History's Worst Hurricanes | Code Red | Earth Stories 

"A giant, howling vortex of thunder and rain, spreading its spiral arms in a destructive embrace..." - Upvoted JUST for that opening line...

In Suffolk, VA, I had a customer come in the store to shop. She had a cart full of groceries, when she went to pay her card was rejected. After a short conversation, I learned that she that she and her family had lived in New Orleans and she wanted to get groceries so she could make breakfast for her relatives. I called my assistant manager to service desk for help. She said she would handle it. The hot food and deli were closing, so she called hot bar and told them not throw anything away. The Assistant Manager 'went to the back and got food for dinner. I was ready to get my card and pay for the groceries but I was told no she would handle it. Their EBT card was not being accepted because of the devastation of phone lines in New Orleans. I went back to my job on the cashier line so I do not know exactly what happened but they did get some groceries. I was so happy that my store came to their aid.

Hurricane Fiona sure showed us in Nova Scotia who's boss. We are never going to forget it. The sound was like being on a jet plane taking off or in a vaccum. First storm that I ever even considered being worried about as I sat there wondering if my roof will hold. I've never seen anything like it.

Let's not forget, the Pontchartrain levee broke open at 7:30 in the morning, an hour before the surge came in. No one "blew up" the levees (this time around). Second, the NO convention center was NOT a shelter of last resort, people were there for DAYS before officials knew that people were there. By the way, those reports of violence and rape and murder in the superdome and convention center were false. There were only 1 to 3 homicides total between the two IIRC, and as far as the looting and violence on the streets go, the NOPD had MORE than their fair share. Several cops were caught on tape looting, and there were a few incidents of cops killing civilians, and then covering up their crime. And let's also remember, for all the people who keep complaining about people who didn't evacuate, the government themselves A) had a responsibility to evacuate the citizens under their care that cannot evacuate themselves for whatever reason, be it health, age, or finances, and B) did exactly what many people who didn't leave feared: snatched their homes out from under them. The projects all over the city were "condemned", despite being some of the buildings that survived the best during the who ordeal. Residents protested in government meetings for the right to go back to their homes, and on the day the vote was made by the council, citizens, who have every right to be in the chamber, were barred and dragged out and a small riot occurred. These sections of public housing were torn down, leaving thousands homeless. The same happened in the poorer wards, especially the 9th ward. Lastly, the only public hospital in the city, the 2nd largest in the country, survived quite well also, and was also "condemned" by the city, so that they could build a new, private hospital in a more affluent part of the city, leaving the poor without quality care. It was the only place in New Orleans with inpatient mental health services, so when the hospital was closed, there was no where for mentally ill people to go. A man later shot and killed a female NOPD officer with her own gun after an episode where he had been taken to some facility, pumped full of drugs for a few days, and then released. On the day of the release, he had an altercation with the officer, got a hold of her gun, and shot her. Before Katrina, he had gotten regular care at Charity hospital. If the city had actually cared about the people, and kept the hospital open, that officer wouldn't have died. These are only some of the things that went wrong before, during, and after the storm, but does NOT take away from other areas hit directly and utterly demolished.

As a trained storm chaser, if your area is under a mandatory evacuation warning for an extremely dangerous hurricane, please for the love of all things good and holy evacuate if you are able. Escape the area and let law enforcement and chasers do our jobs. We do this only to help

Every time I think about how Cat 5 storms have sustained wind speeds up near 200mph, i am absolutely flabbergasted. That’s EF5 tornado wind speeds. Over huge amounts territory, for hours and hours… Hurricanes really are the fiercest storms on the planet

We live in New Orleans. When Katrina came a lot of people left but we had no choice but to stay. However, we live in the French Quarter which is the highest ground in the city, our apartment was in an 1860's brick building that had weathered many storms and we were on the 2nd floor. We had pets and both of us had health issues. Like almost everyone we knew we had no car. There wasn't time to lay in supplies since no one knew the levees would go and everything would be destroyed. No water was the worst but no power was pretty awful too. People broke into empty apartments to find canned food or candles. People bailed the water out of toilet tanks both to drink and to try to flush their own toilets. The community of the FQ came together like one huge family. A couple of the local bars opened for distribution and just a place to go to see someone you knew or even a stranger to get a hug from. I won't go on. We were among the 5% of the city that didn't flood and even for us it was a nightmare. We lost friends. Some of them we still don't know what happened to them; whether they were bused out or drowned. Never underestimate the power of wind, and even more, water.

