New Zealand Family Reacts to The 10 STRANGEST WEATHER EVENTS In US History! (This got shocking)
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We have an American at my work in Christchurch, he's from the Midwest. We had a decent storm the other week, it was a good one! He had a half smile on his face and when I asked him about it, he said that this 'massive' storm was just a baby compared to what he's experienced at home! That's nuts! Funny what you get used to
I’m from Iowa in the US and we had tornadoes every couple weeks in the summers. I remember going outside to watch them come with my parents when I was a kid. 😅 our community was even hit with one but you just kinda get used to them! We also got used to the rivers flooding every summer, we lost our house finally in 2017 from one of them!
One time my uncle was pumping gas back in the 80s. It was -50 outside. The gas would not pump. He just started people's cars all day by taking their batteries insides, warming them up, and bringing them back out to start the car. And that was in Chicago. It gets cold with the lake but there are plenty of colder places
Same convo happens in some parts of the US. I live in a place that gets pretty cold, but not usually below -18C or so. It was like 10 degrees F the other day (-12C), and I mentioned how it was cold to some customers, they said “oh we’re from the Midwest this is nothing.”😂
I mean its currently -12 farenheit and theres also a giant blizzard where I live in Michigan so I'm used to snow too 😂
@@spjr99 We use block heaters in Montana to keep our cars from freezing when it is below zero. It was -45 a couple weeks ago.
Here in Michigan, my parents told me a ton of stories about the Blizzard of ‘78. My mom has very vivid memories of snow being packed so high and tight that she could sled off of her roof!
Ohio as well.
I was there too. I remember it vividly
Yep, I remember that blizzard very well. I was 6 and we couldn't just plow the driveway cause my brother's car was completely buried and we had to find it first, and only an inch of my parents van was showing.
When they finally got the driveway plowed the snow bank went to the top of our 2 story house.
Couldn't play outside without a stick cause dad said if we fell threw the snow then they could find us by the stick poking out the snow.
I was 6 and it was great for kids. I lived in MD.
My oldest sisters first birthday party was postponed because of that blizzard.
With any luck this blizzard they're predicting this weekend won't be bad.
My worst weather experience was when I was probably about 8 years old and I had just been picked up from my dad's house (he lived the next town over, about a 20 minute drive). The highway between his home and my mom's home is rather curvy and passes over some fairly significant hills. There had been a storm brewing, but as we approached the hills, the sky suddenly turned so green and ominous. The wind started pushing the car around, and a couple drops of rain splattered the windshield. No sooner than my mom realized she'd have to pull over because the wind was so strong she was unable to keep control of the car, it just stopped. Everything stopped. No more wind, no raindrops...just a terrifying green sky so bright directly above us, that our skin and everything in the car appeared to have a green hue to it. She leaned forward to look at the sky through the windshield, and immediately she unbuckles my seatbelt and rushes me to climb into the back floorboard and curl all the way down on my knees and cover the back of my head with my hands. I climbed between the front seats, and before I had both feet in the back I heard a loud WHAM and the sound of our windshield being crushed leaving a crater at least 5-6 inches across. I got down as quick as I could, then heard another...And a few seconds later, another....!! Until after about 20 seconds or so, the sky suddenly just let loose on us and SOFTBALL sized hail stones started raining down on us so quickly it sounded like BlackCats (firecrackers) going off inside the car with us! And the car was rocking and shaking, and at one point (by which time it was completely dark around us) we felt the back of the car lift from the ground slightly, and swing from side to side about 4 times, each time leaving the back tires about 2 feet to the left or right of where they'd been. I don't know how long this lasted, but it felt like hours! I was certain we were about to be meeting God face to face and I was screaming prayers to Him, as was my mother. Then....no less suddenly than it began, it ended. The car looked like a golf ball and the windshield was absolutely impossible to see ANYTHING through, though it somehow held together. There was some small brush in the road but nothing we couldn't navigate around alright, with the windows down so we could see. No homes in that area, and cell phones were still pretty uncommon for most people. Wouldn't have been cell service there anyways, as there is none to this day in that area. But we eventually made it the rest of the way home (10 or so miles) to find my brothers who were 18 & 19 at the time, both in hysterics. My dad had called the land line to check and see if we had made it back when the storm got bad, and because we hadn't, everyone was absolutely terrified. We kept one of the hail stones that fell in our front yard in the freezer for some time. It was the size of a large tomato, but even it wasn't as big as what pounded our car that night. It seems the tornado had just been coming over the side of the mountain as we were coming around it, and our view of it was completely obscured until it actually cleared the mountain side and met the road. I don't know how close it was to us, as we never actually SAW it, unless it WAS the darkness that enveloped us. But it ended up being on the ground for long enough to get to the little town we lived in, and tear the roof off of the gym side of the school I went to and flip a nearby trailer house upside down. Nobody killed, or even injured. But quite a bit of property damage in the area. Easily the most terrifying night of my life.
As a southerner, I was offended that the Blizzard of ‘93 was not on this list, haha. Everyone has a story about it. 😂 I would definitely recommend looking at Pecks Hank’s videos on the largest recorded tornado, which he captured, and it was over 2.5 miles in diameter and an F5. We do have some crazy weather here in the States. Love seeing y’all again and enjoyed looking at Denzy’s face throughout this and his intro. Much love!
I remember that so well in East Tennessee!
In Northern Kentucky we had no power for a week luckily our heat was a wood stove and we had cistern water
I remember that in Iredell county; police were giving tickets to persons driving around in unsafe weather
What about the one that hit Moore, OK?
Pecos Hank. Yes, most definitely!
The ice storm of 2009 is easily the craziest weather event I have witnessed. Kentucky and the surrounding states were hit hard. It rained so much and froze so quickly that power lines and trees were torn down from the weight of the ice. Most of us went days, weeks, or sometimes even longer before regaining power in our homes. One thing I’ll never forget is how quiet it was. You could go outside and not hear anything. No traffic. No animals. No heaters running. Just the sound of limbs in the nearby woods crashing to the ground one at a time every 20-30 seconds.
