Today we look at more natural disaster damage visible on Google Earth. Let me know if I should continue this series! Natural Disaster Damage visible on Google Earth
Technically not a natural disaster, but the Beirut explosion completely destroyed a entire port peninsula and made a roughly 155x135 meter crater in diameter and possibly 10m deep
I was in the Lower 9th Ward just about exactly 1 year after Katrina. The only word I can use to describe the damage is "apocalyptic". Even compared to other parts of NO, it was incredible.
I grew up in Paradise, moved out about a month before the fire. It's a weird, weird feeling watching a place you were in for so long and so recently be completely destroyed. A lot of my close friends lost their parents. It still shocks me how severe the damage was. I went to Paradise Elementary and Paradise Intermediate on Pearson Road, and in 9th grade spent half a semester at Honey Run Continuation School, also on Pearson because I got caught drinking with my friends lol. Then I went to Paradise High School, which miraculously was saved by firefighters, and after Ridgeview transitioned from a continuation school to a high school, I was enrolled there for Junior and Senior year due to zoning reasons because I actually lived in lower Magalia off Cumberland Road. It was a quiet town with loud kids, and it was a nice place to be for the most part.
I got the chance to go to Minamisanriku in 2018. Because the town was so small & rural, a lot of people didnt have phones that would alert them of the incoming tsunami, and many people missed the alarms and sirens. Because of this, a lot of people didnt know what was coming. I got to hear from the remaining residents first hand, and the worst part about the entire disaster in that small city was that the highest points in the city were the elementary school & high-school, and without proper notice many people didn't make it to the schools in time. Because of this, hundreds of school aged students who had gone to school in the morning on a "completely normal day" had no homes, no families to go back to at the end of the day. Just a devastating event.
It’s really great to see how fast your channel is growing. I remember 2 days ago when i saw your channel you had around 950 subscribers, and now you have 1.42k. I hope you get more subscribers. You should make more google earth videos like these, they’re really interesting and fun to watch.
You should do one on the florida panhandle after hurricane Michael. I live a town over and it is insane looking at the Google maps. At one time, you could see someone spelled out help in tree logs
@@weatherboxstudios and as a follow-up, because of the millions of trees that were destroyed, the area recently experienced some wildfires that were out of control for days
Your videos are made like some id see on channels with millions of subs, thank you for your great videos. Natural disasters are quite fascinating and when it comes from you I know I won’t be disappointed.
I really loved this video's content. I come here for weather, but I find natural disasters and infrastructure absolutely fascinating. Keep up the awesome work!
I was watching the World Series broadcast live in Hollywood CA when the Loma Prieta quake hit. My friends and I spent hours going to different houses to watch the news trying to find out what happened. Such a helpless feeling.
If you do another one of these videos you should do Waveland Mississippi.The town was hit by Hurricane Katrina and My parents and brother lived there when it hit.there home was flattened and there was 20 feet of water by there house and the whole town was just flattened.
There was basically nothing left of the entire MS coast. US 90 was buried under sand for dozens of miles. Anything within a mile or two of the Gulf was obliterated. I went to Biloxi six months later, and it still looked like a bomb had gone off.
always fun as always. another one visible (however way less devastating) is the Toronto floods of 2019. you can still see the island partial under water on google maps to this day.
My friend and his family had JUST moved from California right when the 2018 camp fire hit. We kept track of it almost religiously, that year was a terrible and tragic year for wildfires.
It truly amazes me, that just like in the US, where we keep allowing structures to be built in areas prone to devastation from storm surge... the same is true in Japan, where in regions prone to funneled water at inlet areas, they are clearly rebuilding....
Bruh I saw your watcha ma call it oh yea the tornado path one and I thought you hade like 300k you deserve at least that much your channel is so professional and deserves way more attention dude keep up the good work:D
I'm quite surprised you didn't cover Futaba in the earthquake/tsunami section. It's the site of the Fukushima/Daiichi nuclear power plant that suffered a nuclear disaster.
You can't tell from Google Earth with views looking straight down vertically, but in some of the damaged Japanese towns, there's been extensive landfill to raise the ground level a good deal higher. In this situations, rebuilding has occurred closer to the shoreline.
You should show marsh harbor in the Bahamas after hurricane Dorian. It sat in top of the Bahamas for over 24hours just off the coast of fl where I live. It has to be one of the strongest storms ever and was one of the scariest days of my life and I've been through many storms.
Yes I'm late to this but going through all your vids...I igured the #1 spot would be the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, ut Japan 2011 is also incredible damage wise. I remembered something about how they could clearly see the damage line of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami from space and it was clearly marked out. THe thing that always amazes me is the Sentinelese knew to get to higher ground and survived, as did other tribes in the Andaman and Nicobar islands however.
One disaster that I find interesting, that is actually visible without going back in time on the satellite imagery is the Lytton fire, which came right after the town reached the highest temperatures ever recorded in Canada
Please share the names of the music used in your videos. This is the 2nd video Ive watched where I like the music (for this video at about 8:10 is pretty good)
You could now add the town of Lahaina, Maui, which was mostly wiped out by fire on August 8-9, 2023, killing at least 115 people. The before & after views are quite shocking.
One of my high school acquaintances who lived in Paradise had been in the San Francisco area with his family and his dog when the fire hit, and when he got back to his property there was nothing left.
This is a really good video and you explain things so well, but I would disagree that the people in the 9th ward decided not to rebuild after Katrina. Since it was an impoverished area, I think its more likely that they couldn't afford to rebuild.
Watersnood ramp van 1953.[Flood disaster of 1953]. In Holland, Germany, Belgium, and England. Number off deaths. 1836 in Holland. 307 in VK. 224 on sea and 28 in Belgium.The dikes broke after a heavy storm. I am only giving you this information because I am very shocked by what I saw in this video. Klaas Vos from the Netherlands. Maybe there is an English version of this wikipedia page.
Hurricane Katrina actually hit the coast of Mississippi not New Orleans. New Orleans got hit by its horrible government. show the MS coast where nothing is left, not even houses to flood.
I have to mention something here. You say the Japanese towns lost so many percent since the tsunami but that is mostly incorrect. Most of the people included in your percentage have been lost TO the tsunami. It really was a tragedy of biblical proportions.
This is a really important point and I'm glad you brought it up. I am unsure of the survived tsunami/lost home ratio per coastal town in Japan, but with 18,000 casualties I would imagine you're correct. If you add up the 15-30% population loss of all the towns combined it would be very near the total deaths. This is something I'll be wary of when looking at damage in the future
@@weatherboxstudios It's true that some who have lost their homes have not returned but the death-toll in these towns was very high. The reason is always debatable. Was it scepticism, a misplaced trust in the levies or misjudgement of how big a tsunami could actually get. I mean, in some places it actually got to more than a 100ft and no matter how tall or strong the building you sheltered in was there, you would have been doomed. The advice was to shelter on high ground or in a strong concrete building at or above the 3rd floor but that would only put you up 20ish feet or so. I'll leave this here, the 1st video is the 40m wave and the second an NHK documentary that I hadn't seen before. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3nfH6qBVMhQ.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BEi32c7Prv4.html