Also, I remember when the remnants of Hurrican Ivan moved through our area here near Pittsburgh and we had TREMENDOUS flooding due to us being a rivertown. We had storm drains that were overflowing, we even had powerplants that were being flooded causing the reactors to shutdown. We were almost 20' above flood stage, but thank God we have hills here. My house was FAR above the level of the river. I first moved to Flaarda on Crummis day of 1994, and that was right after Hurricane Andrew struck Homestead. Seeing that area was heartbreaking.

Even to this day… there’s still a slight grey cloud that’s always over the super dome 😞 rip to those who lost their lives in these storms and after in the disasters

Hurricane Katrina hit the Mississippi coast NOT New Orleans. They had hardly any winds, their levees failed cause the government fixed the stadium with money and not the levees like it was suppose to. That mayor still in jail and I hope he rots there, his greed and stealing city funds caused the death of thousands. The Mississippi coast was obliterated from 28 foot storm surge and 130 mph winds for 12 hours. By the way Storm Surge comes it like a tsunami NOT trickle in, it rushes in a huge wave and just keeps on coming. We had lost parts of our house and roof, 30 trees in our yard and went 4 months without electricity.

It just amazes me at how fast people descend into chaos after magnificent disasters. We’re not as civilized as we believe. Prepare

As a Guamanian and Chamorro living in the island of Guam, i used to hear my parents talk about three specific storms that devastated our island in the past that destroyed Guam's infrastructure. Typhoon Paka 1997, (the year i was born) Typhoon Chata'an and Typhoon Pongsona (both 2002 and all three explained were category five super typhoons) but never thought anything of it. I always thought they overexaggerated these things till May of this year when Typhoon Mawar (category four violent typhoon) ravaged our island, the first to do so in over twenty years. The entire island didnt have power, some places for over three months and half the population didnt have water. People were scrambling for food, water, ice and gas. It was absolute madness. I remember seeing rain lierally fly sideways and coconut trees cracking and toppling over. I tried to comfort my 1 year old son and 6 year old daughter as they were crying when the winds howled through the walls of our home. It was terrifying yet almost beautiful. I hope to never experience another one ever again.

Living in the UK it’s very rare we have such catastrophic events. Mother Nature fascinates me In every aspect. I’d love to storm chase

Why was hurricane Andrew not mentioned?

I don't understand why would anyone want to live near the ocean

We here in Florida have gotten LUCKY that we haven't had too bad of storms since 2005. That year was a crap shoot.

If you have to leave your home you might want a go bag or 72 hr kit that you make. I see people coming to shelters with nothing...when they leave they could have nothing when they find their way home. DO IT NOW

I was directly in the eyewall of Hurricane Charley some years ago. Living in Florida all my life, I thought I understood how dangerous a hurricane could be, but honestly, I really didn't have a clue until Charley paid us a visit. The most terrifying weather I've ever had the misfortune of experiencing. Charley may have been relatively small, but packed a punch that you had to live through to believe.

I spent my first decade of life in the Dartmouth/ Halifax region of Nova Scotia. And boy howdy, the storms that came in from the Atlantic were absolute zombie twisters from Hell. I learned to fall asleep, comforted by the sound of thunder smashing and lightening strikes hitting the trees nearby. It was all so normal, so HOME that I enjoyed the theater of it all. I'd get up the next morning and Dad would take us to see the damage. What fun! I'm 59 now, living in Ontario. I have learned to have empathy for those forced out of their homes, forced to scatter away from the smashing fists of the on coming storms. And it was Canadians that were on hand before the American rescuers. Canadian news agencies used their helicopters to drop water and food to folks trapped on roofs or moved folks to safer areas. A British Columbia search and rescue team came with their dogs to try to find the living among the debris. The Canadian Navy were flinging needed supplies onto the ships, heading out to the Gulf. The Canadian Navy has a relationship with Louisiana. All this was going on before the Americans could get their act together. No one believed Katrina would be a monster.

