My sister was driving us home from school during a really bad storm. I can remember her yelling "Oh crap, I think that's a tornado". I replied, "I see it". Then I realized we were looking out different sides of the car. Luckily they were both a decent distance away and didn't hit us directly but it was still terrifying.
This reminds me of when my mom and I were visiting family friends in Colorado. We had gone to the zoo and friend took a look out a window and said "we have to go". We were confused but left. She told us when we got back to her house that she saw signs of a tornado and we being from California, just saw overcast skys.
There's a reason they call a F5 tornado "the hand of god". The tri state tornado had a path 1.5 miles wide 80 miles long. Where there was nothing left but dirt.
The United States has coastlines on 2 oceans, we definitely have Tsunamis. Particularly deadly ones in US history include the April Fools day Tsunami of 1946 which killed more than 160 in Hilo (Hawaiʻi) alone. The Good Friday Earthquake of 1964 caused Tsunamis that killed over 120 across Alaska, California, and Oregon.
The last tsunami was on July 28, 2021, just after the magnitude 8.2 earthquake off the coast of Alaska. Fortunately, the tsunami only measured 0.3 meters (1 foot) in size.
Hearing the story of the April Fools day Tsunami just tore at me when I heard it. People ignored other people's warnings because they thought it was a joke.
Roughly every 200 years the pacific plate moves to create an enormous earthquake off the Pacific Coast that generates a tsunami. The last one was 400 years ago (before European settlers, but we have Native American stories and geological evidence) so we're about 200 years overdue. I live In Oregon, and when the "big one" happens, my city (well in from the coast, so safe from the tsunami) will still suffer massive damage from the Earthquake.
There’s pretty much no place in the US where you don’t have to deal with natural disasters. Drought, wildfires, earthquakes, and mudslides in the west. Hurricanes and tornadoes in the south. Tornadoes in the Midwest and plains. Hurricanes and nor’easters in the northeast. Polar vortexes and blizzards in the upper Midwest. And I’m sure I’m overlooking a lot.
I live in West Virginia, we are lucky to not have tornados, or hurricanes or earth quakes however what gets us is flooding, because we are basically stuck between two climates zones we get a lot of crazy rain at times from other major weather events which lead to slides and flooding, however they are still rare, when Sandy blew up to the north and terrorized the coast it dropped a nice heavy snow storm on the state, and took out power lines for a couple weeks, I was out of school for about 3 weeks because all plowing equipment was sent to rescue vehicles that had been stuck on the turnpike. It was a completely unexpected storm and there was no planing of it, luckily it happened at the time when salt and chemical ice mixes were being stocked for winter so once plows finally got out and began cleaning up there wasn’t any lack of work due to supply limitations
I've joked about it, but it's kind of true. Some of the world stereotypes us Americans as being mean and crazy, but in reality it's just the weather. You'd be a bit cranky and loopy if Mother Nature held an annual Hunger Games in your neighborhood for no apparent reason besides the fact that you're there. And the main crux of it all is that in America, it's not like a lot other places where you pick just one. We're a bit too free here so the land space of every state chose no less than 2 natural phenomena to annually occur every year. So it's not just "prepare for a cold winter" or "it'll be tornado season soon." You have to prepare for BOTH tornadoes and a freezing winter. Again, the world thinks we're some how inherently negative, but I'm sure our weather will shut them up.
@@steeljawX true, I mean I don’t think most realize that even in Las Vegas in the desert it snows on occasion or that dangerous flooding occurs in places like Arizona
Part of the reason the Peshtigo fire was so little known, was that within its range, its destruction was so utter, that there were few survivors with few means to spread the tale. The Chicago fire had plenty of newspapermen watching it and reporting to the nation by telegraph.
Yes! I have, of course, lived in America all my life (34 years) and the first time I ever heard of the Peshtigo fire was maybe 2 or 3 years ago on a podcast. And holy fuck it sounded horrific. But that was exactly what that podcast said (can't remember which one) but despite how horrific and deadly, the great Chicago fire just completely overshadowed it.
I was in Peshitgo Wisconsin during the 100 year anniversary of the fire. There were some 4 or 5 other wildfires in the westeren US at the same time. Today they have linked a meteor shower with these fires. One of the BIGGEST earthquakes to hit America was the New Madrid quake of 1811-1812. It was thought yo be 7+ to 8+ on the scale. It liquefied the soil, caused the Mississippi river to reverse its flow and was felt through out the mid west and even east to New York. Because of the location and type of fault line it is a very misunderstood but highly studied. It still produces over 1000 quakes a year, very, very minor, but the big one is due. When it hits, you will sea damage in places like Memphis, Kansas City, St. Louis and beyond. It will make the worst of California look like nothing as our buildings aren't built for them.
