I’m from Houston Texas. I will never forget Hurricane Harvey. We had to be rescued from our home as the flood waters were rising and getting close to our front door. The guys that rescued us in their boat were from Louisiana-the Cajun Navy. They still do rescues and we donate money to them.
I live in the woodlands now, but I was living in Houston when that happened and also in 2001 we lost everything we had in our home from the flooding that storm Alison caused We had to be rescued and we had to exit the house through the windows. When I say we lost everything I mean everything. I couldn’t stop crying. My kids were little then and they don’t remember much, thank god.
Houston here. Yep, our house flooded and we had to be evacuated by boat in Hurricane Harvey, pipes broke in the kitchen during Winter Storm Yuri, and then we lost power in 25-degree weather. Good times.
I'm honestly shocked that California isn't on the list. Between the earthquakes, wildfires, droughts and potential for tsunamis, I'd thought that Cali would be in the top three at least.
@@elOratorioThe actual FEMA disaster scale or whatever shows at least where I was looking at in KY (south central) to be below US average all variables considered (including tornadoes), but my rural county in CA to be WAY above lol wildfires are insane. I told myself as a kid I would never live where tornadoes are even a little common, but now I’ve wanted to move towards TN/KY/SC for a decade😅 Give me some humidity I’m sick of fire season, and intense T storms sound exciting to me it’s boring here aside from winter-spring. 3-4’ of snow last two winters- depths I never saw in my 30 years here; yeah I’m out! Asap
I’d guess lots of Great Lakes and New England states. Tons of blizzards but not much else, and they usually have good infrastructure in place to manage them.
California. Lived here my whole life, only been in 2 weak earthquakes and forest fires only really happen in random/remote areas tho the smoke can collect into the valleys.
A couple of years ago, the weather channel quiz this viewers about this. According to them, Maine was ranked #1 most weather safe or state with the least natural disasters. Despite that, I rarely ever hear about somebody moving over there.
Tbh California. The earthquakes are basically nothing. And the wildfires are like out in the Forrest where barely anyone lives. We had a huge fear mongering campaign about hurricane Hillary and it was litterally just one day of heavy rain 😂
Thats all it is bro, just the media trying to get clicks and views to their garbage channels. They want the 40,000,000 people living in California to watch (and God knows how many other millions that find California news interesting). Reality is very different. Just like the homeless stuff about SF and LA (as if those cities dont have any good areas and the WHOLE state is completely full of homeless LOL).@@MIKExMASSACREx
I am a Texan, and I am very proud to say that my cousin, and some buddies of his went down to the gulf, after hurricane Harvey, and did rescue. I love that. My cousin is an Eagle Scout, so he lives up to that owner.
Much ado about nothing for most of Florida minus the small little spot it hits that’s get blasted on C.N.N… for most of the state it’s just heavy rain. It eye of the storm went right through us last year in Orlando and all we got was heavy rain and 30-40 mph winds. It was totally underwhelming. 😂
Natural disasters is one of the reasons I continue to live in Pennsylvania. Most of the state isn’t far enough north to get crippling snowstorms. We don’t have a coastline, so we don’t get impacted severely by hurricanes. Tornadoes aren’t really an issue and we don’t often have wildfires.
Thats true, the silver lining of the storms is seeing the community come together to help, its amazing to experience this - we have a lot of wonderful people ❤
I live in Oklahoma. That May 3rd, 1999 tornado hit mainly Moore, OK and Midwest City. It completely leveled Moore. It was the scariest thing I'd ever seen. I was pregnant and I was due that exact day. Fortunately my daughter was stubborn and waited until May 11 to grace us with her presence. Many of my friends lost everything.
@@Spacebuddy-dm6ps Yes it would've been. Thank the good lord above that she was late. But man it sure was difficult getting myself and 4 yr old son in the bathtub with a small mattress over us.
@@michelletidler6773 I drove through Moore 2 days before that very event. I broke down there and met the most amazing people there that helped me get my truck going again. The guy from the autozone store literally came out to where i was stranded to make sure i had a handle on what i was doing... Luckily i did but i will NEVER forget those guys. It was like the last exit going east. a dark haired guy, Not 6 feet tall would have been about 22 in 1999... Some good folks out there in OK that's for sure!
Oh yeah, I do have a basement in my home but I not really hide from natural disasters there because I’m used to blizzards. So every time a blizzard arrives, I have to swim through the snow tomorrow morning.@@michelletidler6773
@@RogerDBDbgee it really can be stressful. I’d like to say you get used to it but at 54 I’m still not so I don’t blame your brother for moving. Thank you. My daughter is now 24 and we both cannot wait to move. I’d never live in Moore. They get hit yearly. I don’t know how people rebuild out there. I’m thankful we were spared that day and in 2013 when another huge one hit. We’ve had enough honestly. Just looking for the right state to call home at this point.
As someone from Mississippi, we are for sure a common state for natural disasters. Have had multiple tornadoes in/around my neighborhood, impacts from hurricanes, plenty of floods, and we are currently in a major drought. Craziness!!
Here in Michigan's Upper Peninsula we've swapped out natural disasters for 6 months of winter and at least 8-9 months of overall crappy weather, but I'll take -20° F days over tornados and hurricanes!
Former Michigan resident here. i loved the UP, spent a lot of time there and originally planned to retire up on Superior. Sadly damage from a car accident and numerous surgeries left me unable to do so and I now live in southwest Florida. Yeah hurricanes are a pain, Ian was a direct hit last year but my area, even though near the Gulf is not subject to storm surge which causes the worst damage. A lot of them go around but don't hit us. You'd think we would more often that we do as we stick out in the Atlantic and the Gulf but nope, not so far. We have to keep an eye on each one but at least we get plenty of warning before those that do hit come in. I went across the state, down and came up behind Ian being back home the next morning. Damage not as bad as I feared. Tornadoes, we get generally EF 0 and 1s mostly with a very rare EF 2. Some of my more recent neighbors decided Ian was one hurricane too much for them and moved back north, others thought the summers were too brutal.
Yeah I was surprised about California too. I lived there for 39 years and have been through many natural disasters including earthquakes, fires and landslides. Oh, and El Nino.. but I guess stats go on damage and lives lost.
I am from and currently live in Eastern Kentucky so I can attest to this. Kentucky has some of the craziest weather you can imagine. You can have snow, a heat wave, a tornado, and flash flooding in the same week
@@JaKingScomez it is though, hell its true for a few midwest, mid southern states. Even places like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio have had weeks where there was snow, storms that caused flooding, higher than avg heat, and a twister. Its rare, but can happen, Tornadoes are a year road thing, so them happening in months where it can snow to lead to this, some states like Michigan, gets snow into April, which also has high heat chances, so you can get all 3. Flooding happens often when there is heavy rain, sometimes the flooding isn't so bad it last long enough to be life threatening.
