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@cazsoccerrox

Ай бұрын

I was in Binghamton, NY for Hurricane Irene. It did $2 billion in damage to two counties alone. I was also in Florida for Hurricane Ian. My wife was driving the SUV to open a shelter, and while she was driving, she couldn’t go over 50 mph because the front of the car started lifting off of the ground.

@jack80028

Ай бұрын

I'm from nc and we have hurricanes like every year but the worse I have ever witnessed is hurricane Katrina

@CaerlaverockJaguar

Ай бұрын

You should watch Reed Timmer intercepting a tornado.

@nialcc

Ай бұрын

Now you know why Insurance companies have stopped written polices for Florida.

@CaerlaverockJaguar

Ай бұрын

@@nialcc and it’s sad because Florida is a great place to raise a family, thanks in part to our wonderful Governor Ron DeSantis.

While I was in the military, we went to New Orleans after Katrina. doing humanitarian work, search and rescue, etc. The stories we heard and things we saw, made us want to be overseas again. The things the people had to suffer from other people was terrible. I will never go back to that city.

@nanner3200

Ай бұрын

Thank you for doing what you could!

@Annonymous0283745

Ай бұрын

Post-Katrina New Orleans is a depressing reflection of New Orleans that was.

@edithroberts8959

Ай бұрын

That was just flood water. Mississippi caught the brunt of that storm and was ignored because New Orleans got flooded.

@hannabertrand4460

Ай бұрын

I live in the Lake Charles area and all these people from NOLA evacuated to our area and 3 weeks later, we got hit with a category 4 hurricane (Rita) so they had to evacuate again. There were no hotel rooms left in Arkansas. We slept in a church one night then drove to Tennessee and stayed for a few weeks.

@garya7893

Ай бұрын

We had military people remove the school gym roof from our front yard in Algiers after Katrina Thank you and your friends I was lucky to receive very little damage

In the US, you have choices. Earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires and blizzards. I've been through every single one, more than once, and I've come to the personal conclusion that hurricanes scare me the least. So, I live in St. Pete FL. You couldn't pay me to live in Tornado Alley, spend winters in the Northern US, or live anywhere in California again.

@EggZausted1

Ай бұрын

You can add Derechos to that too. We just had one a couple of weeks ago that started near Austin and continued to the east coast of Florida. It's winds topped 100mph with sustained winds of 60+ the entire path. It was nuts.

@19airaz

Ай бұрын

Ehhh I’d say blizzards scare me the least, as someone who’s spent the past two winters up north but grew up in south east Texas. From least to most scary I’d probably say, blizzards, hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires and tornados are neck and neck.

@kimberlyhicks3644

Ай бұрын

Volcanic eruptions happen here as well. Mt. Kilauea, in Hawaii, is erupting right at this moment.

@jeffb6786

Ай бұрын

Sorry, but I'll take the blizzards and snowstorms over all the rest. Third generation Colorado native and I love the snow. At least my house doesn't get swept away from one of our storms.

@gdhaney136

Ай бұрын

@@jeffb6786 Totally understand. They seem to cause the least amount of damage and aren't exactly 'scary'. My brother has lived in Colorado on and off his whole life, and loves snowboarding. Some people are born to love the cold. I'm fairly certain I was born a reptile because I'd die without heat and sun. I also get depressed with grey skies, although, I'm sure Colorado is much different than the east coast winters.

One of the saddest stories associated with the Galveston hurricane involved the orphanage. The 10 nuns running it were forced to take the 93 children, ages 2 to 13, up to the second floor of the girls' dormitory as the city flooded. All of the windows had been broken out by the wind. They attempted to rescue people as they floated by. The water kept rising. To try and keep the children together, they cut up clothesline and tied it around the wrist of each of the children and then to the nuns' waist. They heard the boys' dormitory collapse. Eventually, the orphanage was completely destroyed and much of it washed out to sea. During the recovery, they would find the body of a nun in the debris and as they pulled on the lines tied to her waste, they would find the body of a drowned child. 90 of the 93 children and all of the nuns died. 3 boys were found together in a tree floating on the water, the only survivors.

@hookedonreactions7649

Ай бұрын

Have you read “Isaac’s Storm” by Eric Larson? I highly recommend it though you might find it a little dry at first.

@v-vettavetta

Ай бұрын

That’s one of the saddest things I’ve ever heard

Life-long Floridian here, and I can tell you the biggest advantage we have over other natural disasters (earthquakes, tornadoes, etc) is the warning. Nowadays you have ample time to evacuate from these storms (if you have the means to do so). Down here in Florida our houses and our infrastructure is built to withstand most lower grade storms (Cat 1, Cat 2) with minimal damage. We usually don't start to worry until it gets to Category 3+. Once they get to that strength we don't mess around, we GTFO. Property can be replaced, homes can be rebuilt, but you can't bring back the dead.

@xoxxobob61

Ай бұрын

Spoken like a TRUE Floridian! CAT 3 + and I'm GONE! 😁😓

@iamtequilalc

Ай бұрын

My family who live in Florida now say if they hear Waffle House is closed, they're out. The Waffle House Index is legendary and apparently true.

@HaroldBluetooth-uz1zz

Ай бұрын

@@xoxxobob61That’s not a true Floridian. I’m from FL and my family has generally never left for any hurricane. The people who leave are generally people not from here and are more wealthy.

@xoxxobob61

Ай бұрын

@@HaroldBluetooth-uz1zz I went thru Hurricane ANDREW in 1992. I'm leaving if it's a CAT 3+ cause I'm not a spring chicken anymore!

@HaroldBluetooth-uz1zz

Ай бұрын

@@xoxxobob61 If you are older I can understand. However my grandparents are getting close to 80 now and I don’t think they ever left for a storm.

I’m from Jersey and I’ll never forget Sandy. We were out of power for about a week and then immediately lost it again when a nor’easter hit and dropped a bunch of snow. We had neighbors over every day because we had a generator and could run the heat for a while each day. You don’t normally associate hurricanes with cold temperatures but getting hit with the snow while still reeling from Sandy was the worst part of the whole thing.

@tiamarrow6366

Ай бұрын

I’m from Long Island and I still see some remnants of Sandy to this day in my town. Idk where you’re located in Jersey but the town I live in on Long Island…..when you get to the south shore, you can still see a few homes that are either still gone or are still being rebuilt due to Sandy.