The Peshtigo fire happened when it was drought conditions. The fire quickly spread being fanned by high winds. It took 2 days to get word of the fire as the flames burned down local telegraph wires.
Hell, I live in Dixie Alley. Those tornadoes get NASTY and their storms are actually really interesting to watch. Very often our fear is replaced by genuine awe. Mother Nature is an amazing thing, and for all of the trouble she throws at us, you can't help but be impressed by her sheer power.
Great Britian has lots of volcano remnants. Edinburgh Castle is built on top of a massive volcanic plug. Ireland has a spot called the Giants Causeway. Mount Snowdon in Wales is an extinct volcano, there are several more but I can't remember what they are called. They simply are not active today. I've lived in England for several years in the 70s and I really missed the Kansas weather. I have been in a F-4 tornado (very exciting for about 5 minutes then a real pain for 4 months cleaning up).
Looks like from what they asked in the video, the last volcanic eruption in the UK (at least anywhere close to land) was in Northern Island 55-60m years ago (Carrick-a-Rede). Another one off-shore occurred 48m years ago (Hebrides Terrace Seamount; 100km+ off-shore).
@@MikelosM True, but there was a lot of volcanic activity through the ages and there may be more in the future, there just anything active right now (geologically right now, last 50 million years). Often we are surrounded by geologic features that we don't recognize like land rebound following the retreat of the ice sheets after an ice age.
As usual, Wikipedia has a good list: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volcanoes_in_the_United_Kingdom. The page also points out that some sites which are popularly believed to be volcanic, aren't. For example, The Wreckin in Shropshire is not actually a volcano itself, but a large amount of volcanic material was deposited there after a long period of eruptions in the region.
@@kingspeechless1607 That would have been true. I got very tired of weeks of light mist and the constant feeling that I was about to mold. I did enjoy the countryside and the people during my time there. I didn't even see a decent blizzard.
I've fought wild fires and I was a first responder during a hurricane and been through several. The Fire Chief sent me to refuel the power generators and the wind and rain was so intense, I literally had to crawl to get to them and back. The destruction was unbelievable and the nauseating feeling you get looking for the dead, is unforgettable.
My family was directly affected by the massive Oregon wildfires that raged out the other year. My grandmother had recently passed and left my mother and brother a pair of properties, one of which had the home my grandfather lived in until his death. The only thing remaining on the property of that lot after the fire was a concrete pad laid down in the driveway and various ruin debris. I’ve always had awesome respect for fire and rescue. You guys are true risking heroes.
I grew up in the Mojave Desert USA. And when I was a child during recess the class was outside playing when a sand storm rolled in. The winds went from mild to extreme in a seconds. I remember being swept off my feet trying to hold onto the bars as the teachers took us back inside to proteckt us us from the wind.
You should watch the Ken Burns documentary on "The Dust Bowl!" I watched that a few months ago, and it was just unbelievable! History textbooks always gloss over that event, but it was a CATASTROPHE, with a capital "C," to the people who had to withstand it for five years!! Sandstorms DAILY, and none of them were gentle!! America definitely learned a valuable lesson about the consequences of "over-farming" from that disaster!
I wish more vids like this would mention az weather. Our haboobs are insane and monsoon season gets pretty crazy sometimes. Not to mention our literally deadly heat.
I once lived in Lewiston, Idaho and could see Mt.Saint Helens, but I moved from there shortly before the volcano erupted. In Oklahoma, I saw 8 tornados. One passed over our home in Oklahoma and one passed over our home in Louisiana last month. And I have lived through almost a dozen hurricanes and 3 floods. I have not seen any major forest fires or earthquakes...nor, of course, tsunamis.
@@GilaMonster971 I lived briefly in a suburb of Portland and on a clear day I could see Mt. St. Helens on one end of a road I lived near and Mt. Hood at the other end. I 100% believe you could see it.
@@saltygenx2743 I DROVE through a category 4 storm once, on my way back from Atlanta, Georgia, headed for Jacksonville, Florida. I'm honestly lucky that I survived that trip.
You're living in Tornado/Hurricane country, but you probably never will have to worry about major quakes, and don't even bother losing sleep over volcanic activity. Seismically speaking, the southeastern United States is just about the most boring place in the world.
The first tornado I remember in the 60s was called the Palm Sunday tornado. Our dad drove us near one of the hard-hit towns and we saw a street in town that was rolled up like a pile of wheat leaving a dirt road behind. Later we read that the street had been recently paved. We also saw a picture of a piece of straw driven into the trunk of a tree...in one side and sticking out the other by an inch or so...a still flimsy piece of straw - the effects of winds above 300 mph and very ow pressure.