Watching this after Hurricane Beryl just went over my town.

27:14 it’s crazy, because when 9/11 happened, those people were there for relief from all over the country quickly in New York but when Hurricane Katrina happen, it took over a week for relief and months for rebuilding smh

May he rest in peace 8:30

Watching this as Ian is gonna hit any moment

Katrina was a heartbreak! 💔 It took me close to ten years to watch a video from that disaster!

Even in darkness light dawns for the upright for the gracious and compassionate and righteous man.

Man i wasnt ready for that image, i rode that coaster about a month or two before sandy hit nj

Wow I just watched images from my city here in Cuba (Caibarien) during Irma, it was an horrible experience.

Here during Ian YIKES

I am just going to point out, that here in America, we never report the winds, or base the size of hurricanes, in Kilometers.

I remember when New York City and New Jersey were hit by Superstorm Sandy. Houses slid onto highways. It was catastrophic. The water reached as far inland as center Brooklyn and Manhattan. In addition, the wind almost caused a crane on top of the World Trade Center, which was under construction at the time, to fall onto the street below. That would’ve killed people. Very very scary.

I didn’t know little finger was so interested in storms😅

amazing how once again, no mention of Gulfport Mississippi during hurricane katrina, which took the hardest hit from the hurricane and also took the eye of the storm. its sad all that was mentioned was new orleans.

I’m from Louisiana and I’ve only seen Hurricane Laura and that hurricane was the most terrifying disaster I’ve *EVER* seen!

They need to focus on how to kill a hurricane,somehow I think if you could deliver a drone into the eye for a targeting becon,somekind of smart bomb or missle could nurtinlize it if you knew what would from within the eye out.What kind of explosion and how big would just chuck out the vortex,repeating sonic booms perhaps dono.

8:29 is that a dead body?!

Sandy's route wasn't unprecedented. The hurricanes that make landfall in New England/northern Mid-Atlantic almost always do so because of a blocking high over southern Greenland. And they become extra-tropical in the process. The combining with a Nor'easter was new, although not entirely unexpected. Hurricanes have merged with other storm fronts after/during making landfall before, just not quite on that scale AFAIK. But given how insanely big Nor'easters tend to be, that's not exactly unexpected. Also, they knew it was going to come ashore in the NJ/NY area well in advance of the storm actually doing so. I remember ppl hyping up the storm and talking about it. Well, mainly all the news media that had HQs in NYC cuz it was going to affect them directly. Here in the Midwest, it was like with every other hurricane - a bit of a curiosity to watch the coverage and getting ready to send aid after it passed.

In Jamaica we know what thats like 👍 I even remembered Dennis

Rita was a worse storm than Katrina. Rita made landfall as a 5 & hit the southwest portion of the state. 15 years later almost to the date, we were hit with the strongest storm to hit the region in years, hurricane Laura. Lake Charles, Louisiana has seen 2 of the top 3 storms to hit the state.

Who else is here during Hurricane Hillary?

I was in a hurricane

boa noite do Brasil os desastres acontecem nunca vão deixar de acontecer más a solidariedade é a melhor parte muitos desastres vão acontecer más a luta continua

Watching this as Idalia is ab come through Florida

My mom used to live in tornado alley and now we live in miami and she has always sais she’d take a f5 tornado over a hurricane anyday

I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

Look at the doggy I'm proud doggy made it ❤

Good documentary, but I think you missed one of the terrible mitigating circumstances in New Orleans while people were waiting to be helped. Those thousands of people at the Super Dome and elsewhere were ALSO suffereing through consecutive days in the 90s with high humidity, no water, no food, and no way to cool themselves! It was an absolute horror show!

Goes 16 East Coast. watch all the hurricanes coming in........

People are a bigger problem than a hurricane. Fear is a drug.