@michellegardenier2174

Ай бұрын

Agreed

@TheJerseyNinja

Ай бұрын

Yep. Thankfully we had a generator but we used it only to run our fridge and freezer and 2 space heaters when we needed them. Strangest storm trajectory I’ve ever seen and it’s honestly insane how MASSIVE the hurricane was

@kimberlyannekeegan2707

Ай бұрын

yup! i was in 5th grade and we were out of school for over a month because the roof of our school literally blew off

@vivienneclarke2421

Ай бұрын

I was flying home from Australia during Sandy. Lots of canceled flights and it took me 3 days to get home. When I got here it was a mess,no electricity for almost 2 weeks. Sadly 2 teenagers in my little agricultural town lost there lives when their car was swept away. My oldest daughter went to high school with them💔

Central Florida resident here. Yes, we worry about it. Every year. Hurricane season runs from June-November. I have lived through several hurricanes, and we won't evacuate for anything less than a Cat 4. If it's a particularly strong Cat 3 and is heading directly our way, we'll make a judgement call. My house is made of concrete block and has storm straps on the rafters per Florida construction code (these are just two aspects of the code; a LOT more goes into home construction here). My house (we built it new in 2002) came with aluminum hurricane shutters stacked in the garage. These get bolted into the concrete over windows and doors to protect them from debris during storms. Older homes that don't have storm shutters have to cut plywood sheets to cover their windows. We occasionally lose power for hours or days at a time in the event of a close or direct storm hit. My parents live closer to the coast, about 25 miles away, and they lost power for 12 days once. Thankfully, the most damage they sustained was the complete and utter destruction of the pool's screen enclosure ($25,000 to replace! They chose not to, and just built fences for code compliance). Understand that years can go by without a significant storm hit, maybe some tropical storms or depressions that never reach hurricane status, but nothing major. Sometimes, however, we can get a string of storms that hit in a row, and that gets pretty dicey. As you can see in the video, it only takes one, and the vast majority of the damage comes from water. If the wind rips off your roof, it exposes everything in your house to the rain. Then there's the flood waters and storm surge that destroys everything on the ground level. We've been lucky here for 22 years. I've had friends lose their entire homes (in New Orleans from Katrina, in Miami from Andrew, notably). You can see entire stands of trees, acres and acres near my house, that are permanently leaning at 10-15 degree angles from hurricane winds. I can only hope we continue to be lucky.

A bit about the 1900 Galveston storm (historian here, live 15 miles away). After the town was decimated by that storm, the city decided to put in a sea wall to hold back the water. As a barrier island, it was flat and there was nothing to stop the gulf water from just coming over the entire island in a storm. So, they had the Army Corps of Engineers built a seawall. The first part was 3 miles long, 17 ft high from waterline to top. As it was being built, Ft. Crocket (where the San Louis resort is now) paid for another 2 miles long, from 8th street to 53 in total. It's been extended since then another couple miles as the city has grown. BUT that wasn't the biggest thing they did (as if it was small, which it wasn't), it was the raising of the city itself. Most structures were damaged or destroyed, but those that did remain needed to be higher than the island so they put jack screws and wound them with donkeys VERY carefully, to raise each building between 5 ft and 15 ft into the air. Then they pumped dredged sand under them to raise the building, and gently settled the building back down. St. Patricks Catholic church was done this way and it's a big stone structure. It was amazing what they could do in 1900-1915. A couple of good videos here on KZread about it, the History Guy did a good one kzread.info/dash/bejne/dHmgs6eMj6fOYLQ.htmlsi=nh8c8WY-VGaxbKHj and there's a 15 minute silent with photographs of the grade raising kzread.info/dash/bejne/h32n2qR_ocLLlrA.htmlsi=X54FyAMIQrECtL6V . Both are well worth the watch.

@paigeharrison3909

Ай бұрын

Still rated as the worst natural disaster in the US.

@sakurakittynoir1400

Ай бұрын

You said you live near Galveston. Have you ever seen Sister Katherine before a hurricane???

@jimreilly917

Ай бұрын

😮

@charlayned

Ай бұрын

@@sakurakittynoir1400 No, I haven't. I have heard of her, though. The closest I came to being in Galveston during a storm was a small tropical storm that we were moving a friend during (that was fun....not). But I haven't been to the island just before a storm.

@ceceward1628

Ай бұрын

Don’t forget because of the Seawall now galveston flood much easier and the water will be at a standstill at certain points

I live in South Carolina, and when I was 16 yrs old, Hurricane Hugo passed directly over our house. I remember so clearly when the eye passed over us; it was a total stop of wind and rain, and then it started up all over again, but the wind was blowing the opposite way. We had no power for 2 weeks. People were charging $20 for a bag of ice.

@highwayhobo1981

Ай бұрын

We lived outside Summerville during Hugo. That was the largest storm of my life ( non snow )

I grew up and still live in south Louisiana. Hurricanes are a part of life. I hate them but tornadoes actually scare me more. We don't get them often but there's no warning and we have nowhere to go. We don't have basements. With hurricanes, you have a warning and you can evacuate.

@hagen1305

Ай бұрын

Exactly how I feel. I’m from New Orleans and went through Katrina. It was terrible, we didn’t come home Texas until October, but I’ll take hurricanes any day over a tornado

@choomxi

Ай бұрын

Right. We grow up with hurricanes teasing us from the gulf. Tornados come out of nowhere. Thats a crazy thought to me. You could be having your coffee and next thing you know your house is leveled and you're praying to survive.

@feoltmanns7624

Ай бұрын

Tornadoes scare me more than anything else. They can drop anywhere without warning. You have to stay weather aware and get to your safe spot until the danger is gone.

Hurricane Hugo was terrifying. But most people agree that Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and Texas was unbelievable and many guys I knew drove down afterwards to help the people. It changed New Orleans and I’m so glad I got to see that old city in their jazz festival. The city has survived but looks so different. The documentary done by Spike Lee about Katrina made me sob uncontrollably. It was so devastating and heartbreaking -1800 deaths in modern times and much of that because poor people had no transportation out.

Texan here! I’ve been through MANY hurricanes, some in Houston. You board up your windows, keep filtered water and non-perishable food in your house (especially if you don’t have natural gas stoves and ovens), sandbag the base of the doors, and hold on. The highways in Houston are set up to contraflow as needed and are marked with a hurricane symbol to indicate that during a hurricane the road way direction will be reversed to minimize traffic during evacuation. Houston was built on a swamp so the big issue is flooding.

@hollypinkley

9 күн бұрын

except when Rita hit after Katrina. I lived in Porter & I59 was a parking lot by 3:30 in the afternoon as EVERYONE wanted to leave city & it was a super SNAFU /cluster f&%& looked like a ghetto/project by the next morning with trash, abandoned cars & pets dumped/abandoned!!! Stores/restaurants looted afterhours & yuck a mess. I retired from Continental Airlines soon afterward & moved to the Ozark Mts!!!! Houston has NO place for water to go as it is just a huge concrete parking lot!!!

1928 Mickey Mouse is an American cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The longtime icon and mascot of the Walt Disney Company, Mickey is an anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red shorts, large shoes, and white gloves. That Galveston hurricane happened in 1900. That one still photo with the lady was from a later picture. Very observation!!!!!

My father was a truck driver in Florida during Andrew. He survived because he wasn't in the flood area and got a bunch of other truck drivers to tightly park their 18-wheelers side by side with his and they rocked with each other during the storm, but no major damage because there wasn't much wind getting between them. Afterward, he couldn't pick up the load he was supposed to because it was basically washed away, and then was commandeered by the government to take water to the affected areas.

@reauxnbears

21 күн бұрын

I’ll never forget Andrew. I was not 7 years old but that one has stuck with me.

@myhappyplace7861

9 күн бұрын

@@_spell_x_bound_ want I’m Andrew. But now did she do a number on Florida. Glad your dad made it

Hurricane season starts June 1st and ends Nov 30th. I have been through many of them living in Houston most of my life, but one of the worst was Harvey bc it sat over us for days and we nearly floated away from all the rain. Also had no power after the storm for over 2 weeks so we headed to my grandparents house in Austin for about a week and a half so we could get out of the heat.

