New Zealand Family React to 5 Deadly Natural Phenomena America Has That Most of The World Doesn't
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Australia: Almost all of our animals will try to kill you.
The United States: Almost all of our weather will try to kill you.
Great comparison!
Here in Florida it don’t matter what it is. It will try to kill you.
Valid point. Even the water will get you! @@Christianrailfan
Plus some animals will try to kill you.
Florida…hold my beer 😂
There's a classic joke in the US about your boss calling to confirm you're still showing up to work after natural disasters. Meanwhile, the wind decided to move your house without permission, and you're not sure what county your car is in.
😂😂😂😂😂 this is such truth!!! my boss told us the other day when it dumped 3 feet of snow on us that if we wanted to call out we needed to get our shifts covered… like anyone else’s car can move through three foot of snow.
I'm an RN....we are expected to be at work DURING natural disasters.
I’ll never forget being a server at a Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse and still having to come in during a snowstorm. 4 ppl came in the entire night.
My dad worked for a glass company and he still had to go to work after the northbridge quake in the 90s
Once while living in Philly, as I looked out my window as a Hurricane Sandy tore through, so called my boss who proceeded to tell me that I was still needed at work that day.
SO, I drove around and dodged falling debris to make my way there, JUST to be told I actually wouldn't need to come in after all AS I PARKED MY CAR!!
....so then had to do it all again as I made my way back home.😑
I was born and raised in Colorado and experienced blizzards, wildfires, mud slides, tornadoes, floods then went to the Gulf Coast and lived through Hurricane Katrina. Heat waves and ice storms. It's a part of life here. We learn to pay attention to the weather and try your best to be prepared. Still, never forget Mother Nature is in charge.
Western Colo I've seen blizzards in 70 years.
The weather all over the world is changing rapidly!!!❤🇨🇦❤🇨🇦❤
I live in southwest Louisiana in the lake Charles area, and these past few years have been rough with a cat 4 hurricane in August 2020, and then a cat 2 in October 2020 and an ice storm in February 2021. Now we have a 33,000 acre wildfire 25 minutes from my house which is something we never really had to deal with lol
The wild weather is really ramping up in the US. 🥶🥵🤢🤧🤒🤕😷🫨😵💫😵🤣👍
@@loganwalter8555 I feel your pain!! Her in Canada Ontario we've had a few tornadoes!! We NEVER get them!! The half of my beautiful country is on fire!! ❤🇨🇦❤🇨🇦❤
I'm Canadian. I moved to the USA December 2011 and married my American husband February 2012, I am taking my oath ceremony for citizenship September 18th!
Congratulations! Welcome 🤘🏻💜
Congratulations ❤
Congratulations! 🎉
Can I have you Canadian card 😂
I'm born and raised in Texas, but my parents and sister are all born in Canada, they got their us citizenship when I was in middle school. It was a great experience watching them. Congratulations!
I was in the F5 2011 May 22 tornado in Joplin, MO. 160+ souls lost. It was 1 mile wide and destroyed or damaged EVERYTHING in it’s 6 mile path. Nearly half of our town was just gone. Totally gone. 🙏❤️ We will never forget.
When someone talk about Tornado
Joplin come first in my mind
It was soo devastating and formed grow from EF0 - EF5 within 5 minutes 😢
I live about 100 miles north of joplin. I was 14 I think, when that tornado came through. I still think of joplin when I hear "tornado"
I live in Oklahoma right next to joplin so I understand sorry you guys had to go through that devestation
My cousin died n the May 3, 1999, tornado in Midwest City.
@@Lynn-r8h I’m so sorry to hear that ❤️🙏
I'm surprised he didn't mention the May 3rd 1999 tornado in Moore/Bridge Creek, Oklahoma. It had the fastest recorded wind speeds globally, of wind speeds of up to ~ 320mph(~515kmh). It was also about a mile wide(~1.6km). And, according to my Dad, wrapped semi-trucks around poles (like electrical posts, street light posts, etc.).
And Moore again in 2013 too.
The 2011 El Reno tornado moved an oil rig weighing thousands of tons. It’s so forgotten because of the others in the same year, and the 2013 Tornado.
And the Tornado Outbreak of April 27, 2011.
Hell I remember driving around with my parents after the May 3rd ‘99 tornado (even though I was really young). I can vividly remember concrete slabs that had 2x4 wood blocks pierced through them like toothpicks in butter, shit was unfathomable and utterly soul shattering, just realizing the raw power of that storm.
May 3rd was scary as hell, I was helping looking for survivors after it hit
My family members (Dad, aunt, uncles and grandparents) survived the 1964 earthquake in Alaska. If I recall correctly, it was a 9.3. The stories I've heard are astonishing. My grandfather at the time was in Idaho and he had already lost his first wife to childbirth. He had a wife and six children in Alaska, when he got word of the earthquake. There weren't cell phones at the time and the landlines were down so he drove for three days straight, to see if his family was still alive. All survived.
Alaska is also the location of I believe one of, if not the, largest tsunami ever recorded. 1,720 ft tall wave.
That would be a terrifying and stressful 3 days. I can’t even imagine what he went through
@@michaelwells529 I share the same sentiment, I get choked up whenever I really think about what he went through during that time.
@@mycroft16 1720?! This I did not know but I believe the tsunamis killed most of the people from the earthquake.
You are correct.@@mycroft16 Lituya Bay 2 people rode it out on a small fishing boat.
Maui, Hawaii just had a massive wildfire this last month. Prayers to the ones we lost
Prayers via youtube comments get there the fastest.
That was not a “natural” disaster. Our government made it happen. Think about it. They’re refusing to let the people go back to their land to rebuild. Anything that had Maui blue on it didn’t burn because it’s not seen by laser. Cars were burned to where the glass melted. A “forest” fire doesn’t get that hot. Trees next to cars didn’t burn. This was a planned event. They have wanted that land for the 15 minute cities they’re planning. And we haven’t heard anything about it in the news because they don’t want anyone realizing just how ev!l they actually are, it’s diabolical.
As someone who lives in Wisconsin and been to the Peshtigo Fire Museum several times it is refreshing to hear it get recognition. It was so hot that people who jumped in the water for safety were boil alive.
Dam! I also live in Wisconsin and haven’t actually been to that museum yet but DAM! I didn’t even know that!
That’s a scary thought
Fellow Wisconsinite 👋
Oo born and raised in Marinette wisconsin myself!
I've read a lot about this fire... largely forgotten. The reports of the fireballs falling out of the sky are chilling. It's not entirely understood, but the fire was so hot that it vaporized the sap and pitch in the pines, there wasn't enough oxygen for it to burn right away, it went into the upper sky and cooled ..then fell as huge flaming bombs
Coming from someone who lives just outside of Seattle, when you live in a place where it rain a lot you start to love it and miss it when it goes too long without raining. My sister went to college in Montana and the rain was one of the things she missed the most.
