Brit Reacts to States With The Most Natural Disasters 

How California didn't make the top ten is beyond me as we have drought, fires, flooding, mudslides, tropical storms and oh yes EARTHQUAKES!

I live in Tennessee. What the video didn't mention is that we're long overdue for an earthquake in the New Madrid Fault Zone that would absolutely level western Tennessee, eastern Arkansas, northern Mississippi, southern Missouri. The last time it happened, it rang church bells in Boston, and made the Mississippi River flow backwards. It would be between 8 and 9 on the Richter scale.

Despite the area he's showing in the video, Kentucky is a mountainous state. A lot of Kentucky is incredibly beautiful. Mountains, rolling hills, meadows, forested. It's also home to the Mammoth Caves.

keep in mind that there is also a difference in preparation and climate that can decide whether a weather condition is a disaster or not. for example, what Texas calls a crippling ice storm, northern states call winter. and alaska calls it shorts weather.

Katrina was devastating!!! Having Rita backdoor us was like being in the Twilight Zone. To this day, New Orleans has not been the same. So many lives lost. Hundreds drowned in their homes. Absolutely no rescue for days. A lot of deaths happened in the aftermath of the storm. It's amazing that it's only the 3rd deadliest.

Louisiana boy here, Hurricanes to us are so normal that we think of them as just vacation days most times. We even throw Hurricane parties. Though the big boys we do get worried about a bit. Hurricane Katrina was one of the few times we evacuated the state after seeing the news that the path turned straight for where we were living.

The vast Majority of New York is rural/farm land. The city itself can deal with storms pretty well. The rising water from storm surges is the worst of it. Also, removing snow in a busy city is a nightmare.

Remember- The US is huge and vast- I’ve lived in Midwest my whole life- I have only seen one tornado come by- but when disasters hit- they are usually catastrophic-

I don't know why it's not explained in the video, but the annual number of disasters declaired by a state isn't based on individual events. Rather, each county effected by the disaster are counted individualy. If there's one large flooding event with effects spread across three counties, that will be 3 disaster declarations by the state.

I'm in southeast Texas and I have hunkered down through Rita and Ike despite evacuations. I was here with Harvey and had five close family members lose their homes to flooding in areas that had never flooded before. I saw water where I never would have bet or dreamed it could flood. It was a nightmare. There is nothing like having to leave your home not knowing what you will come back to. I have seen firsthand the good these situations bring out in people and the bad. During Rita I volunteered with local county emergency management and took calls from people who were stranded. One woman was blind and had no family to care for her and no way to evacuate. She said she could hear that all of her neighbors had left. The best I could do at that hour was put her on a list of over a hundred more who needed help leaving. I still hope she made it out. It hits so hard thinking about it all I have tears in my eyes. And PTSD hits hard now over the smallest of thunderstorms. But most of the time it's great living here. And I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

The locust storm: The problem is that wherever the tens of billions of locusts went.....EVERY plant was stripped bare. Literally ALL the farm crops, every tree, every blade of grass, etc. It nearly destroyed the entire ecosystem of the central Midwest. It doesn't sound directly threatening but it caused the starvation of thousands of people.

Hey, I'd recommend checking out a video about the Great Storm of 1900 that hit Galveston TX! It's the deadliest hurricane in US history. Plus the raising of Galveston is a fascinating bit of history, if you ignore how they dealt with the dead.

The Great Lakes Blizzard Is where the vast majority of the Great Lakes were freezing up and having a really Bad (Massive) Blizzard ♡ The Great Lakes region of Northern America is a binational Canadian-American region centered around the Great Lakes that includes the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin and the Canadian province of Ontario ♡

The locust in Kansas he's talking about.... There were up to a trillion of them and they made a cloud that was a thousand miles wide... A cloud of locust (they look like big ass grasshoppers)..... They ate everything

No need to be afraid to go to Texas. It's a great state with strong ppl. I don't live there, I'm from California, but I've gone through several natural disasters in my lifetime, and I've learned that we Americans step up for each other in times of need. We get better with our survival skills each time, and some of us are even prepared for the next disaster. We'll take care of you if something goes down. :-)