@caroleschaefer7218

Ай бұрын

I’m also in Houston, over the years we have seen many hurricanes. Houston is only about an hour from the coast.

@reanimated

Ай бұрын

I remember Alicia in what, like '86, we didn't have power for three days. Our little maple sapling in the back yard got pulled out of the ground. During a lull in the storm my dad ran out to stick it back in, and damned if that tree didn't grow to be 20 feet tall. I also remember whatever hurricane hit us about '88 where during the eye, my parents tossed us out to go run around for half an hour. Biking around the neighborhood I remember branches strewn all over the streets. But the strongest memory is that creepy stillness with no wind or anything. Another fun time was taking like 8 hours to get from Houston to Dallas when Rita was on the way...because it was just the year after Katrina and everyone was spooked. I do believe that was the only time my relatives down on the coast (think Lake Jackson, Brazoria, Freeport) ever cleared out.

@EggZausted1

Ай бұрын

@@reanimated my parents and grandparents always talk about Alicia, but I don't remember bc I was a toddler. But it sounds like it was a crazy storm.

@Chuckclc

Ай бұрын

As bad as Harvey and Ike were, TS Allison will never be forgotten. So much rain.

@mariaghiglieri78

Ай бұрын

My dad was living in Houston during Allison. I went to his office a few years later and saw a gorgeous shot of the Houston Skyline with a stunning lake in front of it. I asked him where the lake was. He said it was the aftermath of Allison and it was actually Hwy 59. I should have realized what I was getting into when I moved here too. Made it through Ike and Harvey and lost power after Harvey for 10 days. It basically is a rite of passage for new Houstonians.

I was in Biloxi Mississippi when Katrina hit, the next morning it looked like a bomb went off... But all anytime talked about was new Orleans, Mississippi had a ton of damage but it was mostly ignored for new Orleans because of crappy maintenance, where we were hit with storm surge, wind and more

@angiev1840

Ай бұрын

Exactly. The MS gulf coast was obliterated but all you saw on TV was new Orleans. There were places in MS where all that was left was the foundations of homes because storm surge washed everything away.

@m.r.2848

Ай бұрын

Yeah, they really downplayed the damage to MS. We drove through there on a road trip and almost ran out of gas because every time we exited to get it, we found flattened ruins. I told my husband it looked like there had been a clash of the titans. Like a god had taken the time to come down and personally stomp on everything. We thought it would be fine as long as we didn’t drive through New Orleans thanks to the news coverage.

@undeadOtter

Ай бұрын

@@m.r.2848 I lived there for almost 20 years but that point, the next day I couldn't recognize anything. All the things I knew were just gone. All the beautiful historical homes along the beach, almost the entirety of Bay St. Louis was leveled. But every station, every broadcast every resource was directed to New Orleans instead. Then what FEMA help was given was so screwed up. A guy in front of me bragged he got a big check and didn't even lose shingles, whereas I lost everything and didn't get a dime because it was all in my ex bosses name and he screwed me

@m.r.2848

Ай бұрын

@@undeadOtter Wow, with all that tragedy, there were still evil people who'd take advantage. Hopefully, you were able to come back from that. From what I saw, it must've been absolutely devastating.

@undeadOtter

Ай бұрын

@@m.r.2848 it was definitely a long time ago and life has changed a whole lot. Things are most definitely better, now I'm just saving to move out of Oklahoma before I lose another home

A couple of years ago Hurricane Ian tore the roofs off the houses on both sides of our house in Punta Gorda, Florida. The water followed by mold damage in one of the houses was so bad they had to strip the walls down to the studs and rebuild. That, along with the new roof and partial new siding meant they almost had a new house. Of course, the insurance company fought them the entire way. They lived in an RV next to the house for over a year while the work was being done.

@OneWomanAndTwoAcres

Ай бұрын

I had just sold my house about 2 weeks before the hurricane hit Punta Gorda. Never been so glad to have sold a house. We visited friends to help dig them out. It was devistating to see.

@heatherphilpot7680

Ай бұрын

I'm in Fort Myers. In 30 years here Ian was, by far, the worst I have ever seen hit here. Fort Myers Beach was literally flattened, and Sanibel had major flooding, and he carved new inlets through the island.

@OneWomanAndTwoAcres

Ай бұрын

@@heatherphilpot7680 Can you believe that was 30 years ago!?

@LucasgamerX_YT

Ай бұрын

@@OneWomanAndTwoAcreswell the storm Ian itself was a year almost 2 now since their 30 years living there. Ian was definitely something, worst I ever been through myself.

@cindychaney8515

25 күн бұрын

I’m still repairing. Just replaced windows last week. Just need new flooring

Its a long coast. You pack your pets, kids and valuable stuff and get the help out of dodge. Then you have to pray you have a house to go back to.

I lived through hurricane Harvey in 2017 in Texas. In 24 hours, the town I was at was so flooded you couldn’t get out of it, power and water had to be shut off, and we had to wait 4 days before the water levels were low enough for my car could drive to Houston and fly back. On a funny note, the roads and ground was flooded so high, people got out of their homes by kayak or motorboat 😂

@ArleneAdkinsZell

Ай бұрын

In Home Free's video for God Blessed Texas, they had a lot of footage from Nederland, in the midst of the devastation and heroism, there was the guy going on beer runs for people pulling a kiddie pool, it is such a lovely tribute.

@annekim2634

Ай бұрын

@@ArleneAdkinsZell That's cool. The bass Tim is from Nederland so it makes sense.

@annekim2634

Ай бұрын

I remember hearing they were running rescue boats up and down Deats road. It was surreal.

As a Louisiana native I can assure you that Hurricane season is one of the most nerve-wracking times of the year. Depending on the category you can either ride it out in your house and be without power for s few days or weeks .... Or evacuate. Maybe you have a home maybe you don't when you return. A lot of places for the stronger storms have police and stuff go around collecting names and addresses of people staying that way they can ease your identify your body because they are pretty sure you wont make it

I was a firefighter in New Jersey during both Irene and Sandy and was working during those storms. I was actually outside during the worst parts of both storms, but I am far enough inland that it was just mostly heavy rain and winds. I’ve also been to New Orleans twice with an organization called Samaritans Purse. You would be amazed how much of the city hasn’t been touched as far as cleanup goes even 19 years later

@angiev1840

Ай бұрын

It's a lack of money and will plus a lot of people who left never came back. There was no way to save many of those houses. New Orleans city govt is probably the most corrupt in our state so funds are not allocated the way they should and as is typical, people get screwed by their insurance companies and can't rebuild.

@TechTimeWithEric

Ай бұрын

@@angiev1840 it’s literally insane. I’m not even sure if Samaritan’s Purse still goes down there. It’s like what happened with Flint Michigan’s water situation. People don’t want to admit that their own government lied and stole their money. If I said what I really think YT might ban me, so I’ll just say there’s a lot of people in local government that should be arrested

I am from Charleston and was in elementary school when Hurricane Hugo hit. It was an incredibly devastating storm. Our electricity was off for weeks; we barely had clean water. So much was destroyed. Everyone who lived through that time can tell you how crazy life was immediately after Hugo. You can still see remnants of the damage from the hurricane.

