under all of them. Some homes weren't raised, they just put sand inside the first floor, you can still see the windows but it's not accessible. The second story became the ground floor. But the giant churches, and buildings were lifted into the air with jack screws that were wound up by mules walking in circles. They raised the grade of the island from 17 ft at the seawall to just a few feet on the inland side where the wharfs were. And that seawall has held. We've had water push over it but it's managed to keep the floods away. During Hurricane Ike, the water came in, not from the Gulf side, but pushed through the waterway between the mainland and Galveston island and flooded downtown. There are buildings there with marks on the walls as to how high the water got. It's impressive, some was over 7 ft high. We live 15 miles from Galveston, and we've been down there a lot. There are a few videos on KZbin about the Galveston hurricane of 1900, and some good books on it,

[@jacobnyhart6862]

Inside the circle (the eye of the hurricane), it is very calm and peaceful. Oftentimes, if it's a well-defined hurricane, you can look up at the beautiful sunshine and enjoy the peaceful chirping of birds until it's movement brings the eyewall over you and the storm gets nuts again on the other side. I was in the process of graduating from US Navy bootcamp in 1992 when Hurricane Andrew ripped across South Florida. He said Andrew was in 1993, but it was in August 1992. After I graduated, instead of taking time off before reporting to A School, I went on temporary duty assignment to Homestead, Florida to help with cleanup efforts, and supply distribution. It was surreal. Talking with residents as they looked out over the vast landscape of nothingness trying to figure out where their homes once stood with no point of reference to even know what street we were standing on. So heart-wrenching. Andrew single handedly created the crisis of the invasion of Burmese Pythons in the Florida Everglades after a facility that housed them was destroyed.

[@rebeccagriffin8814]

I live in North Carolina and I live through a lot of these hurricanes and we just had a tropical storm hit yesterday went all the way up to our mountains, where my brother lives and flooded our mountains

[@tiamarrow6366]

Born and raised in New York for 22 years, the only storms I personally remember are Irene, and Sandy and I’m honestly surprised that Sandy was a honorable mention considering the damage and cost from the storm. Both storms hit when I was in middle school. Irene honestly wasn’t that bad, I believe she was a tropical depression at the time of landfall. Now me being in middle school at the time, I was still pretty young so I was scared but it looking back….very little damage, just a slightly glorified thunderstorm. Sandy however was a menace. Superstorm Sandy, Hurricane Sandy, Frankenstorm Sandy (since she hit right before Halloween) was horrible (worse than Ida in my opinion.) Sandy I believe was classified as a Cat 3 storm but the impacts and damage could’ve been Cat 4-5 levels. On Long Island there’s still some areas that were destroyed during the storm that haven’t been rebuilt at all.

[@hannahukki]

currently waiting on hurricane helene to pass by as im watching this, i experienced hurricane ian as a direct hit, still one of the most horrifying things i've gone through in my life. edit to explain more of my experience: as i'm watching this im learning things i didn't even know, i didn't realize my county dealt with the most deaths, i remember each day after the hurricane checking twitter to see when i can expect power to be back (we were without power for 9 days and we didn't have a generator) and i just remember each day i looked, the death toll was going up as they were finding more people. a lot of people also died after the storm already hit from heat stroke (mostly the older people since we were experiencing a cold front, but it did start to get hot again after a week) as well as driving over down powerlines that were active. i stopped looking at the death toll once it reached 60.. i had no idea it would go up into the 70s in my county alone. i remember driving to my grandmas house to use her grill with a propane tank since we had been eating MREs that my mom kept for emergency and we had frozen food to cook since it was defrosting. we had to take chances and drive over powerlines, luckily none of the ones we went over were active but i just remember seeing boats everywhere. there were boats in the middle of the road, in fields, on top of businesses, in other peoples backyards. there were even cars parked on the road and in fields like the wind picked them up. it almost looked post-apocalyptic. and the lines of cars we'd pass that were waiting for gas were so unbelievably long, we had my grandpa go out and fill up one of his tanks of gas so we had enough for us going back and forth. i remember the moment the power came back on, they have you turn off all the breakers so when the power comes back on, your house doesnt go up in flames. we left 1 breaker on and it was for the pool lights and i remember just sitting in my room reading a book, getting ready for bed (i never read but what else was i going to do lol) and i hear my sister go "THE POOL, THE LIGHT THE POOL LIGHT IS ON ITS ON" and i just remember we all start screaming LOL and we all ran outside and all the house lights down our street and the street next to us were on, the street in front of us didn't have their lights on yet. and i remember watching my neighbor run out of her house, scream as loud as she could, like a "WOOO" and run back inside, it was honestly adorable LOL. i did have to call 911 for the house behind us though because there was sparking coming from one of the powerlines, they arrived within minutes and awkwardly the people weren't even home, i remember watching them pull into their driveway when the cops were already there.. i felt bad for getting the cops at their place especially at like 9pm but if i didn't call who knows what would've happened. one last thing is that i remember that we were hiding in the laundry room, 5 people and 5 cats, for 11 hours. none of us ate anything that day and we only had 1 jug of water for all of us. no one knew how bad ian was going to be until like a day before so we were very unprepared. hurricane ian also staled over us for a few hours (i believe?) so that made it a lot worse for us, we got the back end of the eyewall. overall horrifying experience but the moment we got power is a moment i'll always remember fondly. another edit: i just remembered that there was also literal shit water leaking from the manholes in my whole neighborhood and we had to have our windows open cause yk no power and we were sweating n literally the whole house just smelled like shit... we all walked around with febreze LOL and i remember waking up in the middle of the night just to spray frebreze n then go back to bed.

