5 Deadly Natural Phenomena America Has That Britain Doesn't 

Never has a truer statement been made. In N.J. we get hurricane's and the rere blizzard.

Snake River plain in Idaho. Other than a small fire here and there its fantastically low every other disaster. Until Yellowstone goes kablooie.

Why I don't live in California...

I live in coastal Southern California and I do love it but GodDAMN if there aren't a few tradeoffs hahaha

@@irritated888 also didn't y'all just have an earthquake

In lots of places, the water table is too high for basements. You'd probably want to invest in a tornado shelter.

If it's made of brick or stone, you should be fine even without a basement.

Or a second storie cuz that 1st floor door is going to get barried in snow once Mother Nature comes in April to tell you winter isn't over yet

I grew up in a home without a basement in Kansas. We had to go to a community shelter whenever the sirens went off. It sort of gave me weather PTSD. I live in New Mexico now, where it's a bit windy in the spring and the summers have violent monsoon rains. I basically freak the F out, even though there aren't tornados here. It's just unnerving. I'm getting used to it little by little though.

Dont get a basement or a crappy tornado shelter go all out and get a nuclear shelter.

Wish it had kept them away, but sadly for the natives it didn’t….

Well considering how many of them were puritans, probably considered them wrath of god for punishing sinners.

They thought we had biblical locusts too

​@@patroberts5449no one here is "native," not even the "natives" (so called.) Look it up.🇺🇸

@@timothyarmstrong3801 We did have Biblical locusts. The Locust Plague of 1874 is the worst locust swarm in recorded history. It was 1800 miles long, 110 miles wide, and devastated the Great Plains. Their species name (Caloptenus spretus) means "despised." Laws mandating the elimination of the Rocky Mountain locust, as well as the adoption of different farming cultivars/techniques led to the precipitous decline of the species, and the last one was sighted in 1902.

I'm from S. Illinois when I was in first grade out school had a skylight. I literally watched a tornado from directly above me through it tornados are crazy.

My sister lived in Westfield at that time. It lifted two streets away from her house and set down two streets later... phew!

I grew up on the Massachusetts north shore. That tornado really fucked me up. I have relatives that live just outside Springfield - so i was worried abouth them - and even over here, north of Boston, the sky and calm before it hit was incredibly ominous. I was already in my 20s then but I LOVED the Wizard of Oz movie as a kid and was always told growing up that Massachusetts couldn't get tornadoes because of the terrain (that part of the movie TERRIFIED me). It was extremely hard to comprehend that we had an F3 hit....

Either she's super brave/hardy or she has zero survival instincts 😂

​@benjaminmorris4962 Or completely famished.

Lol - as an Oklahoman I can definitely say sometimes it feels like that!

May of last year in the tulsa area we were getting multiple tornadoes a day for nearly a month.

Not EVERYDAY thank you very much. They take a day off every now and then #livein405

Oklahomans: "hold my beer"

I lived in Oklahoma when I was young and then moved to Alabama. Tornadoes are as common to me as wins in football. 😎

Move to Oklahoma, we don't worry till it's knocking at the door.

I'm from South Carolina and when I was stationed in Georgia, my fellow navy southern guys and I would get out the grill any time a hurricane would come.

My dad would go outside, put his hands on his hips, look up, sniff the air and say “tornado’s coming”

The_SCP _Foundation lol my grandma would always tell by looking at the clouds so I’m more than willing to bet he was doing the same but was convincing you all it was his nose just cuz he was a cheeky little shit. Lol he sounds like a great guy or at the very least a hilarious one :)

As a Kansan myself, I personally never seen a tornado, even though we had a few close calls. That Joplin tornado came close though.

Wow. We almost never actually get one here in western ( Dunn co. ) WI, but serious watches most summers. But a deadly one happened when my dad was young, a man about his age I grew up knowing, a fellow local dairy farmer, lost his parents & baby brother to a silo going down on top of them. More recently, and strangely enough while I was living in northern IL for a few years, where they get more actual tornadoes more often, there was one not too far from my home town area back home. But while we have nearly as bad of winter weather, the severe cold etc. here, we don't have it quite as bad as ND ( would here all the temps etc. when listening to the weather radio carefully, on the farm ).

@@ajb.822 The whole northern stretch from Idaho through to New York has one variation of another of the weather that looks good on Hallmark cards but otherwise has to be lived through to be believed. The Derecho that blasted Iowa last August brought back big memories for me, boy howdy.