@highwayhobo1981

Ай бұрын

I was in the Summerville/ Whitesville area. We took shelter in the elementary school, but much of that roof got ripped off

@jayar7436

Ай бұрын

@@highwayhobo1981My mother worked for the Sheriff’s Office and volunteered to help man the emergency phones (911), so we (my siblings and I) were able to shelter with her at the central operating center (or whatever it was called). My middle school’s gym was a shelter, but ended up getting flooded when the roof started to leak, so the people were forced to run into the main building during the storm.

We rode Katrina out in Gulfport, Mississippi, back in 05. We were pounded hard for hours in the eye wall. The actual coastline was transformed forever. Many historic buildings that survived Camille in 1969 were gone. Even today, the beach areas have a lot of empty land. Mother nature doesn't play. What i remember the best was the heat afterward. That's pretty much peak summertime. It was a lot of...fun.

@user-wh5ir4fo4r

Ай бұрын

Worse than Camille, that's saying a lot. I watched a documentary on Camille and some dude got caught outside. He was a kid at the time and somehow survived, sans clothes. The storm ripped them all right off him.

@DaveMustang74

Ай бұрын

@@user-wh5ir4fo4r the survival stories after major hurricanes (or any catastrophe, really) can be amazing.

As a Florida resident, the worst Hurricane I have personally lived through was Ian back in 2022, being inland you don't see much damage but this one cut straight across the state and still had plenty of power miles inland, this one actually surpassed Irma in damages by nearly double the cost. I had usually never seen flooding in the area around me but we had streets and areas out of commission for days bordering on weeks because there was nowhere for water to drain quickly. Where the eye of the hurricane impacted the coast I remember seeing videos of alligators and I believe even sharks or dolphins swimming down flooded streets.

@kshaek

Ай бұрын

What about Michael that was a Cat 5 in 18?

@GameOfGubbs

Ай бұрын

@@kshaek I don't live on the panhandle so I wasn't really hit by it at all, also it ended up costing about a quarter of Ian's damages.

@kshaek

Ай бұрын

@@GameOfGubbs true, that's what was reported.....but it's cool. Only a Cat 5 Hurricane no one in talks about..... Again, a lot of people are still in litigation with destroyed homes living out of trailers...

@1perfectpitch

Ай бұрын

I'm a fellow Floridian and the 1st hurricane I remember was Donna September 10, 1960. 6 days before my 10th birthday. This video must have been made before Ian.

@jenwhite8173

Ай бұрын

Whatever year that we had Charlie, Frances, and Gene was pretty gnarly.

I remember Hurricane Camille when i was a young man. Even though i lived in Manassas, Virginia at the time it still was bad. Many streets were flooded and it was still a strong hurricane, A tornado split my house in two and a huge tree came within inches of killing me and my wife. Thank God the tree helped hold the house down and i ended up with two smaller houses! 😁I was also hit by a F4 Tornado back in 1982. Ripped my house into two pieces. Fortunately for us, a large tree was pulled from it's roots and thrown into my home splitting it but it also held my house down so the Tornado didn't take it with my family inside into the next county. I couldn't sleep for ten years after if it was raining or the wind was blowing. It scared me that bad. I still pay attention to the weather warnings.

I saw a ton of rain with Sandy, but the worst experience I ever had in eastern Pennsylvania was Hurricane Irene. My family home’s sump pump battery failed, and the water was flooding our basement, so we spent the entire night in two hour shifts using any small containers to scoop the water into the basement sink. My father installed a water-activated sump pump afterward. We’ve had mega-soaker storms since, and the pump has never failed, highly recommend such a thing

Lived in North Carolina when Hugo hit! My windows blew out. All the flag poles around us were bent over and all the smaller trees were bent over even after the hurricane was long gone. They didn't break just bent over at a 90 degree angle. They eventually straightened themselves over time. Some big tree fell on cars and powerlines. 5 days no power and stores cleared of everything non-perishable. Couldn't buy gas, batteries, charcoal, propane , candles, matches etc. When the bread truck arrived after the hurricane, the bread never made it in the store. They sold it to the crowd off the back of the truck.

@Sassysouthernlady

Ай бұрын

Hugo was terrifying. Two weeks no power. Trees on the top of our house. It took months to get it fixed. Definitely want homeowners insurance here.

@Bptornado

Ай бұрын

That was definitely the worst storm I’ve ever been through

My family was in Mississippi when Hurricane Camille hit. We were in a shelter and all I remember is my parents telling at me to get away from the windows because I kept wanting to watch the storm.

I’m from Louisiana and have heard all the stories from my older family about Katrina and Rita and everything that happened, my little small town was pretty much flooded and damaged. Hurricane Laura and Delta hit Louisiana a few years ago and damaged my home, and tree fell through my aunts house completely destroying everything they owned, and I know lots of other people who had damage. My grandpa didn’t evacuate and stayed in a brick home with some neighbors and he said when it was coming through the whole house was shaking and it sounded like a train whistle just constantly blaring outside bc of the wind. Me and some family evacuated and stayed in hotel for a while before coming back but when we came back we had no power for weeks and lived in one room ran by a generator until we had power again and could start fixing the damage. Thats my personal experience with hurricanes so far as someone who lives on the coast.

The Great Storm of 1900 is the basis for many of the ghost stories of Galveston. Not surprising given how many lost their lives. An especially heartbreaking one is the loss of an orphanage near the shore. The Sisters tied themselves and the kids together with a rope around their waists so that no one would be swept away if the flood waters came in. In the end, it was probably the reason all of them drowned. We know about them because of three survivors that climbed onto the roof and got stuck in a tree when the structure collapsed. When the bodies were found on the beach after the storm, they unburied them, the rope, and every other child still tied to them who wasn't initially visible under the sand. The site of the former orphanage was marked on Sept. 8, 1994 with a Texas Historical Marker.

The Galveston hurricane of 1900 killed estimates of 6,000 to 12,000 and destroyed 3,600+ buildings. Particularly interesting is that after the hurricane, the city built a seawall and raised the elevation of 500 city blocks between 5 to 17 feet. Engineers physically lifted more than 2,000 structures, fences, streetcar tracks, utilities and water pipes using jacks and stilts and millions of cubic yards of sand. Some of the buildings are still standing such as a church on 35th street, which was raised 5 feet using 700 jacks.

I live in North Carolina and yes we have usually a few big hurricanes each year. We actually have a generator because even if your house doesn’t take damage you will definitely lose power (sometimes for up to a week). My Aunt is EMT and now has PTSD from recent hurricanes and pulling dead bodies out of homes.

@skittles7306

29 күн бұрын

Yeah. Prayers for your auntie. 💖💖💖

"How do you recover" - rip out everything that's water damaged on the building itself, and for a lot of cases throw out everything the water touched because its sewage. For hardwood, plastic, excet you can salvage your belongings and scrub the heck out of them with strong cleaners, but anything fabric or paper is utterly wrecked.