I love how when people are talking about the state of NY everyboby not from upstate or Western NY think about NYC when everyboby outside NYC wishes that NYC would just sink to the bottom of the ocean

I was living in Miami Beach when Hurricane Andrew hit in 1992. I evacuated and didn't lose any property, but that was more than enough for me. I moved out in 1993 and went to Phoenix. It's super hot there, but few natural disasters. Hurricanes are so disruptive, even when they don't hit you directly. Everyone in Florida spends the whole summer and autumn with their eyes glued to the weather channel watching the tropical storms line up like ducks off the coast of Africa and barreling through the Caribbean heading straight for Florida. Occasionally they veer off up the east coast or go straight to Texas but you can't count on it.

What doesn't killl ya makes ya stronger. I been through 3 large earthquakes, 3 tornadoes, forest fires, a flood, 3 hurricanes and a tsunami.

New York is very big. Not just the city. Upstate gets many of the storms mentioned. I’m in Brooklyn and we did get a small tornado. It was very small and took down some trees. Our houses are attached (Row houses) with trees lining street out front. I do remember storm Sandy. We got terrible flooding. The subway tunnels flooded. The tip of Manhattan flooded. The towns along Long Island shore had terrible flooding that took down houses.

Lived in Texas forever! Never once got hit with a tornado or flood. Couple ice storms is about it. I've seen tornadoes yes. But never was hit. Since I've been in Florida to care for my mother. I've been hit by at least 5 category 3 and above hurricanes. A bunch of tropical storms. A tornado. (But wasn't home at the time.) And some scary as heck down burst high winds. I cannot wait to get back to Texas! I miss home! It's safer in Texas. 😊

I live in Mississippi and am 70 years old. There are SO many storms, hurricanes and tornadoes mostly in the spring and fall when the weather starts changing .... when hot and cold air meet, there are always problems and we just happen to live along the line where they meet! I used to love the storms until a tornado started in the pasture next door to my property. When I woke up, my whole house was shaking and creaking. The roof of my porch was torn off and tossed all over my yard. Two weeks later another storm took a piece of that roofing and shot it 8 feet upwards and into my dining room window. Scared me, my dogs and my cat to death!!! Don't have much choice but to get down and pray!

Former Floridian here! Out of all that I can remember, I've haven't really SEEN a tornado, but there have been about 2 that hit really close to where I lived, with ONE of them hitting in the middle of the night, while the other two happened a good bit away. I do have a photograph of a tornado that REALLY did a number on my city, but I wish I could find it.

I've lived here all my life seen tornado touching down in my back yard. It took my favorite tree.

It's just like the food, weather in the UK is "bland" compared to our "spicy" weather !!! Lifelong Texan and I wouldn't live anywhere else !

Hey! Just started watching your videos and loving them man! I'm from Florida and I've seen two water spouts which are just water tornados, but have had 2 land tornados hit near me. Both were very mild and just damaged some street poles, flimsy metal warehouses and such. Crazy stuff. I hope the guy on your live stream made it out the hurricane we just had okay. Some places got hit pretty bad

I live in New Jersey. Hurricane Sandy hit on my birthday October 29 2012 . It was pretty bad it destroyed homes and our boardwalks. I remember people going down our street in row boats because of the flooding

I live in SoCal and I was stuck in my little hometown (situated up a hill) for TWO WEEKS a couple years back when horrific mudslides blocked all roads in and out. We had to have the Red Cross bring us food and clean water. California is like the Natural Disaster Theme Park of the USA, and how we didn't make this list, I will never know.

Born and raised in Kansas. It varies from year to year with how bad things can be. My family has been affected by tornadoes, but they have now been on that property for over 100 years. I have a sister that lived in Florida & went through a hurricane, she said that she would rather deal with tornadoes. I lived in Arizona for a bit & dealt with monsoons, haboobs & neighboring areas being affected by wildfires, but we were not in danger. The biggest thing that will help you when you visit is knowing if you are visiting during the season for that type of natural disaster or not.

I live in upstate NY and that winter storm last year actually closed stores where I live. Just north of me got so much snow it buried cars. It came down so hard and so fast people got trapped in their cars. Buffalo because it is right next to the lake gets a crap ton of snow that they got buried as well. Lake Effect snow is no joke. It is heavy, wet snow that just comes out of the sky almost all at once.