Whoa! If that would happen today, the teenager wouldn't seek cover until he had taken a vid of it.

wow. I would have probably needed a clean pair of pants after that. I Live in NC and have been very luck to have gone through a tornado (knock on wood) they have hit around where I live but have never personally affected me before.

@@moviegirl1100 I pray that you always remain safe from such catastrophes. The one I witnessed did a great amount of damage.

Alaska suffered the 2nd largest earthquake in history after the Chile earthquake of 1960, a magnitude 9.5. On Good Friday, 1964, Alaska experienced a magnitude 9.2 quake resulting in wide spread destruction and very large tsunami that killed people in Hawaii, Japan and California to name a few locations where tsunami came ashore. The quake lasted 5 minutes.

That quake caused the Mississippi to flow backwards temporarily, or is supposed to have.

Deep Dive did an excellent half-hour video on that named "Why Earthquakes in the East are so much more Dangerous". While I still HIGHLY recommend people watch it, the TL;DR for the title is that the underlying rock is much more solid, which causes the energy to transmit much further and more strongly and absorb and dissipate less. (i.e. The bedrock behaves more like a ringing bell and less like something that makes a thudding or thwacking noise when hit.)

I live in East Texas and have experienced two tornadoes up close. Definitely a good way to get your attention! 😉👍🏻🇺🇲

@@williamscoggin1509 Funny thing is, a lot of people don't realize Tornado Alley extends up into Canada and we get the second-most in the world. If I'm reading the numbers right, we get about the same occurrence per square mile/km... we just have less absolute land area that's part of Tornado Alley.

Or that one of the worst fault lines runs through St. Louis and the last time it went off in the 1850's the Mississippi River backwards.

It's not "overdue." Stop listening to sensationalist bullshit.

@@filthycasual8187 I grew up in St Louis, New Madrid has been thought to be over due for some time.

Yeah, but us living in the US, particularly my Idahoan bum, we'll be the lucky ones dying quickly. Instead of slowly due to volcanic induced global winter for 2 to 3 years. In short, everyone on earth will be screwed if and when the caldera event happens.

oh we are so f*cked when it does

Washington gets earthquakes, occasional tornadoes, occasional cyclones and we have several of the most dangerous volcanos in the world. In other words, Californians go back, it's far more dangerous up here. Perhaps you should go somewhere safe like Oregon.

The south has the worst of them all: humidity

@@24framedavinci39 As someone from Arkansas, I can also agree. 😀

@@24framedavinci39 as someone from North Texas, I can agree with that!

Facts lol

Once, a friend of mine woke up in the morning to find his roof was missing, and the night sky was seen above.

lol. grew up in southern wv and fell asleep one night to thunderstorms. apparently there was a tornado and everyone but me woke up. it was a mountaintop city and the tornado jumped over it. of course, it came down on a trailer park

Great discrption!

@@catcrazy8 Thanks!

A houseboat in a hole in the ground.

*alley

I can't imagine living off ground level, like I used to have a 3rd floor bedroom when my family lived near DC but now? A ranch style manner house is enough altho I do currently live in a 3rd floor flat so I guess I'm back up here

If you live in both at the same time, pretend you're in Miami and build a concrete house on concrete stilts

6) Americans with assault rifles!

This raises my curiosity. What is the best story you have from these little adventures

Sinkholes in Florida are a man-made phenomenon. Caused by overpopulation, resulting in draining the aquifers. Then, when the upper layers of soil get saturated, they collapse into the empty caverns where the water used to support the upper strata.

@@sueregan2782 While what you say is partially true, that's only for some of the recent ones. There are sink holes in Florida that have been here for hundreds of years as well, and folks didn't get their water from aquifers back then. Most of the underground stone in Florida is limestone, leading to the possibility of the ground just wearing away over time until the surface just collapses.

My parents were in Salt Lake City, Utah and heard a roar and saw windows shake in their frames. Hot damn, that must have been a big event.

Wowwww.... that was a hardcore event.

My great-grandmother had ashes from Mt. St. Helens that she collected when it rained down. I live in Oklahoma.

Lol. Yes. For sure. 😂

Lol! My old man used to say “the best thing about tornado sirens is you get to meet the neighbors!”

Put the kids and dogs in the basement, then meet the neighbors in the middle of the road.

Unbelievably accurate. Could have one coming right at us and we’d probably wait until we felt it before we got inside a shelter.

Tornados: the hurricanes of the Midwest.

As a young boy growing up in south western Ohio we knew that if the sky turned green to the west during a storm it was time to head to the basement, quickly. Got very little warning in those days of tornadoes on the way.