I am originally from Homestead, Florida. Hurricane Andrew flattened the entire town in August of 1992. To this day, the lot my house was on is still empty. There's a street, and you can see on google street view where the driveway was, but no houses yet on that block. It was so flattened, you could see the ocean where it used to be blocked bu buildings.

@xoxxobob61

Ай бұрын

I went through ANDREW as well living in West Kendall but stayed further North. Going back to Southern Miami-Dade County looked like a Nuclear bomb had gone off because everything was almost completely leveled. I literally drove 3 blocks past my house before I realized I had passed my street!

I've been directly in 3, Hurricanes Rita, Ike, and Harvey, and a shit load of tropical storms and major floods. As a Red Cross volunteer I've worked 10 major Disasters including Hurricanes Katrina, and Wilma.

I have lived in almost every part of the USA, and have found that we are most frightened by the dangers we have never experienced. When I lived in LA as a child, I thought earthquake tremors were cool as hell. When summering in Long Island, we had a hurricane party and went outside to experience the storm. Tornados occasionally made it up to New York State but never caused me any grief. Humans have an unbelievable ability to adapt to Mother Nature.

Hurricane Camille when I was a baby - about a year old. Then Katrina in 2005. We lost an entire fishing camp in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi and our home in Louisiana had severe damage from wind and trees. Mostly due to tornadoes as we were on that side of her. The saddest thing to. Me was the complete lack of media coverage of the Mississippi Gulf Coast devastation and relative lack of assistance from the government. They quietly pulled themselves back up by their bootstraps and are trying to rebuild their historic towns all these years later. And they’re doing it.

Hey, I live on the Texas coast about 20 miles from Galveston, toward Houston. My biggest storm was Hurricane Harvey (was that 2017?), where we got about 50 inches of rain that week. The neighborhood was an island, couldn't get to the store for food, took a week for the water to go down to where the roads were passable. Spent the next few weekends helping friends muck out their homes ... I hate to say it but I love a big storm. The raw ferocity is so beautiful.

@charlayned

Ай бұрын

Hey neighbor! I think we live close, off Blackhawk and 528. Harvey was horrible, to be sure. The neighborhood here got 52 inches of rain. Our house sits high enough we only got water halfway up the driveway but our roof had the shingles fluttered and we got rain inside the living room. We're both older, I'm disabled, so we had to ask for help on Neighborhood. We figured no one would come out until the water receded but this guy showed up to our door, carpet knife in hand, and cut out the wet carpet and put it outside the garage on the drive. We asked him why he came out in the rain and he said he was just sitting in his house, watching water rise and he was bored so he came to help. We fixed the roof and we have tile in the living room now. My son wasn't available to help us, he spent the 4 days of the storm in a boat as a firefighter, pulling people out of homes. At one point we had an airboat (yay Cajun Navy!) in our front yard loading neighbors who were flooded. A smaller boat was tied to the light post at the corner of our drive. We're watching out our glass front door and this guy comes up in a rain slicker and helmet and just opens our door and comes in, asking if we're okay. It wasn't until he opened his mouth that I realized it was my son, who was scruffy looking, haggard, and tired. He was helping with the load and just wanted to check on us. That whole hurricane was just so hard, it was the second I had been in. I grew up in the panhandle with the mile wide tornadoes.

@annekim2634

Ай бұрын

@@charlayned Hey neighbor! I'm off 518 and Bay Area, we are so close. I was over off Blackhawk the first weekend of cleanup, helping some friends muck out. Couldn't get up & down the streets 'cause the whole neighborhood had all their peeps over! Awesome to meet you!

@shag139

Ай бұрын

Yeah the issue with Harvey wasn’t so much the winds or surge, but the fact that is just sat there and didn’t move. It just dumped feet of rain over the same area.

@cerka27

Ай бұрын

I was living in northwest Houston when Harvey hit. Our entire neighborhood was flooded for 4 days. We couldn’t leave the house.

I was in Florida through Irma. I was born, raised and have always lived on the coast where hurricane season is a thing and its crazy realizing how casual that makes you towards hurricanes vs people who arent used to them. Like they are still scary but make no mistake, we prepare and we party lol

God, I remember Hurricane Sandy. I was pretty young, but I remember hunkering down with my mom while buckets and buckets of rain poured down outside. There was thunder so intense it shook the whole house. I can’t remember if we lost power (probably did), but the aftermath was wild. So many trees had been completely uprooted, roads had varying levels of standing water for like a few days, with some even being closed off all together. Houses were either destroyed or the roofs were torn off. Considering my state is on the edge of Lake Erie., it barely does any justice just how powerful these storms really are.

Americans are more than willing to gamble on a hurricane to live by the beach. We all 100% understand the risks.

@skittles7306

29 күн бұрын

You know the damage doesn't always affect just beach land, right? It often, at least in the case of what I've experienced, comes several hundreds of miles inland.

In 2004, I lived in South Georgia right on the border of Florida when Hurricane Francis and Jeanne seemed to hit Florida and skirt up the coast to Georgia in what seemed to be within 2-3 weeks apart. While they had been downgraded to a Tropical Storm, their impact was still pretty severe in Georgia. As a kid I remember going outside and leaning against the wind as if it were a wall. lol Something I'm not too proud of in hindsight 😂

I watched a program on rehabbing old homes in Galveston. One of the houses had been built from the wood of destroyed homes.

As a Floridian, I've been through many hurricanes. It's like a week long storm with serious wind, and if you're unlucky and live on the coast, you get to experience the storm surge. in 2005, we lived in Tampa when Charley hit south of us. That year there was a cluster of hurricanes which hit one after the other, my house was fine, but we were without power for about four weeks. We slept on the porch for a couple of weeks. Charley actually dug a channel through the northern end of Sanibel Island when it struck. Back in '15 Hermine passed over us, and a tornado was spawned from it, which we all got to see the tops of three large slash pines be plucked off. During Ian, while we were having our hurricane party, my neighbor and I watched his tool shed get flattened by oak the wind blew over. You lose power, you experience flooding, you occasional chase off looters with the neighbors, and if you're lucky you can eat all of the food and beer in the fridge before it goes bad due to power outages (thus the reason we Floridians throw hurricane parties).

Hurricane Agnes, 1972, was my closest association with hurricanes. I was working on campus and it was a wild ride. The river was overflowing, sand bags were bubbling (meaning, as I understood it, the bulwarks were about to fail.) I was told afterward that this hurricane severely diminished the number of upright pianos, because so many people kept them in the basement - and all the basements flooded. That one took 128 lives.

I was in New Jersey during Hurricane Sandy and I will never forget it. It was so surreal sitting at my bedroom window watching the sky flash blue because of transformers bursting. I luckily never lost power and didn't have any major damage but had friends that had no power or gas for 2 weeks.

There are hurricanes every year and, yes, we prep a lot. Right now we are getting prepped for this year's hurricane season by making sure our generators are in working order, getting bottled water packs, making sure we have enough non-perishable food to last a couple of weeks, and fill gas cans for generators and cars (if we need to evacuate). We also get go bags ready when a big one is on it's way so we can grab everything we need quickly if we evacuate.

