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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Loved the video, it’s so interesting to see damage paths from past tornadoes. Keep up the good work and also you actually deserved the sub unlike some other UA-camrs.
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....
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!
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.
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 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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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)
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. ua-cam.com/video/3nfH6qBVMhQ/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/BEi32c7Prv4/v-deo.html
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.
wow, how do you not have thousands of subs?? this is probably the most beginner friendly and informing youtube channel ive seen!
Thank you! I have a long way to go but with hard work anything is possible
he will have that soon
You are exactly right
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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.
Happy World Meteorology Day!
I honestly expected this channel to have tens if not hundreds of thousands of subscribers - but I feel like that's not far away from the future
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.
I like your old weather channel background, brings back memories.... love your videos!
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.
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.
Thank you! That sounds really interesting, I'll definitely investigate it in the next one
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.
Thanks Matt! It's been a crazy couple days. On 4/20 I'll have tornado paths part 2 filled with viewer suggestions so hopefully it's well received
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
Wow! I will check that out next
@@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
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.
I like this series. The tornado one earned you a sub from me, been watching since.
Glad you like the series!
Some before and afters of hurricanes have shown entire islands gone. Hurricanes Dorian was a magic eraser for many islands.
you're the man, Steve. Keep doing EXACTLY what you're doing...your channel is no doubt going to blow up, sooner than later!
Loved the video, it’s so interesting to see damage paths from past tornadoes. Keep up the good work and also you actually deserved the sub unlike some other UA-camrs.
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....
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.
No way I actually got a little scared from that Japanese alarm
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 love how he explains everything. More subscribers deserved! ❤
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.
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.
I really think this series is nice you should continue it
Thank you! I will make another one soon
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.
Oh good point! I didn't think of Dorian... I will investigate this right now. Thanks for sharing
keep these vids up, eventually you’ll have a mil subs for sure
You make weather so interesting, I can see this channel blowing up.
Thank you! Love your channel name / profile pic combo, it's a vibe
I first learned of the Haiti earthquake in my high school earth science class when I was a sophomore.
I really wanna see more of these! They're really cool
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.
Good stuff, keep up the good work! Very interesting.
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
Yo thank you! I'll keep going
You should do an entire video on just hurricane damage... man can't believe i enjoy this
Great idea!
Oh hello. I am from YT recommendations. Great content, keep it up!
Thank you!
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.
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.
More Google Earth, this stuff is awesome!
More coming soon!
Keep up the good work bro. Luv these kinds of videos
Thanks Steve!
Great channel, happily subscribed for more of this.👍
Thank you!
Just watched the Tornado video, earned my sub for sure
Thanks Rachel!
Hey can you do a second part of the group Google Earth TORNADOS I really like the series
I am totally up for the 40 minute video !
This is a great channel subscribed for sure because I love weather Btw I’m from Youngstown Ohio
Thank you and welcome! I'll have more videos on Ohio weather coming soon
ok thanks!
ua-cam.com/video/yJ39L9Zibps/v-deo.html
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
When was that?!
@@peachxtaehyung last june
@@zmarc- ahh okay thank you!
From what I know about Japanese, you did great pronouncing them! :D
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.
It would be interesting to see how many small islands were lost after tsunamis
Such a unrated channel. Keep up the good work
Thanks Brian!
@@weatherboxstudios no problem 😊 👌
Please do a video of the before and after of the 2011 Tsunami.
Hey Steve, You should look at the damage path of the December 10 Tornado in Mayfield. You can now see it.
Thanks for the update! I will do a part 2 at the end of April and this will definitely be in it
Very very off topic but your hair looks very nice
I self identify as a least impressive disaster.
this made me laugh too hard
Same, actually
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)
can u cover the derecho of may 21st in ontario and quebec i would really appreciate it
I'm not fluent in Japanese, but I know more than the average American, and I think you did a fine job pronouncing the town names. Good job, good sir.
You must discuss about tsunami 2004 hit 3-4 country in South east asia.
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.
1:05 can we appreciate how awful of a call that was. Maybe the IF didn’t catch the ball, but if he did there’s no way he’s safe.
That destroyed building in port au prince was the cathedral
There’s the 2018 Hawaii volcano eruptions
I like the way this guy pronounces box
At the 4:44 mark, you show a broken levee... but the water here is flowing away from the homes...is this as the water was receding?
“I’m not sure if it looks like this because of the hurricane or the poverty.” Oof.
Fukushima Japan the Nuclear disaster was partly because of the Tsunami
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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.
Yep. New Orleans got 10-15 feet of water, but the MS coast got 25-30 feet! This was coupled with 130 mph winds and dozens of tornadoes.
The scariest tsunami in japan ( 6:57 ) is one that terrifies but also inspires technology and architecture forever i think
Edit typo
8:37 there is great footage from this hill captured
9:51 there is always terrible fire incidents in these kind of tsunamis sadly
Japan’s emergency sound is way too playful
Because of that reason it terrifies me
New Orleans really has a front row seat to climate change 😩
Man, mother nature is nice but dangerous too
It's the harsh truth
@@weatherboxstudios yeah, thats why we need to take care of mother nature.
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.
ua-cam.com/video/3nfH6qBVMhQ/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/BEi32c7Prv4/v-deo.html
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1:15 _I'll tell you what, we're havin an earthquake_
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Gee, now the 9th ward looks like the average neighborhood in Detroit!
I hate to be the one that says it but those who died in the fire chose to stay there and get burnt alive. Everyone else left days in advanced
lets take a poo and not flush
1:50 churches should be community centers instead of propaganda centers