Surviving Hurricane Matthew! | The Holderness Family

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Though we didn't get nearly the amount of damage other people did - this is how we survived Hurricane Matthew!
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The Holderness Family creates original music, parodies, and Vlogs for KZbin to poke fun of themselves and celebrate the absurdity in circumstances most families face in their day to day life. They published "Christmas Jammies" in December 2013 and life hasn't been the same. Since then, their popular parodies, "All About That Baste", "Baby Got Class," and original music "Snow Day" have received national news coverage. Penn, the Dad, took a chance and left his job as a news anchor to join his wife Kim, the Mom, at their video production and digital marketing company, Greenroom Communications, LLC. Lola and Penn Charles are always happy, respectful and eat all of their vegetables (that last sentence is a lie). Penn, Kim, Lola, and Penn Charles publish music videos, Vlogs and special KZbin challenges to this channel every weekday. Our viewers have become our family and we try our best to respond to comments, suggestions and special requests! Subscribe to be part of this crazy family! Thanks for being here.

[@sev0xm7]

OMG WHEN PENN YELLED, "I HAVE THE POWERRRRR!!!!!" I LITERALLY DIED OF LAUGHTER! Love yall!!!!

[@peggyharris7849]

You captured it. This is the no-power-after-a-hurricane life. You feel guilty for complaining because so many others have it so much worse, but as the days go by it's all you can think about. 😄

[@lindseybsmith]

Mercy buckets! See! THIS IS WHY I WATCH YOU GUYS! You get me! You have the same odd sense of humor! He Man! Sound of music reference....so.many.things.can't.concentrate. On a serious note, I'm glad you have your power restored. It's not fun for more than a day. We're spoiled.

[@hoosierwood]

Noticed your circus art work. Can you do a tour of wall art?

[@shakeelrangrez437]

yeah I'm spoiled to honestly

[@patgalca]

Proud Canadian here. Glad our people could help out. Happy you weren't hit too badly and staying positive.

[@weloveroyalcaribbeanintern1405]

We were hit with Hurricane Matthew. NO INTERNET! Cell phone towers and Comcast was down for days! There was no better feeling than that first hit of internet! Also little side story.We evacuated.Went to a little motel about 2 hours away...wound up with no lights and tornado sirens going off. And no hot water and no showers for 2 days....when the lights went off messed up the water system! But we survived...but never want to do this again! So happy all is good in your neighborhood...I know many people lost their lives in NC. Praying for quick recoveries.

[@marywright1954]

I didn't know y'all lived do close to me and my family... We love watching y'all....

[@RobHoffman83]

This is why I watch. You definitely know how to keep it positive!

[@theresab2503]

You guys definitely captured what it is like to get power back after a hurricane!!

[@kinseycompass]

I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!! 💗 We done lost our here power in the good 'ol town of Jacksonville, Florida which was NOT FUN so I feel your pain!! However, unlike Hurricane Charley in Punta Gorda, Florida when I lost my house, my marriage and damaged my car, losing power was very, very minor. Nonetheless, I LOVE HAVING POWER!!!! 💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡YIPPIEEE!!!!!

[@tammyreid1070]

Kinsey Compass never here

[@n8trsho]

Thoughts: 1. Are those Kim's glasses on Penn? 2. Coffee is priority ONE. 3. How fortunate the tree fell THAT way! 4. Prep is everything!! Be a prepper!

[@MaggieShayneAuthor]

Three words my friends. Whole House Generator.

[@theholdernessfamily]

Right?

[@juliaeatman5057]

I can feel your Matthew pain...I am from Kinston, NC. We are still rebuilding from the flooding...I am trying to help businesses, mainly restaurants, and homes get back together...my family owns a Flooring and Interior design company. We had record flooding here.

[@buildingahappilyeverafter4240]

Glad ya'll are safe and your power is back. We are a little further west towards Charlotte and were blessed with no power outages just tree damage. However, we are still sitting back watching the water rise around our family in Goldsboro, Greenville etc. It's so sad what the hurricane did to our beautiful state.

[@crazydiamond4565]

We live just south/east of Raleigh! You are right. Just a minor inconvenience and kind of an adventure!! Glad the tree didn't fall on to your house!

