I like Arby's much more than McDonald's. They are known for their shaved roast beef sandwiches. A lot of people get the "horsey" sauce to put on top. It's a horseradish sauce. Spicy and will clear out your sinuses. haha. They have other sandwiches which are pretty good.
During my childhood, I lived in an area where Brown Recluses were common. My parents started teaching me about them at a very young age (4 or 5 yrs old). I moved to an area during my early teens where black widow spiders were so common that I saw them nearly daily from Spring to Fall. Again, my parents educated me about the spiders. My parents also spent a lot of time educating me about water moccasins/ cotton mouths and copper heads which were common in the area I lived during childhood. After moving to another part of the country during my teen years, my parents educated me about rattlesnakes and coral snakes which were common in the area. Parents play a huge role in educating their children and teaching them to not fear spiders and snakes but to respect them and be cautious.
I've been bitten twice by brown recluse spider 1st time, landed me in the hospital for three days, taking iv antibiotics. I see black widows and recluse spiders daily during the warm season. They like to hang out in cool dark areas like brick and block . In the south, you need to check tour shoes, especially if you leave them outside.
I have a lot of colleagues in the UK and its so funny how shocked I hear them when we talking about business travel and people talk about needing time to get a passport. Many Americans don't have passports (which I hear is so weird for the EU). But we have so much here, many don't ever go abroad (and it's so extremely expensive to do so). I live in the Pacific Northwest) I can go to the mountains for snow, down to California or Nevada for desert, the culture here is SO different than placed like Texas, Illinois or even The Carolinas..
The best explanation I’ve ever heard is “Americans think 100 years is really old, and Brits think 100 miles is really far” I went to college three hours away from my hometown, and sometimes I would drive there and back in the same day to visit family or friends. Not the most fun thing to do but not that big of a deal here. I would have LOVED to have been able to just take a train!
I love the farms and corn fields of Illinois, but I've lived in Florida, Wisconsin, and Colorado. I come back to Illinois only because it's where family is.
We live in a log cabin. We call the regular wood framed houses stick homes, or wood framed. I grew up in Southern California. Black widows are VERY common there. We just don't care. Also in southern California, You can go surfing in the morning, ride 4 wheelers in the desert, then go night skiing on Big Bear Mountain...all in the same day.
Yes. Native San Diegan here. Growing up in the 70's and 80's, snow in the mountains was much more common than it is now. An extra fun winter day would consist of going up to Palamar mountain to play in the snow and ending the day watching the sunset at the beach, sometimes followed by a bonfire on the beach.
just a few miles distance inland or in elevation can change our SoCal weather. spent the last 20+yrs in San Diego's Perfect Weather. but now i'm RIverside county and it's a completely different world up here w weather - it's HOT. and the hotter it is - the more spiders that come out everywhere. we have black widows and lots of others that make BIG webs across walkways, etc. more so closer to 'santa ana season' closer to Halloween time - it's fitting. i don't think i could ever move back to the east coast and deal w 4 solid seasons. we have there out here just more subtle.
Canadian born, raised in Florida, I learned early to look before you step out the door for snakes. We have 4 deadly types. We also have several poisonous spiders. My mom picked up a crumpled piece of paper and screamed, she had been bit by a black widow! Her arm turned black and blue but she was fine! We were simply taught situational awareness. Served me well over the years! 😉
The "Dawg Days" of Summer... haha... yeah... temperature as high as the roof and humidity even higher, like trying to breathe a BIG WET GOOEY HUG all day... ;o)
The thing about Tornados is that they can happen as quickly as the snap of your fingers and cause immense destruction. I experienced my first tornado this year, and was taken aback by how quickly the devastation was. While brick houses may hold up better during a tornado, its important to remember the sheer ferocity of a tornado. It pick up my neighbors car, smashed it like an accordian and landed it back down to the ground. In the time it took to snap your fingers. Taking that into account, imagine a tornado tossing around bricks. There would be so much more damage and it would be that much more dangerous. Those bricks would turn into missiles quick. So wood houses actually make more sense because they are "safer" a material to have in a situation like that. Cheaper and easier to rebuild after a disaster as well.
I live in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona. Its very hot here in the summer. We have a lot of venomous creatures here that you have to watch out for. Black Widow and Brown Recluse spiders, tarantulas, scorpions, giant centipedes, 16 different types of rattlesnake, Gila Monsters, and even coral snakes. It’s 43°C outside right now, and it will be 45°C on Monday and Tuesday. That's completely normal for this time of year. It's a punishing place in the summer, but the winters are pretty nice.
