The WORST Hurricane to hit Every US Atlantic Coastal State 

It's always a year that I stumble on, last video it was 2014 lol. Sorry about that!

Ironically, the photo at 5:04 is of flooding in Cape May during the 1944 storm. (Well, that neighborhood always floods…)

Oh, ha, my first thought was "Gloria!" Then I thought it was me who must have heard wrong. 🥴

@@weatherboxstudios lol, all good here!!

DUH, it is not western Virginia lmfao: West Virginia is a separate state; you know the whole Mason Dixon line and that civil war thing! lol

My great grandmother was in that storm she used to tell me stories about the flooding and damage

Yup, the picture at 7:24 actually is from one of Toronto's suburbs as the storm washed out houses in the Humber River valley. This hurricane is one of the reasons why the city has parks in most of its ravines, rather than houses.

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​@@MateodeJovelU know that for a fact? Why would they show pictures from Canada when theyre only discussing North Carolina?

We've recovered somewhat, but the scars still remain. There are empty lots where houses used to stand in the Lower 9th Ward, abandoned buildings, houses, and stores that remain rotting and crumbling. We managed to weather Ida fine, but it's really only due to Katrina that the levee system was upgraded and was able to handle it. I doubt we'll ever fully recover.

Louisiana gets a lot of the attention with Katrina, and rightfully so, but Biloxi and surrounding towns in Mississippi got HORRIBLY damaged too, and kind of got shorted on news coverage and volunteer relief because of the lack of awareness/public knowledge. Some small townships in the area were entirely wiped off the map, nothing but slabs left. We left North Carolina and went down twice, first a year after and then two years after the hurricane, to some of the suburbs of Biloxi that Katrina had hit to help with cleanup/disaster relief which was still going on. There were still many leveled houses or only slabs left even in '07. Many people in our Disaster Relief volunteer group, who had been there in '06, commented that in many places it looked like the hurricane hit yesterday even in '07 because so very little had been done even two years after the fact. We got told by a lot of residents it had been a really slow process because New Orleans was getting all the government attention and they had a hard time getting FEMA and other people to come help them, especially in the smaller towns. Even today when people say "Katrina" they only mention Louisina and New Orleans. I think people forget about Mississippi because of the dikes breaking in Louisiana and NO being a bigger and more prominent city but it's really a shame because in some ways the damage was almost worse in MS because the recovery effort lasted so much longer.

I grew up in coastal Mass and had a new classmate after Katrina who had been displaced but had grandparents in my town. You always hear about natural disasters obviously, but seeing someone in person who had their whole life uprooted was a real eye opener for me, being only 11 at the time.

Hurricanes can and do have all those

all except act of squirrel.... we need more coverage of that. Be objective!

It made landfall as a cat 1…

@@trickster6054 it may have made landfall as a Cat 1, but it actually ended up becoming a Cat 3….oh mind you, it made landfall during a full moon so that made the tides much worse, and it had combined with a nor’easter which intensified its strength because if all that warm water from the Atlantic. It is still one of the most costly storms on record, not to mentioned the lives lost to it……and places here in the northeast specifically here in NY, are still recovering and rebuilding 10 years later. There’s a reason for why it was called Superstorm and Frankenstorm Sandy, mainly because it made landfall right before Halloween but also because of how powerful it was.

​@@tiamarrow6366 No it didn't lol... Sandy was a Cat 3 when it made landfall in CUBA... When it made landfall in the northeast US it was a cat 1 with 80MPH winds... strongest wind gusts reported were around 90-100 MPH. 80MPH sustained with 100MPH gusts is a solid category 1. The reason it is called a "superstorm" is because you guys are vulnerable to even weak tropical/subtropical systems...

While Sandy was "only" a CAT 1 when it hit New Jersey, what make it extraordinary is how massively huge it became in area, and its sharp turn to the west once it reached New Jersey. New Jersey rarely gets a direct hurricane landfall due to the natural curve of the coast, and the fact that hurricanes normally are curving out to sea by the time they get that far north. If you look at the satellite loop you can see a strong block setting up in the atlantic to the northeast of Sandy which pushes Sandy suddenly westward. Very unusual track.

A burning memory

I remember in PA that Sandy had howling winds and occasional brownouts.

Thanks for the heads-up Joe! Next video is about tornadoes and extreme wind anomalies within hurricanes, so this would be perfect to include

I remember being 10 and not understanding why people weren't leaving Florida, and then wondering why people didn't just drive their cars fast so there was no traffic? 😅

I think it could have happened in Camille. I knew a man who was in it at landfall in Mississippi, and he described something very similar.

