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Hearing Simon unironically refer to Mambo Number 5 throughout the script has made my day lolol

My mom said that Andrew was named after me because of how I left my room. Ironically, my sister's name is Katrina.

@nola281

2 ай бұрын

I was in was living in Morgan City when Andrew hit. I went to school two months after it passed by in FEMA school trailers. I had just moved away from Nola a couple months before Katrina. I swear those names are cursed.

@goosenotmaverick1156

2 ай бұрын

I laughed harder at that than anyone can even fathom. Thank you 😂😂😂

@ajjohnson9686

2 ай бұрын

How ironic, ya made me smile 😊

@AndrewMitchell123

2 ай бұрын

Welcome to the family, my names the same 😅😂🤣

@johngaglione2236

2 ай бұрын

I got a good laugh at this one.....thanks for starting my day off this way😅😅

I am a Katrina survivor. My parents took us to corsicana Texas and I spent a bit of time there before we were cleared to come back home. It wasn't just the sheer destruction that was traumatizing and sad, it was the aftermath. People looting buildings, looters dying because electricity was still on in certain areas where dirty water was exposed to open lines, the prisoners breaking out and the horror stories of inmates protecting the teenagers from p*d0s and r*pists, the tons who were displaced and the anger at the government for not ever keeping the Levy's in check, nor upgrading them like they were asked to do for countless years. These storms, and the aftermath of what they leave behind, are some of the worst tragedies we can imagine outside of war. No one deserved to die because government officials were ignorant to fixing the one system that could have potentially saved a good portion of the state. I still have anger about it. But that time is long gone and I don't live in Louisiana anymore... At some point when the government is more worried about prison labor and paying politicians than getting red cross inside and getting help to people who needed it after the storm, even years later, you just can't deal with it. I'm glad I left. Louisiana is not, and never will be like it once was before Katrina.

@Tugela60

Ай бұрын

Live in a red state and these things happen.

When I was young and asked that question I was informed that “In the beginning they are “”wet and wild”” but when they go away they take your house “

@user-ek8gs4ij4r

2 ай бұрын

LMAO Oh, I got to remember that.

@thomasslone1964

2 ай бұрын

that's women

@josephdanderson5492

2 ай бұрын

Just like an ex wife

@AndrewMitchell123

2 ай бұрын

Yes, how poetic naming them strictly after women back then 🤣 😅😂

@shaynefrancis5318

2 ай бұрын

And half of your stuff as well 😅

@4:18 Looks like the opening sequence of the first two years of the Matt Smith era of DOCTOR WHO (you just need a police box flying through the storm and Murray Gold's music)

Hurricane Fran september 1996. I remember that being the worst of my lifetime but i was only 6 at the time. Still i remember being in the middle of it, saw the eerie calm of the eye and heard the wind howl all night only to wake the next morning to find trees toppled and roads flooded and no power for almost a week. It made landfall full force nearly 90 miles from my home in the same state with winds over 120

W is indeed used....Wilma of 2005 broke records

@motorin25

2 ай бұрын

I got caught in the eye of Wilma. I poked my head outside to have a look around. My mailbox had been broken off, so I went to grab it. Luckily it was still in the front yard at least. My neighbors were also having a look around, so we had a quick chat for a couple minutes and went back in side. The second half of Wilma was wild! Luckily we came out of it ok. Just without power for 3 days. I'm kind of lucky to be on the same branch of the power grid as the police station down the street. Hospitals and police stations are high priorities. The street to my south and further down went without for what must have been 2 or 3 weeks for some reason.

1:00 I was expecting a TARDIS to zoom into frame .

@Icini

2 ай бұрын

Hahah yes😂

I always thought they were named after the wives of the ones who spotted them first.

@chriscripplercruz1833

2 ай бұрын

Now that would make things very interesting 😊

@MickelFrisch

2 ай бұрын

😂

@MadDragon75

2 ай бұрын

I would think that that would make dinner a very interesting time of day. 😁

@mesajongte

2 ай бұрын

@@chriscripplercruz1833 indeed! Indeed! 😅

@mesajongte

2 ай бұрын

@@MadDragon75 i guess the ticking of the clock would be very loud. 😀

Nice to know all the severe storms with different names are basically the same👍

Thanks man! I've always wondered that, but never got a lot of info during my searches.