Florida has lots of sinkholes relative to its size. One opened up under someone in metropolitan Tampa and (AFAIK) his body was never recovered. Hell, the hurricanes scare me less. At least they give lots of advance warning!
Because a lot of Florida's bedrock (if you can call it that) is limestone, which is incredibly porous. That's why caves tend to form in limestone-heavy areas (including Kentucky, which saw a sinkhole swallow part of the National Corvette Museum), and also explains all those lakes around Orlando. They weren't formed by glaciers, obviously.
I live in the Florida panhandle and we stayed through Hurricane Michael in 2018. Wednesday Idalia is on the way......Im ready to go back to the midwest. Our house in Florida will be on the market soon.
I missed Hurricane Sandy when it hit NJ. I went out of state on vacation and by the time I got back, it was over and power had been restored. A fallen tree in the yard was the only indication something had happened. I was told it was pretty bad to experience.
Yea after living in Texas for 3 years I have lived through so much crazy weather. We have had the snow storm, too many tornado warnings to count, hurricanes and flooding. No joke for real,
I live in Texas but in 1998 I was living in Orlando Florida and I used to work at the airport. So in February of that year a few tornadoes hit the area at night. My daughter was only a year old and my mother was living with me. We were all sleeping but we heard a loud noise that woke us up, we tried to look outside but it was pitch black, windy and it was raining. We were so scared cause we couldn’t see anything but we were feeling the apartment shaking. My mom started praying lol. A few minutes later everything was kinda quiet. The next day, the road I used to take to go to work was closed. At that point I didn’t know yet what happened but the road looked different, and after realizing what happened I noticed that a gas station and a trailer park that were on that road, were completely gone. I just started crying cause that’s when it hit me, knowing that a tornado did that and passed so close to us. I’m so glad we didn’t see it. Cause what we felt was disturbing enough. The next day the president came, I think it was Clinton idk lol. And declared it a state of emergency.
Same storm. I lived in Mt. Dora, Florida. Got a call from a student saying there was a tornado coming. Yup, it went right over my house. Terrifying! It touched down in Apopka and killed several people there.
And speaking of wildfires, here in Louisiana they have doubled in West Louisiana since Saturday. Who knew we’d get to add wildfires to our portfolio? We’ve never had a widespread wildfire problem. But we’ve not been over 24 inches behind on rain for the year or had almost a month of 100’s either.
@@Spacebuddy-dm6ps This year we are over 2 feet behind in rain. It has been almost a month of 100(+) temperatures. All the natural firebreaks like bayous and creeks are dried up. So all that’s needed since most of the state is actually Pine Forest and prairie (yes everyone thinks swamp and marsh but that is mostly the south and along rivers) is a spark and some wind. Over half the sparks have been provided by idiots who have ignored the burn ban that has been in place for a month.
Texas had an F5 tornado in the rural town of Jarrell back in 97. Jarrell sits about halfway between Austin and Waco. I believe 30 were killed and that was a farm town. It was a dry tornado which made it a huge sanding drum. When I moved to the Austin burbs back in 2006 folks were still talking about it. A few witnesses teared up while talking about it. If something like that ever hit Austin or Dallas? Damn.
Yeah, they tend to hit the Austin and Houston suburbs, unlike poor OKC, although their burbs get lots of twisters, too. Right now, the big ice storm destroyed 30% of Austin's tree cover, then we get this drought and some folks still haven't cleared out all their fallen brush so when a wildfire starts, it has plenty to burn. Thankfully we have teams with plenty of practice so this year fires are being quashed quick. It was freaky picking up and delivering meals to the latest area near my horse pasture. So glad so few homes perished, but with our tight home situation, it will be tough on those folks to find homes soon.
@@andyjay729 yeah, the cities have been good about clearing the brush, but ranchers sadly can't do much about theirs. I have seen lots just get mulching machines out and spreading it on the pastures, but many are hard pressed buying hay to feed animals and brush clearing is too expensive. With a burn ban on you can't burn it, either. I am slowly busting mine into fireplace sized chunks to get ready for the next freeze. We ran out at home, so gathering up my pasture dead fall saved our household the last two winters when we lost power.
We had a EF4 tornado Dec 26, 2015 in Rowlett, TX. The tornado crossed Lake Ray Hubbard, slowed down some while on the water, then grew massive and fast. It reached land and destoryed so much, everything flat...on the other side. It followed hwy I30 {eastbound} going thru Garland towards Rowlett, then it took the President George Bush Turnpike northbound. This thing covered the freeways.
Waco and Lubbock downtowns have both been hit by large tornadoes that left large buildings with a lean, but it's been decades since both tornadoes. A strong EF3 tornado went within a few miles of the EF5 tornado in the rural area west of Salado/northwest of Jarrell last year and took a large stone church down to its foundation.
I agree with the beauty of people helping people. The absolute best example is the Cajun Navy from my much maligned home state of Louisiana. They have so many selfless, heroic actions in times of peril it’s impossible to list them all. God bless them and God bless Louisiana.
Being from cali, but living in TX; surprised not to see cali on the list. I will never forget the snow storm we had in what 2021 or whenever and how we were left without lights and heat for days. SMH I also remember Harvey a few years back since I worked at a memory care during that time. Texas is crazy with the weather; that is for sure!
I live in Texas as well and yes we have so many natural disasters. Idk what California isn’t on there; it should be. They’re the same latitude as Texas and have hot weather
Im in NW FL the tornadoes normally occur off a hurricane but yes we randomly get tornadoes too and we get warmings on our phones about tornado warnings. There were quite a few this year but usually just trees on power lines, fences down. Love your videos and wit ❤ i am looking for states without natural disasters to potentially move to lol
my solidarity for the American people who suffer from natural catastrophes, I wish I was present and could help people in need, a brother ho cares, God bless USA
I am really shocked that Alabama didn't make the lust we have so many tornadoes and many of them have been super deadly. 2011 Super Outbreak l, March of 2019, lots of hurricanes Ivan, Sally, etc
They guy doesn’t know what tf he’s talking about some times. He said Hurricane Ivan hit Jersey when that was a Alabama storm 😂 He also called Super storm sandy “Storm Surge Sandy” lmao
Buffalo had 40 people die from the blizzard we had this past winter - one was a student at the school I work at. I was born November of 1976, and I have heard endless stories about what that was like - my dad had to climb out the attic window and then walk with snow shoes to get me diapers. Every 2 or 3 winters we have a genuine disaster.
Oh yeah I know that blizzard last winter was intense, I know that you guys had your fair share of similar stuff to that in previous years. I definitely heard in 2001 close to Christmas Buffalo received a 7 feet of snow within a four day span, I live in Utah and snows here are not that bad, and I tell people that nothing is worse than upstate New York when it comes to snow.