I think that really depends on the person. I lived in the Pacific NW for 8 years. I don't miss the endless rain and dark. It really messed with me emotionally.
@@aimeeparrott9204 that’s very true, some people love it and some really don’t. I’ve lived in the PNW my whole life so it is very much home to me.
@@aimeeparrott9204 that's what vacations are for. You got to break it up. And Washington summers are well worth the punishment.
I moved from the PNW to New Mexico... I miss green. And rain. I'll move back someday.
@@willowscottling you would have loved it today, it rained off and on all day. Those big, heavy soaking drops.
My grandmother (I'm a 3rd generation Floridian) was in her 20's when the Okeechobee Hurricane (1928) rolled through South Florida. She used to tell us stories about finding bodies washed up on shore...a lot of WW1 veterans that were building a railroad to Key West. Truly tragic. They didn't name hurricanes back then so it was just called "The Storm" (by my grandma) or the "Okeechobee Storm" by others...
I had photos of my great great aunt and uncle with their children sitting on the roof of their two story house with the water above the eave edge. They were Daughtrys. They moved to Pahokee after that.
I'm in Fort Myers where Ian hit last year. I also remember Hurricane Donna when I was 6 years old. I went swimming in our front yard the day after.
So, yes, we Floridians know hurricanes, don't we?
Ok. Let's see. We had hurricane Donna in '61. Irma in what, 2018. And Ian in 2022. Hmm. Your math sounds a little fuzzy.
I wake up every morning in earthly paradise, for the most.part. I don't get people who want to live where it snows every winter, but that's them. It hasn't snowed here since '78 and that was only in outlying areas, not in town where the bulk of the population is.
So where do you live Josh?
Well, I was born and reared in Fort Myers Florida, 4th generation Lee Countian. I have roots here and I take pride in my home. My great grandfather and his brother were two of the founders of my hometown. We get 2 seasons here Summer and then a couple weeks of what we jokingly call winter.
I like where I live and you like where you are. So what's so wrong about that? I really don't see why it bothers you so much that not everyone is like you.
The hurricane that killed veterans in the Keys was 1935. There's a memorial in Islamorada. The Okeechobee one was indeed 1928 and there's finally a memorial park for the lives lost in that one.
@@tahliasgoddaddy, None too fond of annual winter snow, but it's a big improvement over what Arizona is going thru this summer.
I was in a supermarket a few years ago when a tornado went through less than a mile away. Every cellphone in the store got an alert at the same time. I could see out the door that the sky had turned green. Everyone just stayed in the store until it passed. Normally, the drive home would be about 20 minutes, but it took me almost an hour because there were trees, telephone poles, and wires down everywhere. Trying to find an alternate way home wasn't easy. (PS: This is in Connecticut.)
Wow! That’s a crazy experience!
I’ve experienced the sky turning green during a hurricane in Houston. I rarely hear people mention it and it’s the thing that stood out to me so much.
Tornado green clouds is not a sight you ever forget. It's such an un-natural shade of green for the sky to be. Almost alien and sickly.
@@mycroft16 completely agree
@@mycroft16 My first and only time seeing that, and I agree.
Oh my! I’ve lived in CT for 30+yrs, and seen the aftermath of severe storms, but I never saw the sky turn green! Whoa! What year was this? And what area were you in? Trying to search my memory (there have been many) I’m in Tolland County.
I have lived in central Florida all my life (63 years) so I've experienced many hurricanes. We had one just this morning in fact. Idalia came ashore near Tallahassee. I live between Tampa and Orlando - we only got some rain and some wind. Even though we have days to prepare the meteorologists don't know exactly where the storm will come ashore. If it "wobbles" while it's on it's way here it could mean a difference of miles. We're very thankful it didn't come ashore in Tampa but we are praying for those whose lives have been devastated by Idalia.
@joshray2494cause it happens once ina lifetime realistically. Hurricanes and peimarily bad near the eye.
@joshray2494I've lived here all my life and have experienced a lot of hurricanes, but none were too bad and life got back to normal fairly quickly.. then last year Hurricane Ian wiped my hometown off the planet. Roads, bridges, houses and the land the houses were built on all gone... Andrew, Irma, Charlie, were nothing in comparison. For the first time in my life I want to leave..
I have family in New Port Richey and an aunt that lives in The Villages! I’m glad you all didn’t get my damage in central Florida. My family on the gulf got some flooding.
@@lindsayruiz3789I'm so sorry to hear about the destruction you had last year. I stayed up all through that storm. Just the sound of rain triggered my anxiety for months after. It's my hope that you are in a place where you feel safer.
Im between tampa and orlando as well. Very thankful that we mainly just got rain here and did not hit like Ian last year.
North Carolinian here. Something to think about also is preparedness for natural disasters. Some states minimize the destruction by putting money, planning and resources into being as prepared as possible. For instance, here in NC, there hasn't been a lot of money dedicated to being prepared for hurricanes - so if one hits the coast, it tends to do a lot of property damage. Many of these disasters can be mitigated with planning, money, warning, etc. :)
I'm moving there to Salisbury. I love the weather there and I currently live in San diego, ca.
It's so weird that NC doesn't do that. I lived in Virginia for close to 8 years, and one of the big things there is a tax-free weekend on disaster preparedness items at the start of hurricane season. A lot of stores plan sales for that week leading up to it and the weekend itself. I spent 4 of those years working at a Home Depot, and people flocked to the stores to buy up everything from flashlights, plastic sheeting, and nails to power tools and generators.
Of course, it was during those 4 years that Tropical Storm Lee flooded the entire NoVA/DC metroplex, and we had a massive summer storm that knocked out power to large chunks of the metroplex for nearly a week. I remember driving home from work one day during Lee, and the water on the road (which was sided by 4-foot-deep ditches) was nearly up to the floor of my car.
its simply impossible to be prepared for a cat5 or an EF5. the wind strength alone are enough to mangle tempered steel....
It's very strange how awful NC is at distributing funds towards hurricane prep and relief. We get hit all the time and it's like every time I see damage everywhere that could have been avoided easily. Sure, nothing can prepare you for a cat5 but we hardly see storms THAT intense. The deadliest parts of these storms are typically the flooding and trees being uprooted - both of which could seriously use state attention. I live right on the coast and trees are hardly ever cleared in hazard areas, and half of our historical downtown area is built in such a way where it's BEGGING to be flooded. Sometimes people don't even drain freaking retention ponds before a hurricane hits which is the BARE minimum in flood prevention. It's nuts.
