It’s not cheating at all to list hurricanes and tornadoes separately. They are completely separate phenomena. Hurricanes CAN spawn tornadoes sometimes, but they are not the same at all. The mechanics of how they form and what they do are completely different from each other.
My cousin is a pilot on the Air Force Hurricane Hunter team. He flies into tropical storms and the eye of hurricanes as the team obtains data to determine the strength and direction of the storm, potential location of landfall, and ways to advance future alerts of deadly hurricanes.
@@tupelohoney622 thank your cousin for me. As much as I mess around on the web I do truly appreciate it...to me it just seemed like something you should idk...make your own comment about instead of saying absolutely nothing about what this guy is saying. Now I feel like I'm doing the same and bid you farewell.
@@JonnyQuest64 I actually did intend to post as a separate comment and didn't realize it ended up under someone else's post until you were such a gentleman to point out my error. Since it was over 3 months ago, I don't think I'll bother to correct. I'll pass your regards along to Will.
Hurricanes and tornados are not only not the same thing, it's not even close. They're both involve fast wind, but the conditions behind them and effects from them are usually so distinct.
hurricanes can spawn tornadoes but not the other way round... not the same thing at all, though many think so. love your content, and happy to see people expand their horizons. phenomenon is singular phenomena is plural
Phenomenon is singular whilst phenomena is plural, so Lawrence is correct. A lot of people and even newspapers make that mistake, so don't worry about it. It's all about learning.
Just some insight on the United States… no matter what state you’re in you’ll still get a summer and hot weather, so even Wisconsin and all other northern states can get hot. Northern states aren’t cold all year round and not even Canada or Alaska is cold all year round. Also, tornadoes and hurricanes are completely different. Tornado alley is in the Midwest, we aren’t near any ocean so we don’t get hurricanes, we get tornadoes. They aren’t even close to the same thing. The only similarity is they’re both storms with high winds etc.. but what you do to stay safe from them isn’t the same thing. You want to be in a basement for a tornado but not a hurricane, things like that. It’s just ALL different.
Hurricanes and Tornados are VASTLY different. The difference between a tornado and a hurricane is like the difference between a .50 cal sniper rifle and an exploding land mine. One is much smaller, more precise, and affects a small area, while the other has vastly more power overall, but affects an area vastly greater, and not as intense on a pinpoint level. The causes are even very different.
Temperature isn’t really as much of factor as you’d think when it comes to what areas are prone to wildfires. While Wisconsin was an odd place for wildfires, it’s not because it’s cold (and it definitely is), but because it isn’t very dry. Dry areas and places in a drought are much more likely to have wildfires, including both forest fires and bushfires. Like how you and Lawrence said, Australia and California (and most of the Western USA) are well known wildfire areas because of just how dry they are.
That fire was so bad because the extensive logging at the time left all the limbs and branches laying on the ground drying out. Huge fuel source. The death toll is unknown, estimates between 1,200 and 2,500 people as twelve towns were burned down.
@@mikehermen3036 right. fuel is the other half of the equation, which is why citywide fires were more common when buildings were more made of wood and why most fires we hear about are brushfires and forest fires
Also BC in Canada. That smoky air we were suffering from last month into this month was from forest fires in BC. Don't know about the other wildfire spots - most of BC's fires were caused by lightning.
Peshtigo, WI is very cold in the winter, and that was a major reason for the number of deaths. The fire drove many people into the Peshtigo River, where they died of hypothermia.
When asking about the temperature in Wisconsin it depends on the season. The average high in Madison Wisconsin in July is the same as Lagos Nigeria. The Midwest is very cold in the winter and very hot in the summer.
Hurricanes and tornadoes are really very different. Hurricanes start far out to sea and are much larger, with wind fields 10s of miles wide and tropical rain bands stretching over 100 miles. Tornados almost always form over land, and even F5 tornados rarely cause serious damage past a mile or two from the cone. Also, half of hurricane damage comes from the storm surge (coastal flooding where they come ashore). Tornado damage is mostly from the wind, sometimes with hail, lightning, and local flooding. And last, hurricane movements can be predicted fairly accurately days in advance, but a tornado forms with almost no warning and goes wherever it wants to, unpredictably.