Thor for the winter storm on the US East Coast a few years back was one of my "favorites." It was a mess, but not THAT bad, so it was silly instead of tragic.

Just remember the universal hurricane evacuation plan and you'll be fine. Grab beer, run like hell.

@3v068

2 ай бұрын

Gotta say, even as a survivor, this is funny and true. Get some beer and your essentials in the next 15 minutes and haul ass outta there.

@AngeliqueStP

Ай бұрын

Or the Florida variant: Make Margaritas and Party on your balcony like a brain-dead idiot. I wouldn't recommend that though...

In 2020 we got hit with Laura and Delta in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Within a year we had two storms, a massive flood, and an ice storm. Tough times for my little town.

@ 4:29 Um, every list shown at 4:02 has names beginning with 'W'

My name is Andrew and had a date with a girl named Katrina and we lived in south Florida. I got some morbid amusement out of that.

I was in Vinton Louisiana when Laura hit. Growing up on the Gulf Coast of setx I know all to well the troubles and dangers of these storms

@kathycook3024

2 ай бұрын

I'm on the Gulf Coast of Southeast Texas, too. I've lost track of how many hurricanes I've been through. We had significant damage from both Rita and Ike, then lost our house to Harvey.

@3v068

2 ай бұрын

Katrina survivor living in the central Texas area. The aftermath is definitely what caused my family to leave. The initial destruction, we could handle, but once people got antsy and violent, it wasn't good anymore. I left Gretna in 2007. Glad I never moved back.

Hurricane Juan(twice) and hurricane Dorian did a number to east coast Canada.

This whole piece must have been engineered to get factboi to name the ladies from mombo #5

@Cavemanjason

2 ай бұрын

A little bit of Simon in the sun

@lolarodriquez231

Ай бұрын

😅😅

I remember the hurricane season of 2020, it got to the point i started counting days not in the cone of uncertainty because we spent most of the summer and fall in the cone. zeta was just a really, i mean really, isn't 2020 bad enough already?

Other weather systems can also receive names, especially the storms that are sweeping over Europe. In the case of Germany, they may even carry two names, one is international, the other german. People still remember especially those that flattened large swaths of german forests, them being the combo of Vivian and Wiebke in 1990, Lothar in 1999, and Kyrill in 2007.

I lived thru Super Typhoon Soudelor and Super Typhoon Yutu. Wind gusts ranging 180-220mph . It was traumatizing😢

Typhoon 🌀 is also a japanese word we have adopted into english 🇯🇵

I love these videos and have never really noticed anything like a mistake, but they show a photo of a bunch of years that clearly show the names to include Ws and writhing 30 seconds he says they don’t use Ws

My husband brought this question up when Connecticut was hit with our second and last winter storm Beech, the first one was Aspen so obviously it's was names of trees this year 🤷🏻‍♀️ But who gets to decide?

I can remember a few years ago in Scotland a weather system called hurricane baw bag.

*2005* and 2020 were actually the two years that went over 21 names.

7:21 ...or Simon, eh, Brain Boy? 😆

Back in 2011, Scotland had a hurricane called Bawbag

Mom still gives me grief over the fact that the first male Hurricane in modern history was named David

@macumbeiro_xx

2 ай бұрын

I was a baby during that one in the Dominican Republic, people still remember that one down there, it was intense.

Can confirm, my sister would 100% be a hurricane. That list is spot on.

For me on why they named storms is because to lessen the confusion on which storms they are talking to. Before storms been name with human names back then they want to named them by their location with many degrees north, south, east and west. Im the North Atlantic, Northeastern Pacific and all the southern hemisphere they named the storm alphabetically while in the Northwestern Pacific and North Indian Ocean don't named the storm alphabetically, but named them by their cultural word. And we all know some deadly storms in the North Atlantic like Andrew, Katrina,Sanny, Harvey,etc but there's nothing compared to the Northwestern Pacific and the North Indian Ocean storms. Most of Earth's strongest storms are located here in the Northwestern Pacific and also produced the most 200mph+ storms and also the most active basin on Earth with 39 named storms in 1964 while the North Indian Ocean make up the most deaths like the 1970 Bhola cyclone with 500,000 deaths and Cyclone Nargis in 2008 with more than 100,000 deaths. And yes, the North Atlantic can be capable of making strong storms like Allen and Wila for example, but still pale in comparison with the Northwestern Pacific.