Great video Briggs surprised you haven't made this video sooner but glad that you did...Calif should be on the list based on wildfires and earthquakes alone..Maybe make it #11 as a bonus..gotta point out something I'm sure you noticed on this video Briggs..that is at least almost half of these states are listed in your cheapest places to live videos..No coincidence on that..the cheaper the place the more insurance costs and more prone to natural disaster it is..👍👍
I am currently sitting in front of security cameras at a Naples Florida high rise condo that sell for 5 million to 15 million with maintenance fees around $8K a month. Hurricane Idalia is currently rolling past us ! I lived almost 40 years in Key West, never left for any storm. Lost everything and started over several times. This state is dangerous to live in, and you'd better be very rich or have a nice car to live in!
From Louisiana and it seems like right now the whole state is on fire there have been so many wildfires here. More recent hurricanes like Ida and Laura have definitely done a lot of damage along with tornadoes and ice storms.
O yes here in Louisiana we have had our fare share of natural disasters but I'm thankful to God that he keeps us through it all and we help one another during these trying times prayers 🙏 for the people in Florida in the path of that hurricane 🌀 🙏
Great video! I'm very suprised California didn't make the list. I've visited most of these states in my lifetime, but thankful I don't live in any of them. I'm not proud to say I'm from Illinois, but the worst weather we normally get here are just blizzards and severe thunderstorms.
On a usual basis, we really only het earthquakes. Mostly small and no bigger than 6.2 (strongest recently was the American Canyon quake being a 6 on the richter scale (VIII Severe on the Mercalli Scale). That said, we do have the “Big One” happening at some point, and Mt Shasta and Lassen Peak are both considered active volcanoes. As of this video, all we had this year was Hurricane Hilary and those are pretty rare here.
"...mullets and lambchop sideburns...." Good grief, where do you get this stuff, Briggs?! LOL btw, I love your soapbox. The developers who are trying to swoop in on the desperate and grieving in Maui should take a long look in the mirror and see if they can find anyone with a soul.
It's where I live as well....we only have that moment of wondering how bad and prepping just in case, then nada! There are those rare occasions where we will see the more extreme weather.
@@javierclyburn5688 It's mainly geography the waters up here in the Northeast are cooler than down in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida so hurricanes are less dangerous or less likely to happen. Plus New Jersey is in the upper middle of the country and isn't gonna receive many snowstorms blizzards like upstate New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
Houses on stilts? Corpus Cristi along the beach and inland a few blocks. Houston's south side and southern suburbs, I'm sure there are lots more I haven't seen in person.
I would also like to say that, tropical storm Idalia is going to be a massive hurricane that is going to hit Florida in the next upcoming days. If you live in Florida, be weather aware, do note that anywhere in Florida could potentially get a tornado from the outer bands of the hurricane.
Interesting...🤔...I moved to Arkansa 2 years ago, which is not on the list. Surrounded on 3 sides by Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee - all on the list. Joplin Missouri (to the immediate north) had one of the worst Tornadoes in American history a few years ago!! Glad to be where I am👍😎
Thought for sure Missouri would be on the list. Tornados and the new Madrid fault line hail snow crazy crazy thunder storms and all the flooding from the Missouri and Mississippi River.
Massive wildfires that don’t affect most of the population. Earthquakes that break some wine bottles in some stores and not much else. California is the third biggest state. Despite the news trying its best to paint California as dangerous for natural disasters, it’s not. Most people are unaffected.
Floridian here. You made some great points, to which I’ll add. The thing about Florida tornadoes. Is they are usually from afternoon thunderstorms and we call them “spin ups”. Not the classic ones you see out in the plains. Most are very tiny and only last a few minutes if that. I’ve probably been through about 5 tornado warnings every year and in my 30 years, I’ve ever experienced or seen one in person. But, I have coworkers who have at work and family members who have. One of my colleagues saw one cross the street at work and it disappeared when it reached the other side. That’s how fast they are. The other thing about Florida and tornados is most people do not realize how large the state is. It takes 6 hours from Jax to Pensacola and about the same to Miami. It is very large, so we are more at risk to natural disasters, like Texas and California.
Being from California and currently living there. I’m not surprised we’re not on the list. I wouldn’t consider the wildfires being a “natural disaster” since technically, the utility companies are to blame lol
MTV show jersey shore is brilliant 😂. Now we have a new disaster named Phil Murphy. Sandy, was bad I live on the northwest side of the state near a Pa and we were without power for 3 days.
I live in Florida, and the only time you really have to be careful of the weather in August into September then you’re good. Weather is so boring from the month of October to June, just 60-70 degrees and 80% sunshine
@@annjames1837 Yes... I watched the video. I'm just saying that I don't know if I'd have regarded TN as being even in top 20. I don't know if I've _ever_ heard about a disaster there so devastating that the rest of the country heard about it, along with the other 3 states I mentioned. Meanwhile, CA, AL, HI, ME, and MN have all encountered extremes that most people throughout the country has heard about. Of course, that doesn't mean they encounter extremes often - I know MN and HI don't, but when they do, it's intense.
I can vouch for New York, because Upstate (Binghamton, Syracuse, Rochester, Glens Falls) can get hammered with flooding (Hurricane Agnes, 1972, for example), snowstorms, tornadoes and earthquakes. I experienced awful flooding in the Binghamton area in September 2011, and it was something else.
Florida- Hurricanes, tropical storms, hail, extreme heat waves, tornadoes, sink holes [ sink holes will take down a whole house], we have the capital of Lightning strikes, rip currents, and At times habitual rain. I mean it will rain on stop for like a month.
I was surprised N.C. wasn't higher on the list. Cape Hatteras always seem to catch a Hurricane. As a kid in Jacksonville, Fl, hurricanes would head towards us and then move northward, missing us completely and B-Lining it for Cape Hatteras.
The one thing I would question, and you kind of said it, is Texas really over Louisiana? It seems you are far more likely to be personally affected by a disaster if you live in Louisiana. Texas is just bigger so it has more by overall number. Either way, I’ve lived in both for most of my life and both can suck sometimes when it comes to weather
When I see other parts of our country or world going through crisis the one thing that brings be back to being a Texan is how we help the rest of those struggling. This is why I am proud to be Texan!
We in Cedar Rapids, Iowa can relate to some of that. In 2007, an ice storm froze half the state. In 2008 we had a 500 year flood that covered nearly half the town. In 2019 a derecho came through and destroyed half the city's trees and every third building needed a new roof. Plus we live in tornado alley, so we get plenty of work for our sirens.
Being west coast guy I’ve been in 2 hurricanes both in NY. Hurricane Irene. Which my boy said I should make a shirt that said “Irene blew me”. Hurricane Arthur was the other. I was fortunate that I left NY before Sandy hit.