@@coldfoot99 exactly

@JM Saultz I know that smell well. There can also be indicators much earlier in the day. More than once I've been out and about on a beautiful, sunny summer day, and my friends and I have commented "feels like tornadoes might be on the way," and sure enough, they show up later that evening. It's hard to put your finger on what it is, but I think it has something to do with the attitude of the wind and a certain brassy look to the sky. Also, "the calm before the storm" is a very real phenomenon.

@@midwestmatthew9752 Part of that instinctive foreboding is probably also our bodies subconsciously sensing the drop in barometric pressure as the storm approaches.

Same

You were praying. He was listening, granting wishes everywhere.

Wow, you had me captivated with this story! I’ve lived through some big quakes in CA, but that tornado story is SCARY.

I moved from Kansas to Arizona a few years ago and the first year I saw a massive dust devil that even had my roommate who was born there going wtf. The monsoons were wonderful to experience because it was almost like being back home.

Flash floods.

I was born in New Mexico and can attest to this. Dust devils were the desert version of tornadoes. I was always fearful of those blackish brown walls that were sand storms in the distance. I live in Georgia now and deal with severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding, black ice in the winters, COVID-19 like mass panic but with bread and milk for those awesome milk sandwiches instead of toilet paper when a snowflake falls.

And don't let's get started on scorpions and rattlesnakes.

Don't forget the sandworms!

That's our attitude, but I was surprised to learn that our weather is more extreme than most. Our area explains the sheer number of storms, but not their strength.

@@kathryngeeslin9509 it's geography; warm gulf of Mexico water, turbulent air coming over the Rockies to suck the warm gulf air up into the plains, where the colder turbulent air and the warm wet air mix, then nice flat prairies to act as a nice thermal sink to produce columns of rising air... And not a land feature to be seen to break up the tracks of the storms. Perfect blender for creating titanic thunder cells. I used to spend afternoons watching the cells build and grow; rows and columns of massive anvilheads, marching across the sky like soldiers at parade.

@@lairdcummings9092 Brings to mind this, "Missouri has a continental type of climate marked by strong seasonality. In winter, dry-cold air masses, unchallenged by any topographic barriers, periodically swing south from the northern plains and Canada. If they invade, reasonably humid air, snowfall and rainfall result. In summer, moist, warm air masses, equally unchallenged by topographic barriers, swing north from the Gulf of Mexico and can produce copious amounts of rain, either by fronts or by convectional processes. In some summers, high pressure stagnates over Missouri, creating extended droughty periods. Spring and fall are transitional seasons when abrupt changes in temperature and precipitation may occur due to successive, fast-moving fronts separating contrasting air masses." --> I would not have guessed that last bit about rainfall, "All of Missouri experiences "extreme" climate events, and such events must be considered part of the normal climate. Though infrequent in occurrence and often very geographically restricted, these �disturbances� produce environmental changes that may not otherwise have happened and that may be relatively long lasting in their effect. Among these extreme climatic events are high-intensity rains, protracted drought, heat waves and cold waves, ice storms, windstorms, and tornadoes. These climatic events, in turn, may lead to other environmental disturbances such as floods, fires, landslides, and abrupt changes in plant and animal populations and distributions. High-intensity precipitation characterizes all regions of Missouri. The town of Holt in northwestern Missouri holds the world record for a high-intensity rain, having received 12 inches within a 42-minute period on June 22, 1947." Source: Climate of Missouri, Wayne L. Decker Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri

In my family we stand outside and watch.the tornadoes till the house starts spinning

@@kimworkman2425 They aren't really dangerous until they get close.

On the other hand, we never did have a Great Stink like London did.

@@bob7975 Just like bullets

As you should! That's proper tornado procedure for the Midwest.

I'm also from Ohio and old enough to remember when they used to make us open the classroom windows during drills to, "equalize the pressure". One of the many silly myths we used to believe about tornadoes!

Ohio here as well! Trumbull county.