I lived thru that in Western KY. It was scary to hear large trees break due to the weight of the ice. It sounded like a cannon went off when a huge tree in the field behind our house split.
Oh I agree. From Missouri here. We were out of power for over 3 weeks from that storm. Thank the Lord we heated with a wood stove or it would’ve been much harder. Although having a baby and trying to sterilize bottles and such wasn’t that fun. Nor was trying to bath the kids or ourselves. We learned to get a gas hot water heater after that storm. Also thank the Lord for our generator that kept our outdoor wood stove blower running. At the very least we were toasty warm. The scariest part was all the trees cracking and all the branches snapping off and crashing down onto our home all night. We literally had to cut our way out with a chainsaw the next morning. Crazy crazy!
I lived through that and it was rough, we had to go to our local high school for two days cause our power was out for so long, luckily at the time we lived near the police station and fire station so our power was up pretty quick.
That happens in the Willamette National Forest frequently here in Oregon which happens to be where i live. Surrounded by trees. Can't even see the town even with an aerial view. Breaking branches and falling trees are the norm during ice freezes. Meh.
Yep, I was in that. The creepy silence with tree limbs cracking, plus having no power that night was scary as hell!
I lived in North Dakota and just a few years ago it was -65 during a blizzard. It was scary even being warm indoors.
Omg that is the freakiest thing I’ve ever heard.
I live in Fargo, and I remember that one. It was that bomb cyclone that hit us. At the time, I was working at Tecton Products, and one of our emergency exit doors had gotten completely packed shut under a mound of 20 feet of snow against the building. Being outside one night in one of those blizzards, after we had all gotten off work, peoples cars wouldn't start, and just being outside long enough to get your battery jumped was enough to cause intense pain in your hands from the cold.
The difference is that -65° blizzard we got was with windchill. I believe the record breaking temperatures were without. I could be mistaken but also grew up in ND for 18 years.
I was a kid living just outside of Dayton, Ohio on an airbase in 1974. The huge 5 mile wide tornado that devastated the city of Xenia passed over our home. My father was at home already as it was late afternoon, and he had us come out of our shelter spot to see the weather because the tornado was so large that it had a calm eye like a hurricane. We then returned to our spot as the second wall passed overhead. It was incredibly frightening. Only a few miles away that city was gone.
Your kids are low-key learning so much from all these educational videos you watch. Great family, good example. God Bless!
Americans are a hardy group of people. I think it has a lot to do with the history of having all of these crazy weather phenomena, war, etc. keep the videos coming guys!
Weather is known as a “common enemy”.
@@braindamaged1700 Yep. Every winter, I plan for being snowed in much of the time and there to be at least one month when the effective temperature never gets above -40. I think every house should have at least two, probably three, sources of heat. A storm cellar is also important, along with *thorough* waterproofing.
@@brigidtheirish That's all fine if you can afford it. But I can't. Apartment living is dangerous with no where to stay safe. It's all I have.
@@carolfrazer8067 Yeah. I'm lucky to be renting from my sister. We live on the family farm in a house that's stood against North Dakota weather for over a hundred years. Even when I lived in regular apartments, though, I managed pretty well. One of them was even built a bit like a bunker, the entire structure being made of concrete block and the side my apartment was on being three feet underground. I've also gotten pretty good at stocking up for the winter. *Lots* of canned goods and other non-perishables. And making sure I have plenty of batteries for my camping lamp if the power goes out.
The bathtub is a really good place to curl up in during a tornado if you don't have a storm cellar, by the way. Being small rooms with typically no outside walls, bathrooms are generally the safest rooms above ground and bathtubs add an extra layer of protection.
@jz Or improve (and actually ENFORCE) building codes. Like actually *bolting houses to the foundations.* I've seen houses in places like Florida sail away almost whole in winds that would *maybe* take a few shingles up here.
You guys are adorable. Denzel cracked me up at the beginning.
I remember the blizzard of 1978 in New England. I couldn't get out of my house because the snow had drifted up my front door up to 6 to 7 feet high. I climbed out a bedroom window and dug through the snow to get outside. Once I got out there was tons of snow piled up in huge drifts everywhere. We were without electricity, food and other essentials for over a week. These storms are rare, but we in New England can get them.
As a kid, I loved it! We didn't have power outages and weren't short on food. No school. The neighbor had a snow blower on his farm tractor, it was a flat area but he formed a massive mountain of snow which I made into toboggan runs. All of the cats and dogs were inside. We built a house out of straw bales in the barn for the neighbors goats. Mom went into cake, cookie, and homemade candy cooking mode.
Thinking back, my parents probably had a different opinion of the event.
My oldest brother was born during that blizzard. My dad was out plowing all night, when my mom went into labor. She said the doctors were getting to the hospital on snowmobiles. (Michigan)
I was three and have been told stories about it. Me and my mother lived with my grandparents and she told I wanted to go outside so she bundled me up and let me go out on the back porch. She told me there was a wall of snow on each side of me and I just stood on the shoveled path and stared at it. And she also told me that all the men in the neighborhood all came to the house with a pick up truck and they all went to the grocery store to get food together.
My grandmother had an important job as administrator in a nursing home two towns to the west. The Massachusetts State Police had to come to her house, and then escort her to her job. That happened in the '78 blizzard, too.
I remember that year in Buffalo, NY. 30" of snow in less than a day.
I live in the US. Here in NY we had snow so high once when I was a kid that we could sled off the roof of the house. I've been through a few hurricanes down South, and had a tornado rip through a mile down the street from my college.
Checking in from Tampa, Florida after hurricane Ian. Because it shifted east right before making landfall, Tampa was spared the brunt of the storm. Instead, Ft Myers, and Sarasota took most of the Cat 4 wind damage, and the storm surge, which was compounded because the ground couldn't absorb water since it was so saturated from previous rainfall. Things are back to normal in Tampa, and rescue, and recovery is progressing further south.