[@melbagu88]

Penn that was fantastic watching you enjoy the hot water. I laughed so hard when you Quoted Heman. "By the power of GreySkull I have the Pooowerrr" Momma I know how you feel on the coffee situation. Its my MUST HAVE EVERY MORNING. God Bless

[@chrissywest]

We are from Louisiana and have gone through many hurricanes and the moment you walk into your home to have power again is truly an amazing moment!!! You feel like you can take on the world!!! Thanks for finding humor is a tough situation

[@PhilsFamily]

We lucked out on my street, but not even two blocks away, there were trees uprooted, and major flooding. NC got hit harder than VA, from what I hear. still got pretty wet! Thoughts and prayers with those most affected. Love you guys! keep strong :)

[@singinglady925]

Oh my gosh, how did I stumble across this channel, I don't know, but oh my goodness, these people are HILARIOUS!!! I can't! I'm at work laughing almost peeing in my pants, thank God for Tide and Downy! People are looking at me like I'm crazy, but if they keep me laughing like this at least by Summertime my abs will be ready, child, God knows I need this pouch to disappear! Love her, "I look amazing" and she does! Very funny family!

[@catboxcleaner3532]

Love the on-scene reporting voices of both Kim and Penn. Thank you for sharing family life with us, Holderni.

[@DarrenTech]

I feel you guys. When Sandy came through NJ, we were out of power for over a week. Unfortunately for us, it was much colder and we had to flee to Pennsylvania after a number of days because the house got down to 50 degrees. Eventually got a generator and have it plugged into my main breaker so I never have to go through that again.

[@kyragrayc]

Kim: you don't have a good side Me: 😂😂😂😂😂

[@AlliCrumley]

Glad you got your power back. My sister lives in FL and had no power for 3 days. But I've seen stuff on Facebook that shows LOTS of flooding in NC, near Lumberton. That place looks wrecked! I feel so bad for those people.

[@tammyblack2747]

I live in Texas. We used to have a huge, fat tree in the front yard when Ike hit. That Saturday morning, I looked out my window and saw that tree toppled over. Apparently it had had very shallow roots. The pine trees had all pretty much stayed intact because they were flexible and could sway with the wind. But this huge, stiff tree insisted on staying upright, so the wind blew it over. Fortunately it went towards the street, rather than onto our house. Unfortunately for our neighbor across the street, who had moved his pickup to the street in front of our house the day before. The tree spanned our huge front yard and hit the roof of his truck, totalling it and blocking both lanes of our street. Later that day, a couple of neighbors brought little hand saws out and cut off the very top branches of the tree, which were blocking the far lane of the street. Sometime after that, the county volunteer fire department came with chainsaws and cut up the rest of the tree for us.

[@rainyday4970]

Hi, I live in Fayetteville, NC. Didn't know the hurricane went so far northwest of here. :D It was awful down here, especially in poor Lumberton, and they are still not right. It inspired my son and I to go and start volunteering for the Red Cross. We were under a "boil water" advisory for about a week, and I was so happy to get safe water on again!

[@stacylamar6702]

THANK GOD that tree fell the way it did ---- HOLY COW! Glad you are all safe and sound with coffee, hot water and POWER! (Loved the Castle Greyskull yell at the end -- none of the younger folk will know what that means though!) LOL

[@whisperingeaglelanders2339]

You guys have totally lost it! Thanks for the laughs!🤯🤣😂

[@ACommonLife]

Y'all are hysterical! We live in Cary, and didn't lose our power for more than 30 seconds, but we did have several REALLY large trees come down in our backyard and in our neighbor's yard. Thankfully, we were ok!

[@BoycottNCSoft]

My brother is in Mt Olive. That fallen tree - yeah, he had that too, hung up over power lines, and his house turned into lakefront property submerging the property and family graveyard on 3 sides going up the porch 3' off the ground. It nearly made it into the house (elevated above ground). The water line was higher than it was for hurricanes Floyd or Hugo.

[@aprilgraham9560]

I live just outside Savannah, Ga and it was pretty rough here as well. We were lucky that we had power after a couple days but many other people went 5 plus days without it as well. I had that exact same joy when switching on a light switch when it came back on. 😊

[@natalietilsley9644]

I think their house looks more like a small bungalow from the outside but on the inside it looks massive and the way he sang The Hill's Are Alive With The Sound Of Music, well Penn I wish you and your family could swap places with us England is freezing America is a lot warmer, such a beautiful place where you live💋

[@jennicajenn1191]

Glad y'all are safe, and not to much damage was done. I'm in Florida and we thought we were going to get it bad, but it wobbled at the last minute, and didn't do much for us.

[@Thebodyreset]

Best video ever! I love how real and honest you guys always are. We just missed the damage down here in south florida, our house being ON the water we were just south of where it really hit hard. I'm glad you were all ok and just love your videos!!! :)

[@deek6115]

At the "COFFEE" I had to "thumbs up!" :)

[@Ihav3angels]

Glad you guys are safe and sound.