I moved to gulf coast Florida and within a year experienced the wrath of Ian, a Category 4 hurricane. FFS, I never want to go through that again.

@nola281

2 ай бұрын

@@Lilleyin Ivan from 2004?

Hurricane coming! Let's go to the beach and watch it!

I say we should have hurricanes named via internet poll. Hurricane bawbag was a great name

@NetherStray

2 ай бұрын

"It F*ckin Wimdy" would definitely be the first one.

Damn I didn't realize they retire names. I guess I lived to witness the one and only hurricane with the same name as me

Cyclone Gabrielle and Jasper aren't on the 2023 list Simon ... or is it just randomized names?

@eclipserisingsurfacelevel

Ай бұрын

Those names were on the Australian Region cyclone naming list. In the naming lists Simon showed, he showed the North Atlantic naming lists. Gabrielle from the Australian Region has been retired & replaced with Gemm by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Jasper has not been retired or replaced yet, though I suspect once the Southern Hemisphere's cyclone season ends, the name Jasper may be suggested for retirement.

uh..... anybody remember hurricane andrew? or hugo? or charlie, or ian, or michael? maybe you had to be there..... 🌀🌪️⛈️

I've been through 2 Hurricanes, luckily I wasn't near the ocean so it was just damaging winds.

@leonmusk1040

2 ай бұрын

I was at sea during one in a ship of 176 feet was like being a cork walking on the walls stepping over doorways went 20 feet under at one stage was wondering if we'd ever come up considering I was in a wheel house some 20 feet above the waterline when we went under.

If hurricane winds start at 74 mph then my bowl movements are considered category 5. 😫

They're probably lucky I'm not incharged of naming anything

@lolarodriquez231

Ай бұрын

Me too,we have hurricane muthafka hitting land with 125 mph winds,boss your fired cut to commercial 😅😉

Lol simon not getting the mambo #5 reference

Hurricane "BAWBAG" was the best name.

@Icini

2 ай бұрын

Lol

My brother was born in Florida shortly after Andrew came through… Andrew became his middle name LMAO

@nola281

2 ай бұрын

That's not cool. I could never name any kid after Andrew or Katrina, I was in Andrew and remember Katrina too well.

I thought we had a cyclone Yasi.

Not many Bola survivor's comments curious? Oh no makes sense they didn't have cell phones and coverage at sea is spotty at best.

Did you not see the episode of The Simpsons when they had the hurricane? As Kent Brockman goes and I quote “If you ever wondered why hurricanes are named after a woman, all you have to do is see the gals scrambling for items at a Clearance Sale.”

Now they are giving names to winter storms.

It drives me nuts. Why can't we just have weather these days?

I feel like the practice should be retired entirely, personally. Humanizing storms in general seems like it generates problems with taking them seriously, especially given culture's surrounding names (like "Bob" isn't a threatening name to most people yet a hurricane with that name killed 17 people in 1991). Then there's also the irrational stigma that can come around that sort of thing. I feel for anyone who grew up in the mid-2000s in Louisiana with the name Katrina, it's a pretty name and it means "pure" yet all it means to many there is destruction and chaos. It's a uniquely hurricane thing too, we don't do the same for big tornadoes, wildfires, blizzards, or other disasters, so there's not really any compelling reason to adhere to tradition.

@OhioDan

2 ай бұрын

They've started naming winter storms in North America over the past few years.

@bmac4

14 күн бұрын

@@OhioDan abort abort

Also Nigel .... Thats just irony waiting to happen...

hmm lets see how many of these hurricanes i lived thru in south louisiana

The weather people will often retire a name if they feel like it's become associated with too many non-destructive storms - the last thing that they want is for people to think, "Oh, it's just another Leroy (or whatever)," and then get caught off-guard when the storm suddenly takes a turn for the worse!