I just now saw your comment after Hurricane Helene. I couldn't believe a Hurricane messed up the west of North Carolina, not even the coast really
As a California resident. I’ve experienced earthquakes and fires. I’d honestly take that over tornados any day!
Yeaaaa no. You don’t
As a georgia resident who's never experienced either, I can confidently say the same. Was on a family trip up to Niagra Falls over a decade ago now, and a F4 tornado started forming a mile from the campsite we were staying at, while we were out hiking. We just happened to stop in the ranger's office to give them the payment for renting a site, or we would've been out hiking while it touched down right next to us. We had to get a ride to our site from a park ranger, pack up as fast as we could, and evacuate. Saw it touch down maybe a mile behind us on the highway, and if it hadn't veered to the right, we might've been picked up and flung around, or worst-case scenario killed, in my mom's SUV. Still the most terrified I've been to this day.
As a native Oklahoman, tornadoes can be eluded, while fires and earthquakes are pretty much inescapable. And, now, we have earthquakes because oil companies fracking.
Central Valley Boy here, agreed. Been through two fires with this house and numerous earthquakes, 7.6 and down. It is the weather that has kept me here for 57 years. Gov. Newson is about to drive me elsewhere. I haven't figured it out yet because I don't want tornados, hurricanes or freezing ass winters like my buddy up in North Dekota gets.
@@MoMoMyPup10 easily, it's called building above code. Even normal code in MN does so much better against twisters than how they build down South, one could conceivably add even stronger wall support beams, joists, roof hangers, and more plywood on the exterior to limit flying missiles and it would withstand all but the largest twisters. I say this working for a company with multiple data centers explicitly designed to get hit dead center by an EF5 twister and to _not even notice it_.
I live in Alaska, and we check 3 of those boxes. Constant earthquakes (I just sleep through the basic ones now), yearly wildfires, although rarely in populated areas, they will burn hundreds of thousands of acres. We also have many active volcanos. One thing not mentioned is the tsunamis. We just had a terrible tsunami last year that devastated the village of King Cove. The waves weren't enormous, but the destruction was.
The tristate tornado went by a couple miles from my town. It removed a neighboring town's downtown. This was long before my time though. You should check out the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811&1812. It rerouted part of the Mississippi River and made it run backwards.
I live about 20 minutes south of Murphysboro, IL, which was DEVASTATED by the tri-state tornado. Unfortunately, Murphysboro wasn't the only town that it leveled, though.
I am also from that Southern Illinois area. My mom used to talk about the tristate tornado when I was young and she had lived through it. The New Madrid Fault has the most destructive potential of any fault in North America. What actually happened during one of those 8.1-8.3 earthquakes, was that a fissure opened up near a tributary of the Mississippi River. The water flowed backwards to fill up the fissure which is now Reelfoot Lake. The aftershocks went on for over a year, each registering over 8. The earthquake rang church bells in Philadelphia all the way from just below St. Louis.
I live in Kansas City. I remember in the mid to late 80's they were predicting another huge earthquake from the New Madrid fault line. Nothing ever happened.
Now, they are saying that Yellow Stone is ready to go at any time! What do you think we can do about that? 😂 Not a damn thing! We are all dead when it goes! 😢
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@@paulvamos7319Depending on where you live when Yellowstone goes off you should head North, South or East as far and as fast as you can. I'm in Michigan so we'd go either into Canada and keep going east or head south. If you live within 15 hours or less driving time from Yellowstone you're probably toast.
Pennsylvania has pretty tame weather compared to a lot of states. We have impressive thunderstorms and the occasional blizzard, but for the most part we get four seasons with not a lot of major weather events. My grandmothers favorite line is “ we’re in a valley, it passes over us.” 😂
Western PA here, and I have to agree, although we have gotten a few tornados here and there. Nothing like they have in Tornado Alley, though.
Except PA is gray, miserable, and depressing for about 5 months per year. :) 1985 tornado outbreak, in western PA, was pretty bad. Crazy night.
Southcentral PA resident. I saw a tornado across the pond in my neighborhood a few weeks ago. It was going into Carroll County, Maryland and took down some trees there. There were other tornadoes in both Maryland and Pennsylvania.
I’m in Philadelphia and the most I’ve ever seen is flooding in low lying areas of the city, maybe some downed trees. We rarely suffer power outages. I know the further you go towards the suburbs and more rural areas of the state it can be more severe with the downed trees and outages. But, I still think the weather is pretty tame. I’m never really concerned about property damage or life threatening events. Generally, I’m worried about how cold it’s going to get in the winter and how hot in the summer.
@@christined6321 I'm in Bristol, Pa and i agree with you
Chattanooga, Tennessee - We've been through 3 tornadoes in the last 15 years. A lot of people are still rebuilding from the 2020 tornado. It was a F3 but did some major damage and there were lives lost. I grew up on the coast of Georgia and experienced a couple of hurricanes. Hurricanes also cause tornadoes. We have tornado warnings a lot in the spring and early summer. Most don't do any damage.
I live an hour and a half from Galveston Texas, I've lived through 7 Hurricanes 2 of which were Category 4. But I'll tell you this the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 still weighs heavily on people's minds to this day. The city of Galveston never fully recovered from it, although Galveston is still a great place. I go there as often as I can.
Back in the 80s, I lived south of Houston, we would drive down to Galveston after hurricanes to see the jellyfish plastered to the hotels, especially the one out on a pier. I always felt bad for the people that lived there and had to deal with all the storms.
There’s a lot of talk that if not for that hurricane that Galveston would have grown like Houston did and become the Houston of today.
@@Quincy_Morris I think that's quite probable! It's still a nice place though
@@Quincy_Morris I think the ultimate limiting factor would have been that it's on an island, though, and it can't physically grow that much. Also, if the 1900 Storm hadn't gotten it, another one would have--being perpetually vulnerable out in the Gulf was always going to be a problem.
I was literally in a tornado warning during hurricane Idalia around 5am this morning, craziness. It’s funny how easy it is to forget we don’t all experience weather at the same frequency and intensity.
I slept through all the warnings. lol
thats how i feel with noreasters, i thought they were just a normal thing, then i realized their literally named after the winds in my part of the world
I remember when Mt. Saint Helens blew up. I live in SoCal and the ash covered everything. It wasn't much more than 1/8 inch or so, but it was still a lot given it came down from Washington - two states away. Earthquakes always rattle my nerves for a couple hours because you never know if it was one-off or a foreshock to something much more damaging. Mother nature is certainly something to respect.
I remember it because it happened on my birthday.