[@RagginDragon13]

When we had Francis and Jeanne come through, we lost power for 9 days and 6 says...Matthew luckily barely missed us and we were only out for 12 hours this time...I was so grateful!!! You guys look like you are having a great time anyways!!! Glad the tree didn't fall on your house :)

[@claudiamiller7730]

Forced my DH to get a Generac installed in our last 2 homes…too old to to be foolin’ around with gasoline and dragging dirty construction site extension cords thru windows and on my carpets. Was the only house with power on the block on Thanksgiving, 2021….for 12 hours! Greetings from Charlotte and Flat Rock, NC!

[@joanncrawford5784]

Though I sympathize with your excitement of the power coming back on, the most exciting part is knowing that famous youtubers live where I live ('cause I thought most of them live in LA or NY). I grew up in a neighborhood off of Leesville Rd. and currently live off of Lake Wheeler Rd. Raleigh is home and I'm so excited and proud that a wonderful youtube family lives among us! :) :) :)

[@kerridrury4240]

oh how quickly we forget all we take for granted. BTW so glad I happened upon you guys! Breath of fresh air I can't stop watching your vids I think my fave is the "quarantine is not quite over" parody. I don't even love to hate you lol jk I really like you four. Your kids (I wish you could have been my parents) are awesome and fortunate to have you as parents. And yes, I know, before anyone comments - obviously you can't know people behind closed doors of course I get that BUT looking at what you've got going here, keep doing what you're doing I say. Thank you!!!!

[@laurastone2771]

I started laughing when it got to the coffee machine...! Sorry your power is out!

[@MizBryteEyez]

Everyone starts turning on every light in their houses, starts laundry etc. And overloads the power grid .......power goes back out LOL. (Sidenote: after the enormous and crippling iice storm in Arkansas (2006?). We were without power for 3 months!)

[@chaliceflower]

Another proud Canadian signing it. Glad we could be of help. Stay safe.

[@mylestech7301]

at the end i laughed so hard i fell down

[@rianaconklin6954]

I so know that feeling!! I had to go without power so many times growing up (I came from a family with 3 kids and a single mother who worked 2-3 jobs at minimum wage) and every single time our power came back on, we all freaked out just like this and argued who got the first shower lol!! So accurate 🤣🤣

[@annajdaniel]

I am sooo glad you all were safe! God bless you and your family and thank you for this cute and funny video despite a hurricane!!

[@angelabest5673]

I live in Fayetteville and most of Cumberland county was hit pretty hard. But thank God my house never lost power

[@melissahaas8323]

Lol. Glad you all are doing great. Love your house by the way!!!

[@gotb21]

Penn the end was perfect!!!!!!!!!!

[@mishaanderson7690]

So I live in the mountains of San Diego and we never have hurricanes. But we do have these huge wind storms (wind bursts from50-100mph) up here and The power company will turn off the power due to fear of downed power lines that will cause huge devastating fires. The power grid I am on is usually the first to go off and the last to come back on. A lot of ppl out here are on wells so if there’s no power there’s no water. I think the longest we’ve gone without power is 7 days.

[@suzannebert3652]

In December 2008, we we're w/o electricity in Massachusetts for 3 wks. That's when we found out the electrical company never did any updates

[@Mr.Know-It-Some]

Glad you all wasn't harmed by the hurricane and to Ms Lola you channel is going good

[@JustSewTrish]

I love you both!!!! We had a disaster a couple days before the storm. I love your humor!

[@abjdmom]

Amazing view into how anyone suffers when the power goes out. Hot Water is so missed. But here in rural areas we would have no water at all as water pump wouldn't work.

[@gretchenmittelstaedt6703]

Rewatching these older videos because work and the world are nuts right now. Are those Kim’s Coronavirus quarantine pants? 😀

[@michylle613]

You guys cracked me up!!! This was so hilariously funny!!! 😂😂😂😂

[@drainwil]

LOL POWER POWER ,by the seal of me I HAVE THE POWER

[@sharonehly1971]

Penn's way of taking a shower at 5:10

[@carolmadera6842]

Love you guys!!!!!!

[@kingofnothing1433]

As always, when things are at their worst, our Canadian friends are at their best. It doesn't matter to them if it's a hurricane or a 9-11. AMERICA, Canada 🇨🇦🇨🇦 is calling. We must answer their call. They don't need us to rescue them, they only want us to join them. Their cause is our cause also. Let Freedom Ring! 🇨🇦🇺🇲 Friends forever 🇺🇲🇨🇦

[@deniseschaffer9739]

I'm so glad you guys are safe. these hurricanes are crazy this year.