[@SisterTurtle]

My family and I evacuated 2 days before Katrina. (I lived in New Orleans.) It was a decision that saved our lives. We were allowed back a week later after the water went down (we had special business passes). When I tell you there were no sounds, it was eerily quiet. No crickets, birds, or bugs of type were left. The only sounds we heard were helicopers flying. That is something that will haunt me forever. The amount of destruction was unbelievable and unfathomable. It taught us to be thankful for what we had (family, friends, neighbors), to be humble, ask for help, file for bankruptcy, start over, build stronger, and never take things for granted.

[@markusstevensakabiginfinit9523]

Literally just went through Helene & Milton back to back recently... Insane. And i was a kid when Andrew hit in 1992. Irma, Ian, Charlie, Hugo. Florida goes through it for sure. But anything on the Atlantic coast & Gulf get destroyed by Canes. Sometimes spawning tornadoes in the area. Katrina in New Orleans, Harvey in Houston, Camille in Miss & Alabama, Sandy in NYC, Hart in the Carolinas... late summer months are always the most nervous times for us

[@mentaya11]

I was in one of these. I was going to school at Texas A&M Corpus Christi when Harvey hit. Actually was taking meteorology that semester. Had some fun data to go over that semester, I'll tell you! I remember hearing about the hurricane coming, and people getting worried, then the estimated strength kept getting cranked up. By the time it was 3 moving on 5 I knew it was time to get out of dodge. Only problem: I didn't have a vehicle. So I looked up bus routes and evacuation routes and the day the hurricane hit I took a chain of about 3-5 buses to get to the evacuation point, and waited with many families who lived in places that weren't going to be safe when Harvey hit. Almost everyone in that building got a bus, but not quite. They had to stop sending buses when the winds got bad enough. I was on the very last evacuation bus out of Corpus Christi headed for parts north. By the time we left the station, the hurricane was already there. Only strong enough for category 1 winds where I was, but we were in the storm. I wasn't able to get back into the city for several weeks. Quite an adventure. Corpus was lucky though. Harvey turned a bit at the end. We got hit hard, but Port Aransas was hit much harder. And the rain that fell on Houston... I did some math back then on the estimated rainfall on Houston. I estimated that in the 3 worst days Houston had more water dumped on it than the Mississippi River discharged in that same period. Checking today, that may have been very underestimated. The Mississippi River releases 470,000 cubic feet per second. Multiplied by 86,400 seconds in a day, times 3 days, times 7 and a half gallons per cubic foot and I get just north of 911 billion gallons of water or 7.6 trillion pounds. Harvey dumped by current estimates 27 *trillion* gallons of water on Houston (or 225 trillion pounds). Granted, Harvey was over Houston for 5 days....but still. That storm was a monster.

[@katiewennerberg210]

Lifelong Texan, I live in Dallas so by the time hurricanes hit me at most it’s a strong storm and nothing special, I remember a couple as a kid. When Katrina hit I was 3. A few years later we took a family road trip to Florida and drove through New Orleans. I have vivid memory of seeing the damage still left in its wake. Abandoned houses still marked with the spray paint indicating if it had been searched, if people were alive or dead. I don’t know that I fully understood it, but that was pretty horrifying even years after the fact. My mom at the time explained it as best she could to me, so I knew what the paint was but not fully understanding the significance of lives taken since of course a lot had been rebuilt at that point. I write this as the latest hurricane to hit Florida, Helene went through. I contacted friends and family that live there but haven’t heard back yet. I assume just because power and cell reception always get wiped out. Still though, until I get those texts back I do worry a little… every time.

[@michelleponzio]

When I was in basic training at Keesler, I was stuck on base for Hurricane Bret. While I was in the Air Guard here in NJ, we did shelter guarding at the evac centers during Hurricane Irene. It was surreal watching the cars evacuate out while we were driving in towards the hurricane. We did the same for Sandy.