Colorado has sent all of Florida our prayers. So sad to see so many have perished. 🙏
I'm in Plant City ( about 30 minutes east of Tampa). So scary to think that could have been our area.
Im in Bradenton (Just North of Sarasota). We didnt get it too badly, but South Sarasota and Fort Myers were devastated. They say that they cant get power turned on because the power grid was completely destroyed.
Glad you are safe. I have friends in Pensacola. They were fine too.
Prayers from a Georgia neighbor
I've lived in several states up and down the east coast and over seas in Iceland. I've dealt with hurricanes, blizzards, tornados, earthquakes, but no volcanic eruptions. Iceland was kind enough to wait until I left for that. Love watching you all react to the craziness of all things U.S.
Same here. Seen snow over my waist, -50 deg.F in the winter, 3 tornadoes up close, with 2 additional going over my head (the trees were waving up & down). Hail the size of grade A eggs (literally), 5 inches of rain per hour (I filled a drinking glass in under a minute - yes, we flooded), 100+ mph winds, 106 deg F+ temps (in the shade in Ohio/Pa)...Only small earthquakes though (4.5 for me), and only seen the Hawaii volcano-no Mt. St Helens types...oh, and lightning strikes - my brother & uncle were both struck (& lived). I've been within 10ft of being hit myself. That's was an eye-opener. We do have diversity of weather...love seeing others' reactions though. An F5 tornado in Pa stripped a mall to the pavement. Poles were sucked out of the ground...NOTHING left. Destroyed miles of forests in the Allegheny mountains.
We pay attention to the weather pretty close here. Been without power for days as well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Life as an American.
no volcanic eruptions true. BUT my mom Told me. in the 1980 Mount.St.Helens eruption. was so powerful. New Jersey had an Ash cloud came over it and rain ash for a day.
I have lived through all of those in various states including Mt. Saint Helen's volcano May 1980. oh what fun that was...
Forgot about the earthquake in Everett, WA in the early 2000's. 6.8 on Richter Scale and the tornado on the freeway going back to Texas from Little Rock, Arkansas.
@@firstjohn3123
Minnesota I freaking laughed at the somehow survived-20 -20 is when they stop school in Minnesota there was a 3 day period of blizzards and -50 average and still went out they sometimes cancel school for above 12 inches of snow but half the time they don’t and now you just do e learning then you got a bunch of tornadoes and ice and stuff but ice is meh
@@argynews2825 Exactly!
Here's an idea of our environment in the U.S.
My home can keep me cool @ 120°, warm at -80°F (with 36" of snow), withstand 115+mph winds, and pump water out of a basement at 156 gal/minute...
And some bugger wants to either nuke us or starve us, I already feel like a human cockroach 🪳 trying to survive! 🤣🤣
Not anticipating Yellowstone going off or anything ...🙄 But...holy mackerel. Give us a break. 🤟🤣
Born & raised in Florida USA...the 2 worst hurricanes I went through were Ian & Charlie, borderline category 5. Ian was far worst because it was a direct hit, the eye went over us here in Fort Myers FL. Charlie's eye was much smaller & moved way faster. Both catastrophic, in the process of trying to rebuild! We had sharks & alligators swimming in the flooded roads! Also in FL, the lightning on reg days is incredible. Florida is the lightning capital of the U.S. There can be a severe thunderstorm on 1 side of the street & nothing on the other!
I'm up in the Orlando area. Charlie knocked down all the Laurel oaks in the city. Ian wasn't as bad.. more like Irma was.
I’m from Texas and the worst one that I have been through was probably Hurricane Harvey, but we always learn in school about The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and now when I think of Galveston I think of the hurricane.
It catrina?
@@epicjason21 No, not Katrina. Katrina hit Louisiana (New Orleans) & Mississippi! One of the worst devastations & loss of life, caused by flooding from the levees breaking!
I was living in Alabama on April 27 2011 and experienced first hand the tornado outbreak. The warnings overlapped each other most of the day. One tornado (waterspout) missed the boat I lived on by 8 feet. The scariest day of my life and I'm almost 68 years old!
I was raised in Florida, so we have had our share of Hurricanes. But when I was in Kindergarten 1977 it snowed down in Miami. I remember getting let out and dancing in the snow flakes something most of us had never seen before.
I remember the tornado super outbreak of 2011, I live in North Carolina and luckily there was never any touchdowns in my area but it seemed like there was a tornado watch almost every single day for a couple months, tornadoes are one of my biggest fears and I was 14 at the time so it was a very anxiety inducing time for me lol
I just started watching all your videos and I love it. As an American I love watching videos of what people think of our country. There's a stereotype sometimes within America that the whole world hates us. And to watch all these videos seeing ppl so fascinated with learning about it. Makes me happy. I want to travel the world and learn about other countries too. But seeing all this reminds me I should be proud to live here! And I think I've heard New Zealand has a lot of beautiful locations and mountains if I'm correct. Gots to check it out there too lol
I've lived in Montana all my life and I've always loved that fact about the coldest recorded temperature and from what I've heard that was before windchill was a thing. Also our highest recorded temperature is 117°F (47.2°C) it also mean the temperature range for this state is 187° which is insane lol
My husband lived in Lincoln for several years, although not at the time of the record low. He arrived not long after Ted Kasinsky left.
I'm originally from NY, and I now live in Florida. I have lived through many hurricanes, a couple of tornadoes, many blizzards and an earthquake while living in Mexico. Just last week was Hurricane Ian. Ian wasn't that bad near me, but the tornado warnings were very scary. Since most Florida homes do not have basements, we needed to get into a windowless room like our bathrooms. I tracked the tornado by computer while waiting for the warning to officially end.
The coldest temperature I have ever felt was like -35 F in northern NY State on the border with Canada in the early 1990s. The hottest temperature I have felt was 120 F in the Summer of 2003 at Phoenix International Airport in Phoenix, Arizona.
and most older houses in Florida don't have a windowless room so its the hallway you have to go, nothing comforting there
Chicago Joe here...I remember the blizzard of 1979 and the snow was above the front door and above the cars.