I seen an episode of king of the hill where Hank Hill saved the day.

why did this go so quick from everyone to race....let alone oh they missed school....they fucking survived a natural disaster....maybe let them soak that in a lil first

Yes our money should be in our countries, not theirs

carry out an experiment of 11 air fillled glass chambers with thermocouples in and datalogged to a pc to record the air temperature every minute for 24 hours. first chamber should contain 0.00% co2, the second 0.01% co2, the third 0.02% co2, the fourth 0.03% co, the fith 0.04% co2, the sixth 0.05% co2, the seventh 0.06% co2, the eighth 0.07% co2, the nineth 0.08% co2, the tenth 0.09% co2and the 11th 0.10% co2. all equidistant from a heat source while their contents temperatures are recorded every minute if there is a corelation in data, then we can conclude that co2 does infact influence air temperature and all high school students from around the world can carry out the experiment to confirm the case for co2 without arguments. otherwise all those locked up in prisons around the world on corruption, fraud and theft charges should be released back into society.

Saying people in NO got enough warning is not true at all

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

To bad they can,t make some kind of misle to shoot in the eye of hurricane,and destroy it before it destroyed city’s across the world

Is there any way to cool the waters before a Hurricane is formed?

These videos would be cool if I wasn't getting a ad every 90 seconds... like seriously wtf is the point anymore

I actually went outside when hurricane Sandy said hello to New York City.

Ask me about Hurricane Maria and i'll tell you a horror story🇵🇷🙏🏾

I thought the worst hurricane was in later Oct of 2022?

“The SE states of America are famous for their laid back lifestyles.” True but it comes at a steep price & I don’t mean money. If I need to live anywhere where there’s a “levy” I don’t need to be there. Nope. Not me. Also me: I live around the corner from a dam…🙄

I grew up in Flaarda, so I've been through many hurricanes, tropical storms, and depressions, but on a different topic, why can't Cuba become part of the US like Hawaii did? Yeah, I get the whole Cuban Missle Crisis with Cuba's alliance with Russia, but that's been over for a LONG time and Cuba desperately needs help. Puerto Rico is part of the US, so why not Cuba? Their residents are almost all poor and are suffering from everything that I see. It's truly sad to watch. Yeah, we have our own problems here in the States, but helping Cuba wouldn't hurt our economy much more than what's already going on right now. Hell, 93 octane gas (which is what my car requires) is $5.59 a gallon here in Pennsylvania. Most Cuban families don't even have enough for a single gallon in their wallet.

nothing has change over th centuries, still one thing that we can do is run, maybe little bit earlier, but considering dense populated areas and logistic problems I dont see any diffrence between today and past...and when i hear that we control nature ( YES, there are guys uttering ridiculous stuff like this ;) ) it only brings bitter smile on my face

It’s Miles Not Kilometers

Not long after the tsunami

The day after maria hit my island Dominica when i saw my DA without her green coat i burst into tears. she look as if somone droped a bomb.she is known as the nature is land.David ,ķatrina and Maria blow up Dominca reaĺ bad.

Try Cat. 6, now.

Nordic:🍿🥤

This is part of life.

Its so crazy to me as a european that the us does basically nothing in advance. Like wtf lol 😆

"many were elderly or disabled and couldn't leave, or...." I remember this storm, the majority were able enough to even loot and rob during the aftermath, like even many homeless had enough sense to evac. These fools _chose_ to stay, and for really stupid reasons. I grew up on the gulf coast, seems every hurricane people need rescue cuz they tried to ride it out and I will never understand why.

Really they went without for weeks. This makes it sound like help was there. it was not. so stop lying already. America failed them big time. I remember. I asked a marine distributor in Iowa/Minnesota for a pontoon to go help. they told me no its not their issue. Next year that business went bankrupt. yep Karma. I cried cause I just wanted to go help and knew I could if I could only find anyone to give me a boat to use. No one would help. All who said no had bad times after that. Karma again.

A Japanese meteorologist claimed US weather meteorologist caused the Tacloban Hurricane 🌀..they tweeked the Alluminam filaments of the Persian Gulf conflicts that accumulated over the pacific 🌏 ocean

It’s Just a Code Brown 💩💩💩💩💩😂😂😂😂

The Rich MUST be Forced to help. Or they should have to loose it all! There is NO Excuse at all for these things to be allowed! Period.. Ir is WRONG! The Government Also MUST start Caring, & doing things RIGHT!! It is DUE to Man when it comes to the Warming of Our Oceans!! Start doing what is right & also Keeping Our Oceans, pure & Clean. As well as Drinking water & More. No Person or Animal should be allowed to die!! No Where. And the RICH must be FORCED TO GIVE BACK!!