I am in Alaska, in 2018 we had a 7.3M earthquake. We have multiple wildfires every year. We've had wildfires larger than some states. Last year, we had a major blizzard that dumped 80 feet/25 meters of snow in 36 hours in an uninhabited area north and east of Whittier. We get 60 to 80 MPH winds across the interior. From December to February, getting -20F and lower temps are not unusual.

Hello L3WG, I grew up in upstate NY, (rural countryside) I moved South to North Carolina in '96 and then to central Florida in '03... I remember plenty of winter storms with the worst being in March '93 where we got hit with over 38", (.965m) in just 24 hours. I have friends that live further upstate near Lake Ontario where they regularly have accumulated snow drifts over 10 feet high. Just this past winter, near Buffalo NY they had over 68" (1.7272m) in 24 hours. In NC I saw severe ice storms that pretty much shut everything down for days until it melted... They don't have equipment to plow or de-ice the roads, In Florida I have experienced several hurricanes and tropical storms that left us without power for many days but have thankfully not experienced loss of home or property. Sometimes it's just the price you pay and no place is perfect... Eric W.

Here in Georgia we got hit by Hurricane Idalia as well the worst of it was down in the south east though. Here in middle GA we got 50 mph wind gust and it was raining all day but we were on the clean side of the storm luckily.

I have lived in Texas my entire life (almost 70 years), and have never seen a tornado. I have seen clouds with the tails, but I got to shelter before I saw anything more. We had a hailstorm a couple of weeks ago, and the yard looked like it was covered in snow, as it was all white due to the thick blanket of hailstones. Fortunately, they were smallish hailstones, so no roof damage and no windows broken. The storm sirens were disconcerting, though.

From Florida, I remember one tornado (not counting waterspouts) when I was young one touched down at the end of my street went straight down the road, and then lifted off just missing a house there. It threw everyone's trash cans around and damaged a few cars parked streetside but it didn't hurt anyone or cause serious damage to houses, it just scared the shit out of everyone. As for hurricanes, they become mundane after a while. I prep for all hurricanes but I don't really worry unless we get a cat 4 or 5. The area I'm in isn't low enough to be a real flood risk and my house is on stilts to boot so if I'm underwater I have much bigger problems than my house flooding.

Celebrities traveled there too to help, people from Louisiana with fishing boats made a convoy and drove to Texas to help get people out

I live in Corpus Christi Texas and yes, that hurricane was bad the one that directly at Texas, but it hit just north of us as a bricklayer. It just gave me more work.

I've lived in Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Georgia, Virginia, and Maryland, and have never experienced any severe fallout from storms. We had a tornado siren on a tall pole in our backyard in Kansas, and sheltered in our basement the one time that it sounded, but the tornado didn't touch down. There were two or three tornados that hit portions of my hometown when I lived in Missouri. In (western) Texas we had dust storms, but they were just annoying.

1) Buffalo New York, which is the opposite end of the state from New York City, has what they call “lake effect” snow. That’s where the cold front passes over the Great Lakes and picks up a ton of moisture, then dumps it on western New York. In November of 2022, this area had 80 inches of snowfall in four days, which is nearly seven feet. 2) The tornado in Kentucky on December 10, 2021, actually formed and came to the ground in eastern Arkansas, passed briefly through Tennessee, then stayed on the ground all the way across Kentucky before finally dying out in Ohio. That is extremely rare. 3) The eastern part of Kentucky is in the Appalachian Mountains, hence landslides.

I grew up in Upstate New York, east of Lake Ontario and west of the Adirondack Mountains. Blizzards and extreme cold are common in that area. It’s a 5.5 hours drive from my hometown to the World Trade Center. New York is so much more than Manhattan!

I've lived in Florida for 30 years and have never seen a tornado before. We've had tornado watches and warnings, but I've never seen one! We live closer to Georgia, though, so most of the bad weather has died down by the time it hits us.