I grew up in SoCal. I was in 5th grade. We walked outside to go to school that morning and thought it was snowing. We were so excited we were yelling "it's snowing, it's snowing!". Our mom came out to see what we were yelling about and just had a puzzled look on her face and said that's not snow, it's volcanic ash from the Mt. St. Helens eruption in Washington.
I was living in Wisconsin at the time, Junior High age. We got ash there. That's about 2000 miles from the eruption.
I too lived in SoCal when Mt. St. Helens blew up. I was 11 and I remember my parents having to use our garden hose to wash the ash off of our car. If we tried to use wiper fluid on the windows it turned to mud. We couldn't go outside during recess at school because the air quality sucked. We didn't understand the impact all that ash had on our daily lives because we were kids. All I wanted to do was go outside and rollerskate, but my parents vetoed it until the air quality improved.
@@arieljaquez5444 me too, it was 2 days after my birthday. I was in Kirkland
I live in Wisconsin and didn’t even know about the Peshtigo Fire. I live next to Lake Superior, so we have something called “Lake Effect Weather”. Since Lake Superior is so large, the heat/cold from the Lake alters our weather patterns. This causes us to get more snow in the winter and have cooler summers.
Northern lower Michigan here. The lake mom lives on about 7 miles inland from Huron barely froze over this past winter....a few days when we had very cold nights... other than that it was open all winter in the center. 50 years ago the ice would be a foot thick by Thanksgiving and stay all winter. Are you seeing big changes like that in your area??
Great video! I live in Indianapolis, IN USA and I have been in a tornado before where my roof was torn off and the whole 2nd story of my house. My family and I were able to be in the basement and had to wait it through. Great history lessons to let your children see as well, good for them to observe these things.
I live in Michigan and just last week week had 7 tornado's in two days and two of them being F3 tornado's came together in the Williamston area and they have declared it a disaster area and the federal government is sending help and funding. They closed down I-96 West to clean up the damage on the highway which included overturned semi's and damaged cars and even the road itself was damaged two perished in mayhem.
Thursday was nuts, everywhere had debris and we had many trees fall
I live in an unaffected area and thought I was being pranked when I was first told. It wasn't until I caught the news later that I realized.
Where at in Michigan? I'm in GR, and I don't remember hearing about it.
@@johnbarry1712Comstock Park, Williamston, and the Detroit area.
@@johnbarry1712E. Lansing, by the time they got to Brighton, they were (still really bad) storms
Can't wait to see videos from your trip. Hope you guys are having fun and staying safe
When i was in college i worked part-time in a daycare. The late afternoon there was a tornado in the area. 2 sides of the daycare were solid glass and the only interior walls wete the restrooms. We had to gather all the little ones in the center of the building along the interior wall. It was really terrifying watching the sky turn that frightening green and the wind blowing do hard!! The kids were all screaming and crying. I wasn't able to hold all my kids and comfort them all. I told them to all get as close to each other as they could along the wall, and I did my best to hold the group. When the storm finally passed and parents were able to get through the road debris to pick up all the kids, I was finally able to try to get home. It normally would take about 20 minutes, that evening it took 1½ hours!!!
Learn how to write. So sad that you work in a daycare where you are supposed to be teaching children!
It would have been nice if he had inserted some pictures or videos of these storms so others would have context to how large they are. For example, the El Reno, Oklahoma F5 tornado of May 31, 2013 was 2.6 miles (4.2 km) wide at it's strongest. Although not as deadly, the sheer size of it is enough to make people just stare at it in disbelief lol
I was born & raised in central California. I’ve experienced 2 strong earthquakes & an F1 tornado that knocked down a street light in front of my home. My grand parents lived in Oregon & my family was there days after Mt. St. Helens. The worst experience was driving through a rain wrapped tornado in Iowa. I’m retired to a barnapartment in Kentucky, which has seen an up take of tornadoes & we now have a storm shelter out back.
Thank you for a lovely video & blessings, debby
Of course here in Texas, we are right in the heart of "Tornado Alley." Those storms are never fun, especially when they hit in the dead of night. I recall one such night sitting in the common area of my college dorm and the pressure dropping so much in the room that the doors flew open and it made my ears pop. The tornado came through a cemetery just across the street from my dorm. Fortunately nobody was injured and it must've been pretty small. Some headstones got broken and some trees fell. The funny thing was that it uprooted a street sign called Tardy Street. I guess it was as against tardiness as our teachers.😂
This is why I live in New Hampshire! Winters suck. But it's still one of the safest spots. We don't get extreme tornadoes/fires/earthquakes. We do get some flooding. I moved up here from Virginia, where there were tornadoes close to home way too often for my liking. Right beside of New Hampshire, Maine is another safe state!
Awesome
Massachusetts is safe from my own perspective, but I think you can broaden it out to the Northeast in general.
Is that WHY you live there? or is it a simply a positive thing about living there. those are two different things. For many of us, there are reasons that may draw us to certain places that are aren't as superficial.
New England is generally very safe, but find a home on high ground as floods can be an issue. Extremely safe, sunny and beautiful here (even on snowy days, snow makes the sun brighter)!
I myself don't see choosing a safer place to live as being superficial. Just proactive. There are lovely things about New England and the people in it, yes. There are great things about every state I've lived in, and I've lived in several. I will say that I like the progressiveness of the people in New England better. I do miss the slower pace of the South though. As far as scenic beauty goes....I mean, I'm 15 minutes from the coast, and 30 minutes from the mountains. Doesn't get any better. ;) @@JennHayden
Michigan is gorgeous. The nature there is stunning and you still get the beach! Very few natural disasters.Winters suck though.
To be honest.. I've been all over and imo Michigan is seriously the prettiest state in the union . Those lake shores and the forest .. the beaches and the wonderful lighthouses . It's just so gorgeous. I'd give anything to be in pre European Michigan for a few days if it was somehow possible . It truly is a sportsman's dream and apart from the cities is just so peaceful and just idk perfect to me anyway. The winters are a bear but they too can be so gorgeous. Now all this said I am a Michigan boy by birth but I no longer live there . But again I've been to all the famous places for beauty in the US .. but to me absolutely nothing beats the Michigan. I will eventually move back one day when I retire god willing
Pure Michigan! A Wisconsite here and in love with western mitten Michigan. I'm heading on the ferry to Ludington this week.
Thanks!
I live in Georgia, and although it's in what's called Dixie Alley (a nod to Tornado Alley in the Midwest), I'm almost 56 and have never seen a tornado. They do happen here occasionally. In the tornado breakout April 26-27, 2011, there were lots around me but we got lucky and were spared. One E-F 4 went through that killed 21 and injured 300.