For Galveston 1900, 8,000 is the minimum dead. It's somewhere between 8,000 and 12,000. Galveston was and is a low barrier island. At the time, the city was barely above sea level. Storm surges had nothing to slow them. Some people survived to tell of being swept out to sea and back in multiple times. Soldiers who arrived to keep order after the storm summary executed anyone caught looting. Took them down the neatest alley and killed them. There were many deaths from roof tiles being blown at high speed. After that, tiles were banned. After the storm a massive concrete and granite seawall was built, and the entire built up part of the city was raised several feet, houses, utilities and streets, by jacking them up and pumping mud in from pump barges in the Gulf. I grew up there, and I lived five blocks from the Gulf, actually a good place to be, behind the seawall and relatively high ground. I went through a number of major hurricanes, including Carla that had three tornadoes embedded within it.

Growing up in Houston I went through half a dozen massive hurricane and rain events. The water table is so high nobody can have a basement and most homes can't support a second floor. So the city floods easily. Our house was the only one on the street which never flooded, except for an inch or so in the front of the garage. When the danger was over, the scouts would get out the canoes and pick up the whole troop by boat, and we would spread out going door to door to help people, handing out water and helping where we could. After the rain stopped the snakes and gators would come up out of the bayous. So you had to be really careful in the water, because there could be animals, or electric lines, or broken glass, who knows? I helped one family off of their roof and we took them to the school that was set up for a shelter, but that's the most help I can remember doing. There was just so much, and so little anyone could do. The first hurricane I went through I was little. We spent half a day and a whole night with mattresses pulled over us in the two bathtubs. Me my dad and three dogs in one, my mother, my little brother, two cats and two parakeets in the other. In the morning the windows were all smashed and water had blown around. The back fence was gone, and the fig tree and our black walnut tree had fallen over. No flooding that time.

@reanimated

Ай бұрын

My grandparents' old house down south was at the corner of two massive bayous. After the last big hurricane, that mid-century house finally caved in...or rather out. The brick wall from the back of the living room caved out to the back yard. The new residents had also told my uncle basically the insurance companies started refusing to insure that neighborhood unless everyone lifted their house 10 feet. Sure enough last year we drove through there and the changes were made. It was trippy. For some reason though, the old fam's house hasn't been modified in that way, not sure how they got around that.

I was in Pennsylvania during Hurricane Sandy. Lost power for a few days. One thing I can't forget is hearing what I thought was a train coming my way, but it was the wind. I could hear it coming before it ever reached any trees around me, they were still when I first heard it.

Our house in Galveston was moved something like 16 blocks and they shored it up 17 feet. There are also marks painted on the walls where Ike put Galveston 8 feet under in 2008. In 2017 we were right under Hurricane Harvey where it stalled for days. Luckily, they had put in 10' storm drains and we have Archimedes screws pulling water. We lost a lot of trees but no damage to our houses. We did have to wait a few days to get power back and the roads to clear.

When I was a kid, Hurricane Agnes slammed into the state of Virginia. As it was June, many didn't take it very seriously. The wind blew so hard and the rain came down in sheets. My mom and I watched as the rainwater was pushed back up the steep hill on our street. Our storm door rattled and the bottom part of the door shattered. It was wild. Years later, Hurricane Isabel tore through our neighborhood and toppled two giant cedar trees in the backyard. There was also four feet of water in the street and at least two in my front yard. Crazy.

When hurricane Ike hit the south’s Texas coast a few years ago, the winds were so strong that when I was sitting on my Ned about 20 feet from an outside wall, I could literally feel each and every gust of wind. That was pretty unnerving.

"What are you supposed to do." - Sand bag, board up, evacuate with food, clothes, etc to out of state hotel (shelters will be full and pressed for staff/supplies, and still at risk of flooding and power related casualties). If you get stuck at home/ride it out have enough food/water and power supplies to last several weeks without power, including a crank weather radio to listen for if you need to quickly take the hurricane roads to evacuate. (We have done this and the hotels one year. Chilled in North Carolina and made sure we were outside the areas where it would burden anyone there.

Yep. Been through quite a few hurricanes. Last decent-sized one to hit me was Dorian a few years back. Two years ago I brought in two feral kittens from my back porch during and immediately after a hurricane; I still have one of them, and she’s the sweetest little shy cat. The other went to a friend of mine, and she’s a spitfire, haha. I’m so glad they chose my porch as refuge from the storm; they would have had a hard time surviving out there.

i was just watching your tornado reaction video. Keep making them, they are awesome!

Adam I live on the coast of Texas next to the Gulf of Mexico, the warmest ocean waters on the planet. I have been in Hurricane IKE and Hanna, Ike in Galveston Texas, our house was Five feet above the ground and six feet above the street. We had 1.5 feet of water on the first floor. It was terrifying. Hurricanes are no joke! Love your channel!

Being in sandy was genuinely scary, I was just like around 10 but loosing power and see entire trees be uprooted was crazy. Sandy honestly traumatized NJ as we have so many different hurricane warnings everywhere.

I’m from southeast Louisiana. 30 minutes north of New Orleans. Katrina was the worst thing I’ve ever seen in my life. So many homes were completely submerged in water, and so much life lost. Driving by the homes afterwards you could see the markings in bright colors outside the homes marking where they had been searched and how many bodies were found there. So many people trapped on their roofs with nowhere to go. Civilians getting into their boats to rescue their neighbors. So much destruction and grief. Our home had a hole in the side of it and some water damage. I’ll never forget driving to our house to figure out the condition it was in afterwards and just praying we would have something left. It was terrifying.

I used to live in Galveston and went through the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. We evacuated to Dallas, so I wasn't on the island when it happened, but I was back on the island a week later. The other significant hurricane I went through was Hurricane Harvey. I evacuated Galveston to stay at friends in Dickinson, TX. That unfortunate decision left us surrounded by flood water and unable to leave for a week. We were lucky in that particular subdivision because all around us people's houses flooded. And to add to the information about the 1900 Storm in Galveston, if you look at some of the mausoleums in the Broadway cemetery, you'll see evidence of the grade raising of the island. Instead of full buildings, you'll see just the roofs above ground. They didn't want to disturb the dead by raising their tombs.

Lived through Fran & Floyd in North Carolina as a kid, two deadly but vastly different storms. With Fran, the winds were absolutely apocalyptic and tore trees out of the the ground by their roots. Floyd, on the other hand, sat over the state for a long time, which made for some crazy flooding. The one thing I can say for certain is that hurricanes are about 100x more terrifying during the night. Fran & Floyd were both nighttime impacts. Can't see anything, and all you here is wind, rain, and debris.

I had just retired from the US Army in April of 2005. We decided that in order to stretch our money we decided on a home on Alabama's Gulf Coast, halfway between Mobile, Alabama and Pascagoula, Mississippi. The home was a Geodesic dome which was built by the previous homeowner, and made to survive strong hurricanes. Since we weren't directly in the cone of the storms path, we decided to ride it out. Though the storm did make landfall between Pascagoula and New Orleans, we were hammered by high winds, torrential rains, and storm surge. I'm happy to report that the home lived up to its billing. Although we didn't get a direct hit from Katrina, we had sustained winds of 60 mph and it caused alot of damage to trees, roads, and surrounding homes. Our home sustained very little damage outside of some shingles which covered 75% of the dome. The devastation on Dauphin Island, where my children went to school, was enormous. Driving on I-10 going west was an altogether different story as homes were swept off their slabs and foundations, and multi-million dollar casinos on the Biloxi, Mississippi coast were destroyed. One casino was torn from its foundation and the entire structure pushed hundeds of yards inland. The damage to New Orleans is almost indescribable.