Vince P When I lived in Brisbane, Australia as an exchange student in 87-88, I was at school one day and the sky turned green. I told my teacher I was getting out of there (a 2nd floor room with 3 walls of windows) because a tornado was coming. I was told I was crazy, they don't have tornadoes there. I responded, Iam not crazy. I have seen a green sky twice in my life, and twice tornadoes ripped through the town. Not long after we were all told we had to stay (it was time to go home from school). My teacher wanted to put us in this porch area below the classroom that was open. I said no way in hell was I going there, either. I said I am going to go sit in that field over there. My teacher told me, that was stupid, I would be right out in the open. I said it beats under here. This is going to create w wind tunnel and makes the winds even stronger. I said laying down in s field is safer. Well my teacher and 7 of my friends went with me. Then the sky turned blue again and everything was ok. My teacher told us the next day, a cyclone had hit Paupa New Guinea and that was the reason it looked like there was going to be a tornado. The teacher wanted to know how I knew the fieldwould be safer, I told her I spent alot of time in the hallways at schoo, sitting on the floor with my head between my knees and while we were all practicing for a tornado they also told us what to do if a basement with no windows, bathroom with no windows, or a hallway with no windows was not available to us. The internet was just beginning to become available, so she did research the old fashioned way, in a library, and found out I was right. I told her, they could have suspended me for being sassy to a teacher, but there was no way I was going to sit in the classroom, or in that area under the classroom no matter what. What I had been told todo my entire life contradicted what I was being told to do.

From the O also and yep I think once a month we did drills for fire and tornados

I’m from Dayton Ohio. We had 15 tornadoes last Memorial Day two F-5’s went right over my house. They actually aren’t that rare lol.

@Yo Ma *"You **_only_** moved the headstones!"* FTFY.

Mountain dew burns coming out the nostrils. That line killed me.

Mother Nature brought you into this world and she can take you out.

She was bored and got creative with us. We got stubborn and creative right back

Tijuana Lol. You’re probably right

That's why we get along with Australians so well!

I believe it is punishment for what happened to the Indians/Native Americans.

I'm convinced this is why older generations have a hard time believing in Global Warming here. If they weather has gotten worse we've barely noticed. Nature was trying to kill us since we first got here. Disease, Wind, Rain, fire or even the Earth opening to swallow us, it's so common we barely flinch at it.

In more detail: When I was a little kid, a tornado hit our apartment complex. Our apartment was undamaged, but the apartment building across the parking lot was missing a chunk of its roof, and I got to watch our car fall out of the tree it was in. It went on to take the roof off of an Albertson's grocery store.[EF3] A year later, a tornado touched down next to us while we were driving and was traveling parallel to a couple hundred yards away. We quickly turned around and went the other direction. [It looked like an EF1; I don't remember if I ever heard the official report on it.] A few years later, a twin vortex tornado touched down within our neighborhood. It was barreling down our street heading directly toward us. Two blocks down, it took a sudden left turn, and missed us. [EF2] A year after that, a particularly wide tornado stalled on top of my elementary school while we were in class. [EF2] About a decade later, a tornado destroyed the windshield of my mother's van while we were sleeping. It was parked in our very short driveway. The house was undamaged aside from a damaged fence and a few missing shingles.[EF1] A couple years later, we were driving near Houston, on the more inland side, when it was hit by a hurricane. The intent was to make a retreat from the vulnerable area. Just as urbanization turned to fields, a total of three weak looking tornadoes touched down all in different directions surrounding us. Thankfully, none of them hit us, but my mother was notably shaken. Last year, a tornado approached my apartment. I watched it pass by about 4-5 blocks away from my apartment balcony. [EF2]

@@AnasatisTiMiniatis We had one jump over our house when Gilbert came through, and we didn't even know it. We only became aware when we realized all the pets were huddled together in the back of a bedroom closet. These animals basically hated each other normally, so it was quite an eye-opener to find them there and realize what must have happened. The tornado itself was so huge you couldn't really distinguish a proper funnel cloud, so it looked like it was just a really low bank of clouds. But it tore up the airport nearby and wrecked a lot of private planes that had been stored there to protect them from the storm surge on the coast.

@@AnasatisTiMiniatis God loves you 🤯 I'm terrified of tornadoes (even have nightmares of them) and all of this just makes my skin crawl

My grandfather was a captain on the iron ore ships and survived the "White Hurricane" of 1913. Bodies washed up on the shorelines.

Are we related? (see my comment above)

Tornadoes aren't that predictable and they don't last very long.

Growing up in Tennessee, we'd argue with my Dad as kids about wanting to sit outside with him to watch the tornados. You could say he wanted to protect us, but I know the truth; he just wanted to ruin our fun. :p

@@RuminatingWizard They're not, but the storms that produce tornadoes are.

@@leadpaintchips9461 No. They aren't. Supercells develop in minutes tornadoes even faster. What retard would grill in the 6 minutes it would take for that to happen and unlike the wizard of Oz you'd most likely never see the tornado. I've been in 4 hurricanes. You could actually plan a hurricane party. Tornado parties don't exist.