There was a total of 62 tornadoes that day in alabama alone! 240 ppl died and damage to Tuscaloosa and Birmingham alone estimated 1.5 billion dollars (I live in tuscaloosa county)
That day was so horrible. We, I’m in Etowah County, normally get rain-wrapped tornadoes at night.
Here in NY state, we get tornadoes and earthquakes. Not as severe as other places, but it happens. We usually only get the tail end of hurricanes, which means just a lot of rain and some high winds but not usually damaging. We get more of that from regular storms passing through from the west.
super storm Sandy was a very nasty storm.
@@frankmarcia5956 Yeah, but I'm talking NY state, not NYC. Sandy was as bad as it was down there because it hit at high tide.
To be honest, most of us that live in the wider state of NY pretty much don't consider NYC to be part of the state.
@@Nothing-zw3yd Geographically it really isn't. And yeah, the bulk of the state is like a whole other world. Albany can get some wicked snow I've heard, but you mostly don't really hear about NY state weather.
I lived in Indiana for 50 years. Ice, snow, tornado (s), and an earthquake. I moved to the only place in the US with lots of sun, little rain, not cold, no hurricane, no tornado, and only remnants of an earthquake and tropical storm (we only got a sprinkle) in a neighboring state. I live in the Valley of the Sun in Arizona! That's the Phoenix metro area.
130°f Temps and huge herds of gila monsters roaming the parking lots,eating the eggs a Frying on the asphalt.
No gila monsters in 25 years I've been here. No 130. No eggs on the sidewalk. 70 degrees on Christmas. Just nice.
I moved to Northern Nevada from New Orleans after getting sick to death of hurricanes and heat. It is perfect here! Distinct seasons, hardly any rain/storms except in spring…since being here I’ve felt two very small earthquakes. The worst thing is smoke from the wildfires in California blows right over onto us. This year hasn’t been bad at all, thank goodness. Never EVER leaving this place!
Like Elko sort of area? NV has some surprisingly beautiful areas... mostly people just thing of desert wastelands.
Just outside of Reno, actually. Before moving here I had no idea just how gorgeous this whole area is…but here we are. 😂😂
When they said sunny and little to no natural disasters, Nevada is what came to mind for me.
On behalf of CA, I apologize for smoking our neighbors in Nevada out every summer (except for this year, thankfully).
I have experienced a tornado!! It was pretty small but tornados a very rare in the state I live in so we were unprepared and it destroyed my school a few weeks before summer break ended!
I was in the Moore Oklahoma tornado and watched it as it passed by my kids school and ripped into another school a few blocks away. I also witnessed the 1999 “tornado outbreak” where okc/Moore was hit by an f5 but the rest of the state also saw over 300 tornadoes that went less documented. Tornadoes are both terrifying and beautiful and scary and humbling. It really is like watching the finger of God drag through the world because there is absolutely nothing we can do but get out of the way.
I lived in Thornton Colorado in 1988 when, it was said, that there had never been a tornado in the Denver metro area but that day on June 15, FIVE tornadoes were confirmed touched down including one huge white one that was forming over I-70 and the Stapleton airport runways where the planes passed over the highway just west of Peoria Ave. I remember people pulling over and watching it rotate and drop down several feet rvery couple of minutes. I had been in tornadoes as a kid in Mississippi and wasn't wasting any time around those idiots and drove around them to get home to my infant son and wife at the time. I remember seeing a part of some very old, majestic homes and trees in a very old Denver neighborhood trashed on the news over the next few days.
Tornadoes scare me the most. We had a big one near us this morning during Hurricane Idalia here in Florida. The worst for me was August 13, 2004 when the eye of Hurricane Charley hit us. A tree landed landed on our house taking out electric power for 11 days and a tornado tore up my carport roof and left my car atop a large fallen tree branch.
wow
When Idalia got to me, I got a ton of warnings because there was a tornado close to me, and I slept through all the warnings. lol
We were just in NZ in February and experienced an earthquake there. It was on the North Island, but we could feel it in the South Island. My husband was in Christchurch during the big one in 2012. He definitely felt that.
lol yep quite a few of us felt that bunch, first time I’ve ever seen concrete driveways rolling like the ocean and power poles launching out of the ground till the wires fired them back in like arrows and pumped water 15 foot in the air. Unreal sights on edge of red zone.
Being a Michigan native myself I can say that we're one of the safest areas to live when it comes to natural disasters. As long as you don't mind shoveling a good deal of snow in the winter 🙃👍
I lived in California and didnt have a single earthquake the entire time I was there, but I was in VA when the earthquake happened in 2011. It's a very surreal experience to wake up from a nap to your entire bedroom shaking. It was the one that actually cracked the Washington Monument and forced it to be closed for like 3 years.
Texan here. I’ve been through wildfires and tornados. Wildfire came yards from our home. We were EXTREMELY lucky because it was a very close call. Helicopters did borrow a lot of water tank/pond. Been far too close to many tornados over the years. No massive ones but some definitely still cause damaged. I’m also adding the freeze of 2021 here too. That was a very bad situation.
A little fun (or terrifying) fact of the 1900 Storm, it more than likely was higher than category 5 since it made landfall in Galveston, Texas (at the bottom of the USA) and broke up somewhere in Russia. Meaning it went all the way up and over the 'top' of the globe. The wind was so strong that blown wood could split metal.
What was the cause of that, sense all our weather now is blamed on global warming? The climate changers don't know history. That is the inconvnient truth!
Wisconsin resident here. I've lived with the threat of tornadoes my entire life, but luckily Wisconsin has had a lesser impact in comparison to the states of Tornado Alley. Nevertheless, it's something to keep in the back of your minds and be aware of weather bulletins and hopefully live where there's a basement.
Grew up in WI, too, & agree about tornadoes, but I’d have my electric (heating) blanket out starting mid-September into May! I live in NJ now and sometimes miss that, but don’t mind the milder & shorter winters!
I also live in Wisconsin. I’ve lived through a few tornadoes But other than some tornadoes and some extreme winters, it’s a great place to live with the weather. It’s the construction and the drivers in Milwaukee and Madison that you have to worry about
Don’t forget Barneveld…that one hit in the middle of the night. That makes it much more terrifying since you never know it is coming.
I was at my friends house in Mountain View California to watch the World Series in 1989. I remember it felt like a giant picked up the whole apartment, slammed it down then shake it, the next thing I know, I am riding my friends sofa across the family room. It was insane
I’m from Iowa and certain parts get hit worse than others. Also a weird thing has been happening to the town I live in where big storms will be rolling in and then it will suddenly go either north or south of us or will completely split to go around us. I don’t know why but I thank god for protection when I see the damage in other places.