In the northeast, we get 3-4 false springs and 5 different winters before spring actually sets in. And in autumn, we experience all 4 seasons! Depending, we get a Halloween hurricane (like super storm Sandy), or a Halloween blizzard. The northeast has some of the craziest weather. Tornadoes are rare but really scary when one appears. My hometown got pretty messed up from a micro burst back in May of 2018. I live in an apartment and my building was shaking like crazy. I had no power for 64 hours.
Getting caught in a tornado here in Rhode Island is the freakiest weather I've ever been in. Tornados are exceptionally rare here so when my friend and I spotted one coming toward us we didn't really get what it was at first. Once we did we barely made it inside before it hit. There was damage but luckily no deaths from it.
I live about 35 miles from Chicago. After seeing the Hurricane Ian aftermath pictures and videos from Fort Myers and Sanibel Island over the last few days, my heart goes out to those people. Houses flattened, fishing boats and yachts slung into homes like they were toys. Just unbelieveable.
I was living outside Chicago Illinois at the time, and it was a warm 72+F day. On the horizon I saw what looked like a sideways tornado tearing across the landscape that filled the horizon. In a few minutes it rolled over us and the temperatures plummeted and it started to snow. Just like that, strangest thing I ever saw.
I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. I remember well the tornadoes of April 3rd 1974. Lived through it. We had fifty funnel clouds in and around Cincinnati that day. It was terrifying. We had a town two counties to the northeast (Xenia, Ohio) that was completely leveled by a funnel cloud that was over a mile wide.
Cincinnatian here too !
@@imweakfordeaky what part of town?
I remember that day vividly! I lived just outside of Cincinnati in Okeana, OH. It was crazy.
@@visasmom it was terrifying.
We live in South Texas. Last hurricane we went through was Hurricane Harvey. Houston had its annual rainfall within a matter of hours. Huge areas flooded. We were safe, thank God. Some people still haven't completely recovered and that was in 2017. It's hurricane season now until November 30th
The craziest weather event I have ever experienced in fact just happened… Hurricane Ian. I had to evacuate so instead of experiencing it at a cat 4, I experienced it at a cat 2, but it was still something wild!!! I stayed awake the entire night constantly checking out the window to make sure the road wasn’t flooded. Thankfully the road didn’t flood more than a few inches and no trees fell down… Just some big branches were ripped off by the winds. At home though quite a few trees fell down and now I have a new view outside my apartment window!!! Lol.
Living in the American Midwest, I see some really crazy weather, from all four seasons in a single day, to 6 foot of snow in a matter of 3 weeks. The most recent was winter 2011, when we caught 2 feet of snow in 12 hours.
It got a brief mention in this video, but the Dust Bowl is an interesting topic to look into, especially if you're interested in environmental history like I am. It's deeply entwined with American westward expansion, environmental conservation, and the cultural impact was huge as it forced millions to move out of the Plains and into California and the Pacific Northwest in the midst of the Great Depression.
I lived through Hurricane Sandy which was that huge storm in 2012 that made a left hook right into the coast of NJ (where I live). The coastal flooding caused by storm-surge, was historic and the damage caused was amazingly wide-spread.
I was in VA went Sandy hit, we lost power for a week. That was a bad storm.
@jz 🤡
@jz bruh people 30 miles inland didn't have power and cable for 3 weeks after sandy and the subsequent noreaster
I also live in NJ
From Long Island, my house was destroyed
Couple years ago, in April, the weather in Wisconsin changed from high sixties to four foot snowfall. It was so bad that people had to dig out of their doors. It all disappeared in a couple days from the sun.
I got 12 inches from that storm at my place. Snow was gone on my granddaughters birthday she and her friends were playing outside 2 days later I was trying to dig our way out to get to town.
Classic Wisconsin weather for you!!! Just a day or two ago it was 32 degrees and windy then today it’s 70 degrees with little wind and gorgeous…Wisconsin weather can’t make up its mind haha
as a child growing up in charleston west virginia, i went to bed one night in 1977 or 1978, im old and cant remember. the snow had just started to fall. i woke up at 6 am and was getting ready for school and my bestie knocked on my door and said, what are you doing, i said getting ready for school. he said there is no school today and fell backwards off my porch and disappeared . we got 27 inches of snow overnight. town was no go for about a week and a half. sweet memories.
This summer has been one of the craziest I’ve experienced in Texas…nearly 70 days straight without rain, almost a month straight with triple-digit temperatures (approx. 40+ degrees Celsius I believe). Dripping sweat and hard to breathe just going to check the mail, curly hair didn’t stand a chance in the humidity, and especially difficult having recently developed a sun allergy. I’m so ready for some sweater weather.
Dude same! The Summer was unbearably hot. For me the temperature was consistently over 100°F all July.
Definitely a Hot one this summer. Over 100 F for at least 2 straight months in West Texas.
This summer had been pretty ridiculous-I had completely spaced because, for me, TX is supposed to be hot. For me, I chose 2021's Deep Freeze as the wildest weather I've encountered.
I got lucky since it stayed about the same in my area (I'm also in Texas) however it was still in the 3 digits. I think the hottest it got here was around 115 F (About 46 C) which although is hot, is pretty normal here. I stayed inside all day so I guess it wasn't too much of an issue XD
So true!
My favorite Kiwi family! I live in Maine and lived all over the United States during my career with the Army. I've been through blizzards, ice storms, hurricanes, and tornadoes. Never a dull moment in our weather.
When I was in Pennsylvania, the Blizzard of '93 was the most severe weather event I had experienced. Snow for three days straight left snow drifts of over 8 feet tall. We had to "dig tunnels" through the snow for people and cars to pass throughj!
I was snowed in at work for three days during this event in PA snow drifts covering the exits that opened outward and were blocked by the snow drifts.
Yep!! That was really awesome!!
The snow fall in Buffalo NY(near by areas) in 2014 was amazing.. over 7ft of snow in around 5/6 days. Also in 1993 there was a massive blizzard that dumped snow on many!
