The WORST Hurricane to hit Every US Atlantic Coastal State
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Today we take a look at the worst hurricane to hit each US Atlantic Coastal State.
4:35 1785, not 1985. Great video nonetheless.
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
Another interesting thing about hurricane Hazel is that it's the only hurricane to reach Toronto Canada while still maintaining a tropical core.
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?
I helped with the relief efforts in New Orleans post-Katrina. Spent two weeks volunteering during summer gutting and rebuilding homes.
We visited the lower-9th, the hardest hit area by the flooding.
There was nothing left. Other than two houses which were rubble. I saw fridges and couches perched in trees. Roads were impassable.
I've never seen anything like it. It brought me to choking tears.
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.
I remember Sandy like it was yesterday. The incredible winds screaming through the locked windows, heading branches snapping, the incredible rain. All of it is burnt into my head.
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
Was surprised that there wasn't even an honor mention of the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane that struck the Florida Keys considering it's still stands as the strongest hurricane, in terms of wind speed, to strike the US mainland at 185 mph.
Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, fires, doesn't matter, your content is incredible no matter the context of it.
Hurricanes can and do have all those
all except act of squirrel.... we need more coverage of that. Be objective!
My grandparents got married during Hurricane Hazel in NC. They lost power before the ceremony and had a candlelit ceremony in the church. My granny said she wasn’t going to get married in the storm, but her momma said “you’re gonna get married cause I said so”.
People say rain on your wedding day was good luck, and my grandparents were married 61 years before my granny died, on their hurricane wedding anniversary.
The Galveston storm and the story behind it are crazy. Had the meteorologists in the United States listened to the Cuban forecasters they'd have known well ahead of time. Worth watching a video on if you're not familiar!
I'd love to see that hurricane video! Really enjoy your content! The algorithm will pick you up soon enough!
As a floridian, i will never forget Irma, that pain in the *** chose to go down the center of the state
I've lived through every Hurricane that made landfall in both Louisiana and Mississippi since Hurricane Andrew in '92 which is ALOT of Hurricanes over the years
Would love to see you talk about the wind impacts of hurricane Andrew. It was theorized that the scale of wind damage was due to so-called "miniswirls", an occurrence somewhere between a tornado, microburst and straight line winds. It was poorly understood and as far as I know a completely unique event. If you could do some digging and put a presentation together about that I would love to see it.
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 was a kid when Hurricane Sandy hit NJ. It was so scary. Me and my family were watching the news and had to stay together. We lost power for probably a week. My little brother and I had to go to Pennsylvania to stay with our grandpa because he wasn't affected.
I remember in PA that Sandy had howling winds and occasional brownouts.
I remember Hurricane Hugo vividly. I was a kid and we lived in Charlotte, NC. The hurricane came ashore near Charleston but then rapidly barreled inland, still being at hurricane strength 200 miles inland. No one was expecting such a strong storm that far inland. We had millions of trees down and no power for 2 weeks. We paid a lot more attention to hurricane forecasting after 1989, that’s for sure.
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.
One note, at 10:30. The coastal city in Alabama referred to, named Mobile, is pronounced Mo-beel.
thank you for saying it
Woah, a hurricane video? Wow, either way this video is amazing. This channel is a big inspiration for my weather studies, and I’m glad I found it!
I think it was inevitable for him to make a video on hurricanes
It's fine, so long as accuracy isn't important.
0:06 Ian (2022) was a Category 5 hurricane and was the costliest in Florida state history.
It’s neat to see a pattern of late 30’s, mid 50’s, late 60’s, etc. Seems like every 15-20 years there’s a wave of bad hurricanes.
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.
Richmond, Virginia is very prone to flooding due to the James River cutting though the downtown area. Rain from Hurricane Agnes caused the water level of the James River to rise and flood a major part of downtown. Some parts of Richmond were under 28ft of water. In 1995, a huge flood wall was constructed along the banks of the James River. This flood wall was designed to withstand 32ft of flooding.
I live about 20 minutes south of Charlotte NC, and I lived through Hugo. It was a nightmare.