And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

He'll yeah I remember the snow of sandy, we were snowed in a week without power, I had to walk to the cistern for water lel

I hear it all the time that storms are getting stronger, more frequent, and longer lasting. I have seen zero evidence that this is the case. In fact, all the data seems to indicate the opposite. Apart from a couple major exceptions, we are in a bit of a storm lull, from a historical perspective.

I swear there are some npcs in this comment section

ALL of NO was told to leave, by the president Bush himself, and he did so, many days IN ADVANCE of the Katrina hurricane.. . and nearly ALL chose to stay. I stayed too. I am lucky, cuz I could swim in them days. I am Older now, but if another storm comes 'round, I'll be swimmin' again. This is why I am still alive!

HURRICANE KATRINA A MASSIVE FAILURE !!!

All I can say is pendejo pendejo pendejo pendejo build the wall

More interested in incarceration, another red state issue, because of private prison and private county jail.

I guess they have to make a new one to add Hillary to show

And most of the New Orleans crap relocate to Houston 😒

Matthew 24:7 [7]For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places .Luke 21:[25]“And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; Biblical end time prophecy coming to pass

Look at the people that are stranded, they are NOT elderly or disabled. They talk about it while showing young, healthy people walking around! Quit lying. Most of these people didn't leave because they didn't want to.

Who?

During Katrina the documentary doesn't tell u about the murders, the raping of women and children, the fobs on armed guard, Curfew . The force we had to use against parish law enforcement to get aid to the darker side of the tracks it looked like a 3rd world War zone, the rotting smell of refuse and floating dead. It was pathetic. We were just getting back from deployment, and was sent down there.

It’s amazing how we can do “fundraising” for Ukraine, meanwhile here in the our own country (The Once United States) men, women, and children are SUFFERING EVERY SINGLE DAY! Inflation is destroying us, gas prices are breaking people. People on a fixed income like myself, a fully disabled combat veteran ARE SCRAPING BY!!! Yet WHERE IS THE RELIEF FOR US!!!)

This narrator 😆😆🤣🤣

The American community helped more than the government. Because when you have a republican in office the oligarchy is their greatest concern. We the people are no more we are as disposable as TP.

He meant they blew up the levies

That fact that you're fundraising for Ukraine during a time when OUR COUNTRY is in bad shape is tacky and offensive

Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

ukraine is weak slava russia

You build in a depression and shock.. Stupidity should be punished.

НИЧЕГО НЕ НАПОМИНАЕТ? КОГДА ЧЕЛОВЕЧЕСТВО ОДУМАЕТСЯ? И КТО СТАНЕТ НОЕМ И ЕГО СЕМЬЁЙ ИЛИ НИЧТО УЖЕ НЕ ОСТАНЕТСЯ ЖИВЫМ НА НАШЕЙ ПЛАНЕТЕ?!! Согласно Книге Бытия, Всемирный Потоп - наказание божье за греховность человечества. И сказал Господь: истреблю с лица земли человеков, которых Я сотворил, от человека до скотов, и гадов и птиц небесных истреблю, ибо Я раскаялся, что создал их. (Книга Бытия. Глава 6) Потоп - Божий способ истребить грех в человеке. Бог оставил в живых лишь Ноя и его семью,.....Жители не выходят из укрытий из-за грозы с проливным дождем в Ополе 11 382 просмотра 21 авг. 2022 г. Штормы с сильными осадками достигли района Ополе, Польша. Только в Ополе в течение нескольких десятков минут поступило около 100 заявок, в основном они касаются упавших деревьев и сломанных веток. Информации о пострадавших нет, дороги также затоплены из-за переполненных водостоков. Действует предупреждение 2 уровня, ожидаются грозы, местами сопровождающиеся очень сильными осадками от 30 мм до 40 мм, порывы ветра до 100 км/час, местами возможно до 110 км/час. Как добавляют пожарные, ситуация динамическая и то и дело поступают новые сообщения от жителей.