On Halloween of 91 in Northern Minnesota we got 3 feet of snow in about 7hrs. Went into the bar in early evening with no snow on the ground and left after midnight with 3 feet of snow covering everything and snowmobiles running up and down main street.
I'm in Western NY, too. I remember that.
Firstly thank you for pronouncing Illinois correctly, as most folks here in the states can not even do that.
As I am from that part of the Corn Belt I grew up seeing my share of Tornadoes. My scariest experience though was back in 1973.
A major storm came very near our small farming town at mid-afternoon so my Mom along with my younger sister, younger brother and myself headed to our storm shelter. A solid concrete "bunker" located under our houses front steps. For some unknown reason it only had a wooden door clad in corrugated sheet metal, very thin and very weak.
Also for some un-known reason as Mom was rushing my siblings into the shelter my 12 year old boy brain decided to stay outside and look up as a swarm of of at least 5 Tornadoes passed pretty much over our town.
As I recall I could for a moment see straight up through one of the Funnel Clouds. That is when I came the closest to my demise.
It was at that exact moment when I felt my left ear being almost torn off as my Mom drug me into the "Bunker".
Buffalo, NY is notorious for "Lake Effect Snow," and has even had October Blizzards which dumped 6 feet of snow in a couple of days. A friend got stranded downtown and slept on the lobby floor with a couple hundred others for 3 nights until roads were cleared enough to get home - just a couple miles north of downtown, a distance she typically walked.
Buffalo ny here too was just about to comment on snowvember lol
I have lived in the South (Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Florida, Georgia and Tennessee) my whole life. I have been through many hurricanes, so were quite devastating. I've seen tornadoes forming. We have to find shelter almost yearly for tornado warnings. I felt a small tremor once, but never a major earthquake. Tornadoes are the scariest to me because they are so unpredictable.
In Colorado we had baseball sized hail and tornados one summer day. Smashed 2,700 windshields in our town and caused massive damage.
The "water spout" in this video gets me every time. A water spout is basically a weather phenomenon and this guy shows a drain because it's what came up on his stock footage search. Most of these events have images or video available that he choose not to search for.
I've lived through lots of snowstorms and blizzards that have dumped feets of snow, but I think ice storms are in a category of their own. There's nothing like waking up at dawn, after a night long ice storm, and peering out your window before there is so much as a footstep or tire track breaking the freshly fallen ice/snow. It looks like everything has been dipped in crystal - it's quite beautiful. Then everyone wakes up and starts moving around, the accidents start in and the damage becomes apparent as daylight comes to the full. It's a good time to take a couple of sick days until the roads are cleared and they've taken fallen electrical wires/poles out of the roads.
I remember those they are the worst, during one of those storms, my car wouldn't start so my boss told me to start walking and he would pick me up, I could not stay on my feet, I did get to work, the storm got worse throughout the day, crazy boss, luckily my boyfriend at the time came to get me home safely.
I'm from the east coast of Central Florida in the Daytona Beach area and the flooding was awful. DNR was rescuing people from residential areas by air boats and people were using their kayaks to get around. I heard that an alligator swam through a woman's house....and there is some great footage of a shark swimming down a street in Fort Meyers. He looked really 😊 😳 happy
I live in Minnesota (midwest, bordering Canada), and we get our share of tornados up here, but not as bad as tornado alley, which we're barely inside of. The closest tornado I've lived through was in the 80's--passed a couple of miles from our house, flattening an under-construction shopping mall/apartment complex area. Mom drove us kids up to see the destruction; had a healthy respect for tornados after that. 😬
If you want more extreme weather videos, there are a few channels that are run by weather chasers, and some posted by the ones in charge of running the aftermath. The Joplin tornado and "5 Minutes in May" come to mind.
Back in '86 .. early Spring started beautiful clear day, got windy,, turn into a dust storm, then rainy, hailstorm, And then started snowing !!! Happened Twice here in Lubbock Texas!!! Love you guys!!!❤️
My personal weirdest weather experience was in 2014 in Afghanistan. It was shortly after the new year, so it was still a pretty cool day. The area I was in rarely dropped below 50°F.
I was sitting on the roof of our building just watching the sky when I noticed a massive rain cell coming my way. Naturally, I move to get out of the impending storm because it’s also the middle of monsoon season. As I turned around, a massive wall of sand was coming from the opposite direction.
We were about to be slammed by monsoon rains on one side and sand storms on the other. It rained mud for a couple days after that
Hiiiiiiiiiiiiii from Louisiana I live about an hour from marksville where it rained fish.
I live in Maryland where we get four distinct seasons. In 2011, we even had an earthquake though not the type that destroys buildings. I was on the floor playing with the dog when the ground started to shake. It lasted about ten seconds and was actually quite pleasant. Turned out to be a 5.8. The worst was in in 1996 when we had two and a half feet of snow in two days. Then it kept snowing. By the end of the week, my Honda was completely buried under snow. It took forever to dig that out!
Did you forget that In 2016 we had a blizzard that dropped nearly 30 inches of snow on Maryland? In 2003 nearly 27 inches...the 1996 blizzard was very close to the one in 2003 at just over 26 inches of snow.
I was caught in the blizzard back in '96, in Virginia. Was stuck for a day and a half before I got out. I travelled south on I-85, and there was snow as far south as Georgia. Heard about the quake of 2011. The epicenter was in Louisa County, VA.
@@Meriale46 we had snow on Halloween in NJ I remember one year we had an earthquake in August
My wife and I are both retired SeaBee's living in Pensacola, FL. The hometown of the US Navy "Blue Angels". In our military career and up to today have seen and live through a bit of these things. Much preparation needs to be done before. Many hours are spent aiding those that have lost everything afterwards.
Something that wasn't mentioned when discussing the coldest days where the temperature reach -60° was the wind chill factor. Back in 1982, I believe it was, Chicago got down to about -15°, but with the wind chill, it was -67°. I can't imagine how cold it got with the wind chill if the temp was already -60°.