Yes and no, a utility line could have sparked the fire but it was the winds that caused it to spread quickly and into epic proportions. We have this problem here in California and it's why power is cut off during hot and windy days
You forgot to mention the New Madrid earthquakes in Mississippi that caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards for several hours. Rang church bells in Boston!
In Louisiana. Ida and Gustav were the worst for me, Ida more so. Of course I was in the air force stationed in South Dakota for Andrew, so I don't remember much from it. But I always remember my grandparents talking about Betsy and Camille. The first hurricane I remember as a kid was Juan in 1985.
I think Camille was the one where a bunch of young people decided to ride it out in a hurricane party. They all died. That haunted my mother for the rest of her life.
I'm surprised California is not there. Always fires and hurricanes. As someone born overseas, always shocked me how many natural disasters happened every year in America.
Yep of course, you can just travel & look at the land & see where you shouldn't go orwant to be. All dirt, what's going thru? All forest, who's buried where, wouldn't want to trip over a dead body. yep natural disaster's are awful on the salessmen out to vulturize you. That was good. I wish I had time to watch it again. Maybeanother time. Thanks for the upload it was cool. See ya in the next video. I will go & check it your other channel.Thanks bye. Jeanie H.
I live in NY. How the hell did we make this list? We almost never get tornados, earthquakes, hurricane or tropical storms or forest fires. Sure some parts of the state like Buffalo get bad snowstorms but not much else. Id say NY is one of the safest states when it comes to natural disasters.
In Florida they also have sink holes that can swallow homes or maybe cause condos to collapse. I don't know if these are natural or man-made but disasters non the less.
From my understanding the issue New York has with tropical storms is the remnants of them are heavy rain and New York City especially is extremely susceptible because of the high usage of water front and sewage capacity.
Well color me shocked, Briggs usually always makes sure to rag on California on any of these negative lists. The stats were not on his side this time. 😂😂😂
i feel like san antonio is a good pocket because they don't have to worry about hurricanes and they didn't have very many tornadoes. it would be interesting to break down natural disasters in the cities of texas
Up here in New England we mainly avoid some of those natural disaster or there just weaker when they arrive. Earthquake and wildfires are quite rare, dust storms and mudslides are barely a thing here. Tornadoes aren't that common, the ocean waters aren't warm enough for a cat 3, 2 or 1 to hit us often as it does in the southeast but that can change with climate change warming the oceans at higher elevations. We'll get the occasional major flooding every now and then. Snowstorms/nor'easters are the main #1 disasters we worry about @@noreaster08
@@CeruleanSky1111 Although probably beyond the scope of this video apparently heat related deaths are the greatest in regards to climate disasters in the US. In 2021 the number was 1,600. Nobody talks about it as it’s not as dramatic as other disasters. So New England would be a better hedge against heat related deaths. The western part of the PNW where I live also stays moderate in temperature.
Interesting that in their coverage after Hurricane Katrina, The Weather Channel played an instrumental version of the song, "Wade in the Water," during the scrolling weather forecast.
I’m from Houston Texas. I will never forget Hurricane Harvey. We had to be rescued from our home as the flood waters were rising and getting close to our front door. The guys that rescued us in their boat were from Louisiana-the Cajun Navy. They still do rescues and we donate money to them.
The Cajun navy classic 👍
Awesome yes here in Louisiana we are used to hurricanes 🌀 and floods so we know what to do thank God 🙏
I live in the woodlands now, but I was living in Houston when that happened and also in 2001 we lost everything we had in our home from the flooding that storm Alison caused We had to be rescued and we had to exit the house through the windows. When I say we lost everything I mean everything. I couldn’t stop crying. My kids were little then and they don’t remember much, thank god.
Houston here. Yep, our house flooded and we had to be evacuated by boat in Hurricane Harvey, pipes broke in the kitchen during Winter Storm Yuri, and then we lost power in 25-degree weather. Good times.
Ike was bad too
I'm honestly shocked that California isn't on the list. Between the earthquakes, wildfires, droughts and potential for tsunamis, I'd thought that Cali would be in the top three at least.
Ditto
I think that California should have made the list too.
California is a disaster without the natural reasons.
That's what I was thinking, having lived in both KY and CA, how in the world did KY make it on the list when CA did not?
@@elOratorioThe actual FEMA disaster scale or whatever shows at least where I was looking at in KY (south central) to be below US average all variables considered (including tornadoes), but my rural county in CA to be WAY above lol wildfires are insane.
I told myself as a kid I would never live where tornadoes are even a little common, but now I’ve wanted to move towards TN/KY/SC for a decade😅 Give me some humidity I’m sick of fire season, and intense T storms sound exciting to me it’s boring here aside from winter-spring. 3-4’ of snow last two winters- depths I never saw in my 30 years here; yeah I’m out! Asap
Great list. Please do the opposite. States with the least natural disasters.
I’d guess lots of Great Lakes and New England states. Tons of blizzards but not much else, and they usually have good infrastructure in place to manage them.
California. Lived here my whole life, only been in 2 weak earthquakes and forest fires only really happen in random/remote areas tho the smoke can collect into the valleys.
A couple of years ago, the weather channel quiz this viewers about this. According to them, Maine was ranked #1 most weather safe or state with the least natural disasters.
Despite that, I rarely ever hear about somebody moving over there.
Tbh California. The earthquakes are basically nothing. And the wildfires are like out in the Forrest where barely anyone lives. We had a huge fear mongering campaign about hurricane Hillary and it was litterally just one day of heavy rain 😂
Thats all it is bro, just the media trying to get clicks and views to their garbage channels. They want the 40,000,000 people living in California to watch (and God knows how many other millions that find California news interesting). Reality is very different. Just like the homeless stuff about SF and LA (as if those cities dont have any good areas and the WHOLE state is completely full of homeless LOL).@@MIKExMASSACREx
I am a Texan, and I am very proud to say that my cousin, and some buddies of his went down to the gulf, after hurricane Harvey, and did rescue. I love that. My cousin is an Eagle Scout, so he lives up to that owner.
Ironic enough, Florida is getting hit with a hurricane on about Wednesday..
The only comparison that comes to mind, is that we Floridians are used to hurricanes like most northerners are used to winter storms.
@@FutureRefugee i changed it to ironic to make you feel better.
that’s not irony, that’s coincidence
Early for hurricanes 🌀
Much ado about nothing for most of Florida minus the small little spot it hits that’s get blasted on C.N.N… for most of the state it’s just heavy rain. It eye of the storm went right through us last year in Orlando and all we got was heavy rain and 30-40 mph winds. It was totally underwhelming. 😂
Natural disasters is one of the reasons I continue to live in Pennsylvania. Most of the state isn’t far enough north to get crippling snowstorms. We don’t have a coastline, so we don’t get impacted severely by hurricanes. Tornadoes aren’t really an issue and we don’t often have wildfires.