I've read that the reason things like that piece of straw happen is because the wind creates a powerful vacuum that draws the wood fibers apart, creating openings that then snap back, trapping debris inside.
@@lorettaross5146 That makes great sense...thanks! If you have ever been within a few hundred yards of a tornado passing by or over you, the pressure in your ears is what you remember most. People have said it sounds like a freight train, and that is the effect wind and pressure have on the air. To me, it sounded more like a roar in a tunnel!
I live by Nashville, TN. I remember everyone in the basement of our home praying that the tornado and remnant high winds would miss us. They did thank goodness, but it hit the community really hard to have Covid 19 lockdowns on top of disaster relief
I grew up in tornado alley I’ve seen multiple tornadoes. Tornadoes are terrifying. I grew up in Oklahoma. One of the states he said. Oklahoma is known for tornadoes.
I agree they're terrifying. We get them in Texas too, but I'm about an hour north of Houston an we seem to be under tornado watches a lot, but I've only had a few within 20 miles of my house, going back about a decade. I'm at probably the very end of tornado alley, and even though I don't see a lot nearby, I get nervous for every watch. I just can't fathom living further into the corridor for tornadoes, like Oklahoma or farther north even. Every time it rained I would get nervous.
We've had a few earthquakes here in VA. One I remember distinctly was 2 days after my mom died in 2011. I was napping on the couch and it woke me up. Dad thought maybe a tree fell out back but when I went outside, a neighbor across the street yelled, "DID YOU FEEL THAT?" My cousin felt it up in PA too. Great London fire? Never heard of it before... Chicago fire and Mrs. O'Leary's cow? Oh, most definitely!
I felt the VA earthquake in northern WV. I was at work, looking over papers I had spread on a very large table. The table shook, but I figured it was someone walking by who gave the table a push just to annoy me. Then it shook again, and I realized that there wasn't anyone around to give the table a shake. Moments later, the guy in the office next to mine came out and asked if I felt that. He said the pictures on his office wall were shaking. That's the one and only earthquake I've ever experienced, and I'm ok with that.
The 'Great Fire of London' happened in September 1666. After a long dry period, a fire that began late at night in a baker's shop in Pudding Lane spread to large parts of the city (wooden buildings) and burned for five days before the wind dropped and rain fell. Almost 14,000 buildings were burnt to the ground whilst others were demolished to create fire breaks to slow the spread.
yeah, I googled it after watching the video and reading the comments. It's just not something that's taught here in the US. Most people here don't even know much about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake... although Frisco wasn't the only city hit, it was actually a quake that was over 200 miles long, felt from California to Oregon. Massive destruction, huge property damage, four day fire, major loss of life. 500 city blocks demolished, etc. etc.
Living in Kansas, I've seen tornadoes regularly, the last was an F2 end of April this year.....biggest was the 1991 andover F5 tornado.....it and the debris field filled much of the sky. Still, you never really get used to them living here. Your favorite app is live weather radar so you can at least track them......to know if you should take cover.
2004 was an exceptionally bad Hurricane year, for the state of Florida! I remember something along the lines of NINE hurricanes (rated category 3 or higher) blowing through, or around, that state during the three month period of October-December!
@@jennyrose843 I drove to Atlanta for Ivan. My place wasn't too badly damaged, though there was roof damage. One neighbor had their car crushed by a falling tree. I lived about half a mile from the water, but the ground slopes downhill to the water. Houses on the water were completely destroyed by storm surge while homes across the street from them took far less damage due to the difference in elevation.
I live in LA, SoCal...and while we do have many earthquakes, the last major significant one we had was in 1994 Northridge...right now, we locals are more worried about the historic drought and out of control wildfires.
The odds, every year, of a major Earthquake happening DURING a California wildfire, grows bigger and bigger! Just imagining the chaos that would unleash (and don't even get me started on the death toll) would be enough to give anyone nightmares!!
@@jacob4920 Wildfires are probably a bigger threat. California's building codes have gone a long way to limit the damage major earthquakes will do. Major earthquakes will still do a lot of damage, but not anywhere compared to what would have happened just 20 years ago.
I currently live in Ellington Missouri, where the tri-state tornado supposedly started. the museum here has a big write up about it. wiped out the whole town, which at the time was called barnesville. one house was said to be left standing. .they rebuilt and renamed the town ellington
@@Fmanzo10 Potentially. Everything around it for a couple hundred miles, and then downwind from it for thousands of miles would probably result in massive casualties in the range of 100 million or more people in the USA alone
It's technically a caldera but yeah, the Yellowstone caldera is classified as a super volcano but it's of no real threat. It's not due to pop for hundreds of thousands of years. Mt. Rainier in Washington is a much more present, albeit smaller, threat, especially if the well overdue super quake in the Cascadia subduction zone decides to finally go off.