I believe the Galveston hurricane is the one that the book Isaac's Storm was about
Absolutely love your content! I'm a huge fan of all things tornadoes (being that a few QLCS tornadoes just hit my backyard in WI this afternoon, so it's fresh in my blood), but hurricanes are so fascinating for their sheer energy, their raw power, and their widespread coverage. I look forward to any new content you post!
It's a good day when weatherbox uploads
Nice vid man. Hurricane Ian was just incredible. By far the most significant storm I've ever chased/ experienced. A lot of people are hurting down here in Florida from it.
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.
By shear deadlyness, the Galveston Hurricane wins. But overall Harvey beats that storm in almost every category. Harvey dropped an average of 33 inches of rain on the Houston area, the highest being more than 70in. Harvey wasn't just a rain storm though, it made landfall near Corpus Christi as a Cat. 4 hurricane with 12+ foot storm surge. Many of the major bayous in Houston go through the suburbs and downtown. These bayous which normally help Houston's flooding made it even worse for some places as the bayous rose to over 40ft above average peak height. If you go to Houston and ask somebody, very few will say that they didn't have to renovate their house or buy a new car after flooding and NOBODY will tell you that they don't know someone who had to essentially rebuild their life from nothing. Flooding doesn't look as bad as wind damage because the house is still standing, but when there is 8ft of stagnate, sewage water in your home for 2 weeks there will be nothing left in your house that is is salvageable by the time the water recedes, not even the house itself. When the water's gone their will be mold going up the inside and outside of every wall, wood that is too weak to support the house's structure, and anything having to do with electricity not functional including the entire house's wiring. Over 200,000 homes were flooded.
Man, your vids are always very entertaining and keep me really engaged into really listening out to what you have to say on every video. I have been subscribed to you since you had only a few hundred subscribers and have only wished for you to get bigger since. Glad to see you growing and getting more noticed, you deserve it.
I fully agree with sandy's ranking, i saw the jersey shore when i was 11 after the storm. I have never seen so much destruction in my life
Personal disagreements (But if the following hurricanes didn’t exist, I would agree with your picks in the video):
Virginia: Isabel (2003)
North Carolina: Florence (2018)
Alabama: Ivan (2004)
As a hurricane fanatic, I really enjoyed this video. Great job man!
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.
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Bro you have been churning out quality content at a crazy pace. Love this channel.
All i can say is i was part of it all my whole entire neighborhood was completely flooded with water and which left me with no words but *OH MY GOSH!* hurricane ian will be forever remembered to me as the first worst hurricane i've ever experienced through out 19 years of my life also only haft of the inside of my house was flooded accept my room including my sister too
Yes finally some Hurricane Content!
Another excellent video, Steve!
Been watching just about all your videos & im surprised your channel doesn't have at least 50k subs, haha.
Even your first video is great!
Keep up the good work!
Excellent content, as always, my fellow Northeastern Ohioan! I always look forward to your weather analyses!
Interesting fact about Hugo, when it went through Western NC it traveled directly through South Mountains State Park. While traveling through the park, it ripped massive slabs of rock (I think most are granite) clean off the mountains. One of the slabs is massive, at least 25 feet tall, a foot or so thick, and at least 10 feet long.
Awesome video. I just can’t help but be fascinated by the fact that hurricanes, like in 1938, used to be able to hide in the “fog of war” of the Atlantic. You never knew what was coming
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Great video! My only critique is that Mobile, AL is pronounced "Mobeel".
Another top notch video! I’m really glad hurricanes are finally getting the spotlight on the channel 🌀
Irma hit my old elementary school like a TRUCK. The playground, patios, and most of the roofs were absolutely torn apart, they couldn't even fix most of the damages in time for us to come back so they had to extent the period we were out for because of that. Spooky
Being in any hurricane in Cape Hatteras, NC, is absolutely insane. Every year the island gets smaller and smaller. Beyond scary. Great video.
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.