Thats true, the silver lining of the storms is seeing the community come together to help, its amazing to experience this - we have a lot of wonderful people ❤
We need more disasters for the community feel!
I admire that you do loads of homework on your videos. I seldom comment but ALWAYS give you the thumbs up 👍
I live in Oklahoma. That May 3rd, 1999 tornado hit mainly Moore, OK and Midwest City. It completely leveled Moore. It was the scariest thing I'd ever seen. I was pregnant and I was due that exact day. Fortunately my daughter was stubborn and waited until May 11 to grace us with her presence. Many of my friends lost everything.
That was probably the worst time to give birth
@@Spacebuddy-dm6ps Yes it would've been. Thank the good lord above that she was late. But man it sure was difficult getting myself and 4 yr old son in the bathtub with a small mattress over us.
@@michelletidler6773 I drove through Moore 2 days before that very event. I broke down there and met the most amazing people there that helped me get my truck going again. The guy from the autozone store literally came out to where i was stranded to make sure i had a handle on what i was doing... Luckily i did but i will NEVER forget those guys. It was like the last exit going east. a dark haired guy, Not 6 feet tall would have been about 22 in 1999... Some good folks out there in OK that's for sure!
Oh yeah, I do have a basement in my home but I not really hide from natural disasters there because I’m used to blizzards. So every time a blizzard arrives, I have to swim through the snow tomorrow morning.@@michelletidler6773
@@RogerDBDbgee it really can be stressful. I’d like to say you get used to it but at 54 I’m still not so I don’t blame your brother for moving. Thank you. My daughter is now 24 and we both cannot wait to move. I’d never live in Moore. They get hit yearly. I don’t know how people rebuild out there. I’m thankful we were spared that day and in 2013 when another huge one hit. We’ve had enough honestly. Just looking for the right state to call home at this point.
As someone from Mississippi, we are for sure a common state for natural disasters. Have had multiple tornadoes in/around my neighborhood, impacts from hurricanes, plenty of floods, and we are currently in a major drought. Craziness!!
I am from Mississippi also. And was here during Hurricane Katrina and stayed. We to , as you said, have had our fair share!
Here in Michigan's Upper Peninsula we've swapped out natural disasters for 6 months of winter and at least 8-9 months of overall crappy weather, but I'll take -20° F days over tornados and hurricanes!
Former Michigan resident here. i loved the UP, spent a lot of time there and originally planned to retire up on Superior. Sadly damage from a car accident and numerous surgeries left me unable to do so and I now live in southwest Florida. Yeah hurricanes are a pain, Ian was a direct hit last year but my area, even though near the Gulf is not subject to storm surge which causes the worst damage. A lot of them go around but don't hit us. You'd think we would more often that we do as we stick out in the Atlantic and the Gulf but nope, not so far. We have to keep an eye on each one but at least we get plenty of warning before those that do hit come in. I went across the state, down and came up behind Ian being back home the next morning. Damage not as bad as I feared. Tornadoes, we get generally EF 0 and 1s mostly with a very rare EF 2. Some of my more recent neighbors decided Ian was one hurricane too much for them and moved back north, others thought the summers were too brutal.
Here in the PNW, formerly from LA. Weather wise, I'll take either over both of what you dealt with.
Yeah I was surprised about California too. I lived there for 39 years and have been through many natural disasters including earthquakes, fires and landslides. Oh, and El Nino.. but I guess stats go on damage and lives lost.
I am from and currently live in Eastern Kentucky so I can attest to this. Kentucky has some of the craziest weather you can imagine. You can have snow, a heat wave, a tornado, and flash flooding in the same week
That definitely isn’t true
Don't forget the earthquakes and sink hole risk too. Lol
All the better to stay out
@@JaKingScomez yes, it absolutely is. Bud I’ve seen it happen.
@@JaKingScomez it is though, hell its true for a few midwest, mid southern states. Even places like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio have had weeks where there was snow, storms that caused flooding, higher than avg heat, and a twister. Its rare, but can happen, Tornadoes are a year road thing, so them happening in months where it can snow to lead to this, some states like Michigan, gets snow into April, which also has high heat chances, so you can get all 3. Flooding happens often when there is heavy rain, sometimes the flooding isn't so bad it last long enough to be life threatening.
I’m in Nashville, and it seems we have tornado warnings every other week. Definitely not used to it moving from Pittsburgh.
Florida has lots of sinkholes relative to its size. One opened up under someone in metropolitan Tampa and (AFAIK) his body was never recovered. Hell, the hurricanes scare me less. At least they give lots of advance warning!
Because a lot of Florida's bedrock (if you can call it that) is limestone, which is incredibly porous. That's why caves tend to form in limestone-heavy areas (including Kentucky, which saw a sinkhole swallow part of the National Corvette Museum), and also explains all those lakes around Orlando. They weren't formed by glaciers, obviously.
Hurricane Harvey is what cemented me in Texas. The way folks around here pull together is nothing short of amazing, especially in this day and age.
I live in the Florida panhandle and we stayed through Hurricane Michael in 2018. Wednesday Idalia is on the way......Im ready to go back to the midwest. Our house in Florida will be on the market soon.
Florida here and I can say I've seen many tornadoes. On land and water. Hurricanes and tropical storms are just part of life.
Sounds awful
I missed Hurricane Sandy when it hit NJ. I went out of state on vacation and by the time I got back, it was over and power had been restored. A fallen tree in the yard was the only indication something had happened. I was told it was pretty bad to experience.
Yea after living in Texas for 3 years I have lived through so much crazy weather. We have had the snow storm, too many tornado warnings to count, hurricanes and flooding. No joke for real,
Not in El Paso.
I live in Texas but in 1998 I was living in Orlando Florida and I used to work at the airport. So in February of that year a few tornadoes hit the area at night. My daughter was only a year old and my mother was living with me. We were all sleeping but we heard a loud noise that woke us up, we tried to look outside but it was pitch black, windy and it was raining. We were so scared cause we couldn’t see anything but we were feeling the apartment shaking. My mom started praying lol. A few minutes later everything was kinda quiet. The next day, the road I used to take to go to work was closed. At that point I didn’t know yet what happened but the road looked different, and after realizing what happened I noticed that a gas station and a trailer park that were on that road, were completely gone. I just started crying cause that’s when it hit me, knowing that a tornado did that and passed so close to us. I’m so glad we didn’t see it. Cause what we felt was disturbing enough. The next day the president came, I think it was Clinton idk lol. And declared it a state of emergency.
Yeah, it was Clinton at that time.
Same storm. I lived in Mt. Dora, Florida. Got a call from a student saying there was a tornado coming. Yup, it went right over my house. Terrifying! It touched down in Apopka and killed several people there.
And speaking of wildfires, here in Louisiana they have doubled in West Louisiana since Saturday. Who knew we’d get to add wildfires to our portfolio? We’ve never had a widespread wildfire problem. But we’ve not been over 24 inches behind on rain for the year or had almost a month of 100’s either.