[@cynthiapeller2195]

I don’t know when you’re coming here to Florida, but Thursday we’re expecting to get hit with hurricane Helene. I’m sure you bought “VACATION INSURANCE” just in case your resort is closed or damaged? Orlando is further inland from the gulf and it should weaken before impacting your resort, but it would “dampen” your plans. The center of a hurricane is called the eye, the eye wall has the strongest winds, inside the eye is dead calm with blue skies. Strong hurricanes also spawn tornadoes, it’s still hurricane season June 1st thru November 30th but beautiful this time of year. Enjoy your time here.

[@Benshaus]

The house I live in flooded last year after Hurricane Idalia. The water level was not very high, but it caused some damage. I live in Oldsmar, FL, where flooding is expected since we're so close to water. Even during regular thunderstorms, part of the sidewalks in the nearby park are covered by water.

[@alexkoteles9126]

2:11 That is what meteorologists call the “eye of the storm” due to it literally looking like that. Is is literally the most *_Safe_* place you can be if the storm has hit.

[@Shmeef_4L]

As a Floridian we just got hit with our first of hurricane season yesterday lmao

[@miers2002]

I'm surprised we've only gotten 1 this season

[@Shmeef_4L]

@@miers2002 i hear we have another next weekend

[@BILLYBOBB3080]

It's clear in the eye. You can actually see stars. It's kind of really peaceful.

[@nightthornkvala94132]

The a cappella group Home Free did a video called God Blessed Texas and all the proceeds from that video went to help the people in Texas after Hurricane Harvey, especially Nederland, Texas, which got drowned in 60 inches of rain. Tim Foust, the bass singer of the group is from Nederland and his mother and sister still live there. The video show them in the recording in the studio then switches to showing the flooding and people helping those affected by the storm, getting people and animals about of the water and bringing in much needed supplies. Tim's family is seen briefly unloading trucks of food and supplies.

[@rudebega1494]

I’m a Louisianan, and have lived through quite a few of these. Growing up, my grandmother lived on one of the Louisiana chenieres (sort of silty, heavily-wooded swamp plains along the coast that could be quite isolated). She told me that back in the day when there was no real forewarning about hurricanes, they’d climb up onto one of the oak trees and basically lash themselves to the high branches and just wait out the storm because the water would get so high. It was, unsurprisingly, extremely miserable and terrifying!

[@Oz1976]

Florida man here. Have lived in Florida since 1983 in the Tampa area. I've also lived in Tallahassee while at FSU and Panama City/Lynn Haven after graduation, now back in Tampa (we just dealt with two of these bastards Helene and Martin). First question you ask, yes, inside the "eye" of the hurricane it's REALLY calm. Like, eerily calm. Have experienced it a couple times. 1 minute it's wind and rain and debris and then the next nothing...till the other side of the eye wall comes and it's back to chaos. That first Hurricane, Ian, actually sucked ALL THE WATER out of Tampa Bay. We could walk out on to the bay bottom for miles. The fires start from power surges, transformers popping, and EV's lithium ion batteries reacting with the salt water. Look up the Tesla that exploded in a guys garage from Helene's storm surge a month ago. He had a RING cam in his garage and caught the storm surge flooding his garage, reacting with the Tesla battery and causing an explosion and subsequent fire in his home. And yes, we DO have "Hurricane Parties" in Florida. While at FSU we used to get cases of beer and go hang out on the Intramural Fields playing football in the storms in the mid-late 90's. At the end of the video: "I can't imagine this. That picture right there"...shows a picture of a boat amongst debris. Brother, I live on Harbour Island in Tampa, FL. We had a boat in our "backyard" less than a month ago from Helene lol. And that was JUST from the storm surge, Helene didn't do anything else here but push the water up. Look up the videos from the recent hurricanes Helene and Milton.

[@TrulyUnfortunate]

It's pretty calm in the eye. The thing that really sucks when you get hit with a hurricane is the wind will switch directions on the other side of the eye wall. So it beats the crap out of you from one direction and then finishes you off when the wind does a 180 and gets you from the otherside. I've been through 3 or 4 hurricanes in my life time and came out with very little damage,mainly tore off shingles and a blown over fence. It really sucks when they hit at night and you cant see whats coming. As I mentioned hurricanes can spawn tornadoes usually on the leading edge of the storm. Sitting in the dark with no power and not being able to see whats coming is nerve wracking as hell!!!

[@katerinapeklenk1269]

I was 14 years old when Harvey made landfall. The nearby storm drain helped keep our house safe, but the floodwaters covering the road were still knee deep. Our church was covered in at least 27 inches of water and needed 13 months of repairs before we could use it again; the nearby Episcopal church was even less lucky as they never really recovered its original building afterwards and had to find another one.

[@kate2create738]

Never have I been grateful the coastal area I live by is cold water thanks to Alaska, Thank You Alaska for giving those of us on the West Coast icy water!