Great video dude! Always look forward to a new video
My grandmother lived in Florida and came to to visit me in California. While she was here, hurricane Ian hit her house. When she got back, her house was totally destroyed. We’re so lucky, that could have been much worse
Excellent video my man. Don't know where life will take you but I hope you end up as a weatherman here in Columbus! Informative and entertaining as always
I remember Irene vividly. I was in upstate NY when it hit. Was a greenhorn first responder at the time. Prattsville was nearly wiped off the map. Margaretteville was nearly swept away. For days we were going around and unflooding basements and doing damage assessments. Totally insane. Don't get me started on the FEMA homes that went unused.
Excellent video! I remember Hurricane Sandy. I was honestly excited, being the little kid I was, I didn’t realize how dangerous it actually could have been.
I’ve never tapped the screen harder and faster in my life. Thats the type of quality Weatherbox has.
Agreed
Keep up the incredible work! I think you could be a leading weather figure on all of UA-cam someday.
Binging on your channel. What a find!
I'm surprised hurricane Harvey isn't considered on the list or a mention. The amount of rain it produced in Texas is unimaginable.
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.
surprised you didnt mention hurricane harvey, its tied for the most costliest hurricane with katrina
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.
I think, considering you named your channel weatherbox, you should cover all weather topics. I was excited to see a hurricane video. ❤ love your videos I can't wait for the next one.
I would really love to see more videos from you on Hurricanes, especially the meteorology behind some of the legendary storms that have become infamous in the United States.
Tho I still love learning about Tornadoes and learning about some of those infamous storms too. I still have fingers crossed that you'll investigate the Jarrell Tx "Dead Man Walking" tornado someday soon. Tho the set up and tracks of the Pilger Twins would also be fascinating, what with one of the Twins being the fastest moving tornado ever tracked [Ground speed, not wind speed.]
Thanks andkeep it up, you make great, informative videos, enjoyable to watch, well done!
Living in Central New Jersey, I don't care what Sandy was classified as. I know people that were very close to losing their lives and got extremely lucky. A few days later I made it to the beach (bayhead, pt. Pleasant area) and there were 2-3 story houses halfway filled with sand. It was wild, but not in a good way.
I live in SWFL (Direct Impact, North Northport, even made a video about Ian destroying my streaming/gaming pc lol) and I will tell you, it felt a lot more like a CAT 5 and not a CAT 4. I was here for Hurricane Charley and that guy was no walk in the park either lol. I went without power for 11days with Irma in Charlotte County.(thankful that was all it was out for but it got to 91degrees in the house without AC and wow I'll never forget that).
My family got trapped in Harper's Ferry WV for 5 days because of Agnes in 1972. All the roads going into Northern Virginia from there were covered with water and we were not allowed to cross them. We were finally able to take some way out of our way long back roads that didn't cross the Potomac River or the Shenandoah River until they were much smaller/narrower. At Harper's Ferry, they WERE (and still are) REALLY big.
Harpers ferry is hard to navigate on a normal day
Hurricane Andrew was a Cat 5 Storm and was 165 mph
Hurricane Andrew was the third cat 5 to make landfall in the U.S
With gusts over 200 mph!
my father was from SC. He lived here all his life, and was in Georgetown (around 20mi from mcclellanville) whenever hugo came through. I still remember how he would tell me how the entire town looked like a nuclear bomb went off whenever he went drove over the next day to volunteer.
Im basically new to this channel bro but love the knowledge you share about disasters
I would have thought irene would have been the strongest storm to hit delaware, but yeah then i remembered hearing about the 1878 storm. Delaware is kind of in this weird pocket between NJ, Maryland and Virginia so usually we never take direct hits on storms because our only land thats directly facing the atlantic is about 20 miles long
Irma was such a large storm and hit at just the right angle that it covered nearly the entire state of Florida, save for the western panhandle.
Pretty much every major city- Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Tallahassee, Orlando, Jacksonville all took considerable damage as did all the small towns in between. And as mentioned in the video, the Keys were absoloutely rocked by the monster storm.