Louisiana dry enough for wildfires is very rare
I'm so sorry. Grew up in Louisiana.
How come Louisiana has a ton of wildfires?
@@Spacebuddy-dm6ps This year we are over 2 feet behind in rain. It has been almost a month of 100(+) temperatures. All the natural firebreaks like bayous and creeks are dried up. So all that’s needed since most of the state is actually Pine Forest and prairie (yes everyone thinks swamp and marsh but that is mostly the south and along rivers) is a spark and some wind. Over half the sparks have been provided by idiots who have ignored the burn ban that has been in place for a month.
@@Spacebuddy-dm6ps Hottest, driest summer ever. The times they are a changing.
Great and informational. Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Glad it was helpful!
Texas had an F5 tornado in the rural town of Jarrell back in 97. Jarrell sits about halfway between Austin and Waco. I believe 30 were killed and that was a farm town. It was a dry tornado which made it a huge sanding drum. When I moved to the Austin burbs back in 2006 folks were still talking about it. A few witnesses teared up while talking about it. If something like that ever hit Austin or Dallas? Damn.
Yeah, they tend to hit the Austin and Houston suburbs, unlike poor OKC, although their burbs get lots of twisters, too.
Right now, the big ice storm destroyed 30% of Austin's tree cover, then we get this drought and some folks still haven't cleared out all their fallen brush so when a wildfire starts, it has plenty to burn. Thankfully we have teams with plenty of practice so this year fires are being quashed quick. It was freaky picking up and delivering meals to the latest area near my horse pasture. So glad so few homes perished, but with our tight home situation, it will be tough on those folks to find homes soon.
@@cindyleehaddock3551 Fallen brush was part of what made the Maui fires so deadly. Maybe try to spread the word about clearing that out.
@@andyjay729 yeah, the cities have been good about clearing the brush, but ranchers sadly can't do much about theirs. I have seen lots just get mulching machines out and spreading it on the pastures, but many are hard pressed buying hay to feed animals and brush clearing is too expensive. With a burn ban on you can't burn it, either. I am slowly busting mine into fireplace sized chunks to get ready for the next freeze. We ran out at home, so gathering up my pasture dead fall saved our household the last two winters when we lost power.
We had a EF4 tornado Dec 26, 2015 in Rowlett, TX.
The tornado crossed Lake Ray Hubbard, slowed down some while on the water, then grew massive and fast. It reached land and destoryed so much, everything flat...on the other side.
It followed hwy I30 {eastbound} going thru Garland towards Rowlett, then it took the President George Bush Turnpike northbound. This thing covered the freeways.
Waco and Lubbock downtowns have both been hit by large tornadoes that left large buildings with a lean, but it's been decades since both tornadoes. A strong EF3 tornado went within a few miles of the EF5 tornado in the rural area west of Salado/northwest of Jarrell last year and took a large stone church down to its foundation.
I agree with the beauty of people helping people. The absolute best example is the Cajun Navy from my much maligned home state of Louisiana. They have so many selfless, heroic actions in times of peril it’s impossible to list them all. God bless them and God bless Louisiana.
Being from cali, but living in TX; surprised not to see cali on the list. I will never forget the snow storm we had in what 2021 or whenever and how we were left without lights and heat for days. SMH I also remember Harvey a few years back since I worked at a memory care during that time. Texas is crazy with the weather; that is for sure!
I live in Texas as well and yes we have so many natural disasters. Idk what California isn’t on there; it should be. They’re the same latitude as Texas and have hot weather
Im in NW FL the tornadoes normally occur off a hurricane but yes we randomly get tornadoes too and we get warmings on our phones about tornado warnings. There were quite a few this year but usually just trees on power lines, fences down. Love your videos and wit ❤ i am looking for states without natural disasters to potentially move to lol
my solidarity for the American people who suffer from natural catastrophes, I wish I was present and could help people in need, a brother ho cares, God bless USA
I am really shocked that Alabama didn't make the lust we have so many tornadoes and many of them have been super deadly. 2011 Super Outbreak l, March of 2019, lots of hurricanes Ivan, Sally, etc
They guy doesn’t know what tf he’s talking about some times. He said Hurricane Ivan hit Jersey when that was a Alabama storm 😂 He also called Super storm sandy “Storm Surge Sandy” lmao
Buffalo had 40 people die from the blizzard we had this past winter - one was a student at the school I work at. I was born November of 1976, and I have heard endless stories about what that was like - my dad had to climb out the attic window and then walk with snow shoes to get me diapers. Every 2 or 3 winters we have a genuine disaster.
Oh yeah I know that blizzard last winter was intense, I know that you guys had your fair share of similar stuff to that in previous years. I definitely heard in 2001 close to Christmas Buffalo received a 7 feet of snow within a four day span, I live in Utah and snows here are not that bad, and I tell people that nothing is worse than upstate New York when it comes to snow.
Great video Briggs surprised you haven't made this video sooner but glad that you did...Calif should be on the list based on wildfires and earthquakes alone..Maybe make it #11 as a bonus..gotta point out something I'm sure you noticed on this video Briggs..that is at least almost half of these states are listed in your cheapest places to live videos..No coincidence on that..the cheaper the place the more insurance costs and more prone to natural disaster it is..👍👍
I am currently sitting in front of security cameras at a Naples Florida high rise condo that sell for 5 million to 15 million with maintenance fees around $8K a month.
Hurricane Idalia is currently rolling past us !
I lived almost 40 years in Key West, never left for any storm. Lost everything and started over several times.
This state is dangerous to live in, and you'd better be very rich or have a nice car to live in!
From Louisiana and it seems like right now the whole state is on fire there have been so many wildfires here. More recent hurricanes like Ida and Laura have definitely done a lot of damage along with tornadoes and ice storms.
Also interesting fact: Texas also has the #1 worst natural disaster in recorded US history- Galveston 1900 hurricane. 8000 perished.
O yes here in Louisiana we have had our fare share of natural disasters but I'm thankful to God that he keeps us through it all and we help one another during these trying times prayers 🙏 for the people in Florida in the path of that hurricane 🌀 🙏
Great video! I'm very suprised California didn't make the list. I've visited most of these states in my lifetime, but thankful I don't live in any of them. I'm not proud to say I'm from Illinois, but the worst weather we normally get here are just blizzards and severe thunderstorms.
I feel California should be on the list too, someday, they will be submerged…
As states go, Illinois is really not that bad. Say it proud!
On a usual basis, we really only het earthquakes. Mostly small and no bigger than 6.2 (strongest recently was the American Canyon quake being a 6 on the richter scale (VIII Severe on the Mercalli Scale).
That said, we do have the “Big One” happening at some point, and Mt Shasta and Lassen Peak are both considered active volcanoes.