Was born here in Miami (actually Coral Gables a suburb of Miami) in 1960....I was but 9 weeks old when my 1st hurricane hit and that was Donna in September 1960.....lived through, Cleo in 1964, Betsy 1965, Inez in 1966, David in 1979, Floyd in 1987, Andrew 1992, Isabel in 1999, Katrina & Wilma in 2005, and Irma in 2017. Survived a tornado in 2007 and two floods...one in 1979 and onr in 2002

From Florida, lots of tornados 🌪️ I have seen several over my life time. Our neighbors roof was ripped off in one and they had just moved to Florida from Minnesota… they moved back. They lived there a total of 5 months before realizing it wasn’t for them. Floridians just have hurricane parties. We were out of power for about two weeks in 2004 due to back to back hurricanes and the neighborhood got together with all their chainsaws, grills and meat we had a big cookout and tree clearing party in the street. Got to cook all the food before it spoils! It brings people together! I was a child in hurricane Andrew and remember being in our safe room with our family and hearing trees hit our house. My uncle taught me to play poker to keep my mind off the storm as it passed.

I live in New Jersey which made the list keep in mind NJ is 35 time smaller then Texas. 13 times smaller then the UK That being said Hurricane Sandy was horrific I was one of the lucky ones and only lost power for for 10 days( it sucked) Most of the 43 that were killed were from drowning as the water surges were sudden and the eye hit during high tide and a full Blue Moon Many were killed by being crushed by huge trees that were knocked down There were many injuries Many had their homes actually floating away. We're talking homes with a foundation It was a disaster NJ is one of the smallest and I believe is the most densely populated Other then that beside crazy high property tax I love living here 1 hour from NYC I hour from Atlantic City I hour from Philadelphia 15 minutes to the Jersey Shore Love your channel and your natural enthusiasm, humor and curiosity is a ray of sunshine

I live in San Antonio Texas for 9 years now and have not had to deal with anything other than a rare random ice storm a few years back. Haven't seen a tornado once here. I saw more tornadoes living in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Don't be scared to visit here. Just be prepared for heat if you visit June to October. Just starting to get cool days still 20°C at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="568">9:28</a>pm.

I’m born and raised in Kansas and have been in a few tornadoes. By brother in law, from cali wanted to experience one. He finally got to experience one while on a freeway, they drove to the airport in their very damaged car from the hail. No windows side mirrors etc. look at the Greensburg Tornado. It was devastating. ,

I know you said you were doing a reaction to the tornado in Joplin, MO ( excited), but you might do a couple of videos put together of the tornado March 28, 2020 of Jonesboro, AR. We had a lot of people see the mall destruction, while in stores across the road and the tornado coming into town. If it hadn’t been during Covid time people would have been killed. The Best Buy was a pill of glass and metal after. But it’s fascinating to watch the videos.

My sister was living in Miami when Andrew hit. They were in the direct path. She and her husband had a 1 month old baby. She spent the entire time during the storm in the hall closet with my nephew while her husband held a large piece of furniture against the hall door after the huge front window blew in. He had to literally use his entire weight, plus the dresser to keep the wind from blowing in the hall door.

I’ve lived in Florida for 17 years and have never experienced a tornado. There’s been warnings of them over the years though. Now hurricanes, on the other hand, I’ve been through a few of those.

I live in western Texas. We've had one small tornado near my house. But we have had a few in nearby communities. However, there was One back in 1970 that was a real doozy, it was an F5 that killed many people and destroyed a good portion of the town.

Some f5 tornadoes can be more than a mile wide with winds higher than 250 mph

I have lived in Southwest FL for 17 years and have never seen a tornado here personally. I did experience Hurricane Ian in 2022 though. My city was flooded for a couple weeks and we were without power for 11 days.

for your question about NYC, most tornadoes that happen in NY occur in the upstate region. there has been a few small tornadoes in the NYC boroughs but they weren’t ever strong enough to cause billions of dollars in damage. hope that helps

I was a kid in the Great Lakes blizzard of ‘71 it was awesome as a kids but my folks not so much. The snow was halfway up the doors and lower level windows. Once dad cleared the doors we had a great time in the snow 😁

I didn't really expect to see New Jersey on that list. But hen I thought about it. We're crammed in to a small area and we get almost everything... Earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, snow storms, ice storms, wildfires, tornadoes, erosion, landslides, and sinkholes. Quite impressive for such a relatively small area.