I wasn't born, but my family tells stories of it. By the time it got to them, it was severely weakened, but My mom made an improvised shelter out of couches and chairs and mattresses in the lower story since where they were it was so far inland that flooding was a non-issue, just wind. They were also in a very large and sturdy brick townhouse building with no big heavy trees around tall enough, even if they did fall against it, to do any serious damage. They both tried to sleep, But every little noise, even the most tiny creak of the structure from the wind, my late mom (who had extreme storm anxiety and would panic even with little thunderstorms and make us huddle in the hall as if a tornado was coming until it passed, when we were kids) would wake my dad up, to see if the building was falling in. Finally she let him sleep and went to sleep herself, and in the morning they saw there was very little damage, mostly just limbs down and a few things blown around. Which was honestly to be expected, as the storm wasn't much worse than a normal big NC thunderstorm by the time it got to where they lived anyway. In fact the only storm-related death anywhere near them was miles away and was some dummy who, AFTER the storm had gone by, went outside and tried to fell a damaged tree on his own instead of waiting for the city tree crew, and got killed when it went wrong. My dad used to say they just barely missed being able to have t-shirts that said "we slept through Hurricane Hugo."

Hugo terrified me as a child, even though we lived a half-hour west of Columbia. I turned into something of a junior hurricanologist after the fact, actively tracking the storms for years at getting quite good at predicting their paths in a time before widely available tracking software. Everyone's got their coping mechanism, and mine is knowledge. It probably didn't help that a well-meaning teacher, trying to educate us about the pending storm, told us that ultimately bogus story about the Richelieu Apartments hurricane party during Camille. It left me fully expecting to have our house blown down or washed away. In the end, our power went out for the weekend and the worst damage our house saw was a shredded windsock.

It did a lot of damage in Puerto Rico too.

I live about 25 miles inland from Myrtle Beach, SC. I was 10 years old and remember it well. My parents made me and my brother a bed on their bedroom floor. They stayed up all night. I can remember hearing our brick house making popping sounds. It was scary. We were without power for almost 3 weeks.

Hugo was largely (and unjustly) overlooked due to the earthquake that hit San Francisco in October of 1989.

thank you for saying it

I only know about the correct pronunciation because of "the Pacific" show

I think it was inevitable for him to make a video on hurricanes

It's fine, so long as accuracy isn't important.

By that logic we are coming up to a bunch of bad storms

@@babyyodasoup7894 exactly. It has nothing do to with climate change. It’s all cyclical.

we had bad storms in the mid 2000s (2003, 04, and ESPECIALLY 05), so by that logic we are about to have the worst years again very soon

12 year solar cycles or just enough time to indoctrinate people from first grade to graduation.

@@nutterinherbutter5080I think we’re already there. Look at 2016-2022. Matthew in 2016, Harvey Irma and Maria in 2017, Florence and Michael in 2018, Dorian in 2019. The fact that all those storms happened in a 4 year time span… Then the last two years you have Ida and Ian. I looked at the costliest Atlantic hurricanes. 7 of the 12 (and 5 of the top 6) costliest hurricanes of all time have been since 2016.

Did you think Michael was worse?

@@markpalavosvrahotes5575 I didn't chase Michael

I think Ian may have just beaten Irma as Florida's most costly hurricane.

@@aaronlowe620 Do you think they will upgrade Ian to a 5?

@@markpalavosvrahotes5575 I think they got it right the first time, but still not impossible.

Ike was a Cat 2 at landfall

The worst hurricane in my area would be Hurricane Floyd.

Completely agree with Virginia. Isabel is the only hurricane that I've evacuated for in my 20 years living in Hampton Roads. Irene and Sandy were cakewalks in comparison.

I remember Isabel, though it was mostly due to causing an outage when it came through Pennsylvania.

10 layers of Dunes down to 1

@@gianttigerfilms yup. Sad sight to see anymore. Soon the entrance to Buxton will just be gone entirely. A new island.

Agreed

Galveston Hurricane of 1900 killed 12,000

@ElDoggo141 Yes Galveston had the most deaths but hurricane Harvey exceeded in many more other categories than Galveston so I'm a bit surprised Harvey hadn't at the very least receive a mention.

yeah Harvey ended up being the costliest hurricane on record for Texas and set several records for all-time rainfall for quite a few places in Texas. It parked itself over Texas and just let loose. I was amazed because the thing just would not move on.

@@Wixyification yeah it did the same thing Agnes did in PA.

Sane

Yeah ik 😂

Harpers ferry is hard to navigate on a normal day

The seasons of 04, 05, and 06 were just wild. Growing up in south Florida during that time was just wild especially as a midwestern native

@@skinWalkman I thought 2006 was a quiet season?

@@Spagine I think I misremembered. I’m probably confusing it with the 03-05 seasons. It was a crazy few years

@weatherbox

Hurricane Andrew was the third cat 5 to make landfall in the U.S

With gusts over 200 mph!

Hurricane ivan 💀

It was stupid 😜 lol 2005 was no joke either

@@MzKaylcC Hurricanes are a lot of fun in a way.

Harvey caused a very high amount of damage but it wasn't even close to the most deadly hurricane. I suspect that the 1900 Galveston Hurricane was also stronger in terms of windspeeds but wasn't properly measured. It definitely should have been mentioned, though.

Yeah, the fact that it stalled for an extended period of time just inland and caused insane amount of rainfall is really unimaginable

@@evilthing999 Agnes did the same thing over PA, Maryland, and upstate New York. It's hard to believe it only got as strong as a Category 1 though and the name was the first one retired from a Category 1 storm.