[@Omni-King-o1w]

Im from Louisiana, we have so many hurricanse within the past 10 years😂

[@MrTech226]

Center of a hurricane is called an "Eye". Storm's eye, hardly any wind, very quiet especially at night. It happens in of course in Florida over my house when Hurricane Jeanne struck in the area near Hobe Sound, Florida in 2004. My family and I were standing in the yard next to one of our big trees fell on top of fence with root base showing out of the ground during the eye, but we hurried back in the house because other end of the storm will cross over the house with high winds and horizontal rains (winds pushing rain horizontal). We didn't have power for 9 days after the storm. National Guards handed out MRE's, Meals Ready to Eat to each family. I lived through least 10 storms since 1972, living in Florida

[@joiedevivre2005]

Sitting here in South Carolina, waiting for the remnants of Helene to pass through. The reason why the Galveston hurricane's death toll has such a huge gap is because Galveston was a super popular resort area & there were thousands of tourists there at the peak of their tourism season. Plus, entire families & even neighborhoods were washed out into the ocean. They had no way to really estimate how many were lost. Hurricanes are no joke! I was in New Orleans after Katrina, volunteering with the clean up & rebuild. The destruction, & the accompanying smell, was something I'll never be able to erase from my mind.

[@Aleveria]

Keep an eye on the news this week if you want to see a huge hurricane in action. Helene is on its way. It's pushing up slightly more eastern than other hurricanes, so we're going to be affected her in ATL.

[@susanworkman529]

Adam, the empty circle in the hurricane is called "The Eye" and it is calm inside the eye. As the storm passes over those in the center, the eye experience calm. The front of the storm is the largest and most destructive part. As the eye passes over there is calm and then the storm begins again until the entire thing moves on.

[@wyattguilliams5325]

Hurricanes are named Alphabetically A-Z and named accordingly for that year. There's only 1 Hurricane Katrina, and there's now only 1 Hurricane Ian

[@ChristopherONeal24]

I’m a FL Gulf Coast native. We got floods mostly caused by tropical storms/hurricanes every hurricane season. Every Saturday they’d sound the alarm to test it to make sure it was still functioning. My brother and I would get shipped off further inland with our aunt while our parents and older brothers hunkered down to keep the house from flooding.

[@JJfromPhilly67]

The thing to remember with hurricanes is while the death toll generally for hurricanes is decreasing because of advanced warnings, evacuation orders, better design of buildings for the region, but the cost is sky rocketing as more people live in the coastal regions and we have so much more STUFF. Back in the day, a normal hurricane came by, knocked some shingles off the roof, flooding a bit of the ground floor, and left. So you came back, hosed out the mud, cleaned what could be cleaned, threw out the loss, repainted, and moved back in. But today, we have all these electronic devices that become ruined due to water damage (TVs, Water Heaters, Furnaces, Washers and Dryers, computers, your electrical system, the upholstered furniture, clothes, and the drywall. That means so much more money is required to replace all that gear. So while the population is larger and more dense in these regions, far fewer lives are lost because of RADAR, satellite imagery, computer models, and weather planes flying into the storms. Galveston was rebuilt with a huge seawall but that led to the erosion of the wide beaches. Galveston has periodically struggled ever since with ups and downs in its economy.

[@quintoncoswell2506]

you posted this video and hurricane Helene said "hold my beer" 2 days later. Helene has broken historic records and has caused catastrophic damage. we are still trying to pull cities out of the mud near me. almost all of the western part of my state is gone and we live nowhere near the ocean! these things are nothing to underestimate they will snatch the soul from a town in only hours

[@taxiscratcher5935]

I guess no one remembers Hurricane Michael...2018...Took out almost ALL of Mexico Beach, FL. We live in Panama City, and sat in our home watching it destroy the roof of the medical place across the street from us. Trees all around us fell, but none on our house. We couldn't get out of our area for 24 hours, and we live on a main street. It destroyed Tyndall Air Force Base. We were without electricity 12 days. No water for 4 days. We had to drive 70 miles to get propane gas...could not use our debit or credit cards..had to drive that far to use them and to get gas in my van. It was awful. Winds up to 150mph and over since the gadget that measures the wind Broke! But you rarely if EVER hear anything about Michael wasn't even on the honorable mention list. LOL

[@DeadlyCyanide1]

My sister was still living in Puerto Rico during hurricane Maria and once it hit, I didn’t know if she was alive for 10 days. It was the worst 10 days I ever had she since moved to United States because of it and because of other reasons, but it was a major reason for her to come here, but it was freaking horrible, and I can’t even explain how happy I am that she’s OK when she finally called me. She finally had some sort of Internet and some sort of cell service and electricity. It was amazing. I was on cloud nine for the rest of that. Just know that she’s OK.