You guys should react to a video just about tornadoes. Your reactions were great when they talked about tornadoes
The April 2011 tornado outbreak sent several tornadoes through southeastern Tennessee. The one that hit in the morning damaged my neighborhood and was awesome to see but also terrifying at the same time.
Yea I live in southwest virginia and I remember that night vividly. It hit here right before sunset. We had multiple in virginia with 2 hitting the county next to me. That area was also where a lot of my family live so it was stressful to say the least.
I was in the 2011 tornado swarm when I lived in Huntsville, AL. The F4 tornado crossed 2 miles north of our house. The sound is something I will never forget.
Y'all need to research the Blizzard of '93. Oh my, that was a storm. It stretched from Cuba to Canada. My dad worked for the Georgia Department of Transportation at that time. They were in charge of clearing the highways of snow. Some places in Georgia (in the deep south) had 6 ft. (2 meters) of snow in the highway. Military Humvees got stuck trying to rescue people. At my mom and dad's home, we experienced -20 Celsius temperatures (in Ellijay, Georgia). It was a beast of a storm.
I've survived a couple tornadoes; a few ice storms; a couple of blizzards and all happened in Ohio. Look up the Blizzard of '78. It buried entire semi trucks and mobile homes. I lived in a mobile home park at the time and the National Guard had to dig me out. Went to bed that night and it was snowing pretty hard. Next morning I couldn't see out the windows or open the door. I was under a snow drift. Banging on pots and pans till rescuers heard me.
I live in the Upper Midwest USA. The coldest it's been where I live is about -30, but the windchill make it so much worse. I've seen snow as high as driving through tunnels. I'm in a rural area where it's not too populated. When the wind blows the snow, we get something called a white out and black ice. My town has been hit by tornados and a Derecho. I've lived through 5 tornados. They are scary. Especially at night when the power goes out. It's pitch black and you can't see a thing. But you can hear the roaring of a freight train. (there are no train tracks near me. Closest is 30 miles away) I have no shelter except my bathtub. It also floods here. Turn around, don't drown we always say. Maybe it's time for a trip to the Upper Midwest so you can experience our weather first hand.
You must live in Iowa cuz I live in Dubuque! That was a crazy summer because of that Derecho!! But my folks and I lived in Northern Minnesota in the early 90s, in 94 on January 4th it was brutally cold!! So much so that my day of classes at my college was cancelled! I can’t remember what the high temperature was but including the wind chill factor it was -89* F!! Brutally and bitterly cold!!!
You "have no shelter" in tornado-country?? You've got a tiny closet, (3'x3') take several 2x4s and fortify it. If you can, do it on the inside of the closet walls and around the outside, if you want to put a little extra effort on the wall-repairings.
Yeah, white-outs and black ice are both pretty bad, as well as coming out from behind some woods into a strong cross-wind can be a hairy deal.
Easter Sunday, 4.12.2020, we were hit by a 2.25 mile wide tornado. Most my family live in the same community around Laurel, MS. We lost our homes, vehicles, gardens... but no lives were lost from my family. A couple of neighbors died, I was hurt trying to climb out but am ok now. I had nightmares and would wake up screaming, I've even jumped off the bed in my sleep, hurting myself landing on the floor, hitting furniture, etc. I saw the tornado and just made it inside my bathroom when it hit. I hope and pray I never see another one as long as I live. First good night's sleep I got was the day my storm shelter was delivered. I tear up every time I see it. I can't begin to explain the sound, the feeling or the smell. There's just no words.
Here in Buffalo NY, in 2014 we had snowvember. At my house we had between 7 and 8 feet of snow fall overnight. It was a crazy time, out of school for about 2 weeks!
you should see the footage from Hurricane Ian and that is nuts
Sharks swimming in the roads 😬
I made a video about it.. watching it helps me heal/deal with my new reality...
I love your videos, keep up the hard work
I live in Illinois the craziest was almost ten years ago when the snow ❄ fell none stop covering our cars 🚗..no way of getting to work unless you had a snowmobile. I remember that day cause they shut down all stores and streets and the none stop shoveling. Living in between Illinois and Wisconsin. When we get hit with snow ❄ wow we get alot.i hope this season gives us less snow ❄ and the temperatures 🌡 dont drop below zero.as every one knows living in Illinois each season is a surprise with both the temperatures and snow ❄.
I was born and raised in Northern Illinois, and currently live in North Western Minnesota, just an hour south of the border to Canada ... it is nothing for us to see -60 degrees fahrenheit with wind chill during blizzards. We actually have engine block heaters that we plus in that keeps our vehicles vital engine parts warm to they will start in extreme cold.
I've lived in Tornado Alley (Kansas) my entire life and have seen numerous tornadoes. The largest one I've seen was an EF 4 that hit McConnell AFB in 1991. My husband was on base at the time and I was home with my kids (3 and 1at the time). It hit the base and was heading right for us but took a turn and missed us by a mile or so. It hit Andover, Ks and tragically killed 22 people. The thing about Ks is we experience all the seasons. Bone chilling cold (last winter it got down to 15 below zero) to mind frying hot (it was 112° just a couple months ago). There's no place like home.🌪❄☀
That tornado just kept picking up in intensity. It started as an F3 around Clearwater, and by the time it hit Andover, it was an F5. If I remember right, the very next year, another tornado followed the same path, just not near the intensity. This spring, Andover got hit again and pretty much wiped out the YMCA. It was pretty strange seeing cars 2 floors up sticking out the front of the building.