I remember Mt St Helens erupting. A huge mushroom cloud to the southeast of where I lived. Fun fact: The Burlington Northern Railroad owned the top of the mountain, as part of a grandfathered-in land grant from the construction of the Northern Pacific Railway in the late 19th century. After the eruption, they sold it to the state for $1. How generous!
I live in Colorado, and I remember that for weeks after Mt. St. Helens erupted you would wake up every day and there would be a thin layer of ash/dust on your car. There were also times when larger bits of ash would be falling almost like it was lightly snowing.
Hurricanes and tornadoes are definitely different beasts. I've lived both in the Midwest where we had some pretty bad tornadoes and in South Florida where we have those category 5 hurricanes and both are devastating.
I can see the confusion of someone whose never witnessed either thinking a tornado and a hurricane are the same. They are both twisting air columns but, man, are they different. The wind is way, way stronger in a tornado but effect a much tinier area than a hurricane. Hurricanes are not slouches in the wind department AND they usually bring a deluge along with them.
After watching many videos by Brits about America, I have realized that Brits tend to say many words in the plural form that are different in America. For example Aircrafts instead of aircraft. In America, aircraft is both the singular and plural form of the word. The same goes for deer, bison, cod and fish. Although fish does have a plural form that changes the meaning of the word. Fish is also plural and fishes means groups of fishes. The same happens with the word people. For example: The world is made up of many different people. The sentence: The world is made up of many peoples means the world is made of many groups of people.
Hurricanes and tornadoes are two distinct weather events. They are NOT the same thing. They both involve rotational wind patterns, but the dynamics are totally different. (If you lived in the US, you would know that.)
Having survived 3 tornadoes 🌪 I definitely recommend having a basement. Also went through a tropical storm while on vacation in Florida. Hurricanes and tornadoes are definitely not the same category.
The number 5, 6, 7, etc. are not linear, each is a magnitude order of 10 greater than the previous number. So a 7 is 10 times greater than a 6 and 100 times greater thana 5.
California in particular is the epicenter of earthquakes in the USA. In fact, the entire western coast of the USA, and up through Alaska is more at risk for earthquakes. Google ring of fire for more about the how the land that borders the pacific is ripe for earthquakes and volcanoes.
The entire west coast is prone to earthquakes (including Alaska), but it’s only really oregon on up you run into volcanoes in the cascade range. I live near Mt Rainier which is among the most dangerous in the world right now, if it were to blow seattle, tacoma and olympia are in huge trouble. St Helen’s ain’t too far from here either.
California has one more active volcano than Oregon. I just looked it up because I had no idea. 🙂 Oregon has 17, California has 18... But Alaska, Alaska has more than 130 volcanos and at least 50 of them are considered active!!!
This puts a whole new "twist" on the "realism" of the premise of The Wizaed of Oz; a wind that can sweep you to a whole other reality. That was a great "mechanism" for the story. Love, Hope, and Joy.
I lived in Portland Oregon for 25 years. You can see three volcanoes from most places in the city. If you go up to Council crest which is a park on top of a high hill, on a clear day you can see like five or six from Washington down to Oregon. Portland is also the only city that has an exinct volcano within city limits.
A few weeks ago it seemed like the entire West Coast was on fire. I live in eastern Washington and the smoke has been getting worse, its almost like fog.
Been the same here in western Canada last month because of the forest fires in BC. It's becoming a regular annual thing in southern Alberta. I never used to notice that kind of thing, but there were the consecutive summers of smoky skies, so I expect every summer to be a bit smoky. Not too bad this year. No orange/red suns. Edit I haven't opened my windows very much since the beginning of July because I didn't want to breathe smoky air. It can get really bad outside.