I know that they pick the names in alphabetical order so Hugo would have been the the 8th hurricane of the year now how they measure strength of it is what I'd love to know

@leonmusk1040

2 ай бұрын

Categories 1-5. 1 being gust's exceeding 100Mph 5 being gust's exceeding 160Mph there is talk of adding cat 6 as we're regularly passing cat 5 now with global temperatures on the rise they think most will be in excess of 200 Mph by the end of the decade with much bigger associated storm surges. And if the newer models are correct the ones that pre predicted the Atlantic hotspots arrival by three years. That was written off at the time because even climate theorist's thought it was too extreme turns out it was actually the most accurate model to date and if it's right may even need cat seven by decades end that'd be 200 mph plus.

@chriscripplercruz1833

2 ай бұрын

@@leonmusk1040 awesome job thanks

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Hurricane Karen next year, how oddly poetic 😂😅🤣

hurricanes were given women's names when I was a kid

Man how many channels does this guy have 😂 I've watched four videos from four different channels and he's in every video on all the channels 😂 good stories though.

Remember years ago In scotland there was a big storm I think it actually was a hurricane and the Scottish people called it "hurricane bawbag" ????? What a moment in time hahaha people on the news saying Bawbag with a serious face haha

NOW IM OBLIGATED TO PLAY THE SONG

If a storm is named Tina, you have been warned. A succubus of incalculable damage awaits you.

I never want to be killed by Storm Nigel.

This is like the eighth time you've covered this topic...

“We’ll name him Scrambles.. Scrambles the.. death… dealer..”

@ariocher

2 ай бұрын

Yes. Dammit, yes.

Oh dear, I see my name scheduled to come up in 2025

Hurricanes spin counter clockwise and cyclones spin clockwise

Hurricane Scrambles the Death Dealer

I survived Hurricane Scrambles The Death Dealer

Where's my fellow Katrina survivors at?

Hurricane was a god as I remember

Hurrican verses hurricane.

Imagine being killed by hurricane Nigel

Growing up in the 1960's I asked a teacher why are they named after girls and women and not boys and men. He said don't be stupid boy they're "Her"i-canes. If they were named after men and boys they'd be called "Him" i-canes. And there is no such thing as a "Him-i-canes.

"women don't want to be associated with disaster... Men are okay though."

"It's another chick storm, I'll take care of her, honey baby."

As a woman in 2024, I wish female named storms was the worst part of discrimination.

Dear Simon, I would enjoy your videos more if you can talk a bit slower 😊

They're all named after weather nerds ex girlfriends'.

They name them after their exs

Does bro know hurricane has an e in it?

Hurricanes come in fast and leave everything wet. They are strong independent women

A "Hurricane Karen" is overdue.

@eclipserisingsurfacelevel

Ай бұрын

Karen has been used in the North Atlantic since the new lists were implemented in 1979. It is on List V (5), & is expected to be used again in 2025.

Katrina is not a popular baby name anymore.

Back in the day, it was said they they named hurricanes after women, because they were unpredictable, like women were.

I like them being female names....its a way of reminding us of how distructive "mother" nature is

how and why? it is atmospheric racism

Stop naming things after people. Number them. Year-dash-number, e.g. 2024-1, 2024-2, ... Literally nobody could possibly be offended by this.

How dare 6o7 m8s gender that hurricane +

Still should be named after women. I've weathered 10 hurricanes in the last 17 years at sea. Generally it's a rough 24 hours. Why they always start in the middle of the night the night ? No idea. Marriage, for me anyway , was 10 years. It wasn't near as stressful but I never had to give one a house either. Capt.Bob ,SV ( Sailing Vessel ) 27th Chance, Tampa Fl, USA 🇺🇸

Hurricanes were named after only women until feminists kicked up a storm over it? 🤣🤣🤣

@smulroy

2 ай бұрын

On that note maybe they should be named after feminists. 🤣

Just dont do a video if you dont have any good ideas

@calebbean1384

2 ай бұрын

Thats incredibly subjective 😂

A few overpaid geeks.

I was wondering if any tropical storms had been named "Simon" - the answer is "yes"! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_storms_named_Simon