As of this video, all we had this year was Hurricane Hilary and those are pretty rare here.
@@MountainKingVGC, Hurricane Hillary was a nothing burger. Just some light rain and moderate winds in most areas. The news media hyped it too much.
@@kw9859, well, Illinois is a disaster, as far as politics go.
In florida we also have Sink holes
Thank you for the link to Where might I live. Now in a suburb of New Orleans.
"...mullets and lambchop sideburns...." Good grief, where do you get this stuff, Briggs?! LOL btw, I love your soapbox. The developers who are trying to swoop in on the desperate and grieving in Maui should take a long look in the mirror and see if they can find anyone with a soul.
Interesting. I live in Southern NJ and we rarely see these disasters. Like you said they are more on the coast
It's where I live as well....we only have that moment of wondering how bad and prepping just in case, then nada! There are those rare occasions where we will see the more extreme weather.
born and raised in south jersey myself. i was very surprised to see NJ on this list. sandy was the only storm i remember being bad
NJ native here and I said the same thing. We rarely get anything including blizzards.
@@javierclyburn5688 It's mainly geography the waters up here in the Northeast are cooler than down in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida so hurricanes are less dangerous or less likely to happen.
Plus New Jersey is in the upper middle of the country and isn't gonna receive many snowstorms blizzards like upstate New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
Houses on stilts? Corpus Cristi along the beach and inland a few blocks. Houston's south side and southern suburbs, I'm sure there are lots more I haven't seen in person.
I would also like to say that, tropical storm Idalia is going to be a massive hurricane that is going to hit Florida in the next upcoming days. If you live in Florida, be weather aware, do note that anywhere in Florida could potentially get a tornado from the outer bands of the hurricane.
I'm in KC and LOL - love the summation of the Wizard of Oz! 🤣
Briggs is Great ❤❤❤😊😊😊
Maui fires, heart breaking 💔
Florida, California, Canada
Watching from Tokyo and getting Japanese ads.
Nice!
Interesting...🤔...I moved to Arkansa 2 years ago, which is not on the list. Surrounded on 3 sides by Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee - all on the list. Joplin Missouri (to the immediate north) had one of the worst Tornadoes in American history a few years ago!! Glad to be where I am👍😎
Thought for sure Missouri would be on the list. Tornados and the new Madrid fault line hail snow crazy crazy thunder storms and all the flooding from the Missouri and Mississippi River.
Really good video, thx Briggs! 💯👌🏼 🎯
Pls if can you do that the oposite "States with the Less Natural Disasters" would it be nice 😉
I thought for sure California would be on here. It seems like some disaster is always happening.
It should be. Literally every list online has California as one of the states with most natural disasters
Stats show a different story, compared to other states on this list.
Shocked that California wasn’t on this list. With massive wildfires and earthquakes, it seems like they would be #1
Massive wildfires that don’t affect most of the population. Earthquakes that break some wine bottles in some stores and not much else. California is the third biggest state. Despite the news trying its best to paint California as dangerous for natural disasters, it’s not. Most people are unaffected.
Floridian here. You made some great points, to which I’ll add. The thing about Florida tornadoes. Is they are usually from afternoon thunderstorms and we call them “spin ups”. Not the classic ones you see out in the plains. Most are very tiny and only last a few minutes if that. I’ve probably been through about 5 tornado warnings every year and in my 30 years, I’ve ever experienced or seen one in person. But, I have coworkers who have at work and family members who have. One of my colleagues saw one cross the street at work and it disappeared when it reached the other side. That’s how fast they are.
The other thing about Florida and tornados is most people do not realize how large the state is. It takes 6 hours from Jax to Pensacola and about the same to Miami. It is very large, so we are more at risk to natural disasters, like Texas and California.
Being from California and currently living there. I’m not surprised we’re not on the list.
I wouldn’t consider the wildfires being a “natural disaster” since technically, the utility companies are to blame lol
Seriously, I would love to move to a state where I never have to think about PG&E
Facts lol. Plus the wildfires are like out in the Forrest’s…..not too many live in the Forrest so it seems like they aren’t a big deal
@oldkayakdude I feel you, but like as someone who lives in a city of about 4 million a few hundred houses near the Forrest don’t seem like much
@@MIKExMASSACREx as in Forrest’s Gump's?
Is there verifiable information available to support your claim?
MTV show jersey shore is brilliant 😂. Now we have a new disaster named Phil Murphy. Sandy, was bad I live on the northwest side of the state near a Pa and we were without power for 3 days.
I was shocked by New Jersey, and New York! Very interesting Briggs!
I'm a NJ native and we rarely get anything including blizzards. This was a shock to me also and I live here.
I tried out that Where Might I live site and got matched with Summit County, Colorado.
That Gary Busey insert was terrifying!😂😱
I’m shocked California isn’t on the list. With all the floods, wildfires and earthquakes I thought they would be on this list.
Majority are man made though. 80% of the fires are man made
You are funny but also informative too
I live in Florida, and the only time you really have to be careful of the weather in August into September then you’re good. Weather is so boring from the month of October to June, just 60-70 degrees and 80% sunshine
It's weird to me to see NJ, TN, and KY on this list. I don't feel any of them really ought to be. I was surprised CA and AL weren't on the list.
You obviously don't know that Tennessee ranks 6 in most prone to have tornadoes
@@annjames1837 Yes... I watched the video. I'm just saying that I don't know if I'd have regarded TN as being even in top 20. I don't know if I've _ever_ heard about a disaster there so devastating that the rest of the country heard about it, along with the other 3 states I mentioned. Meanwhile, CA, AL, HI, ME, and MN have all encountered extremes that most people throughout the country has heard about. Of course, that doesn't mean they encounter extremes often - I know MN and HI don't, but when they do, it's intense.
I can vouch for New York, because Upstate (Binghamton, Syracuse, Rochester, Glens Falls) can get hammered with flooding (Hurricane Agnes, 1972, for example), snowstorms, tornadoes and earthquakes. I experienced awful flooding in the Binghamton area in September 2011, and it was something else.
Definitely snowstorms, especially around Buffalo and Syracuse. I believe that region is the snowiest region in the United States.
I don’t agree. I live in NY. I’d say California has worse natural disasters then us and they didn’t even make the list.
I live in Pennsylvania. We hardly get any disasters. Even Katrina didn't do much.
Florida- Hurricanes, tropical storms, hail, extreme heat waves, tornadoes, sink holes [ sink holes will take down a whole house], we have the capital of Lightning strikes, rip currents, and At times habitual rain. I mean it will rain on stop for like a month.
So while waiting for Idalia, we watch disaster video. Ocala, FL
Guessing: Florida, California, Mississippi, Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, and North Carolina.
NJ, is a runner up
Fairly accurate!
Tennessee ranks 6 for Tornado Prone States.