I was checking to see if someone wrote about those earthquakes. They had 7 between 6.0 and 7.5 magnitude. It was a blessing that the area wasn't populated like it is now. Since the rocks in the eastern United States have few active faults to interrupt the propagation of seismic waves, ground vibrations from earthquakes generated in the region may travel thousands of miles. Shortly after the earthquake began, ground shaking was felt as far away as Canada in the north and the Gulf Coast in the south. Eyewitness accounts noted that the shaking rang church bells as far away as Boston, Massachusetts, and brought down chimneys in Cincinnati, Ohio, about 360 miles away.

The Alaska quake, recently upgraded to 9. on the Richter scale.

Iowa's only island is on the Mississippi, it's called Sabula.

The little town I remember living in in Southern Illinois has flood gates in case the New Mad-rid ever gets angry again. There's a rest stop on 55 that does a really good job of showing where the the fault line is and what happened in the 1800's.

It's very interesting reading the accounts of the settlers about that series of quakes. The people slept outside, in the winter, for more than a month because the ground didn't stop shaking in between the second and third quake.

Not a native but a long term resident here. One place i worked back before tje web and email we had magnitude pool. Make your guess put in your quarter then listen to the local news station give out what the usgs in menlo said the magnitude was. To this day i can still guess within 0.2 what ill find on the usgs site a minute later. And have freaked out some of my o.line friends. Me: baby quake? 3.5-3.8. Lemme check. Friends: huh? me after checking: usgs says it was 3.6 epicenter abt 1 mile south of Hollister. Def baby quake.

Same. If it shakes longer than a handful of seconds or increases, I might sit up and take notice. Otherwise nah. No point.

@@adriennegormley9358 We definately don't even wake up for those.

During the last three quakes, I nudged my dog to stop scratching because I thought that's what was moving the couch. Rest assured, when I realized they had been quakes, I apologized to him. He grudgingly accepted the apology.

That's so funny to me. I've lived here in SoCal all my life, and I am so terribly afraid of earthquakes! We had a tiny little shake a couple nights ago and I was instantly poised and ready to grab baby, dog and cat and bolt the hell out of there LoL

@TheRenaissanceman65 Can get a bit soggy though, as in floods of late...

Most Europeans will eventually miss Europe, at least most recent emigrants. The only recent emigrants that feel like they won the lottery by being in the USA are possibly south and Central American, Asians, Africans, and only if they were poor in their country.

- sneezes in Yellowstone -

Yeah.. Mineral, VA already did that.

More like the "This is fine" dog, lol

@40hecklerusp better than the fascist red state ANY.DAY.OF.THE.WEEK

Incisive Commenter Nah. Capitalism rocks.

Incisive Commenter have fun in your bread lines

@@zachdaniel6285 Rocks what?

In "80 my car was repainted & it was supposed to be sanded before the clearcoat put on. Instead, my hubby and I drove it to Seattle for a long wk-end then back to Idaho. When we got back & washed off the thick coat of ash, the rough coat of paint felt like glass. No one could have polished it smoother. It was an amazing surprise.

I was less than 70 miles from it when she popped. It was incredible to me , as the year before I was on top of it staring at the vent. We're all still waiting for Rainier

I was in high school when it blew. We lived in Lake Tapps, about 30 minutes east of Tacoma, up on the hill. Was a Sunday morning, and we were getting ready for church. Heard a muffled *WHUMP* and my mom said "I think the mountain blew!" My dad scoffed and insisted that it was maybe a car accident, or maybe just something falling over. We got to church and everyone was abuzz with news oh the eruption. Ha, Dad! We didn't really get any ash, but Eastern WA did, the Toutle valley, and the Portland metro area. Quite a few people still have jars of ash that they collected.

You must have lived in Eastern Washington.

Volcanic ash is basically sand and aerated glass (pumice). It’s been used for millennia as a smoothing/sanding compound.

I live in Alabama and actually what happens is that an hour before the tornadoes are forecast to start dropping from the sky, the schools cancel the rest of the day and send all the kids home and the daycare schools close and demand that the kids be picked up forcing many parents to sit in stop-and-go traffic going apoplectic while sirens are blaring and the meteorologists are saying, "Don't be in a manufactured home or a car because that's where most people die."

I’m from Oklahoma and that’s how it is here. Back when I was a kid and in school, late 80s through the 90s, our tornado drills were, go sit in the hall, head down, arms over your head. Let’s not worry about the fact that each end of the hall was solid glass doors to the outside. 😂😂

Was visiting Phoenix once in January, we got 1/4 inch of snow and the whole city shut down!

That used to happen to our school system too, however after the 2011 tornadoes hit, and hundreds of kids were still stuck in school ( the high school chemistry labs got hit), the school system wised up a little.