Also, Irma caused one of the largest state wide power outages ever in Florida.
While Wilma was far from the worst hurricane to hit Florida it is the worst hurricane I've experienced personally. Wilma blew a big tree onto my house which severely damaged my balcony and we lost power for over a week.
Irma wasn't quite as bad for me, the damage wasn't as bad in my area and we only lost power for about 3 days that time.
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
Happy Weatherbox Wednesday! Love me some hurricane content too in addition to tornadoes.
Missed opportunity to talk about Michigan and Huron hurricane
Though we're not a coastal state, I believe the worst in Pennsylvania is a tie between Hurricane Agnes in 1972 (which was a tropical storm by the time it came to PA) and Tropical Storm Lee in 2011. The reason why they were so devastating is that they didn't move from over Pennsylvania for several days. Plus, Lee came right after Hurricane Irene had left Pennsylvania.
Great video! Regarding wake up calls though, I lived in Galveston for Hurricane Ike in 2008, and while we have a (partial) seawall now, we were definitely less than prepared for that Cat 4, which coincidentally took a similar track to the 1900 storm.
The museum exhibits on the island about the 1900 storm are really interesting though.
Ike was a Cat 2 at landfall
I survived Hurricane Camile in Gulfport in 1969. It is a seminal point of my life and my memories of the aftermath have haunted me through my existence. The experience of literally every house in your development being flattened and finding dead snakes and alligators in your back yard as a five-year-old is defining.....
Trying to interpret the meaning of full-sized freighters sitting in the parking lot of the water-park you loved to visit is daunting to a five-year-old.
The fishing-pier you and your dad loved to visit and spend hours at is now literally upside-down, with its pilings sticking up at a 45 degree angle.
Literally everything that you knew: Your school, your local grocery store, your sports complex, your amusement center was wiped out. Literally. There was nothing left of even the existence of those entities.
That was the aftermath of Hurricane Camile on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi in 1969.
Great video!
Very good. The pronunciation of southern cities was pretty funny tho
9:51 As of 1/15/2023, Ian has a monetary damage toll of over $110 billion, making it the 3rd costliest TC (Behind Harvey and Katrina,) and the costliest in Floridian history, surpassing that of Irma by more than twice.
Every time you post my day gets a little better 😎❤️
Love the branching out. I think something else that could be quite interesting is storms/lightning/wind that resulted in major blackouts and the human impact of such.
Love your videos. Glad to see one on hurricanes!
3:06 wow, I believe that's the Bourne bridge, which has a longer approach than the Sagamore, but the main structure for both is identical. Only 3 years old and surviving a hurricane. I drove over both bridges last week and it's honestly impressive they lasted almost 90 years so far.
And the upcoming wind recording on Mt. Washington, it's not the fastest recorded there - 4 years earlier a 231 mph measurement was taken.
Hi, I'm a Texas history minor and I wanted to drop an interesting fact about Galveston. The hurricane caused so much damage that the local government was torn apart. As a result, a new form of government was put together. This form of government is used in several major cities in the U.S. nowadays but originated in Galveston in 1900.
Also, an Anglo-Irish actor named Charles Francis Coghlan passed away in 1899. His body was awaiting burial when the Galveston hurricane hit, and his coffin and corpse were swept away. In January of 1907, his coffin was finally found and interred. The black metal band Carach Angren has a song named after him and based on his story.
Surprised you didn’t mention Hurricane Isabel for Maryland. I remember that storm was terrible.
Great job on the video.
Im from Charleston South Carolina and my grandmother and uncle where here during Hugo while my mom was away in college. I’m glad I wasn’t born back then. My family’s beach house on isle of palms was destroyed and drifted down the street.
Excellent job little buddy 👏👏
I live in the Baton Rouge area. Katrina was pretty bad over here, but we took a direct hit from Ida. It's the first time I ever been in the eye of a hurricane.
Hurricanes are right up my alley. 2004 was a fun time to be a Floridian
Hurricane ivan 💀
It was stupid 😜 lol 2005 was no joke either
@@MzKaylcC Hurricanes are a lot of fun in a way.