Yeah I've lived in Tucson my whole life. I remember always being told to not go too far off the trail when I went outside as a kid. Even going down a wash could be dangerous during the summer because of flash floods in the monsoon rains. I remember when I visited places like Oregon and South Carolina how the wilderness of those states seemed a lot more open to exploration. Arizona definitely teaches you to be cautious of the outdoors but the national Parks and hiking trails are super fun to go on.
Tarantula bites are more of an annoyance, unless you are allergic to it, than actually dangerous and you have to do some pretty serious screwing with one to get it to bite you.
Like others have mentioned, it wasn't until 9/11 that we needed passports to go to Canada or Mexico. Now that I think of it, we didn't need passports to go to Bermuda, just a photo ID. When you think about it, We could travel quite a distance between Canada, the US and Mexico (plus islands) at that time with just an ID. People who live in the mid US area also frequently have to drive hours just to get to an airport, take a flight (or 2) to get to an International hub, then fly to Europe. It's quite expensive and a long trip just to get there.
Ya agrees the Patriot act fucked everything up to were we can't do anything outside the country or inside the country like enter state and federal buildings without a passport.
@@matthewlizotte8904 one does bot need a passport to enter State or Federal buildings, one only needs a recognized photo I.D. If the only recognized photo I.D. one has is a passport, (say, in the case of a foreign traveler to the United States,) then, and only then, is a passport required for entrance.
@@katherinemcintosh7247 you might want to re read what I said. As I said that since the fucking Patriot Act Big Fucking Brother requires us to use passports to enter both state and federal buildings 😤
So as a Canadian I feel inclined to point out that tornadoes are a thing here, although not quite as large as or frequently as in tornadoe alley in the US. The reason why they are much less deadly and destructive is simply the incredibly low population density in the areas where bad ones form. We do still occasionally get one ripping through a city but it tends to be, as best to put it, every city has the story of that one time it happened.
I'm 65 and saw my first brown recluse last year. I was in the process of moving and I found him/her (I didn't check between it's little legs) in the corner of a closet. it was in a container so I popped the lid on, took it to the kitchen and ran it down the garbage disposal. I googled it to make sure and I was right.
I just came across your channel a couple days ago, and you have such good energy! There’s a lot of things that suck about living in America so it’s nice to be reminded of the good things (free refills ARE amazing). I really hope you get to visit one day soon! I live in the South and we’re taught as kids what black widows and brown recluses look like and to watch out for them. I don’t know that I’ve ever even seen one. I’ve definitely seen more tornadoes than I have deadly spiders LOL
My wife has a cousin that moved to Tornado Alley in Kansas a few years ago, and they have a tornado shelter in their house, which is about a 7 ft (2 meter) cube made of steel with heavy duty door that is mounted to the concrete slab in their basement, with a couple of days worth of emergency supplies, bucket for emergency use, etc.
I was bitten by a brown recluse when I was 15. We bought a new house in Missouri and it was actually infested. They were very aggressive and when we tried to squish one with a shoe it lifted its front legs and attacked the shoe. I almost died and was in the hospital for over 2 months. But I did survive 😊
Why in the HECK do British people not have A/Cs? They make what are called "window units," they just sit in the windowsill and only cost a couple hundred dollars. While you guys may not need it all the time, being able to just turn it on when it is say...106 (over 41 degrees c) like today in Texas...is just amazing. Here, most houses have a central ac/heating unit. But many older ones, or people who want to save money, just air condition one room. I cannot imagine how uncomfortable gaming and streaming is on hot days there with your computer just gushing hot air while you play. 😂 Like, 200 dollars, and pay to have it shipped to Europe. Done. 😂
I live in a brick house now, but I grew up in a wooden house. There's no real difference in comfort, but there's a difference in sound. A wooden frame house with wooden shingles will make certain noises in high winds that a brick house will not. As a kid I though it was ghosts, but I know better now.
When I was living in Las Vegas and was very pregnant many years ago, I was fixing dinner in my kitchen and had just moved my hand from off the counter. soon as I did that a black widow spider fell from under the cupboards and landed exactly the spot from where my hand had just been. The spider would have landed right on top on my hand if I hadn’t moved it. It scared the Bejesus out of me. Killed it immediately.
I had a run in with one that had made it a little haphazard web in the tiny space between the wall and a small clock sitting on my bathroom counter. My cat was literally sleeping right against the clock when I made him move so I could clean. I had to walk out into the hallway and put on my big girl pants before I went back in to deal with her. (yes everyone, I am sorry, I killed that one. I normally do not kill spiders though, and even leave some of the little harmless ones around the house because I much prefer their company to fruit flies etc.) I admit I considered just leaving and letting the spider have the house. 😂 (I’m in Central Arkansas, in the Little Rock metro area.)