@@peoples_7736 I remember that storm. That was I was referring to. There was a pretty bad storm somewhere either in the late 90s or early 2000s, that killed a bunch of students. After that they allowed parents to pick up their children during really bad storms and caused schools to be built as shelters. I remember sheltering in the halls in 2011 over my lunch tray licking up the mash potatoes. We haven't had anything to bad since the 2011 storms and we never really had to ever use it. I think we practiced and used code reds (active shooters) more.

Lolol

damn, was your mom wearing her brown pants?

Good times, right? LOL

@@mythdefied9070 I was when I was in on ....memorial day Dayton Ohio

It is called a pyroclastic eruption. Caused by high silica magma under great pressure, they are explosive eruptions to be sure.

+James Lucke Whether a volcano oozes lava or ejects ash at supersonic speed,it is called an eruption either way.

Funny that you brought up the word "side" when also mentioning Mt. St. Helens and exploding. That thing did not blow its top. No, it blew its side out!

In fact it’s last eruption was less than twenty years ago.

To be fair first the top of the mountain fell off and then exploded.

I remember this one well.It was a mere four weeks we got hit by Rita.It was the first time our family and friends had to evacuate.Our homes were spared but the trip was not very pleasant!

My best friend and her family lived in Gautier at that time, they got out, but lost most everything they had too.

I was in Livingston perish Louisiana during hurricane Katrina. We were the lucky ones and didn’t lose our home. Many of our friends and family did. I’m glad y’all are ok now. It was a scary experience but showed how many people stick together and helped.

I was just west of Baton Rougue when Rita hit, ironiclly volunteering in response to katrina.

I had family in Gulfport that got out early. When they came home, they had a new lawn ornament in the back yard: a casino. Casino's in Mississippi are illegal if put on land (you read that right) so all of them .. ALL OF THEM.. are on barges somewhere. The one in Gulfport lifted out of the ocean with the swell and a completely flattened anything in it's path with thousands of tons of barge, poker chips, and buildings just riding the waves like a surfer. It parked itself fully on some of the neighbors property but not before flattening my distant relative's house down to the slab.. and it was cracked, scarred and had all the pipes bent out.

To be fair, nothing short of an underground shelter or one of those (relatively) new above ground armored rooms is going to survive getting hit by an EF5 anyway. Might as well check it out- your outcome is almost certainly going to be the same regardless if you can't get in one of those places.

Any time I get tornado watch or warning alerts, I automatically go outside. My boyfriend thinks I’m crazy and refuses to spend more than a couple minutes outside with me. I tell him it’s fine, I know if/when a tornado is heading our way. He just side eyes me and walks back in the house. 😂

My aunt lives in Joplin and I remember that day the rest of the family all lives in PA and we were all freaking out when we saw the news and no one could get a hold of her. Thank God she was ok though

As a Joplin native, yeah. It was terrible. My family (husband and daughter) were very lucky. We were less than half a mile from the path of the tornado, and if my husband had been at work that evening, like he was asked to be but turned down the hours, he would have been in a building that was hit. So, yes, a scary day in our local history.

I remember seeing the aftermath in TV and thought that was the worst sight I'd ever seen of a natural disaster. Wiped to the foundations. Prayed so much for all of you there. Awful purely awful.

I drove through there a few days later on my way to OKC. The damage was profound.

@@garydean0308 I'm from Oklahoma myself, and we sent a *lot* of people to help. Unsurprisingly, we've gotten pretty good at tornado recovery here.

We made it through 2012.

There are a few other volcanoes just as large globally the next to erupt probably won't be yellowstone.

@@ssssaa2 honestly the cascades are far more likely to erupt than Yellowstone

@Google made me change my name damn it ya but it still scares me.

​@@battleship217 Only because of the minor problem of there technically being three active volcanoes in WA at the moment.

Iceland has many, many volcanos, but when you get right down to it, is still a fairly small island.

Laird made my point. Iceland is actually rather small. I wouldn't want to be on Iceland if they all decided to erupt, but the Pacific Rim volcanoes (not just those on the west coast of the US) put Iceland in the backwaters, even though your island is famous for its volcanoes

you also can't forget about the one really big volcano in the US

@@Donosauros_Rex If Yellowstone ever lets go, no one Earth is ever going to forget it - those that survive, that is.

@@leifhietala8074I don't doubt that, if anyone survives it will be remembered in history books for hundreds if not thousands of years and will make all recorded eruptions before it seem like childs play

Britain's always got villains that need gotten rid of, like Richard III or Modred, maybe he's hoping some rather nasty villain gets it.