I’ve live from Dallas TX to Mcalister OK all my 32 years and I’ve never been directly effected by a natural disaster. Never seen a tornado, only gotten rain from hurricanes. Some hail, mostly droughts. :]

I live in Mississippi and the Feds rarely do anything for our natural disasters; a couple months ago my city, which hasn't seen a tornado in almost a century, got nailed by one HARD out of nowhere, and it took FIVE MONTHS for any kind of red tape to go through. It's only JUST now a bulk of the debris is being hauled away that wasn't being hand-done by kind volunteers with their pickups.

Mississippi checking in. Never seen a tornado, flood or anything like that. That stuff goes all around where I live.

I am in Florida...experienced only 1 tornado but many hurricanes, which caused widespread damage. One major hurricane caused 6 huge trees to come down all around my house...could not get out because our 2 ways out were blocked by huge trees. Our property is fenced all the way around with 2 gates, both gates totally blocked. We also lost power for over a week and we have a well. With no power, we have no water either (pump is electric)

On April 27, 2011, 62 tornadoes touched down here in Alabama in 1 day. Here in my town of Tuscaloosa Alabama was the second costliest damage from a tornado in history at 2.45 billion dollars.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="479">7:59</a> I've "seen" exactly 1 tornado. However, I KNOW my city has seen a bunch of them. Most are rain wrapped or come under cover of night so they can't be seen. There are at least one in my city every year. They normally aren't that powerful. Most appear on the beach since there is less disruption and then fizzle out when it comes inland. Waterspouts are a type of tornado.

I've never lived through a natural disaster (thank heaven). I live in a state that isn't really known for them. These places don't see weather this extreme every day. Yes, it does work out that way if you do the math, but a lot of these storms happen concurrently. Hurricane Idalia spawned several tornadoes in and around the storm, for example.

I’m from Southwest Kansas but live in Iowa. Tornadoes are fascinating and there is a joke about people standing out in their yards or on the porches watching to them when the sirens start to go off… In 1992- 1993 we had several blizzards between November of ‘92 until Jan or February or 93, the spring and summer in ‘93 we had days and days of tornado warnings, sightings and lock downs, in fact, I was wheeled in the hallway of the hospital just hours after having my first child. It was a crazy year and not typical of the area I lived in. I grew up in the military and spent time in a lot of places, including England, Kansas had to be the worse weather wise. (We settled in Kansas in 19986 when I was a teenager. It took me years to get used the wind that blows almost daily there.

Texan here. Pretty much every other year, we get hurricanes and sometimes flooding. And when I was in second grade I saw a tornado up close(close enough to shake the van I was in).

I am a Katrina Survivor... New Orleans is surrounded by a levee and dam systems the city is a big bowl that sits 20 ft below sea level. Flooding from storms, we are 20 ft below sea level and drainage sucks. With all the Landslides, Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and WildFires I am amazed California did not make the list. Literally if it is not shaking or falling into the Pacific it's burning 8/10th of the year.

Manhatten doesn’t really get tornadoes but the upstate which is like 95% of New Yotk probably does. The northeast is pretty fortunate to not really get f5 tornadoes.

I am from Oklahoma and you have to understand we have what's called outbreaks the southern plains where you can have 50 or 60 tornadoes in one day across each state and the storms then roll eastward into Ark.,Tenn.and Ken.

Being from the Dallas / East Texas region I’ve experienced my fair share of tornado weather. It’s not often that tornados damage areas with tightly compact tall buildings. Skyscrapers break up the weather conditions that cause tornados. The devastation is usually cause further away from major city centers. When they say New York is effected by tornadoes I don’t think they mean New York City.