I’m LA they have surf/ski contests. They start super early in the morning with a surf contest and when that’s over they put everyone on busses and drive two hours to the mountains for a ski contest. The whole thing is over before it even gets dark outside. Pretty cool, huh?
I received an "Excessive Heat Warning" from the National Weather Service on my phone this morning. The heat index (what the temp feels like) was 106°F today. If I didn't have AC, I don't know if I would've made it!! 🥵
Same here today. Got to 101F and humidity way high. My dog didn’t even want to stay outside long enough to pee. No breeze, even in the shade you couldn’t hardly breathe. Can’t imagine getting through it without AC.
I have to agree with the people who say the biggest difference with a brick house in a tornado is they're probably heavier when they land on you. I get the sense that our British friend doesn't quite grasp the concentrated strength of a tornado. A lot of houses in the midwest have basements or bomb-shelter like underground tornado shelters. Because if your house is hit by an F-4 or F-5 tornado, it doesn't matter what your house was built of, and that interior room without windows probably didn't do you a damn bit of good - there's a concrete slab left. And perversely, your neighbor's house might just have shingle damage on the roof. All through my teens (the late 70's/early 80's) I spent my summers in a county-wide 4-H marching band (do Brits have 4-H?). We used to spend a week living and performing at the local county fair (which is at it's most awesome when you're 12, 13 or 14). Our Band (and supporters) had built a single story reinforced concrete dorm, with a large single room dorm for girls on one side, and one for boys on the other. In the middle, but obviously not connected to the opposite sides, were bathrooms and an office. When I as about 15 or 16, a tornado hit that dorm. Luckily, it hit in early June, and the Fair when we would've been staying there is in August. However, on that occasion, part of the band (percussion, I think) had been there for a weekend work-session, and had left only a couple hours early. Some of us drove up to see a couple days later. Half of the building was gone. There was a concrete slab where it had been. The far side at the other end looked like nothing more than the windows were knocked out (and that was probably due to the pressure differential). The middle part was a mess of insulation, wires, pipes and God only knows what else - you couldn't tell what had been there. But that far side, where the tornado had hit head on was just a mostly swept clean concrete slab. What little debris there was probably fell behind the tornado. Interestingly, the only time I personally saw tornadoes - 3, in the same storm cell - was a year or so earlier when we were staying at the Fair in August. The fairgrounds are in the flattest, most open part of the county (for obvious reasons). We had been performing in front of the grandstand when this massive thunderstorm hit (these things come up fast). We took shelter in the cover of the grandstand, mixed in with the people who had been watching us. Usually we marched wherever we went, but under the circumstances, we just sort of made our way back to our dorm to change and go to dinner (or whatever). And as usual, I was taking my own sweet time, loitering at the end and talking with my friends. Though the midway was wet and muddy, it was by then actually sunny where we were, when one of my friends gasped and pointed at the dark clouds that had passed over us, and were now retreating, (looking particularly dark because we were now in the sun). At the back of the storm were 3 tornadoes ascending and descending from the clouds. One very obviously was not on the ground, and was about half-way down (or up, depending). The other two were closer to the ground and seemed to be "skipping" - not definitely on the ground, and not distinctively different at the bottom (as they would be if carrying a lot of debris). I don't know what "weirded me out" more - knowing that had just passed over us maybe 10 minutes earlier, or standing in a calm, sunny spot watching it! (There were no reports of major damage from that particular storm.)
A wood frame house is not just a bunch of sticks thrown together! I know neither you or Laurence said that! Just don’t want you to get the wrong impression. My wood frame house has A/C. I’ve never encountered a deadly spider. Tornadoes don’t care what your house is made of. The deserts are massive. I’ve been to Walmart maybe twice. I needed a new microwave and they had one. Right size, right power. Ok I’ll go to Walmart. I haven’t been to Arby’s in years. The roast beef sandwich was good. I only get to McDonald’s maybe twice a year. Culver’s is my choice for fast food.
I've seen brown recluse spiders. We had them in our house in NE Texas. We've since moved to West Texas. Haven't seen brown recluse, but have seen scorpions. Good times.
I live in Texas where we have pretty much every kind of terrain: mountains, deserts, plains, canyons, hill country, piney woods, beaches, etc. If I see Black Widows, they are usually found in the garage or chicken coop. I find the occasional Brown Recluse in the house. I just scoop them up in a cup with a piece of paper for a "lid" and toss them outside. Wolf spiders are more common in the house and I have been bitten by them from time to time. Also, the best thing to get from Arby's are seasoned curly fries. 😋
We’ve gotten to the point in my part of the US that we see the warning, note it, then keep going on with our day until the sirens start going, then we huddle in the house and watch the storm if you’re me, or hide in the basement/bathroom if you’re not crazy. Storms are cool, especially tornadoes :)
My father and grandfather built houses for the returning WWII veterans in Buffalo, NY. They were mostly brick homes. They're still there and still looking good.