Hi! Thank you for the video. As someone who lives in the USA, I’d like to expand on our weather a bit more. Each region or zone of the USA experiences different types of weather events as well as the severity of them. Here is a list of some typical weather events one might expect:
[The West Coast/South West - CA, NV, AZ, OR, UT, ID]
- Dry Air
- Wind Gusts
- Heat Lightning
- Drought
- Bushfires
- Fire Tornados
- Sand/Dust Storms (Haboobs)
- Landslides
- Earthquakes
- Volcanic Eruptions
[The East Coast/South East - FL, GA, AL, MS, LA, SC, NC, VA]
- Humid Air
- Thunderstorms
- Rain
- Floods
- Hurricanes
- Tornados (Cat.1-2)
- Ice Storms/Ice
- Bug Swarms
[The Midwest / Middle States - TX, NM, OK, AR, KO, KS, MO, WI, NE, IA]
- Wind
- Downbursts/Upbursts
- Tornados (Cat. 3-5)
- Thunderstorms
- Rain
- Floods
- Hail
- Snow
- Dust Storms (Haboobs)
- Landslides
- Earthquakes
I have been in 4 tornados in different states.....scary indeed. God blessed our family & homes with no injuries or distractions. Lots of pray & help given to others. As you might of heard, the storm Ian has been beyond belief. Prayers & resources
In Michigan we have a saying “wait 5 minutes the weather will change”. In 1 day I experienced rain, sleet, snow, thunderstorm, and a tornado warning. Luckily no tornadoes. Later in the afternoon the weather cleared and it was a beautiful sunny afternoon
The two that instantly came to mind was the time when the Mississippi river flowed backward due to a storm (hurricane? don't remember really) & the TWO times the river in Cleveland, Ohio caught fire. As in the water itself caught fire. Good times.
The Mississippi River went backwards due to the New Madrid quake, too!
The chemicals and oil dumped for years is what burned in the Cuyahoga. That and the huge amount of trash. She actually has caught fire more than a dozen times over the years.
I am from Louisiana. And have experienced hurricane Katrina. It was so bad and the traffic going on the interstate was horrible. I was displace many different states. One time I traveled from Louisiana to North Carolina then left and went to live in Lawrence Ville, Georgia. Then back to Sneeds Ferry ⛴ North Carolina and then to Palaka , Florida. But I am glad to be back in Slidell , Louisiana. Because home is where the ❤ is.
Yes ma'am. I'm from Baton Rouge myself, spent near a decade traveling the world and I'm right back in Baton Rouge lol.
I was in middle school (8th grade) in Texas when Katrina hit. We had so many kids transferring over from Louisiana to get away from it.
I remember being at my mom’s house and watching the sky turn from a beautiful sunset to an incredibly unnerving green in a matter of minutes because of Katrina
As a Marine I've been to the Artic Circle, Alaska, and South Korea in the winter including the 1978 Blizzard. But being in North Carolina when they get 1" of snow in Eastern North Carolina they shut down EVERYTHING.
In 1974, Yellow Creek Baptist Church in Pickens County, Georgia was blown away except for the floor of the church, the pulpit, and the Bible left on the pulpit.
In my lifetime I have lived around the country, I have experienced blizzards in Massachusetts, Wyoming and Colorado, earthquakes in California and water spouts, and a tornado in Wyoming, and flooding in Arkansas, growing up was an adventure
The craziest weather I’ve ever experienced was back in 2016 there was a massive blizzard dubbed “snowmageddon” that produced up to 3 ft (0.9 meters) of snow. It caused my school district to close for an entire week, and the Governors of a lot of east coast states declared a state of emergency
Christmas 2017, most snow I've ever seen in my entire life. I live in Erie, pa..we got about 6 feet of snow in two days, there was no leaving the house
During the year without a summer, writer Mary Shelley was stuck inside and won a writing contest. The book was Frankenstein.
I'm a Texan and my wife a kiwi. We have been through 2 tornadoes in one day. It was during hurricane Rita
As a southerner the only weather we get worried about is snow lmao 😂 I also live in the southern region of the Ohio valley and we are PLAQUED with tornados. We latterly had like 3 in 1 month. Thankfully where I live it usually passes over, but the last one hit only a few miles down the rode from my house. Pretty scary
@jz I’m not from Ohio. I’m from KY. Aka below the Mason-Dixon Line. The Ohio Valley is geographically linked to about 7 states Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, and parts of Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.
💯 you know who loves you the United States of America
From 1960 - 1963 I lived in Ft Wainwright (Fairbanks) AK. My birthday is in Jan. On my first b-day there, it got to -44°F. You would literally keep the car running all winter long to prevent the gas and oil lines from freezing. I live in Chicago now and people here moan about cold winter weather all the time. If they only knew! Cheers....
I live in Northern Iowa. We are are in tornado and severe thunderstorm country. We also see Derechos (high straight line winds) The coldest winter temperatures we have had here the past couple of years was -60°F with windchill. It gets cold here on the plains. When you see Sundogs(vertical rainbows) around here, you know it's cold. We are a hardy folk here, so we take it in stride. It was fun to watch your reactions to this video. Best wishes to you and yours!
Arizona has dust storms, called Haboob's, several times every summer, including yesterday. The bigs ones can be several thousand feet tall and 30-40 miles across. Luckily they are usually short lived and followed by a rainstorm that cools the desert down for a little while.
And washes some of the dust away, I hope.
@@oxide9679 Sometimes it just makes mud...
I also remember getting snow in May while playing a soccer game. Lake effect snow b/c my school was very close to Lake Michigan, which keeps that shore warm in Fall, and colder in Spring. Just going one mile away from the lake can cause drastic changes in temp with lake effect.
A weather event that was near and dear to my heart, was the World Record single season snow fall record at the Mount Baker Ski area in Washington State. The record set was 1140”/95’/29 meters and made for some of the best powder snowboarding I have ever experienced.
With that amount of snow it filled in areas that normally could never be ridden, placing tracks in some insane areas. On chair #6 where it crests the first hill the ski patrol were digging out the chairlifts by hand, while on the chair you were actually lower then the surface of the snow.
If you ever go boarding/skiing there pay attention to some of the chairlift poles (Riblets), when the snow was at its deepest the patrollers went around the resort and painted a white line with “98-99” signifying the year of the storm. Some of those paint lines are literally 30’ above the average snowfall years, which Mt Baker consistently has the deepest snow of any resort.