They said there was ash in the stratosphere that circled the globe from Mt. Saint Helen. The cap on that volcano is growing 10 feet a year. It's probably going to blow again in the next century or two.

We're having another drought year in California. Some homeless guy hit me up for a dollar because the price of bottled water went up again. No seriously. The pantsless guy ACTUALLY took a gallon of water from the cooler at the Walgreens, paid for it, and went back to hide in the shade because it was 101(F) out .He ACTUALLY bought what he said he would with my dollar. Cool. (TBH, my "water" is ice brewed for a smooth taste😝)

If I recall correctly, Florida actually gets more tornadoes (or at least more per square mile) than Oklahoma. The difference is Florida doesn't get as many powerful tornadoes. Hurricanes AND tornadoes - that's crazy!

Or even the Wasatch fault line in Utah

I live right on top of the New Madrid Fault...

@@Ammo08 : I lived near it 6 years ago, in Southern Illinois.

@@isaiahwelch8066 if that puppy slips like it did in 1812 everything from St Louis to Memphis is coming down..

@@Ammo08 : I'd say everything from St. Louis to Pittsburgh -- because the Alleghenies are on that fault line as well.

He probably left sinkholes out because Britain has them too? I had been expecting avalanches, but they do happen in Scotland. I guess that is why they aren't in the video either.

Nope. Florida is going to have to up it's game to make the list. :)

@@illogicerr3769 Hah. True. We have hurricane parties here in FL. They only scare me cat 4+ or when they spawn tornadoes.

@@80sGamerLady I so miss hurricane parties! And tornado BBQ

Green sky is almost always a guaranteed tornado, Followed by the blackest skys during the tornado.

wulffy54914 didn’t know that, we don’t get hardly any tornadoes in Florida but we do get freaking hurricanes!!

@@ceciliag2929 Tornadoes are what did a lot of the damage in Hurricane Andrew. Tons of little F4s popping out of the clouds and razing my ex-father-in-law's boyhood neighborhood to the ground. The big storm and the broad winds get all of the sexy coverage, and storm surge often does the majority of the damage, but hurricanes spawn tornadoes within them.

I was a little kid in the 70s when a huge tornado destroyed the high school in my area of Indiana. I remember playing outside with my brothers and cousins when the sky turned a really freaky shade of green and it got really quiet. That's when my uncle rushed us all inside and crammed a bunch of scared and confused kids into an interior hallway because there was no basement.

@@smartbecauseiam864 broomstick, Indiana tornado?

I too have seen the sky turn green when I lived in Florida. Preparing for various natural disasters is a fact of life here. That's not to say that they're common, but if you're smart, you'll keep a stocked bug out bag in your home and vehicle, and never let your vehicle drop below say, half a tank of fuel, in case of evacuation alerts.

It's true. No sirens down in NC. It was weird moving to Missouri and hearing them on a regular basis (routine testing). But in NC, I think they're only active for a few seconds, maybe a minute, whereas in the Midwest, in parts they can stay grounded (though rare) for up to half an hour. That's far worse, that much more terrifying.

The death rate is always the same, everywhere, everytime. I person. 1 death. *Cribbed from Robert Heinlein.

@SWeRP Hurricane Tracking I lived there in the 70s, 80s, 90s, to the early 00s, before Mother Nature went full-on mental so snow happened lightly with years apart back then. I also lived mostly in central to southern Texas, far from where tornados were known to be. In fact, Waco was hit with a massive tornado in the 50s I believe, and it *SHOCKED* the Waco population because they were under the impression Waco would *never* get a tornado. The droughts in all too familiar with. For a while I lived in San Antonio, situated on the edge of the hill country and the desert so it had an insane identity crisis. You would have like 9 months of like no rain, but with all the creeks you still had obscene humidity! The last Christmas I spent in San Antonio I called time and temperature around midnight and it was like 85 degrees and 90% humidity. Gawd I hated living in San Antonio! You could step fresh out of the shower, dress in perfectly clean clothes, open your door and between the oppressive heat and the inescapable humidity you would be DRENCHED in sweat by the time you make it to the car. I’ve moved over 30 times in my life and I’ve lived coast to coast, and I can easily say what keeps me from wanting to return to Texas is the regular oppressive heat married to humidity that is constant is the thing that keeping me from ever wanting to go back there, not it’s hurricanes and tornados. I don’t consider droughts because growing up there drought was just natural part of yearly Texan hell cycle, you always expect it and always mentally crucify the assholes starting massive fires flicking their cigarettes out of cars. As for the severe winter storms, we created climate change and Mother Nature is kicking our asses as a response. Maybe if Texas can get some representation interested in building a solid infrastructure, they would have a power grid built that doesn’t freak out and die when it gets a little cold out. But who am I kidding? Thats silly thought and will never happen. Keeping chains in the car to throw on your tires to drive safely and winter storms aren’t that bad (speaking as an Alaskan so I know a thing or two about winter storms and traveling after they hit). We can always tell when someone has moved here from a southern state because they drive like a terrified grandma in icy conditions the rest of us have learned how to drive normally. It’s frustrating to see because they drive so slowly in their ignorance thinking they are driving safely, they are actually a hindrance to traffic making driving conditions worse. There are ways to safely travel in severe winter conditions, you just have to learn them then get the confidence to drive with your knowledge, not letting fear of the ice turn you into a danger for others.