I learnt about the great fire of London in school, yet I had nursery songs of the Chicago fire. The fact that my Mother was from Wisconsin and my father was from Illinois may be the reason the song was around my childhood, I also believe there was a jump rope game that went with it. And yes Hawaii and the Pacific coast do get the occasional tsunamis, some minor and others massively destructive the deadliest in modern times being in Hawaii & Alaska. With earthquakes, volcanos and an ocean you will get tsunamis. I my youth in California we use to joke that our seasons were mudslide, earthquake, wildfire and freeway shooting.
Being from Florida, we get probably 10 hurricanes on average per year ( i think 😬) . Most are like a really intense thunderstorm. But I've lived through 5 CAT 3 , 2 CAT 4, and 2 CAT 5s 😳. We have hurricane parties during most , but the CAT 4 or 5 we definitely hunker down. 😅 A category 5 is no joke and if you don't live in a concrete block home you should definitely go to a shelter.
I was just about to say most of this lol. FL is built to withstand these things without so much damage now, but places like New Orleans were not. I do remember a CAT 5 years ago where the eye went right over my house, so we went out and had a hurricane party until the wall got close, then it was back inside lol
As a Floridian, I tend to get sleepy during rainy weather. Category 4 and 5 are definitely ones to watch out for and prep. Hurricane parties are great.
I used to live in Florida, and whenever the weather service threatened the arrival of a Cat 4/5 storm, I got out of town! I didn't screw around, I nailed boards to every window on my house, and got out of there as soon as I possibly could! I always made sure I was one of the first ones to leave, too, because I didn't want to procrastinate, and get stuck in the inevitable traffic of millions of "last-second runners," which is what we called people who stupidly waited until it was just about to rain to finally get their butts in gear, and leave the area!
4:10 My great uncle was in San Francisco during the 1906 earthquake when he was being fitted for wooden legs at age 19 after he'd lost them both in a railroad accident up in Oregon a few months before. He was good at surviving since he didn't pass away from either event. We love Lawrence here! 10:47 He's right...as Eliza Doolittle told us in 1964, "In 'Artford 'Erreford and 'Ampshire, 'urricanes 'ardly ever 'appen."
Tornados are now classified on the EF (Enhanced Fujita) scale, instead of the F (Fujita) scale. All previous tornados have been reclassified if they would now fall in a different category.
I just subscribed tonight to your channel. I'm blown away to find out that you guys don't have these weather issues. I live in west Missouri. I'm 60 years old and preparing for an upcoming storm was as natural as doing your homework. Everyone KNEW what room in the house to go to. We automatically assume to see the worst. BUT, there is in every family the "knothead" aka crazy person who runs outside and hopes to see a tornado coming down the street. Wanted to tell you also, don't worry about mispronounced American words. Don't know if you've been told this but MANY Americans absolutely love to listen to you Brits talk, there are countless accents in our country and your proper English fascinates us. Sometimes I need to remind myself to listen to WHAT your saying instead of listening to that lovely accent! Love from the heartland! Linda
I live in the Pacific Northwest, and I remember seeing the volcanic ash all over the place in 1980. It looked exactly like grey snow. It made a heck of a mess, and we lived about 100 miles from Mt. St. Helens. If Yellowstone ever blows, we could all be in serious trouble.
Due to my father's work (he is an expat of England) we had to move all over the United States. Now I move around the United States because of my husband's work. Because of all the moving I have been through 17 earthquakes, which the worst was a 6.4, 1 blizzard with temperature down to 49 below 0, 1 sand storm, 2 floods, 2 wildfires, 7 hurricanes, the worst being a category 3, and 4 tornadoes, the worst being a category 2.
Hi James and Millie, I am from Illinois, and we learned in school that the great Chicago fire was started when a women named Mrs. O’Leary was milking her cows, and one of the cows kicked over a lantern and it caught the barn on fire, and since the weather in Chicago had been hot and dry and since most of the buildings in the city were built out of wood at the time, the fire spread rapidly throughout the city. The only buildings that survived were the few that were built out of stone, most famously, the city water tower building, and the water pumping station building located next to it. Both of those buildings are still standing today and can be visited as tourist attractions.
Actually Mrs O'leary's cow was a fabrication by news reporters at the time and she was posthumously exonerated by Illinois government folks in the 1990s
I live in Missouri and have witnessed two tornadoes in my life! They are scary but there was no damage! Just grateful that we were able to take shelter!