I was surprised N.C. wasn't higher on the list. Cape Hatteras always seem to catch a Hurricane. As a kid in Jacksonville, Fl, hurricanes would head towards us and then move northward, missing us completely and B-Lining it for Cape Hatteras.
Good list
I’m a shocked California isn’t on here. Also, Florida has sink holes as well.
The one thing I would question, and you kind of said it, is Texas really over Louisiana? It seems you are far more likely to be personally affected by a disaster if you live in Louisiana. Texas is just bigger so it has more by overall number. Either way, I’ve lived in both for most of my life and both can suck sometimes when it comes to weather
I love your summary of the Wizard of Oz!!! 🤣🤣🤣
If Washington DC becomes a state it would instantly become #1.
Can you please explain why?
@@Spacebuddy-dm6ps Because “DC” means Disaster Central.
@@Spacebuddy-dm6ps Do I really need to? Isn’t it obvious?
Sorry if I wasted your time, but yes.@@davidlarson2534
When I see other parts of our country or world going through crisis the one thing that brings be back to being a Texan is how we help the rest of those struggling. This is why I am proud to be Texan!
As a none American I like that you always put the numbered State underneath the name, sort of a back hand knowledge. Thank you for that.
I never thought TN would be on here! I figured more western states with the wildfires
I liked the stories from you soap box. You should get on it more often 🙂.
Is there any information you can present on states with the least allergens; fewest people suffering from allergies?
GREETINGS FROM THE PPRC VERY INTERESTING VIDEO. Went through hurricane Carla in Texas. Happy Monday.🇺🇸🍺🍺
We in Cedar Rapids, Iowa can relate to some of that. In 2007, an ice storm froze half the state. In 2008 we had a 500 year flood that covered nearly half the town. In 2019 a derecho came through and destroyed half the city's trees and every third building needed a new roof. Plus we live in tornado alley, so we get plenty of work for our sirens.
Hiiiiiiiiiii mount Vernon Iowa here
You folks know what we went thru.@@steph8030593
Being west coast guy I’ve been in 2 hurricanes both in NY. Hurricane Irene. Which my boy said I should make a shirt that said “Irene blew me”. Hurricane Arthur was the other. I was fortunate that I left NY before Sandy hit.
The Maui fire disaster might not have been natural…
Yes and no, a utility line could have sparked the fire but it was the winds that caused it to spread quickly and into epic proportions. We have this problem here in California and it's why power is cut off during hot and windy days
Nah it was a set up furshure corrupt people
About that one…
DEW your research!
And Joe Biden may have actually won in 2020.
You forgot to mention the New Madrid earthquakes in Mississippi that caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards for several hours. Rang church bells in Boston!
And believed to have formed Reelfoot Lake.
The New Madrid fault is actually near New Madrid, Missouri which is right on the Mississippi River in the SE part of the state
I just moved to l Texas and I'm not surprised they also get hurricanes two it's like my Life not to mention sweltering Summers
In Louisiana. Ida and Gustav were the worst for me, Ida more so. Of course I was in the air force stationed in South Dakota for Andrew, so I don't remember much from it. But I always remember my grandparents talking about Betsy and Camille. The first hurricane I remember as a kid was Juan in 1985.
I think Camille was the one where a bunch of young people decided to ride it out in a hurricane party. They all died. That haunted my mother for the rest of her life.
Good afternoon Briggs! Have a great day! 🎚️🇺🇸🪖👮♂️
I'm surprised California is not there. Always fires and hurricanes. As someone born overseas, always shocked me how many natural disasters happened every year in America.
Replace hurricanes with earthquakes: Since 1900, only three still-tropical storms have hit California.
Yep of course, you can just travel & look at the land & see where you shouldn't go orwant to be. All dirt, what's going thru? All forest, who's buried where, wouldn't want to trip over a dead body. yep natural disaster's are awful on the salessmen out to vulturize you. That was good. I wish I had time to watch it again. Maybeanother time. Thanks for the upload it was cool. See ya in the next video. I will go & check it your other channel.Thanks bye. Jeanie H.
Great info. Now I know where I do not want to move to!
not the first time i've heard that wizard of oz joke around 4:30 -- where'd you hear that from briggs? XD
I live in NY. How the hell did we make this list? We almost never get tornados, earthquakes, hurricane or tropical storms or forest fires. Sure some parts of the state like Buffalo get bad snowstorms but not much else. Id say NY is one of the safest states when it comes to natural disasters.
In Florida they also have sink holes that can swallow homes or maybe cause condos to collapse. I don't know if these are natural or man-made but disasters non the less.
From my understanding the issue New York has with tropical storms is the remnants of them are heavy rain and New York City especially is extremely susceptible because of the high usage of water front and sewage capacity.
Ha ha Dam He Said Lamb Chops Sideburns 😂😅😂
Well color me shocked, Briggs usually always makes sure to rag on California on any of these negative lists. The stats were not on his side this time. 😂😂😂
i feel like san antonio is a good pocket because they don't have to worry about hurricanes and they didn't have very many tornadoes. it would be interesting to break down natural disasters in the cities of texas
I'm hoping the states with the LEAST natural disasters (move here) will be up next episode.
The New England states.
@@noreaster08 I live in WA and wondered how that ranked on the disaster list. Besides earthquakes, volcanoes, and wildfires it's pretty quiet here.
Up here in New England we mainly avoid some of those natural disaster or there just weaker when they arrive.
Earthquake and wildfires are quite rare, dust storms and mudslides are barely a thing here.
Tornadoes aren't that common, the ocean waters aren't warm enough for a cat 3, 2 or 1 to hit us often as it does in the southeast but that can change with climate change warming the oceans at higher elevations.
We'll get the occasional major flooding every now and then.
Snowstorms/nor'easters are the main #1 disasters we worry about
@@noreaster08
@@CeruleanSky1111 True, but they often get major snow and ice storms in the winter.
@@CeruleanSky1111 Although probably beyond the scope of this video apparently heat related deaths are the greatest in regards to climate disasters in the US. In 2021 the number was 1,600. Nobody talks about it as it’s not as dramatic as other disasters. So New England would be a better hedge against heat related deaths. The western part of the PNW where I live also stays moderate in temperature.
I’m surprised California didn’t make the list!
Mr. B,
Thanks for all you do!
You kinda really rock bro!
I'm surprised Texas beat out my home state Louisiana on this list. Great video!👍🏿
California not being on this list really gets to people.😂
Those who watch Fox all the time think EVERYTHING in California is a disaster.
Ive lived in Kansas my entire life and i cant tell you how much i hate the Wizard of Oz 😂
😂it be funny if you know someone called Dorothy 😆
Interesting that in their coverage after Hurricane Katrina, The Weather Channel played an instrumental version of the song, "Wade in the Water," during the scrolling weather forecast.