Great video!! Its amazing how this family has managed to create content as a collective and keep it educational, entertaining and fun! I'm watching from Chicago, USA and would like to say that I found this video enjoyable to watch! Thanks
I live in the Seattle area. No disasters here other than an earthquake like every 50 years lol. And the rain isn't as bad as people say. It's like November-February, the other 8 months of the year are pretty dry, especially summer. And when it does rain it's normally just a light drizzle, so it's not too bad!
Earthquakes and volcanos! And rain. 😄
I wouldn’t want to live there if ANTIFA are controlling the city!!
And wildfires every year
we just went through a major hurricane here in Florida the past two days and we had a lot of storm surge which is water being pushed ashore by the hurricane. this hurricane stayed 170 miles out in the Gulf of mexico and still pushed water into Tampa bay and flooded roads and streets all over Tampa. i will be returning home tomorrow i had to evacuate from downtown Tampa because of the storm surge.
I live in Tampa too. We keep dodging a bullet by not getting a direct hit. I don't know if Tampa can survive a direct hit because the entire city is totally surrounded by the beautiful water of Tampa Bay. The price we pay to live in such a beautiful place.
@@tabs9183 i think we are kind of like New Orleans , we are below sea by quite a few feet . in 2004 we got lucky with hurricane charlie not making a direct hit on Tampa , and that year we had five hurricanes come at us here.we have been very blessed for sure.
I was very young when my family was visiting family in Arkansas and there was a Tornado. My great aunt did not have a basement so I was told to get under the bed. I don't know if anyone got hurt other than a barn lost its roof and a mobile home was tipped over. I don't think anyone was living in it at the time.
My mom-in-law was hit in KS. Tore up the whole house except for the main living room. It was too crazy, barely anything had been damaged or even blown around. There were still pictures sitting on tables while the rest of the house was demolished
When I was growing up in the Midwest United States, I was about 7 years old when a tornado hit my house when I was in it. In fact, my entire family was home. I was getting ready to take a Bath. And my dad broke the door down. Grabbed me and took me down into our basement. If he had not done that I probably would have been killed. He was the only person that got hurt in our family. Because he after taking me down to the basement. He then went back upstairs to open all the doors. That is when he got hurt. Because that's when the tornado hit and knocked in our front window.
Later that night my dad and I went out into our backyard. There were already men on top of our neighbor's house. They yelled at us but to come any further because there were live wires all over. However, we found one place where the tornado touched down in our backyard. (it jumped over our house).
your family is so adorable. i experienced a tornado here in Michigan, 60 seconds of destruction. alarm didnt even go off. sunday morning. told to evacuate but went to church instead. just hit my neighborhood. we needed a new garage door. but a roof on another house blew off. another nieghbor house was condemend and next to them nothing. looking back it was a bit exciting, as the red cross showed up. news stations were flying over and i back up to a park whick had a lots of vistors. trampolines were like flying saucers. and every tree needed replacing in the park. stay safe in your travels here in America. my son that lives in Florida, just had a neighborhood hurrican block party as they were not in direct path. challenging for him is that he is an air traffic controller
What part of Michigan? I live not far from Lansing, and on Aug 24, we had tornadoes go through. One was about 15 miles from us and did massive damage to a centennial farm. Major areas had power outages, but we lucked out and didn't. Was watching the TV when they spotted what they thought was circulation and probable debris on radar. Our sirens did go off.
Due to the Coriolis Effect, hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere spin in a counterclockwise direction, while hurricanes in the Southern Hemisphere (known as cyclones) spin in a clockwise direction.
The same is true for how water drains. 😄
@@TwoSierraEcho that's a myth. You're tub/sink is too small to be affected by the Coriolis Effect.
I live in Colorado and our weather is decent, we have snowfall here. I’ve lived here all my life and we’ve never had an earthquake or volcano, although we are just one state away from Wyoming. We do have Tornadoes, but they’re mostly on the Eastern Plains. The population there is not dense. I live in Loveland, Colorado where the most we have are some rainstorms and windstorms. Colorado is a great place to live. ❤
Beautiful scenery everywhere! I was born in Colorado Springs. I've lived in Wisconsin since 1989, but the first 6 years of my life were there and I've been back to visit several times since. One of my favorite memories is seeing snow on the mountains in the distance but standing outside in 80 degrees heat in shorts and a T-shirt. Good stuff! 🙂🙂🙂
I live in Chicago and the winters. Particularly in January are the worse. The spring and summer can bring severe storms. In my 34 years of living in Chicago i can remember storms with rain drops that actually hurt if they hit you. We've had tornadoes and microbursts in the part of the city I live. Right down the street a mircoburst took out 5 trees in the park back in 2008. But as far as i can remember the only EF5 i can recall was in Plainfield Illinois which is like 1½ away from Chicago
I say this with EXTEME admiration you guys are truly the only family blogger channel I’ve seen that includes your kids in a healthy way without exploiting them. Like you all should be a master class on the only appropriate way to be a family channel
Lived in Houston during Hurricane Harvey and that storm redefined how meteorologists categorize hurricane’s because of the amount of rain dumped on the city. Almost the entirety of downtown was underwater especially after they let loose the dams (which were gonna break).
Harvey happened a year after another dangerous flood occurred. There are still flood projects happening to this day in order to prevent that kind of damage.
Greetings from SoCal 😺 I've been in a big earthquake, multiple deadly wildfires, and caught the tail-end of one of our rinky-dink SoCal tornadoes, which are not very impressive. The worst, by far, are the wildfires and the horrible mudslides/debris flows that can follow them.
Hope your Trip is going well and yoir having a blast!! Can’t wait to hear! ❤
Also… Fun Fact:
In the North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific oceans, the term 'hurricane' is used, whereas in the Northwest Pacific Ocean they are called 'typhoons.' The name 'tropical cyclone' - or sometimes 'cyclone' or 'severe cyclonic storm' - is used in the South Pacific and Indian oceans.
Let’s give this video over 1M plus views because New Zealand Family never fails or disappoint for sure I love you 4!💯⭐️🤩❤️❤️❤️
I live in Kansas and was 5 miles away from Greensburg when an EF5 tornado destroyed it in 2007. It was one of the most terrifying experiences of my life. I have many friends who lost everything and storm season brings a lot of PTSD with it now.
Look at the New Madrid fault line in Missouri. It's a big one, in 1811 0r 1812 it made the Mississippi River run backwards too. If we got a big one from it today, it would be absolutely devastating.
I love how Denz was like "This has turned from a 10 minute into a 20 minute video". Its actually my favorite react video, because, well, hate to say it, but in most of the videos, its just you guys sitting there and occassionally saying "Whoa!". No, if you are going to do react videos, comment and have discussions. This was my favorite react video by FAR, and you need to do more react videos in this style.