I’m in the middle of the USA (Kansas City, Missouri), and we’ve had a horribly hot summer here. We’ve had week long periods of 100 degrees Fahrenheit. I wouldn’t have survived without AC.
I’m from Southern Arizona, and we have the best weather 20 degrees Celsius for the better part of the year. The summer time can exceed 40 degrees Celsius, the difference is it’s a very dry heat, and at the end of summer in the months of August through September we have monsoon season and I really that time of the year. Within an hour drive the elevation is over 6,000 feet and extremely green with forests and lakes.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I live in Pennsylvania we've had tornados not too far from us, but I've never seen one. Usually hits a couple trees or houses here, they don't stay on the ground too long here.
yep, it doesnt matter what your house is made of. tornadoes don't judge lol on a serious note most places are hit by tornadoes are brick, wood only houses are actually not as common as he makes it seem. most houses are of a strong structure but that also depends on the construction company that built those houses, majority use bricks or modern concrete. most houses around oklahoma have underground storm shelters so you can move out of your house in incase theres a tornado.
most food businesses have a soda fountain that you get as many refills as you want of any choice, not just what you already drank, fast food shops you should avoid. look for mom and pop stops for the best foods, never go the fast food route, those are horrible compared to local businesses, mcdonalds and other places like that might be ok in the UK but not over here. theres so much high quality food here for low prices everywhere.
@stopthecrazyguy9948 that's what I was going to say. Brick or stone houses are not common out here in the Northwest. Brick is pretty expensive and we are surrounded by forests.
I’m from New Mexico and you see black widows all over the place here. They almost always prefer dark secluded places, so if I needed to get something from my storage unit I’ll probably wear gloves just to be safe, but overall they’re very docile and not something you have to really worry about as long as you take the proper precautions. Even though they’re not as dangerous, I am FAR more afraid of wasps and centipedes we get here. Those things will seek you out, unlike black widows which just keep to themselves.
Pancakes are incredibly easy to make! In fact, you can buy the premixed dry ingredients and just add water or milk. But you have to also have consider that pancakes can be regional depending on thickness and sweetness level.
While tornados don't care what your house is made out of, earthquakes though you might fare better with a wooden house than a stone one. Wood will be far more flexible than stone in the event of an earthquake. I believe here in California building codes prevent new structures from being made of brick. We also have black widow spiders all the time and even find them in the house from time to time.
Very true! With the spiders though, you mostly notice them long before they would have a chance to bite you. Most people don't continue to shove their hands into dark places once they feel the cobwebs, unless they are wearing gloves. They are like scorpions in Arizona, we see them all the time but rarely get bit.
It depends on the area you’re in California, and the weather. I live in NorCal, and I rarely seen black widows. I generally see other house type spiders that look more like daddy long legs.
@@strpdhatldy True. I learned from an early age not to put my hands where I can't see. I also grew up in the south-east US where we had brown recluse spiders too. So I learned never to just put my shoes or gloves on that had been left in the garage or outside without shaking them out first. It's something I still continue to do to this day. I would guess you do the same with scorpions too. I've heard we have scorpions in N. Cal too, but I have never seen one. I did have a run in with a black widow web a couple of weeks ago. She had built a web between our electrical panel and the trash can lid. I went out at night to put some trash out and disturbed her and I noticed a quick movement from the corner of my eye and I quickly moved away. Spiders freak me out like nothing else.
The black widow and brown recluse are both very easy to identify. I remember when I was a cable installer, I had to go into a crawlspace, and there was a nest of brown recluses right by the entrance. Literally hundreds of them under their house. It was scary, but I know about the only time you bite is if you scare them, ie. if one is in your shoe and put it on. I've seen tornadoes almost every year since I was old enough to look for them.
Weather aside, brick houses cost more to build/rebuild, especially if they were built the way British brick houses are. Our brick houses (at least those built in the past century or so) are just one layer of brick applied to the outside of standard wood construction. Our full masonry buildings are usually made of concrete block. Walmart recently announced they're moving out of Chicago, so they're not everywhere anymore.
Huh. My solid brick building has cement interior side, center hollow bricks, exterior solid bricks with a total 2 foot thickness. It was built less then 90 years ago.