I grew up in Missouri. Saw and encountered quite a few tornadoes. Also felt and slept through a few earthquakes. The largest was two 5.6 quakes. When I was in high school, some of us volunteered to help with the 1974 Mississippi River flood. Missouri sure can have interesting natural occurrences! Stay safe.
I went on vacation when I was younger with my uncle and I remember going out for the day and on the way back to the apartment in Florida I said that the clouds above us where turning and spinning after I said that he drove extremely fast to get us to the apartment… those clouds then became a small hurricane or tornado I’m unsure of exactly which it became.
I was in Alaska just after the massive one in 64. While I was there when the earthquakes hit, our house was near open land and you could see the ground rolling like waves of water. You just prayed it did not break open, because when it did the chasms were very deep.
8:15 both of those volcano movies and both of the meteor Armageddon movies are all solid movies. Their widely different in a lot of ways but all enjoyable
I lived through the _(Edit) 1980_ Mount Saint Helens eruption. At the time we lived about seventy miles north-northeast of the mountain, right in the path of the ash cloud. That was terrifying, but not particularly threatening. But we didn't know that at the time. All we knew was the sky turned black as midnight and it started to rain dry ash. This was when we had about four television stations, and none of them were broadcasting any information about what was happening. Luckily radio stations were filled with news and advice. But the really weird thing was, we had just moved there a year or so prior: from a town literally only about 30 miles directly west of the Mountain itself. I have friends who lost their home in the Lahar on the Toutle river. I grew up playing on the Mountain with my Parents, who would often drive up there. My Grandparents took pictures of the eruption from the parking lot of the church on the hill above their home. If Mount Saint Helens had blown Southwest instead of Northeast the death toll wouldn't have been 57, but _thousands._ It literally exploded in the least populated direction available.
@@reformcongress It did. There are some photographs in series of the collapse. Knowing how big it is/was it is a remarkable thing to see. Today standing on the Windy Ridge Viewpoint and looking into the crater mouth today is an awe inspiring experience. (Johnston Ridge just doesn't do it justice.)
Just a correction for those reading from elsewhere who might be confused, Mt. St. Helen's erupted May 18, 1980. If the eruption had taken place on a weekday instead of a Sunday - the death toll would have been higher. The "no-go" zone - *excluded* timberland property so loggers were working in that area. Vulcanologists learned a lot from the record of 17 yo Pliny the Younger about the eruption of Vesuvius. (he was on the other side of the Bay of Naples) Mt. St. Helen's was the same type of eruption.
@@kristend344 Whoops! I knew that. 1980. Thank you for correcting me. As I age my memory goes, and I was never good remembering numbers. You are also correct about the day of the week effecting the number of victims. Most of the 57 known killed were hikers, campers, and people observing the Mountain. There were a few loggers up doing this and that. However, had it been a weekday at the time the number of victims wouldn't have been substantially more. Most of the hikers and campers wouldn't have been there, and the number of active loggers in that specific zone was probably not large. Perhaps one or two hundred. Or even less.
Fun fact: one of the biggest reasons wildfires get so bad in the US is because we've interrupted the natural fire cycle. In the past, large but weak fires would occur, clearing away underbrush and debris. But because we've populated everywhere, we put out the fires resulting in forest debris buildup and thus stronger fires
Yes learned about The Great London Fires of 1135 and 1666. Learned about the Great Chicago Fire in school. In America the word Great is often used in exchange of Huge. Such as Great Lakes and Great Smokey Mountains ...So Great Chicago fire means Huge Chicago Fire.
Beesleys, the map at around 9:00, though he didn't specifically name it, was of the Pacific Ring of Fire. Though Mt. St. Helens wasn't nearly as strong as the worst one, it was by far the most destructive. It happened in 1912 and put out 30 times the magma that came from MSH, and the national park that houses it is Katmai (CAT-my) in Alaska. However, because it was in an uninhabited part of that state, no loss of human life, nor property destruction resulted. Referring to the hurricane section, Galveston is a suburb, as well as the harbor city, of Houston, and Okeechobee is a Florida lake.
Oh I've missed you guys! Been dealing with a lot of grandparent medical drama and haven't been able to watch, glad to see your faces. Here in California I'm used to Earthquakes and we don't really pay attention to them unless they are 6 or move
I've lived in Florida for 54 years and I've been through every hurricane that has hit us since then. I survived them all, as did my home and pets even though my house is a half a block from the Atlantic Ocean. In those 54 years I have seen two tornadoes that were terrifying yet beautiful and neither one harmed me. Its perfectly safe to live in Florida, so come on down!!