Such a fan! Regards to the whole family on that end of the world.
I live in Indiana. I've lived with Tornadoes, blizzards, and actually earthquakes. As a young single nurse, I was asked to pack a backpack and tromp through thigh snow to be met by a cop to be taken to the hospital where I worked in surgery. I along with several friends were hold up for 3 days. When the cop safely had me, he radioed in "I've got the package." Not sure how l felt about that. I live off of a tornado alley, so far none have been close to my home.
Haha! Like a spy movie
@mama2boys123 Our family had friends that lived in Elkhart Indiana. I swear that city was a magnet for tornadoes. 😄
Fun fact y'all might not know. Dante's peak was filmed in North Idaho, in a town called Wallace. The town is famous for the brothels that were here but no more. Also famous for the last stop light on I90 freeway which runs from the east coast to the west. Y'all are great, keep up thegreat work
From Oklahoma and we had a record outbreak of tornadoes in 1999. I remember the weather service said there were 50 in the state that night with a big F5 in Moore, OK where I just so happened to live. Wikipedia says that cell produced 152 tornadoes over 6 days across the country.
We are having a hurricane right now in Florida and Georgia. Cyclones, tropical cyclones etc are the same as hurricanes. They have to reach a speed of 74 miles an hour to be classified as a hurricane.
I have friends in Florida that thankfully were missed. I hope you’re staying safe too!
We get those wind speeds up here too in Mphs TN, but by the time the hurricane gets here it's more straight line winds than a cyclone
@joshray2494 but in the USA it doesn't matter where you live, you're going to get smth catastrophic. Just depends on what element you deal best with I guess 😂 and if you want freezing temps or no temp change at all.
Michigan. We do get tornadoes but they are minor compared to other states. No hurricanes. We also have 4 seasons. We see our share of thunderstorms or blizzards. But we don’t have super deadly animals we have bear, large cats. We have spiders and snakes that are venomous, but rarely is anyone seriously injured. We have beaches, dunes rivers large lakes, small lakes. Wooded areas, farms, orchards. It’s pretty amazing
You can just go ahead and add all of the Midwest to that description
I grew up in Michigan, and am now in Rhode Island as of 25 years. I only have to shovel snow once or twice a year because I'm on the coast. Never have tornadoes, no venomous snakes, although we do have a big kick and Lyme disease problem here. I've already had it. The weather this year has been amazing. Not one day over 90° here on the coast
The other thing that is different. I lived in Wisconsin for 10 years before I moved here, and one day, I was out walking with a colleague from Chile. She had studied in Iowa, so she should have known better. But she commented that it was only the third day since the new year that she had seen the sun. It was March. One thing that helps here is that in the winter, we never have more than two or three cloudy days where it's gray and you don't see the sun. I think it's because the coastal winds just push away the clouds
Look up the name james spann! Hes a famous meteorologist here! He has helped save SOOOOO MANY LIVES with his work and dedication...he loves the people!
I second this!! If there’s a chance for ANY bad weather, all of our TVs are on 33/40. You know It’s gonna be a rough/long time if he’s taken off his jacket.
We have Brad Travis up here in Huntsville. Both of them do an amazing job at keeping us aware and safe here in Alabama.
I was born and raised in Wisconsin, but never learned about the Peshtigo Fire. It happened the same day as the Great Chicago Fire, October 8, 1871, which we (Americans) all learned about. I just read a bit about the fire in WI and will finish AFTER the rest of your video. You guys are awesome!
I've lived in Texas all my life and never seen a tornado, but my dad seems to be a magnet and has seen a few. When I was in high school, a beloved movie of mine and my brothers was Twister. When there was a windy/stormy night during storm season (spring), we'd open the doors and windows and watch it.
Are you gonna watch the sequel 😊
@@alyssaralston2034 Yes! Hoping it's good!
the kids are like .... mom and dad, why are we going to America again?????
I live in Alabama now, but have dealt with tornadoes all my life in Indiana. We had EF3 tornadoes hit my hometown and neighborhood in Nov 2013, and Aug 2016. The second one traveled nearly the exact path of the first from west to east ends of town and beyond. It's a way of life in the Plains and Midwest.
If you come to the United States - don't worry about any natural disasters - they're extremely rare. Instead - if you're in a large city - worry about street criminals breaking the window on your rent-a-car and taking your luggage. A much more serious threat to the well-being of an unsuspecting tourist. I am enjoying your platform - you are a wonderful family - and thanks for posting this one.
August 23, 2011 I experienced my one and only earthquake. 5.7 magnitude centered in Mineral, Virginia. (It is basically unheard-of for the East Coast to get an earthquake.) I was at the laundromat doing laundry in Manassas, VA, and felt what I thought were several of the washers on the spin cycle. A couple said it was an actual earthquake. About 10 seconds later my wife called from Salisbury, MD, about 150 miles to the east. As soon as we started talking she said the house was shaking. I told her we just had an earthquake. Found out later the quake was felt over 200 miles away.
There are plenty earth quakes that happen on the east coast its just they are normally pretty minor. I have experienced a handful of them and most the time I didn't even know it happened till they talked about it on the news. There was just one up north yesterday.
i remember that earthquake! felt it in southern VA. i thought something was wrong with the structure of my house. it remains the first and only earthquake ive ever actually felt. iirc there was also a fire burning in the great dismal swamp at the time, so where i lived it had been ‘foggy’ for about a week at that point. seemed vaguely apocalyptic. i remember joking that we now lived in silent hill.
I'm disappointed that I can't get updates on your America trip without paying.
It’s because their site is all about money now.
They were just at the American Dream Mall in NJ on Tuesday. They posted a picture of Denz eating a Mr beast burger for the first time. This is only $3.00/mo btw.
I would post all that after the trip. Too many weirdos on the web.
@retirebear3551 yes, so terrible to create income for your family. So they should just spend all this time and effort for your entertainment... for free?
I live in Florida, and we have tons of natural disasters and dangers trying to destroy our people. Wild fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning, shark attacks, floods, alligators, snakes, spiders, deadly heat, Florida drivers, and...Republican politics.
You spelled Liberals wrong. Nothing is more dangerous to Floridians than Liberals. Pray for us 😔🙏
@@slym1011 Oh please. You can't even define Liberal. Just like none of you can define or explain CRT or Socialism. No Republican ever votes based on his research or knowledge of the issues, you all just vote for whomever or whatever your golf buddies or Church tells you to. Pathetic not to use your own mind. God gave me a brain before He gave me a book.
I agree with the response. Liberals move here from places like New York and then complain because we have conservatives here. Lol.