I cannot resist telling a comment by a comedian named Ron White. He said a guy was going to show how tough he was going to tie himself to a tree during the hurricane and 'weather the storm'.
Ron White told the audience, " It's not THAT the wind is blowing. It's WHAT the wind is blowing. If you get hit by a Volvo ..."
I live in western PA, so we're quite lucky weather-wise. We don't see many tornadoes, large-scale forest fires, hurricanes or winter storms. That's not to say we haven't had our share of bad weather. The blizzards of '93 and '94 were something, and our last bad winter storm was in 2010. I remember extremely cold temperatures in 1977 when my brother was born. It was late January and I remember my dad hanging a heavy blanket over the doorway of our living room, and my mom & brother slept in there for the first month of his life. We always had a wood burning stove going as well as the furnace, but dad also kept the fireplace in the living room lit where mom and Jason were, just as a precaution.
Been through blizzards, a couple tornadoes, a good number of sand storms. Crazy weather stateside, but fun
I'm surprised the "Hard Winter" of 1880 was not mentioned! Laura Ingalls, along with several others, documented that winter in great detail. The History Guy posted a video, recounting the reports of that weather phenomenon.
I'm from SE Wisconsin and the craziest weather event I experienced was a bad blizzard where we had snow drifts taller than my school bus when I was in middle school. When our bus was driving us to school we ran into an area where several snow plows had given up trying to clear because they simply couldn't push the snow anywhere. So the drift was roughly 12 to 15 feet tall.
Hello, fellow Wisconsinite! 🙂 I've lived in southern Wisconsin since August 1989. I remember some particularly cold wind chills that cancelled Madison schools, which was something almost no amount of snow would do. Madison wanted us to go to school regardless of pretty much anything. Every time we woke up to lots of snow, we would stare at all the closings and delays scrolling across the bottom of the TV screen.
Do you remember what year it was that the snow plows just gave up? I remember only one really heavy, seemingly endless snowstorm followed by (or accompanied by maybe) blizzard winds. Snow drifted so high some people couldn't even open their doors to get outside. But I've forgotten exactly when that was. My memory is vague.... Now I live in Stoughton, where in 2005, one tornado ripped through here and broke records. I wasn't here at the time but I saw the storm clouds from Cottage Grove.
@@bubzilla6137 That would have been sometime in the 1976 to 1979 time frame. I don't remember which year exactly. I want to say the winter of 78-79 was the one.
@@Kulanae Ahhh... Gotcha. 🙂
I live in the midwest so tornados and ice storms are the norm. We recently had a bizarre weather event: thundersnow. A thunderstorm where it was snowing. Not a scary or dangerous situation, just weird.
another fine reaction from our NZ Family! My husband's dad & siblings survived the Tri State Tornado in March 1925. His dad was 8 and his siblings, 3 brothers and 3 sisters, along with his Dad & Mom were living in Murphysboro, IL.
Hi from Minnesota! Here we deal with weather extremes - hot and muggy in summer, cold and snowy in winter. The Halloween Blizzard of 1991 brought almost 4 feet of snow down in less than 18 hours. One of the rare times that the snow shut us down! Usually, we just plow it and keep on going!
"it's raining cats and dogs" is a phrase that originated in the middle ages. Many homes had thatched roofs and on cold, wet days, small mammals would bed down in the thatching. When it rained, the thatching got more wet and slippery and the animals would often slip off the roof, and the phrase was born.
I am from the Upper Peninsula in Michigan. Our winters are much like Alaska. We had a severe winter storm that dropped 67 inches of snow in 72 hours. Our highways were closed, and people had to be rescued from I-75 by snowmobile because the roads were 5 feet deep in snow!
As a New Englander, we get our share of foul weather during the winter, but those of us old enough to remember will always compare any blizzard or nor'easter to the one that occurred in February of 1978. I was thirteen at the time. More snow fell on us in a 36-hour period than any other time, forty inches (1 meter) in Brockton, MA, where I lived. Our cousins own a summer home at a place called Humarock on the east coast. In our local newspaper, there were pictures of houses in that area destroyed by the storm. One of them was our cousins' house. They rebuilt that house...on stilts, and it's still there.
I live in up state New York I remember a blizzard that dropped 10 or twelve of snow it was over a week before we went back to school! We made a snow fort out our back door!!😊
I realized today how long I've been watching you guys. Your tikes are growing up so fast. Keep on with your vids and I'll keep watching. Thanks.
I was born & raised in South Florida. I have gone through many hurricanes including Andrew. Most recently, Ian spun off some tornadoes that hit the condo complex that I live in. It was all over the news here. However, the craziest thing that I remember was in 1977. It actually snowed down here! It happened for only 1 day. The snow went all the way down to Miami. It was the first time in recorded history. I was only a kid, but it was so cool.
Joplin, Missouri - May 22, 2011. An F-5 tornado swept through our town. My home and its contents and my car were gone. But my son and our pet kitty survived by finding a safe place to shelter. 160 souls lost their lives due to that storm.
My brain still works on sorting the events of that day out. You go calmly into your place of shelter but when you finally manage to escape the chaos your shelter has turned into - every single aspect of your familiar environment has been radically changed. I moved away a few months later to the west coast (Washington state). My new location was no less disorienting than my old hometown.
My husband and I were house parents at a children's home during the tornadoes of April 3 1974. We huddled in the basement all night with the radio on, listening to the death toll climb higher and higher. Tornadoes crossed over us three times without touching down, but a town was destroyed and people killed just a few miles away. There were over 100 tornadoes that day...they just kept coming. When it was finally over, I called my parents to let them know that we had survived. They were 500 miles away and we're dealing with their own and didn't realize how bad it was where we were.
I lived through the Blizzard of 1993 in Syracuse NY. We visited my Grandparents house on Sunday for a half day visit. There was no snow on the ground when we got there. When we left on TUESDAY there was 6 feet. Snow drifts 12 feet high. I had to dig out my Dad's car twice! It snowed 2 inches an hour at times!