@SWeRP StormTracking You forgot Sharknados

Occasional mountain lion comes down to some of the towns in Idaho. They're often mistaken for dogs.

@@jmitterii2 We get them in Berkeley, along with deer, opossums, raccoons, turkeys and coyotes. Across the bay in San Francisco they even have wild parrots.

No bears around here. Lots of coyotes and bobcats, but I haven't seen any in decades (Fish and Wildlife says there are as many as ever though). Only problems mosquitoes, imported fire ants, spiders, little things. Well, one ticked off water moccasin some years ago. North Texas

In Maryland I saw a coywolf when I was driving home at night from Edgewood. That thing was pretty darned big at about the size of a large German Shepherd dog and scary looking. My sister didn't believe me until I sent her a notice from the Maryland Dept. of Wildlife about coywolves with a picture.

@@jmitterii2 My son who was a small 13 year old saw a full grown mountain lion walking along the Boise River in downtown Boise, ID. He was on a bridge 15 ft. up looked down and the mountain lion looked up at him. Adrenaline kicked in and he ran straight home. My son was still a wreck hours later when I came home.

And wasn't it followed by a tsunamis along the West Coast and Hawaii? (He didn't talk about tsunamis at all - Great Britain hasn't had one since the 1700's.

Thank you Skittle Barf! I was living in Alaska during that earthquake! I still do... :)

Toni Solin ofc! I’m kinda a history buff, so that was something I thought deserved credit 👍🏼 Alaska is a part of the US too!!

I remember that earthquake. In fact, National Georaphic did an article on it and I kept it in a scrapbook for years. Had a picture of a woman holding onto the edge of a crevasse that opened into the earth.

Really the biggest earthquake took place in the chilean city of Valdivia in 1960 with a 9,5 scale and a Tsunami. They have to up the scale for that magnitude...

Don't leave your kids in car alone, they could be hit by a tornado! Or even another car having a car accident!!

The New Madrid fault. Not well known because the area was sparsely populated at the time.

I’ve grew up not far from the fault line on the Illinois side of the Mississippi in the town next to one destroyed by the TriState tornado in 1925. We got to have both tornado and earthquake drills in school as a result. The New Madrid quakes in 1811/1812 are estimated to be in 7-8 range, and school drills always included that we probably were due for another big one sometime “soon” geologically speaking.

Yup, biggest by far. He missed out on blizzards as well. A few other noteworthy and historically devastating cat 5"s such as New York's big one that killed thousands and moved the coastline back a fair piece and Agnus of the early 70's and even Andrew that recorded the highest sustained wind, above 200mph. Wildfire that hit western Montana a decade or so ago burned an area half the size of the UK. In any given year the death toll from tornadoes in the US beat the entire lifetime of Britain. No need to worry about Yellowstone though. If it goes, he'll be buried in ash with the rest of us.

And rattled china in Washington D.C.

And rang church bells in Boston and Florida

I've lost count of the tornados. Okie here

Shuuuush! Don't say teh T-word or Moore is gonna get hit again!

And the quakes. And those thunderstorms are nightmares. I always thought I liked watching a good summer thunderstorm here in Idaho. But the ones in OK... they're like living through a bombing raid.

Odd how some areas are hit more. I haven't seen a tornado since I moved to the SE corner of Dallas; my old neighborhood got torn up again last year, NW (and north central, a cluster simultaneously). 0

There's an area a few miles away from me where it just seems like tornadoes land every year, and they make their way in my direction. Last year that area had twin tornadoes touch down, but luckily they dissipated fairly quickly.. For as much as they touch down near me, I wish I had a shelter. Luck always runs out sooner or later.