As someone who lives in Texas, Hurricane Harvey.. It only *barely* missed where I lived which was scary😕

This is reminding me of the one time I went over to a friend’s house after a hail storm on Texas. Their roof caved in over the kitchen and it was just covered in some tarp and that was it. 😂 The funniest part of the storm was when my mom was looking outside and said, “Dang! Those things are big enough to break a window!” and we immediately heard a window shatter after she said that! 😂

I've lived in Georgia my whole life, never seen a tornado before but my house almost got hit by 2 simultaneously in January. Still clearing out trees that fell in our yard 😅

Howdy from Texas, ( again). Lewis. I'm 61 years old and have lived in Texas my entire life. I have never seen a single tornado although I've been in areas where they were sighted. I even had a good friend along with his entire family killed by a tornado in Jarrell Texas when it picked up their entire house off of its foundation and tore it, and them to shreds. But me myself. I have never seen one much less experienced one in my entire life. I've been through several hurricane spawned wind storms. But I've never actually been in an area where an actual hurricane has landed. I've witnessed one of the biggest wildfire events in Texas history. But I only saw its smoke from several miles away. All in all, though I have been in countless huge thunderstorms, a couple of floods during my life here in Texas that would have probably freaked out someone from Europe who wasn't used to such weather. . I've been fairly lucky to have avoided these natural disasters for the most part. Especially since I was born in the Texas Panhandle directly in Tornado Alley. So please don't think that living in Texas is a guarantee that you will experience an F -5 tornado, or anything major.. stats can be very misleading in that respect.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="219">3:39</a> Talks about Hurricane Ivan... but Ivan hit Florida twice before it went up north. XD That year alone was pretty messed up for Central Florida. It couldn't hit a break!

Locus swarms are grasshoppers that don't leave a speck of green after they've gone over. F5 tornados can pick up a semi truck and throw it a mile away. If you're in one of those big buildings I'm sure it would do massive damage. What if it was a fuel truck. Fires up on the 30th floor. How do you get down past them. There's lots of scenarios where it could be really bad.

The latest Hurricane just missed us but last years cat 5 hit where i live in florida had 7 hours of 155 mph winds and 22 inches of rain flood waters stopped right at my front door

I’m from California. I just went through a hurricane, a big earthquake, a flood AND a dammed tornado here. I didn’t know what to do.. so I just sat drinking coffeee waiting to die.. I was lucky, I’m still here! This happened last week. Love Grandma Debbie

I live in the middle of new jersey and every hurricane that hits only produces a little extra rain in my area we don’t get to experience the natural disasters thankfully

I grew up in Texas... took 15 years for a tornado to come anywhere near me (its such a big state)... moved to Louisiana a bit before Katrina hit. I've been in several hurricanes now. Most of them are more of an annoyance/party excuse, but some are worrisome. Don't let the extremely small chance of getting hit by a natural disaster deter you from experiencing this country. That's actually when we're at our best.

I’m from Kentucky and I have experience just about all of what was said for Kentucky and even hail and ice storms. I live in a flood zone and we have to leave our house almost every year and come back a few weeks later. I’ve seen many couplets of tornados and so many fires. It can get wild with natural disasters.

I've been in FL for 14 years. Our house got wrecked with two hurricanes. Where we were looking for a house we saw 2 houses damaged by a tornado. Evidently in the 90's the town i live in was destroyed by wild fires.

Texas is a great place to visit or live but you will be faced with a lot of natural disasters, unfortunately. Very nice people for the most part tho and we come together beautifully when our communities need help. Like Harvey. It was record breaking for us and very tragic but I’ll never forget the unity I witnessed🥹I think you would enjoy visiting

South Florida here....actually lived in the Everglades 40+yrs....I'm a Hurricane Andrew survivor....lost everything but my child and pets ...thankfully! Seen plenty of funnel clouds ...(tornadoes that don't touch the ground)....lots of water spouts (tornadoes in the ocean)....so....I just moved to Tennessee....lets see how that goes 😂

Currently theres multiple wildfires in Cali right now and man i wish i could include smn pictures! A friend of mine can see the roaring blaze from her window😮

I live in Texas, near the coast about an hour and a half south of Houston. I have experienced all of them other than wildfires. Harvey was horrible, but I would never leave. I love Texas and love the people here.

I’ve lived in north Texas 27 years and only saw two tornados both of which didn’t hit where I was. Come on over you’ll love Texas the people are wonderful.