Living in Maryland, we get a few tornadoes but luckily small ones. Last year there was one that was an F1-2, but did do a decent amount of damage to houses in the area. It goes to show that even in the smaller states (such as Maryland) that not to many people think about, there will still be tornadoes. I still hear many of my friends talk about the La Plata tornado that took place in 2002. Though that was a rare exception and nothing too bad has happened ever since.
I live in Oklahoma and just 2 weeks ago we had 6 differant tornados hit all around where we live
Back in December 2021 a tornado destroyed my hometown with many lives lost. One of the longest track tornados in history. Unusual for such a violent tornado to stay on the ground so long for such a long distance and the time of year for us. Historic is an understatement.
I lived south of Houston when Hurricane Rita came through and we all had to evacuate. What's normally a two-hour drive to my parents' house took me eight hours, and a friend of mine who left ten minutes after I did never made it; he got stuck on the side of the highway for two days because of the traffic. Thankfully, Rita turned north at the last minute and went up the Sabine River instead.
Rita was a joke. Everyone was panicking because Katrina happened just a few months prior. My mother was a postal worker way back in the day. Thankfully, smartphones weren’t really a thing in 2005. We used her old postal maps that had all these tiny rural roads on them. We took these tiny rural roads all the way to a friend of my moms in Buda
Rita ended up hitting the town I evacuated to harder than the one that left. The biggest disaster was the traffic. @@cats400
Iowa is beautiful ❤️!! Every season just as you imagine of the spring blooming, summertime hot enough to enjoy water etc, fall with the beautiful leaves changing and then winter where you have a white Christmas ❤
Hot Springs, Arkansas ( USA ) ranges as low as -8F during the winter (night) to as high as 108F (day) during the summer. We have periods where it'll be dry for months and then it'll be wet for months. We get lots of weather warnings or alerts but they're usually false alarms. We have had 2 feet of snow and we have gone multiple winters with no snow at all. We can get flooding. It happens relatively often. Summers are VERY humid. We can get an occasional ice storm in the winter. The worst ice storm was in 2000 on Christmas. We have grass fires occasionally. But 99% of the time, it's calm and beautiful. Highly recommend
I live in California and have lived in California all my life. I've experienced numerous earthquakes, the biggest was like a 5 when I was a kid. A couple years ago one happened on my birthday and it was a 3.6 and just felt like when your washer is not balanced and just shook the whole house. They're really not scary. We had to live through a wild fire a couple of years ago that got within a mile of our house and we had to leave because the smoke was so thick that you couldn't breathe. We've had a lot of smoke come to our area when wildfires break out because I live in the foothills of California. And last year we had an EF1 TORNADO touch down and we all flipped out when our phones gave us the alert because to me tornados are way more scary than an earthquake or wildfire. It didn't actually come our way (it was about a mile or two from us) but we got hail, high winds, and a massive amount of rain that caused so much flooding that our neighbors garage flooded. And that was just an EF1 tornado!
California native here. Yup. I live on top of the San Andres fault and in a prime fire zone. And now we can add tropical storm for the first time in my life (just a few miles per hour less than a hurricane). Also, I remember the ash that fell in Southern California from Mt. St. Helen. Love livin' in the Golden State!
I’m from Phoenix and recently saw a video and showed my mom and she really enjoyed watching them. I like the Phoenix suns shirts you’ve worn. Hopefully we will go all the way this year! And Keep the interesting videos coming!
Alaskan, here. We had the strongest quake in U.S. history. The good Friday quake in the 60s was a 9.2m. Part of downtown Anchorage broke off and fell into the inlet. There was a tidal wave. Because how sparsely populated, we don't hear about it most of the time. We also have several active volcanoes.
I’m from Nevada, I lived in a valley above the Mojave Desert region. You can experience 100 degree + heat, rainstorms, blizzards, hail, flash floods (since it’s valley from the nearby mountains), tornadoes (thankfully not where I live but Hawthorne got one, they only amount to dust devils), and sandstorms if strong enough winds blow a certain direction. Not to mention intense thunderstorms, my uncle caught a picture of a lightning strike while he was driving on the highway, it’s like a vibrant neon purple in that instance of purple. Definitely think about where you are going to live because it can be just as magical as it is terrifying.
I was living with my dad when the tornado that ripped through Garland/Rowlett Tx in 2015 hit. We were out back listening to the wind and sirens go off. Didn't go back inside until debris started falling on the house and in the back yard. Three houses up from my dad's is where the major damage started. The third house up and many more past that were all leveled. Only damage we saw was to the roof from debris. Power was out for so long we were both just going to work/eating/sleeping for a little over a week. Police were verifying addresses at the entrance to our neighborhood to curb looting.
I live in Massachusetts and we can get hurricanes along the coast. Our major weather issues are tornadoes in the western part of the state, Nor'Easters along the coast in fall/winter and blizzards . In 2011 we were hit with a tornado thru the middle of the state in June, Hurricane Irene as well a getting 'ripples' from a earthquake that was centered in VA in August (BTW - we are way over due for an earthquake in New England!) and a snow storm in October that dumped upwards of 2 feet in some parts of central Mass. The only thing we don't have to worry about are volcano's. Knowing what your in for as far as weather and being prepared for it is 90% of the battle.
I was pregnant with my second child when a tornado went through our area. The tornado completely missed our home, but did tear up 2 trees in our yard and they were thrown onto our enclosed porch. So we had very little damage, compared to others. That was the first and only tornado to ever go through our area.
I live in the Santa Barbara area in S. California, and it wasn't so long ago that Montecito was hit by a huge wild fire, then only a week later a huge rain storm which caused a massive land slide with boulders rolling down the hills and taking out homes. For a while you could drive by and see the mud marks, showing the height of the water and X's spray painted on houses to inform rescuers that it had been checked for survivors.
The coast of South Carolina is chef’s kiss!!! Warm, palm trees, beaches, hurricanes do come…but infrequently compared to NC, FL, TX and Louisiana. Also, it’s a relatively sunny part of the country too!
April 2011 tornado outbreak, 2 of my children and myself were driving from Fort Worth , Texas to Detroit, Mi. Thankfully we dodged them by minutes each way. Definitely one the scariest things I've ever lived through
My Dad husbands Dad was 9 yrs. The family was living in Murphysboro, IL and survived the TriState Tornado. We are from Central IL and have witnessed numerous tornados and related damages. Also, about earthquakes: there is a fault system that runs underneath sw MO and S. IL/NW Kentucky called the New Madrid Fault. In 1811-1812 there were a series of earthquakes over a period of several weeks (after shocks) but the primary quake temporarily caused the Mississippi River to run north! that
I'm definitely a fan of VA weather. Nothing ever too severe, but we get four gorgeous and very distinct seasons each year