@@Princess_Celestia_ Well I'm sorry, I just didn't have the time to list every possible construction method to cover every possible individual's situation, so I generalized. It happens a lot here on the internet; you might consider considering that in the future so people don't consider you one of those pedantic trolls one hears so much about, Princess.
I live on the west coast in earthquake country so all the houses are built of wood because the houses need to move when the earthquake happens. Wood is flexible and keep houses from entirely crushing people. Brick is too rigid and it will crumble. So it might have a brick facade and of course there are older buildings with brick but you're not going to get many buildings with just brick piled upon themselves in most of earthquake countries. Now in the midwest there are plenty of brick houses. I lived outside of Chicago in a suburb and there were houses of brick.
Deadly spiders aren’t SUPER common but it also depends on where in the country. He lives in Chicago where I guess it’s too cold for both the brown recluse and black widow. They definitely do exist in warmer climates enough to at least be a little wary, especially in dark, damp environments like basements, garages, or attics
I've never seen a brown recluse before, not sure where they're indigenous to, but growing up in California, black widows are everywhere. I currently live in Montana, and I don't think we have black widows here.
I think it's weird he chose Arby's for this list, with all the other fast-food chains we have 😂. We used to have one in my town, but it closed down. I don't remember it being that great, but hey, to each his own
Black Widow spiders are very common where I live. They like the dark places. We all know to turn over things lying on the ground like boards or old tires. Under our wooden houses we have crawl spaces that can be scary. But use a flashlight, smash them as you find them. Blouse your pants legs. We wear gloves banded in our long sleaves. Their webs are easily identifiable, though. (They are stiff and very very strong.) Even if you have never felt one, if you were to touch one, you would instantly know that it is not a normal spider web. They like a warm climate. Our summers here run between 97 F. to 113 F. degrees all summer long. Here, ac is necessary.
You’ll have a hard time finding golden syrup here. It’s maple syrup by the bucketloads in the US. I live in a brick house (not brick face, all brick, but it’s a row house, what you would call a terraced house. However, pretty much all houses, even brick ones, start out with a wood frame. I think Laurence was in England this past Christmas. Sadly, his dad had passed away around that time.
Black widow spiders are extremely common to see in the USA home. We often see them in the garage and along the skirt of the house outside. They like to hide in dark shaded places to get away from the heat. We often find one in our BBQ when we open it up in the summer months.....I honestly can't blame them when you consider our summer months bring 110-115 temperatures regularly!
For anyone wanting to know about hurricane/tornado life, hurricane season is typically between June and November, and Tornado season between May and July. Anything along the US east coast and the southern coast could be hit by hurricanes during this season, but it may be one part of a state or it could pass through multiple places in multiple states. Then there is what we call "Tornado Alley," which is northern Texas northward through Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and parts of Louisiana, Iowa, Nebraska and eastern Colorado. There is most often very little warning time for tornados outside of tornado sirens to warn those that live in tornado alley, as they tend to kick up and destroy quite quickly. Brick, wood, whatever, it won't matter. Most have basements and underground shelters which is how the humans survive, but the houses often do not. In modern times, you would never be surprised by a hurricane. As it approaches the coast line, we are often given at least a week+ to prepare, given possible routes it will hit, and told what the strength will be. There are 5 levels, 5 being the deadliest and most destructive. Most people do not evacuate for levels 3 and under. At levels 4/5 you may be forced to evacuate (though you can stay as long as you understand fire/rescue will not be there to help you) usually because you may live in a low lying area that will be inundated with water levels so high they are not survivable. Otherwise, hurricane damage tends to be from water damage to homes, and tree limbs crushing houses and busting up windows.
Homes in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas definitely DONT have basements nor does Fla & Ga, though these last 2 arent considered part of tornado alley. As you start going Northward into Missouri & Kansas, you start finding about 1/3 to 1/2 of the homes do. Water tables, freeze lines and bedrock are why Southern homes don't have basements, but forward thinking people DO build tornado shelters which are basically underground root cellars.
Couple years ago, I woke up one day with a spider bite on my wrist and according to my doctor, I had blood poison cuz you can see a trail going up my arm from the bite but luckily stopped right before my armpit cuz blood vessels and nerves are located there. I went to the er before anything bad happened and thankfully I didn’t experience necrosis. Not sure what spider it was but this was the first time in 26 years I had a spider bit me so it’s pretty rare. Also, I was living in a really old house during that time
I had a doctor appointment Monday morning for something different and a random small red dot turned into a big blister, doctor said it was a spider bite and I just have to put hydrocortisone cream on it for 2 weeks, I live in an apartment in Chicago. Has to have gotten me in my sleep because I’m deathly afraid of them, and obviously good reason why. 😂
@@thetabright37 unfortunately my bed was tucked in the corner cuz my old bedroom was small so I had no choice. Now I have my own place, I only have one side of the bed adjacent to the wall but still leave a little gap but for some reason I still have little spiders crawling around. Thankfully they’re tiny and harmless
As a bricklayer in Texas, I’ll come across both the black widow, and the brown recluse very often and tornadoes. You really don’t have to worry about those unless you live in certain states like Oklahoma where they get them at least three or four year.