Thanks for including storms from the 1800's. I'm wondering what documentation may exist from prior centuries?
As a citizen NJ, Sandy was extremely devastating. My family had to evacuate to our neighboring state, Pennsylvania, and my home was without power for weeks. I had about a hundred pet fish, all of them died. I still have the giant fish tank as a memory, a decade later.
Hi! This is a great video! I work in TV production, and this looks good. I wanted to point out one thing in case you work on more storms that hit the MS Gulf Coast. It's Pass Christi-ANN. It's weird, I know. But I wanted to help you get it right next time. There's lots of weird ones around here though! (There's one that's spelled "Kiln" but it's pronounced "Kill")
But I adore your videos! Very interesting. And easy to understand!
Here in the Northeast, we normally get big storms in the forms of Extratropical Cyclones, known as Nor’easters. We rarely get Tropical Cyclones. But storms like the 1938 New England Hurricane and Hurricane Sandy in 2012 really show we can get massive Hurricanes around here and with a warming climate we gotta prepare for the future.
Also as a New Jerseyan, Sandy deserves to be on this list. It was a Tropical Cyclone right until it made landfall, than it did the Extratropical Transition (like Hurricanes normally do when they reach far north enough, similar to Fiona in 2022 in Canada). But Sandy did produce Hurricane Force Winds (Sandy had 80 mph sustained winds with 100 mph gusts at landfall according to the NHC), even after transitioning (and non-tropical storms can produce hurricane force winds like Nor’easters do). Sandy had the lowest pressure of any Northeast Cyclone tropical or not (940 millibars which is typical of a cat 4 but it’s Extratropical transition lessened the pressure gradient by expanding its wind felid to become the largest Atlantic Hurricane on record, so Sandy only produced Cat 1 winds) and that deep pressure, full moon high tide, and wind direction, storm track, etc. caused Sandy’s record storm surge of over 10 feet in much of NY and NJ. Sandy was the deadliest hurricane ever in Jersey and the most destructive with $85 billion in damage (making it the 5th costliest US hurricane as of writing), 650,000+ homes were damaged or destroyed, and over 8 million lost power.
Sandy was devastating for us and storms like Sandy, or Florence, or Harvey (by the time it reached Houston), or Ida (by the time it reached New Jersey, it’s rainfall was also devastating for us, it brought worst flooding for us than Irene and almost rivaled Sandy) really show the Safford-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale is misleading. Yes winds speeds matter but most of the deaths and damage in a Tropical Cyclone are from flooding or storm surge and I think Sandy really showed that despite being a Category 1 Hurricane equivalent Post Tropical Cyclone.
Yes, totally agree. Sandy was the storm that taught me to never say "it's only a Cat 1..." or "It's only a Tropical storm." With the right set of conditions that Sandy had, it can create lethal dangerous conditions
Here in NY……when it comes between Irene and Sandy…most of us NYers consider Sandy to be worse since it combined with a nor’easter, was fueled by the warm Atlantic water, and happened during a full moon. With Irene, by time it hit Long Island and NY….yeah there was damage but it was pretty minimal. One of my relatives lived in Freeport right on the waterfront and when Irene hit…..he said that there was minor flooding well where his house was….like he didn’t really get any bad floods. The only real damage was just debris from the trees around the area. Now that’s not to say that other areas in NY didn’t get it worse because I’m sure that happened, but for the most part….it honestly wasn’t too bad. Sandy however…..there’s a reason for why it was nicknamed Superstorm Sandy, as well as Frankenstorm (due to it making landfall around Halloween) and why so many people here in the northeast still shake when they’re reminded of the storm.
actually the strongest hurricane to hit NY was the nameless hurricane that hit Long Island in 1938. I lived on Long Island for Sandy and it was wild to see the damage it caused, but my Grandpa lived in Lynbrook in 1938 and he said he literally saw trees leave the ground and almost fly away.