I've lived in New Jersey, Illinois and now Florida. We had small hurricanes when I lived in NJ, tornadoes in our area in Illinois, never saw one myself and one massive blizzard in 1978. In Florida we've had 2 hurricanes since I've moved here, Ian and Idalia. Before we bought our current home in Florida the previous home on this site was hit by a tornado in 2008.

I live in SW Florida and we just dodged a bullet with Hurricane Idalia. Tons of rain, but we needed it. Ian last year, and Irma in 2017, wreaked a lot of havoc for us. I haven't personally seen a tornado, but there have been several in our county over the last several years that did damage, and one that killed some people, unfortunately. There are lots of tornadoes over water that are called water spouts. I really want to see one of those.

I live in Kansas, back in like April or May we were hit with tornado watches and warnings almost every couple of days (thankfully where I lived wasn't hit, but other areas were) and we also had a flood back in June and before all of that happened, we were in a drought

Oh Minnesota here... just mainly floods, tornados and winter weather shutting everything down a few days a year

i live in oklahoma when a tornado is coming we go sit outside and watch

Central Texas is far enough from the gulf to not get lots of hurricane damage and isn't in tornado alley. If hurricanes are under a category 4, we get out the generator, buy a bunch of booze and buckle down for a few days. It usually ends up being a few families and friends together and is usually good times.

I live in Florida and I see them coming in lane on the ocean. Wasn't bad!wind builds up between the buildings makes the winds stronger. They had 27 tornado as this weekend in Oklahoma

Part of the number of wild fires comes down to multiple going at the same time. I'm in AZ and we have multiple wild fires going at the same time every year. Last year we had 1,263 fires (3 major ones), and so far this year we've had 13 major wildfires with 6 currently going. For reference, a "major wildfire" is defined as burning more that 1000 acres or causing significant structural damage or casualties.

I live in Texas and we have had occasional tornadoes hit my area and cause some damage, but most of them are smaller and/or not passing through populated areas. There have only been two times in the past 20+ years that I've lived in this town when we actually sought shelter in our home (we don't have a basement, so you get in an interior closet or bathroom), and we ended up not getting any damage to our neighborhood. We also have wildfires in my area, usually caused by lightning, but those are typically not in populated areas. It's the ranchers and the wildlife on undeveloped state land who are most affected. I love living in Texas though!

I am from Texas and in my area we have had several hurricanes. A few tornados. The winter storm. Wildfires. Flooding. And I still didn’t think we would be number 1. These disasters also feel more frequent now though like most of them have happened in the last few years for me.

Lol I’m from Texas. I live near Dallas. The most we get is terrible thunderstorms and flooding, maybe a tornado warning, especially during this time of year. 🤦🏽‍♀️

The most powerful tornados we get in the Midwest would absolutely destroy the big buildings. Hurricanes could take the buildings right in the coast down but would definitely take out windows, ruin all the electrical, flood, and generally do enough damage that you might as well tear it down and start over. There are a lot of variables to consider with tornados in metro areas. They behave oddly at times.

In Tulsa, Oklahoma we got slammed by a storm this year called a "Derecho". 70 mph sustained winds, with wind gusts over 100 mph for about 20 minutes. Power was out for days, and it was 95 degrees outside.

Im in Northern Ky 20 mins from Cincinnati, Ohio. We do get tornados, flash floods and I think the last earthquake trimmer I felt was in 1980, but in all of ky we've had 223 in just the last yr. It blew me away because we dont feel any of them. Central and Southern Ky get it the worst on most all types of natural disaster. Ive been in 4 tornados, 1 earthquake (that I felt), 2 major blizzards, and 9 flash floods that were extreme (reg flash floods happen all the time) in 60 yrs. U get use to them so not a lot of panic, so much so that some people ignore the warnings and try to ride whatever storm arrives. Some times that works out sometimes not. Awesome reaction, Peace

The 12 years I lived in Florida, I saw about 20 tornadoes there. Almost all of them were spawned from hurricanes in the area.

In missouri our weather is truly a joke. One of the biggest sayings is if u dont like the weather give it a minute. Keeps things fun. Tornado season is fascinating. Ive been in 3 and been in tailwinds numerous time. Fortunately the 3 direct were 1s and 2s. Seeing nature rage makes u feel so alive.