I'm a southern girl and I've been through a few tornadoes, but nothing like the crazy massive ones they get in tornado alley. I've also never seen a brown recluse or black widow spider. If you really want to see something freaky, google 17 year cicada. GROSS! I don't leave the house when that happens. It's a nightmare.
@@thetabright37I live in a heavily wooded rural area and the sound can be deafening. I was at a friend's house one night and had to excuse myself early due to a migraine coming on. I stepped outside and OMG, I thought I was going to die because they were so loud. Now give me a good rain or thunderstorm and I'll open my window.
Portable A/C units are for sale on the internet. These are not the window mounted kind. They are on wheels and can be rolled from room to room. And are around the same price as the stationery window kind. The portable ones have a short large hose that attaches to a sliding piece that fits in the window frame. Easily installed, can be taken out of one window and set back up in another room. Might I suggest the kind that doesn't have a water holder that needs to be emptied. These portable units are easily stored away in their boxes.
Depends where you live. We have tons of brown recluses and black widows. They are everywhere, and they like to sleep in your bed and shoes. I have black widows in my garage constantly, and brown recluses tend to get in the house regularly. For tornados, its hard to rebuild after a tornado if you use brick. Very expensive.
My dad grew up in West Virginia, and attended school in a brick building. When he was in his 20s, a tornado sliced through that school building, and took away half of it. The other half was left in perfect position, with books still on desktops! (By the way, Arby's roast beef sandwiches are delicious!)
In some areas, I think you can have a combination of both; but mainly it needs to be wood. I think it depends on the state, and the natural disasters that are more likely to happen. For example as someone mentioned, in California we are likely to have wood than brick. The brick is generally only good for the chimney, but other than that… you can’t do that due to earthquakes. If we had brick, then it wouldn’t be as safe; especially if you have kids. A adult might potentially live from bricks/rocks, but a kid will not; especially a baby. So overall it’s not good to risk it, unless you’re ok risking your life potentially.
And most times wooden houses are covered with sone sort of siding. Our house is OLD and has asbestos siding. But this old house, thank the good Lord, has withstood 150 mph hurricane. We have been truly blessed.
Wood houses are actually much easier to insulate than brick or masonry, which is one of the reasons that most places in the world with really cold weather -- Scandinavia, Siberia, North America, etc. -- also favor wooden domestic architecture.
We just finished up a full week of 100°+ temperatures with heat indexes up to 110° (Kansas). I would die without it. We keep it at 68°. It's glorious!!! Being in tornado alley, I have seen my share of tornadoes.
I feel like brick houses would be worse because if your house collapses from a tornado. Bricks falling on you will be more damaging than wood falling on you
What type of pancakes can you find in one spot like International House of Pancakes? Chocolate Chip Pancakes. Apple pancakes. Blueberry pancakes. Strawberry Pancakes. Pancakes with sugared fruit spread out on top and covered in whip cream. Whole wheat pancakes. A stack of pancakes that uses caramel and chocolate as mortar to keep them together. With honey and every type of syrup imaginable, the combinations are truly epic. A month ago, I ate a pancake with M&Ms all through it, drizzled with a dark buttery syrup and dusted with powdered sugar. It's all here in America just waiting for you, my friend. :)
Brown Recluses are everywhere. I find a handfull every year just crawling around. Black Widows are also around but I dont usually see one unless I go pointedly to find one. Tornadoes are a threat BUT not something to be really afraid of outside of having a shelter ready. I live in tornado ally so we have them frequently in the area. That said, ifs almost like getting hit by lightening. The US is big and a tornado, a big one, is a mile accross, most are way smaller. AKA, its a large dart board for the tornado to hit a small area so chances aren't garangeed at all you will get hit. Now hurricanes... those suckers are huge but loads of warning to get away.
I live in Kentucky. We have both the black widow and brown recluse and I've seen them both throughout my lifetime. However, I haven't seen them more than a few times throughout my 41yrs of life on this earth, so, it's still a bit irrational to be freaked out about living here just cause we have these types of spiders.
We have two different types of deadly spiders in my area of Ohio. I have lived here for thirty five years, I have only seen one, one time. And it was a recluse. I squished it and moved on with my life. Actually, I don't even think about them unless a video like this brings them up.