I was a kid when Sandy hit my County, I don’t remember us getting hit the hardest but it sure was something
I must’ve been sick at the time as I was with my grandfather that day and I only did that when I was sick, but I remember the absolute torrential down pour of rain that day and how it never seemed to stop, and how the people at my grandfathers office would comment on it and how certain counties were getting hit harder
This is a bit outside of your channel's pervue, but the construction of Galveston's seawall and raising of the city grade would be a fascinating topic for a future video. Especially highlighting the slight death toll (in comparison to 1900) and damage when the city was next tested in 1915. Maybe it could be part of a more general video of how man responds to weather disasters. Great video and love your channel!
what people need to realize is that these older hurricans wind speeds were measured at sea level. today they are measured at several thousand feet up by a plane going all through out the hurricane trying to find the highest wind speed possible. It could be 155 mph at 5000 ft but only 110 at sea level but still classified at 155 instead of the actual 110 at sea level.
I vividly remember Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina growing up in Louisiana. Andrew was the one that introduced me to the idea of "hurricane parties" as the eye passed over BR, neighbors grilling all the meat and vegetables they had before they could spoil, sharing amongst each other while others took care of damage and debris up to that point before the other part of the storm hit.
Katrina was more surreal since it didn't hit us head on, more so New Orleans. I remember being without power for two days and cable for about a week, and the amount of people from NO sheltering in the Rivercenter downtown and other points north-and-westward. Also remember that the "counterflow" evacuation plan wasn't executed the Friday before, but Saturday morning at the behest of Gov Blanco and Mayor Nagin, against the recommendation of the Bush and the DHS. Oh, and FEMA not getting the help they needed from the National Guard for two days because of the governor goofing up.
I was hoping you’d make a hurricane related video
OH the way you said Mobile, AL just tickles me lol. You'd say it like MobEEl! this is a great video!
The Last Island Hurricane, yes! Thank you for giving that one a rare mention.
The worst hurricane to hit Mississippi was Hurricane Katrina with a record 28.1 foot storm surge in Pass Christian (pronounced Pass Chrish-tee-anne), which, yes, is also the same location of the 2nd highest storm surge in the U.S. from Hurricane Camille. I'm guessing you chose Camille because it was a category 5? The overall impact from Katrina was far worse, however. Great video!
Katrina had double the deaths in Mississippi. He probably only chose it because it was a category 3/4 with wind gusts of 135 miles per hour in poplarville.
As a resident of south west Louisiana I hope you cover the 2020 hurricane season as we were hit by two hurricanes within about a month some people down here still don’t have their roofs repaired
When I was 4 years old I experienced hurricane Carol while summering on the south shore of RI at Matunuck beach. 17 of us were rescued by my father and one other man who had managed to get through. 2 cars with 17 people including an infant. The other driver tried to time the waves but was washed over. My father went out the back cutting fences and driving through fields. By some miracle everyone in the first car survived and we all sheltered at the church until it passed over. The waves were huge and the trailers close to the beach were all washed away. I was too young to understand the danger and I have been a storm freak ever since.
Unrelated, but as a music nerd I love your Moog shirt!
i highly recommend looking into the effects of hurricane Agnes on Harrisburg pa, monumental flooding which caused a bridge to float away
That wasn't even the peak wind gust of the 1938 hurricane. It was 186 miles per hour at Blue Hill Meteroroligical Observatory just outside Boston. This remains the highest wind gust associated with a hurricane anywhere in the US
it was most likely worse we didnt hàve the instriments to measure we do now, one thing is for sure if we ever had another like that one or the 1821 NYC hurricane it would be soley blamed on man made global warming
I just found your channel and find it fascinating! You might want to try to find information on the Boundry Waters - Canadian Derecho of July 4-5th 1999, I'm sure you can get a good story out of it!
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@Watherbox If you're open to suggestions/requests I hope you might consider the 2011 EF-3 tornadoes that hit Camp Creek, Tennessee and Glade Spring, Virginia. They happened later on April 27 and early on April 28, 2011.
quality content. also, may i ask what that shirt is you're wearing? it seems interesting.