I was in the 1989 Quake...it was brutal. I'm sure there's vids of it out there that could explain it. Unlike hurricanes, tsunamis, storms etc...quakes come without warning and do just as much damage in a lesser amount of time, and there's really no way to shield yourself from it in the way you can tornados or storms.
I grew up in West Texas and have seen many tornadoes.. infact as teens, we would chase them! I hate how destructive they are, but in the moment, they can be awe inspiring . I've also been blessed several times when I was driving and didn't know there was one and it had just gone in front of us. Missed us by only a minute or two.
I had a small tornado a couple of miles north of my house last weekend. I live in Nebraska, and like Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas it is just part of life. Frankly, recently it seems like the hail from thunderstorms is what has been causing a lot of damage lately. That same storm that spawned the tornado also has hail the size of a baseball (apple). There was another storm to the south that weekend that had hail the size of a softball (grapefruit).
I live in Crete, on December 15, 2021 I had an ef1 rip off my roof, strange day. I think I know where that was you speak of. It’s been a wet summer, and it’s a while since we have had one. We might have some bad late-season tornadoes this year by the looks of it.
Hello Beesleys! I live just 5 Miles from New Orleans. In the capital of Baton Rouge,LA. Hurricane Katrina was a Level 5 Hurricane. And I never evacuated. We were without power for 5-8 weeks.
Seattle here! I felt the Good Friday earthquake shake our house when I was a kid, saw the plume from Mt. St. Helens. I love it here, looking forward to the Big Show!
Living in Oklahoma, I've experienced tornadoes often, even driving with then in sight. Yikes! We've also had a few earthquakes in recent years (due to fracking), but NOTHING like California. I've also had to evacuate because of fires, though that was a rare thing here. Keep up the nice work on your commentaries.
You should do a reaction video of the extreme drought in the American SouthWest. It should be interesting for you to see how low Lake Mead and Lake Powell are.
Yeah, I live in Illinois and we get tornados often. at least one a year (usually in summer). I remember one year I was at camp and two tornados landed nearby. Not in visible sight but in nearby towns and surrounded us. Everyone was held up in the basement and waiting it out. They both missed us. But the damage was bad for the towns nearby. Or the time a wind tunnel ripped right through that same camp in what we have claimed the storm of 2008. I was four and I was stuck in the main hall with lanterns since the power went out. The wind made a side ways tornado like thing that demolished a lot of the camp (mostly the woods thankfully). Though they had to rebuild a cabin and remove several fallen trees.
"Phenomena" is the plural of the word "phenomenon". You can talk about many phenomena or a single phenomenon. There is no such word as "phenomenas". Not even in British English. Just a little quip there. Hehe
I have only experienced 1 earthquake & haven't yet seen an active volcano in person. I have seen tornadoes, wildfires & hurricanes. Seeing an entire town completely taken out from a tornado is the worst thing you could imagine, everything scattered & destroyed including people & animals. Wildfires and hurricanes generally give people time to evacuate but tornadoes can come down right on top of you without any warning & often at night.
@The Beesleys, *William B. Ogden (Ogden Avenue, Chicago) who owned the Peshtigo Lumber Company was the first mayor of Chicago. There has always been speculation that the fire started in the lumber yard.* 😒
This video is actually pretty fascinating! I actually learned some things that I didn't even know even though I live here! 🤣 I'm going to make a video soon because I have some questions for the two of you! I'm just curious but I'll save that for another time... Keep up the good work because I really enjoy your videos! - Jay, living in Illinois but born and raised in Utah... Hopefully soon moving to Texas! 🤟🏼🇺🇲🤟🏼🇬🇧
Virginia here… I definitely learned about the Great Fire of London in school. Chicago, too, which has been long attributed to a cow kicking over a lantern in a barn.
An F-1 tornado hit in my area of Pennsylvania back in 1990. It broke all the windows in my parents house, ripped up several trees, and turned my grandparents corn crib onto its roof. Overall the damage totalled about $5000 dollars. I was about a year and half at the time
What many people don’t realize about tornadoes is that, while there is “tornado weather” when they happen they just happen. What is truly awsome is to watch funnels drop out of the clouds and then just disappear without hitting the ground, only to be replaced by another. Or two or three.
Just did a bit of research on volcanos in Great Britan and apparently the large outcrop that dominates Edinburgh’s skyline is in fact a dormant volcano that last erupted about 60 million years ago.
I am a Washingtonion and was 9 years when St Helens erupted. Was leaving my Church after Sunday school when seeing a "storm clouds" coming from the South-West. Was around 10 AM and by Noon it was nighttime. Spent 2 weeks cleaning up the ash and there is still visible ash in some places in the area.