Walmart, the only place you can get an oil change, prescription drugs, a roasted chicken, a Christmas tree, alcohol, a Playstation 5, a gun, a bicycle, hard shell ice cream topping, your local college football team's merchandise, class rings, Pokemon cards, and a SodaStream at the same place.
Depends on the state. In Indiana you are more likely to see a Cottonmouth than a deadly spider. They are more common a bit further south. One of my coworkers had her berry bush taken over by a nest of Black Widows in KY.
My house is concrete blocks with brick on the outside and stucco on the inside. It is wonderful in keeping it cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter, but honey, when it gets over 100, the doors and windows are closed and the air conditioning is ON.
I live in the Sonoran Desert which is mostly in Arizona. It's about 100,000 square miles in size. The hottest temperature ever recorded was in Lake Havasu (which is where one of the actual London Bridges was moved and rebuilt stone-by-stone) was 128F/53C with extremely low humidity. The four largest deserts in the USA are the Sonoran, Mojave (MO-HA-VAY), Great Basin and Chihuahuan (CHEE-WHA-WHAN). Their combined area is about 500,000 square miles or 1,300,000 square kilometers OR roughly 5 TIMES the size of the United Kingdom.
Fun fact: Arby's actually stands for the initials R. B. in the word roast beef. However, in 1981, there was an Arby's commercial that stated that it was an acronym that stood for: America's Roast Beef, Yes, Sir! I believe that it was just an obviously funny campaign slogan made up for the commercials, but either way, it stuck in my 8-10-year-old mind. You're welcome! 😁🇺🇸
You can create a faux-beque in the oven without a smoker. The basics are to cook a cheap piece of meat (ribs, butt, brisket, belly) in an enclosed space (tightly covered pan), at a low temp (225), for a long time. Pork ribs will take 4-5 hours, and a pork butt can take between 12 -15 hours.
When it comes to tornadoes, building material doesn't matter. The tornado will pick up, move, flatten anything in it's path. This past March a F4 tornado traveled 2 miles past our house (we live out in the country). We watched it from our bedroom window until the house started to shake and we could hear the roar of it, then we took cover. This tornado leveled 4 houses, several barns, and threw trees, cars/trucks, and huge farm equipment into neighboring fields on the way to town.
It would depend on the size of the tornado. If an F-5 hits your house the bricks will go flying. If it's an F-1 a brick house may hold up. It's really hard to say with tornadoes though because they are impossible to predict just where they will hit and what they will do. If they don't touch down you're in better shape. If they do touch down, you want to make sure you're in a cellar or something like a bathroom. A tornado can destroy one single house on a street with 12 houses and leave the other 11 standing. It could also take out 11 and leave one standing. It's just crazy.
I live in Yuma, Az. Yuma is the sunniest city on earth and in the Sonoran Desert. The highest recorded temp was around 126 F. My elec bill runs between $400 & $500 a month during the summer. I have found scorpions in my home a couple times and a baby rattlesnake under my car, both were terrifying! A lot of homes, including mine, don’t have grass in our front yards, we have rocks due to water conservation. We’re very careful about getting in our cars as well. You need pot holders to touch the steering wheel. And be careful not to burn your legs on leather car seats! On the plus side, it’s beautiful here, we wear flip flops all year long, my town is on the MX and Cali border, and most of us have in ground pools.
Arbies used to be my top favorite place for my parents to take me when I was a child. The only reason I reduced my visits is for weight management. My childhood order = beef and cheddar + 2 potato cakes + a Jamoca shake (it's like a coffee-chocolate moca flavor, yum!). On my beef and cheddar, of course, I added Arby's sauce and Horsey sauce (creamy horseradish sauce). So YUMMY.
I live in Wisconsin, summer of 1988, we had 16 consecutive days with temperatures over 40 deg centigrade. And in 2020, we had 5 strait days of -30 degrees centigrade. So, AC is mandatory if you want to sleep at night. And a good furnace and warm bedding for winters.
The thing about Tornado-protection things like brick or even getting tornado shelters, 1) they cost money, 2) there’s no guarantee it’ll protect you and 3) most importantly, tornados are a very pinpoint thing. In comparison to land area they have a very small footprint. That means the odds that YOUR house will be hit by a tornado while YOU ARE LIVING THERE are very close to zero. It happens to people. People also win the PowerBall … but YOU never will. It’s like that. So you weigh the cost against the benefits.
here in Miami-Dade County (in Florida) it's mandatory the new homes have to be made out of concrete blocks re-enforced with steel rods.....because of hurricane protection
As a child we'd have one weekend day a month that would be pancake/waffle day. One big bag of pancake mix was about the same price of one small box of Eggo waffles and there's no way my parents could afford enough boxes for an entire month. We'd make massive amounts of both waffles and pancakes with the goal of freezing them as easy breakfast items for the school week. Something that could go right into the microwave or toaster to warm up and we'd eat them at the bus stop waiting for our bus to come pick us up for school.