I had just started second grade when Hurricane Andrew hit. Now, bear in mind that I lived in the Mid-Atlantic, about 1,000 miles from where the hurricane made landfall. I still remember being puzzled by my school letting out early and sending us home. Shortly after the early release, we got flooded by the heavy rainfall caused by the storm's remnants as it tracked north through Appalachia. Again, *1,000 MILES NORTH* of where the actual hurricane hit. Absolutely wild.

Fun Fact! Galveston was set to be the "Next Manhattan" / "Manhattan of the South" right before the hurricane hit. Galveston still hasn't caught up to being the city it once was. I used to live in Galveston as a kid. We were a military family and were lucky enough to stationed there twice in a row for a total of 7 years. My absolute favorite place to be was the island with all the history and fun and good vibes. The second my family moved, nobody knew what Galveston was, nor the hurricane. I'm all the way up in WA now, and the only things I don't miss are the mosquitoes and heavy, humidified heat.

I was 7 years old when hurricane Beulah struck the southern tip of Texas. We fled to a Red Cross shelter in San Antonio. When we came back our home was destroyed. But our Aunt’s home survived mostly intact and we stayed there until we found a one bedroom apartment (for 4 of us). There were hardly any places left.

I've been in Hurricane Harvey. The lake near where I lived overflowed and a small tsunami came down our road at 4 in the morning. Pretty scary

I live in Georgia, USA, but my best friend lives in Florida and has her whole life. They have been through the Florida hurricanes and told me the horror stories about it. They believe it is worth the risk of hurricanes to live in a tropical state. My sister also lives in Florida and when they have to evacuate, she comes home to Georgia. LOL Love your reaction videos❣️

Most of us have plans for what to do in case of tornado just year-round. We have tornado drills in school, regular testing for tornado sirens, storm shelters/places to hide from tornadoes in malls and such, etc. We’re pretty well prepared nowadays, but ofc that can’t stop all causalities and such.

As far as personal experiences go, I was in middle school when Sandy hit the east coast. I know it was mentioned as one of the worst in NJ, but the coastal areas of the Delmarva Peninsula (Delaware, and eastern Maryland and Virginia) were hit really hard, too. I'm from the eastern shore of VA and we all but lost our house to floodwaters. Our foundation and frame were the only things not damaged. My dad estimated we had about a foot of water in our home. We had to rebuild our entire house. Being a east coast girlie, hurricanes usually aren't all that bad and generally are nothing to fear; but when they're bad, they are incredibly destructive.

I remember Sandy. Lots of trees and power lines down, and many people were without power for weeks. There were long lines at every gas station. This was in north Jersey. South Jersey was completely devastated. I also remember Agnes, in '75, which stalled over central Pennsylvania and dumped rain for a week. The flooding was staggering.

Born and raised on Galveston, you can still see reminders of this storm to this day. Alongside some pretty crazy stories and tales passed down.

I live in Florida and sat out Matthew and Irma. We lived at the beach and watching the water rise and keep rising was a little scary. We were tense until the storm surge maxed out, then the party started! Irma hit while I was asleep. The noise it made woke me up, but I just went back to sleep. She caused more problems for downtown than the beach. They evacuated the beach to the downtown, then the downtown got it worse. Here the bridges close when the winds reach 35 miles per hour so you couldn’t get in or out after then. Most people don’t leave because of the risk of not being able to get back if the bridge stays closed. If you can’t get back then you can’t respond rapidly to damages.

Found your channel in my suggested vids today (likely cause I live where the massive tornado outbreak this past Monday was) so hi there! I went through both Hugo in South Carolina and Andrew in South Florida. My dad worked in a Miami Beach hotel, and it was flooded to the 5th floor. His best friend's house cracked in 1/2 and rolled over, it looked like a giant teacup in his front yard. I think the worst part of Andrew was that the wrong areas were told to evacuate. It took a steep turn south very suddenly hours before lanfall, it was wild. I've been through several others but those two were the two most I've been in.

I was pretty young when Hurricane Sandy hit but I do remember a tree going through our garage roof and it caused quite a bit of damage. We had to leave and find somewhere else to stay until it was over. Our neighbor had a large tree fall onto their house and unfortunately there was one fatality.

I am a Delaware girl. Every time a tornado hits around Cape Lookout or Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, me and my husband know Delaware will be hit. Every time. We get lots of wind and flooding. Power outages, too. It's a great way to get out of work but it also produces the risk of tornadoes or our cars and home being damaged by 60 foot falling trees. Other than that, it's kinda cool.

I was in Galveston for Hurricane Alicia in 1983. Freaky stuff. We hunkered down in a small church to help those who were unable to flee. Everyone around us lost power, but ours stayed on throughout the storm. Although it was devastating, it couldn't possibly hold a candle to the 1900 Great Galveston hurricane.

In parts of Louisiana they are still trying to recover, 19 years later. And there are still bits of Galveston that are lost because of The Storm, we have a road that had to be replaced because it ripped it up so bad, and because there was no space left in the cemeteries, we had to bury our dead under that road, and pave over them. And for the question of “What do you even do?” there’s a reason we’re called the Bible Belt, we have to pray every time the wind picks up, the water gets warm, or the sky gets green, cause it’s either deal with the hurricanes, deal with the tornadoes, or deal with the earthquakes, we can’t escape it :’D

Hugo, Andrew (sorta, I was in the outer bands), and we moved to Tennessee after Irma took our house. Hurricanes were just a fact of life growing up in central Florida. I spent most of the night that Irma came in sitting on my brother's porch watching trees and other debris fly by. It was kinda wild. But after 2004, I was sufficently desensitive towwards hurricanes. It as in 2004 that my husband and I lost the first home. We lost a roof and our insurance company went bankrupt, so we couldn't afford a new roof and were forced to sell.

Experiences - The out of town story i just mentioned, plus power outage for five weeks that made my cat WAY TOO EXCITED about open screen windows in the middle of stupid hot weather. As for Sandy, we actually had flooding for the first time (live across from a long inlet but we're very inland and never had the water cross the road into our yard till Sandy). Damage wise, had to replace foundationsiding and half the roof tiles, alonside some of the house siding. Despite this, it wasn't as bad as we expected, usually we have lightning and tears getting tore down from the hurricanes in the neighborhood, yet by time Sandy came it seems like all the weak trees had already fallen so it was just a bunch of massive branches for once.

i remember hurricane andrew, looking back at it, as a child, i thought those two weeks after the hurricane where the entire neighborhood cooked outside, was lit by bonfires and we camped out were the best thing ever (with the exception of my puppy going missing). As an adult I think I understand the magnitude of all of it.