My Grandmother and her Family lived through the 1906 Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco. She was 16 years old at the time. She remembers walking down Market St. trying to get to the Ferry Building to get away from the fire and to the other side of the Bay. she saw people hanging from every lamp post with placards around their necks saying "Looter", "Rapist", "Thief" and so on. The Army did not play any games back then. They did not try to recover the bodies in the rubble. They just piled all the bricks and cement up at the wharves. The Redwood Clippers that brought lumber down from Washington State used the piles for ballast in their empty ships going back to Seattle. There they dumped the ballast in the Harbor Breakwater. A lot of San Franciscans (well, pieces of them) ended up in Seattle that way.
Hurricanes can get pretty wild here in Florida but unless it's like a cat 4 or 5 were just chilling. We even throw hurricane parties which are basically just rainy sleepovers.
I live in Sparta, just south of Nashville. The town between Sparta and Nashville is Cookeville. The same F4 tornado that hit Nashville also hit Cookeville. It is now 2 years later and there are people in both Nashville and Cookeville that are still rebuilding. There was one neighborhood in Cookeville that was absolutely flattened and several people were killed. The Great Plains has a lot of tornadoes but they don't have the monopoly.
In Iowa as kids under ten our job was to sit on the porch and make sure the tornado was moving right to left. If it started to look like it was standing still we would run inside for everyone to get in the basement. Nothing like a farm in the middle of corn rows.
I'm 60yrs old, SoCal born & raised & still LOVING it here! We get a lot of bad press, but you can't believe everything you read. They cut off a lot of those climate & drought charts to reflect exactly what they want them to show & Social Media is highly curated, also. I have a lot of extended family in Toronto & Mich and when I visit them I'll lightly shake their chair to simulate what an earthquake feels like. By doing so, I've convinced many of them to come out & visit us. They've NEVER regretted it, even AFTER a lot of them have experienced an earthquake for themselves. Although, admittedly, MOST of them have slept it & I had to them about it the morning AFTER! They were bummed they missed it. (I didn't intentionally NOT wake them~ I slept them, myself, LOL)
The Great Chicago fire was so devastating because Chicago was America's largest city not in the east and it was utterly gutted, IN WINTER! And people made a shanty town outside the burned city, and it was almost completely abandoned, but very soon it was rebuilt and quickly became America's 3rd largest city.
I don't know how many times my area of California has caught on fire but the scariest was just a couple years ago when fires actually started popping up in town and we lost a lot of homes and people lost their lives, there are still quite a few "scars" that you see driving around that serve as memories of it.
Definition of an active volcano is one that has erupted in the past X thousand or million years. Idk exactly what X equals, but that's how they define it. But it looks like the majority of inactive volcanoes in the UK are concentrated around the border between Scotland and England, in Northern Ireland, and around the Inner Hebrides. The Giant's Causeway is a prime example of one of the more recent volcanic formations in the Isles.
Whats funny about tornadoes is if you grow up around them, it desensitizes you. We used to look outside when they were near, than run in the cellar at the last second.
I grew up close to Nashville. I’ve seen one tornado in my life. The south tends to have weaker tornadoes than the plains, but they are deadlier in the south. That’s because they tend to form at night, when people are asleep and can’t take cover.
There is literally no state that would be considered "safe" in this context. Every state will have the occasional extreme phenomenon (mostly weather related).
If you want all the seasons, come to MN. We play in the water in Summer, in our yards in Fall, the snow in Winter, and our gardens in the Spring. Nothing like living in a place where the heat is unlikely to kill you, but the cold might.
Lived through Hurricane Hugo in 1989. But watched tornados form in Kansas and Oklahoma when we were in the Army back in 2005 &2006. It was cool to watch!
I have seen several torndoes and many funnel clouds. There's an eerie feeling you get when it turns green outside and all is calm right before a funnel or tornado. A small tornado went through my mom's yard once. It tore down a few trees but everyone was ok.
I'm in the Chicagoland area and within the last month alone, we've had 5 tornadoes in my area... but nothing major. Mostly fallen trees. The worst of the days, we had 65 mph winds.
I grew up in Los Angeles. I’ve lived through all the big earthquakes of the 80’s and 90’s. The Northridge quake was the worst. There’s NOTHING more terrifying and disconcerting when the GROUND you’re standing on starts to violently shake.
I remember I had to leave one of my old schools early because of a blizzard. My mother drove through it and I was terrified we where gonna crash die. I was young I think 3rd grade can't remember anything well enough before 5th grade.