I noticed you said, "America has everything." This is entirely true. Even most Americans don't comprehend how big it is. I've often said outside of seeing historical sites or experiencing foreign cultures, there's no reason to need to travel abroad. Deserts? Got em. Warm beaches? Got em. Mountains? Got em. Coral reefs? Got em. Canyons? Got em. Waterfalls? Got em. Caves? Got em. Lakes that would qualify as seas if not freshwater? 5 of em. Tundra, prairie, swamp, steppe? Check x4. Oh, and cultures? Come to think of it, plenty to offer. NYC has enclaves where all you get is a smaller version of the area of origin. LA, San Francisco, Seattle. Not to mention more diverse Native American (though pathetically overlooked and forgotten) cultures than you could ever hope to experience in a lifetime. Love this channel. Keep up the work
A house in the US built with a wood frame is called a "stick built house". We really don't have deadly spiders in the US, well unless you're very allergic to the bite of one. My grandmother was bitten by black widow back in the 60s and she was taken to the emergency room and they gave her a shot and sent her home. A brown recluse will leave a nasty open scar, but I don't know of anyone who has died from the bite of one. Bites from those spiders are more like very bad hornet stings.
Stick Built Homes are very common here in Virginia. I live in one they has vinyl siding on the outside.also something I think is called cement board siding even ones with brick on the outside are still stick built.
I live in the South, and it's typically over 95° daily in the summer. I have lived through several tornados and we have a tornado shelter built underground.
There are black widows everywhere here where I live. They live in our sprinkler boxes and in corners on patios. They're pretty chill, just don't touch em 😂 that plus the rattlesnakes, mountain lions, bears, wolves, moose and more. Just keep on the trails/near people and don't wander off, you'll be fine lmao I'm from Utah, so we have desert, forest, snowy mountains, lakes and rivers, and more. Pretty much any kind of terrain within a few hours.
Oregon alone, has deserts, mountains and wooded areas and different types of terrain in the wooded areas, different types of forests, beautiful and famous sandy beaches, we have the option to snowboard, and play on sand dunes. I love oregon.
Our breakfast is toast and coffee or cereal. Waffles and pancakes are almost never done at home in the US anymore. Even as a kid it was only on Sunday after Church. Probably about as often as you make a full English breakfast before going to work.
I cracked up when he got all excited thinking the kid in that "first day of high school" video was going to have a big breakfast of pancakes before going off to school! I think even those rare families who do actually eat breakfasts like that aren't doing it on school mornings.
I grew up on the east Coast and my mom got but by a brown recluse spider. It was fully nasty. She was okay because she got to a doctor, but the skin on her arm started dying.
If you ever get bit by any spider, and you know it, mix up half distilled water and bleach. Wash the bite 3 times a day. Do it till the wound starts to bleed. That means you have good tissue. This was told to me by a registered nurse. It works!!
I live in New Mexico and lots of homes are stucco and I haven't seen a black widow in over thirty years. Brown recluse slides are very small and their bite is the bad because it destroys skiñ cells, that's what is hard to stop.
I live in Ohio and I am 40 years old and been through so many. We have tornado siren tested at 10am during tornado season. If it goes off we go outside to watch it.
My old boss was bit by a brown recluse spider while she slept. The bite area turned necrotic and she ultimately ended up losing half her upper arm and was hospitalized for like 6 weeks.
We live in west texas,we have a state park called the sandhills nothing but sandhills for miles.There you need to watch out for snakes and maybe scorpians.
Spiders, both Brown Recluse and Widows here in Washington State USA. LOTS OF Widows! And yes, you see a spider and what kind comes to mind immediately here. Those two, and scary HUGE Wolf spiders which are not poisonous but do bite!
Arby's is a tier-3 national fast food chain. (Tier-1 is McDonald's. Tier-2 is the next several most common ones, things like Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Subway, and Starbucks if you consider coffee to be food. Tier-3 franchises are much less common than tier-2 but still national and reasonably well known, e.g., Dairy Queen, Arby's, Panda Express, Papa Johns.)
Wooden houses survive Earthquakes far better than brick houses, so that's a benefit to us all having wooden houses. (I'm not sure earthquakes exist in the UK either...)