[@angelanix9339]

So glad you are all okay! We lost power for 12 days in Houston during Hurricane Ike...pure misery😐

[@ellemarie79]

Oh I love this family! 😂😂😂

[@kisdav]

love love this video. when things look bad just smile and stay positive.

[@avrinunley4543]

4:40 HEMAN!!!!!!

[@ocean.wxvess]

I love you guys!!!!! I am your biggest FAN!!!!!!☺

[@throwawayjones6005]

I don’t know how you guys did it! That is not a minor inconvenience at all! If we had to live without internet for three hours we’d snap, you lived without, not just internet, but power, for !

[@pumpkinhead6760]

So this reminds me of a story (nothing major) my mom took me and my brother to see inside out and when the movie ended a thunderstorm started so we rushed home and the power was out then a couple hours later I tried my light switch and the light turned on and I screamed I HAVE THE POWER. OF LIGHTS

[@mimi2boys]

I`m from Québec :) Your French isn't that bad Penn :) happy you guys got out okay!

[@theholdernessfamily]

Thank you for loaning us your selfless lineman. They were amazing!

[@bensput2471]

This is me when the power goes out for 5 minutes. 😂😂😂😂

[@heavenholford3773]

I didn't know you guys lived in Raleigh. I live an hour away from there and luckily I didn't get hit too bad! We only lost our power for a few hours. Glad you guys are okay 💗

[@ThePitnikoffFive]

hahaha you guys are hilarious!

[@shakeelrangrez437]

I was in a hurricane. Hurricane Sandy but i don't remember it cuz i wuz like 4 years old when it happened. some of my best friends in Paramus got there power out for a couple of days.

[@Evershear]

glad to know you are ok

[@cortarah]

glad you guys are ok!

[@susanalger8413]

Wow that must have been scary...so glad you guys were ok through it

[@Alisha21210]

the hurricane managed to by pass my family in miami. kept power and water. no real wind or rain out of the ordinary. lots of praying prior though lol

[@HeritageCottageUrbanNanoFarm]

You guys rock

[@amandajutras4421]

love you guys

[@theofficialtuma135]

When we had the Halloween ice storm 5 years ago we went 8 days and others around here went 12 days.

[@RDJ134]

LOL ending ;) And they used a chainsaw, yes a CHAINSAW. Tnx i needed this laugh hard :D

[@MsCrystal1980]

Hurricane Matthew has been horrible! I live in Lenoir county/Kinston area and we are still underwater thanks to the rivers cresting. So many homes and lives lost. I pray I don't see another 100 year flood 2 is enough!

[@MsCrystal1980]

Oh yeah and thanks for the laugh it was needed and glad to see you have power and that tree that fell was huge.

[@angelblohm2171]

I know the feeling! I live outside of New Orleans

[@geneseo29]

I feel like Penn is channeling Andy Dick at 2:55 🤔🤣

[@ndrose]

All so true

[@mikehillis1126]

You guys are hilarious! Glad it was any worse for you guys. Stay safe!

[@mylestech7301]

I laughed so hard I fell down

[@timberridgekids1475]

I live in Ruston Louisiana and when the tornado came through a tree fell out of my yard into the road and the entire neighborhood (whoever had a chainsaw) helped cut down the trees even my elderly neighbor helped helped🇱🇷

[@dashabooluv7641]

my parents acted the same way when our power came back on

[@carterhall3876]

you should do more blogs there good

[@violetkingcochran8820]

First of all I look amazing! 😂😂😂

[@heatherhopfinger3942]

had a tornado in 2005 and then it dropped a neighbors garden shack from one yard to another I heard it hit the ground looked out and said Whoa

[@ironwolf32]

at least you have a generator.

[@anneengstrom97]

praying for u that it doesn't hit again!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@ashleyedwards8002]

67,000 views! your french isn't bad, Penn!

[@kaileywesseler1959]

"First of all, I look amazing."-Kim 2k16

[@jadegregoric2415]

U guys rlly like power

[@hanginthereguacamole8613]

Imagine if the tree fell the other way, it would've fallen on there house. 😲

[@brooklyns2643]

I couldn't have survived good for you

[@ccappa2001]

lolll

[@karenamoroso1851]

You have no good side right now, Lol 🤪

[@bradenl7349]

So funny