I live in Ft. Myers about 3 miles from the water and hurricane Ian was absolutely devastating. I was in a 3rd floor apartment and watched the world come apart. The wind at 115mph sustained and gusts of 140mph stripped roofs from homes, uprooted trees, torn down power poles and completely destroyed most mobile homes. The rain was torrential at 20+ inches. If the wind and rain did not get you the 10 to 15 foot storm surge took what was left. I watched a storm surge come in and completly flood the 1st floor apartments. All you could see was water, debris, and the damaged roofs of homes. Ft. Myers beach, Sanabel, and Pine Island were leveled. 2 years later we are still recovering and just entered a new forcasted to be a very busy hurricane season. I have since moved into a strong home and have a generator to run essentials. 3 weeks without power sucks. Rationing food and water sucks but I have a home to live in and I feel extremely blessed.

I lived in North Carolina for a few years, the worst one I’ve been through that caused damage was when Florence hit it. It was only a cat 1 but the amount of rainfall we had and surge caused flooding which ended up damaging a good bit of houses in my area

(Virginia here) I do remember hurricanes Irene and Sandy growing up. Obv we don't get hit as hard as direct hits, but we often get pretty bad skirt-bys. I remember watching the rain and wind and seeing gutters get pulled off of houses and stuff. Crazy shit

lived in the Keys for 12 years and through 2005 when we got hit with six hurricanes in a row. my house was on open water (ocean) and my neighbors dock went through the bottom of my house. We get through it. We help each other out. It sucks...no doubt, but we get by and we come back stronger.

I was 14 when hurricane Agnes hit my home town and state in Harrisburg Pennsylvania , my dad sold our house about and we moved to higher grounds about 2 weeks prior to to it flooding the old house . We wasn't so lucky with his used car lot though , after the water subsided some of the cars were never found , probably in the susquehanna River . All of our old neighbors had to evaluate and ended up staying with us . I know our old house had 13 foot ceilings and the house was about 3 feet above the ground and the water was up to the second floor so the water level had to be at least 17 feet .

Glad this guy included the 1900 Galveston. Some death toll estimates are as high as 10,000, but just like the Lake Okeechobee disaster, many of the deaths included transient laborers who weren't really documented. Many bodies were simply carried out to sea by the storm surge. It's a horrible but compelling story that's worthy of taking a closer look, like other commenters have suggested.

I lived through Hurricane Irene and Hurricane Sandy. I was really young and remember being terrified of the winds. I remember seeing parts of my neighborhood completely underwater. Luckily, my house was alright and my family were all safe. But after Sandy, my dad had enough and moved us away from the tornadoes and storms.

I was actually in Hurricane Hugo in 1989. I was 5. Hurricane Hugo tracked all the way inland to western north Carolina where we lived. I slept on couch cushions we put in the bathtub. It spawned 3 or 4 tornadoes in my neighborhood alone and ripped up 300 year old oak trees out of the ground like they were nothing. I remember standing on the back porch and the rain was horizontal. I never even got wet because the house was blocking it. We were without power for weeks because of the trees and power lines being down. Wild stuff. Now I live in "Dixie alley" and we get tornadoes every year. In the 2011 tornado outbreak neighboring towns got hit hard.

Dealt with Hurricane Sandy in lower NY. Lost power for 8 days. Was a crazy time. Luckily flooding wasn’t too big of an issue for us, but it was the wind that was scariest, not knowing if a tree was going to land on our house.

I would love to watch you learn more of the in depth stories about the 1900 Galveston hurricane. There's a lot of interesting (and heartbreaking) things to learn about it and Galveston Island of the time.

I was an EMT in hurricane Sandy. Will always remember that one

I live in Houston TX. I’ve been in 3 hurricanes to date. The first was Hurricanes Alicia (cat 4), Ike (cat 3) and Harvey (cat 2). When Alicia hit, my husband and I went into our attic to check for leaks so we could cover them. We could feel the boards under our feet creaking, and moving. Needless to say we cut that inspection short! It was the creepiest thing I’ve ever witnessed. We don’t evacuate even though we live a few miles up the road from Galveston. I’ve lived on the Gulf all my life, and unless there is a mandatory evacuation, we stay and ride it out. Except for the loss of life, these storms are really fun.

I live in Orlando but grew up in Miami and I'm 54 years old. I've been through many a hurricane. My Aunt lives just north of Ft. Meyeres. She's been trying to sell her home to relocate out of state and as a result of this hurricane, she still can't sell! Here's the thing about Hurricane's. You have a few days to prepare, living in hurricane prone areas you know how to prepare. Living my whole life in Florida we moved to TX for 4 years before returning back. Tornadoes scare me way more than hurricanes.

My mom was 3 years old when Hurricane Camille hit where she lived. She has told me stories about what she remembers. The most vivid memory being that she recalled her family putting towels at the bottom of the doors to try and minimize the water seepage and running back and forth between bringing dry(ish) towels to soak up the water and taking soaked towels to the bathroom to wring out in the sink and toilet. She very specifically informed me that the bathtub had been filled with clean water that was to be used for drinking since it was more likely that the plumbing would fail and they would be without drinking water otherwise.

Went through five different hurricanes while I lived near the coast in North Carolina. One of them hit is twice because it pulled back out into the Atlantic Ocean and swirled back onto land. The strong winds just keep going, trees knocked down all over the place. Debris all over the roads and flooding in many areas. Damage to roofs everywhere. No power for many days to weeks afterwards. No school for the kids. Everyone just comes together as a community and help each other out. We had some hurricanes that moved across us quickly and others that stayed over the area for a few days. Nighttime is the worst because it is so dark and you just keep hearing the wind and rain.

In my life so far, 2004 and 2005 were insane hurricane seasons for Florida. Four hurricanes made landfall in '04, and then Katrina and Wilma in '05. South/Central Florida was definitely spared a lot of Katrina's force, but I still remember it destroying my backyard and roof. I was 5-6 years old at the time.

I lived through Ivan and Katrina. Ivan was worse for our area than Katrina was; I distinctly remember seeing an entire tree fly across my front yard when Ivan came through. My family was without power for over a week and the yard/garden was destroyed but thankfully the houses were all safe. We prepare for hurricanes every year, thankfully it doesn't always come, but every year we're watching the weather like hawks.

@MoreAdamCouser. Im in Charleston, SC and went through Hurricane Hugo. I was 12. Only have been Cat 1 since. Cat 1 is like a thunderstorm. LOVE your videos btw.

I've lived in Jacksonville, FL for 40 years. I've been through several hurricanes & tropical storms in that time. Luckily, the last really big one to hit here was Dora in 1964, way before I was born. Funny story. During that direct hit (we usually don't get a direct hit because of the way we're kind of set back a bit), the very first (I think last, too) Beatles concert in Jacksonville was scheduled. It was the day after the hurricane hit Jacksonville, but we still had 45 mph winds. The Beatles still played & apparently, Ringo's drum set had to be nailed to the stage! Anyway, as far as horrible storms & natural disasters go, I think hurricanes are probably the ones I prefer because they can predict them, to an extent, much earlier than most, which gives you plenty of time to evacuate. Or prepare. Or plan your hurricane party!

My home was completely destroyed when Hurricane Andrew hit Miami in 1992. My family and all my friends were homeless for weeks. We found a home more north and lived there for over 1 year until our home was rebuilt.