I live in Kansas and I can remember a couple of years ago my area had a random earthquake (super rare in the Midwest compared to other areas) and a tornado in the same week
I grew up in California, earthquakes were a part of every day living. We had emergency plans for every household, school and business. My brothers loved to be on their skateboards going down the road during them
I live in Dixie tornado alley; specifically Northeast Mississippi. Tornado shelters are very common. We are very aware when conditions for a tornado are present. It can be very scary!!
I’ve seen a lot of tornadoes. As a little girl, our family was driving home from church one day and three tornadoes touched down just miles in front of us. We had to pull over and hope it went around us. We also spent many evenings in our basement waiting for tornadoes to pass. Now, we go storm chasing to try to find them. 😆 The awe you feel watching all that power is amazing! I live in Iowa but we did have an earthquake once. It was a shallow one created by fracking in Oklahoma that reverberated all the way over here. Glad to tick that experience off my list! I also experienced the remnants of hurricane Leslie in 2012 during a visit to Ireland. That was amazing!
List of volacnos in Brtitan (mind you they are all way beyond dead at this point): Bardon Hill Calton Hill Cawsand Volcano The Cheviot Gurnard's Head Haweswater Caldera Helvellyn Langdale Caldera Scafells Speedwall Vent Warboys Those are just in England itself. There are also some in Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
I was born and raised in Eureka, California. We obviously have had several earthquakes. We have also experienced the effects from a pacific hurricane (the northern most edge passed over Humboldt County). We have experienced the smoke from several wildfires near us. We ended up having a layer of ash covering virtually everything after the eruption of St. Helens (I also got to fly over St. Helens about a year after the eruption, and it was a surreal sight). I have also been through a minor tornado which actually hit the front end of my grandmother's trailer, which got picked up and gently put back down (my mother, father and grandmother were all in that end of the trailer at the time and were not injured).
In Florida we have Hurricane Parties if it is a Cat 3 or less. I've sat on my porch and watched a hurricane go by while listening to music and sipping some Sweet Tea.
I'm in California and we have Earthquakes fairly often. I was once painting the outside of a house on a ladder and an Earthquake rolled through, I looked down the street and actually saw the wave under the ground travel down the street. Like watching a wave in the ocean travel through the water, except on land. It is an odd sight to say the least.
I live in Arizona. Our summers will frequent 45-48C every summer (summer is about May to September). It's so hot, our airports shut down, because there's no lift in the air. Planes can't take off!
My dog Hazel and I hunkered down in the house we lived in, windows boarded up, as Hurricane Katrina hit the New Orleans area. I had no way to evacuate in time, and it was 12 days until I was able to get out of New Orleans and about 6 weeks before I could go back after it was over.
I grew up outside Chicago. The Great Fire was supposedly caused by Mrs. O‘Leary‘s cow kicking over a latern (not true). The Iroquois Theater and Our Lady of the Angels fires were even more tragic. I’ve never seen a tornado, but have been near several. No-one understands what stillness is until right before one touches down. Nothing moves, there is absolutely no wind & even the birds are like frozen. It’s simply eerie.
Where I live is a good spot, hurricanes don't reach, earthquakes are relatively mild, few and far between, and tornadoes are nothing like Kansas. Of course there's the occasional ice storm, looks like Hoth out my window but not as often as you might think.
I had relatives that lived through the hurricane that hit Okeechobee in 1928. I actually have pictures of 2 of them on the roof of their 2 story house water all around. The roof is only visible from the ridge down about 3 feet. In other words the house was 90% under water. They were my Grandmother's cousins. Her family lived in Lee county on the other side of Florida. Her father and uncle were 2 of the founders of the town in which I eas born, Fort Myers. I remember hurricane Donna in 61. It was category 5 also. It did alot of damage. On the bright side, the morning after the storm was over, I went swimming in the front yard. I was 6. It was an adventure and my parents were the heroes.
An active volcano is one that has the potential to erupt. This means it's currently standing over a magma plum that is pushing up into the crust. As the plum is coming up from the mantle, and the crust is moving over the top of it, volcanos inevitable go extinct because it is no longer fed by said plum once the crust has moved on.
In the early seventies I witnessed an F5 tornado that hit the western suburbs of Chicago, and fortunately carved a path 10 miles long in mostly unoccupied territory. My sisters and I were outside when it touched down nearly a mile away. As my sisters and I ran to get into the house we were sandblasted by dirt leaving some deep scratches on our legs and arms. The next day my father and I rode out the area it hit. The ground looked as if it had been tilled for a good mile or so, and the asphalt road in its path was completely gone leaving no trace of it except where it suddenly ended.