I've lived in far-northern California most of my life, and I've been through at least six "greater than 6.0" earthquakes. We tease people coming to college or University here (we have a State College, and a State University) when they feel their first 4.0 (which we have a couple times a year, at least)... but, when things pass 5, we take it more seriously. When things hit a 6.0, things get pretty real. a 7.0 or greater? NO fun at all. None. Things start flying out of cabinets, and your furniture starts sliding across the floor, and things start creaking like the building is going to fall down. I've been through a couple of those. I learned in 1980 not to put your bed under a bookshelf and put hardback books on it. They clobbered me good! And if you think a 7.0 is bad, Alaska had a 9.2 quake in 1964. Look up some pictures of that one. And, as a special bonus - the Cascadia Subduction zone, offshore from just north of where I live, to north of Seattle, is fully capable of creating 9+ quakes, with earth movement breaking along HUNDREDS of kilometers (most quakes are "breaks" across less than a Km). When that REALLY lets rip, it's capable of creating tsuami waves 40 METERS high, that will hit the coast within five minutes. It'll hit the entire Pacific Rim over the next 14 hours. I'd be perfectly happy if I did not live long enough for a major quake on the Cascadia Subduction zone. The ones we get at our "triple junction" of the Pacific, North American, and Gorda, plates is plenty for me.
Actually, California does NOT have many desert like areas and for most of the southern part of California the temperature is relatively steady all year round. The problem with the fires is lack of moisture (rain) and the grasslands and forests in the hills becoming super dry and even the smallest spark can ignite the countryside. Unfortunately, there are thousands and thousands of people who live in those hills.
Yep in the summers around here in southern/central California are steadily HOT! It's the lack of precipitation and horrible drought that doesn't help with the fires. Once one ignites it just takes off.
doesn't matter if wisconsin is cold in the winter cause the fires will just happen in the summer, same in Canada right now we have wildfires all over the country
You should check out the Barneveld tornado in Barneveld, Wisconsin on June 7, 1984. It was an F5, killed 9 people and completely destroyed the entire town. I lived about 10 miles away, it came in the middle of the night & we were only spared because the Cave of the Mounds in Blue Mounds spun the tornado back into Barneveld.
When one thinks of earthquakes in the U.S. most people don't think of Idaho. But in 1983 a 7.2 Richter (downgraded to 6.9) occurred at Borah Peak and two school children died when crumbling masonry fell on them.
1) Lawrence also says "most deadly" in relation to earthquakes, when the correct word would have been deadliest, so don't beat yourself up. We all fumble language now and again. 2) The San Francisco earthquake was that deadly for many reasons, which certainly included the severity of the earthquake, but also there was no real industry code when it came to building houses, the most common material was wood and people still used fire to cook and to heat their homes. (They also used gas, which they likely still do, which helped spread the fire.) So, when the earthquake caused fires throughout the city, they spread quickly. Attempts to stop the fires sometimes made them worse and attempts to take down destroyed buildings sometimes created new fires. So, I certainly don't want to minimize the severity of that earthquake, but there were other factors that contributed to making it a catastrophe.
I live in the Atlanta, Ga area where I have seen both a hurricane ( Hugo ) and several tornadoes, one of which destroyed my parents house. While I was aboard ship headed for Desert Shield / Storm, I saw a tornado at sea, which is known as a waterspout. That was the scariest for me because there is no way to run. Ships just can not move fast enough. So, we had a bumpy ride for a bit.
I lived in Oklahoma for 8 years. I currently live in Florida. I've been through multiple hurricanes and tornado warnings. They are most definitely NOT the same...
I live in Chicago and we do get an occasional tornado although never had one in my neighborhood. However there's a phenomenon called the derecho which is a straight line wind associated with thunderstorms rather than a twister. One of those tore down a street in my neighborhood about three or four blocks north of where I live. Did quite a bit of damage.
Given you'll have a lot of brick structures that were built before modern building codes I'd guess that the 6.1 did a bit of damage. On the West coast we've been building with 'the big one' in mind for as long as I can remember. The 2001, 6.8 Nisqually earthquake in Olympia WA had one fatality as a result of a heart attack. If you live along the ring of fire you have an earthquake plan and probably tsunami and volcanic eruption plans as well depending on personal situation or all three if you're along the I-5 corridor, particularly Northern OR/Southern WA.
Beesley, something that wasn't mentioned here by Laurence is the phenomenon related to tornadoes, namely, waterspouts, which are tornadoes that spend their short lives over water rather than land. Of course, if you're not a distance sailor, or in the Navy or Merchant Marine, you'd never encounter them.
I’m from Michigan born and raised, we get our share of tornadoes too, even we are not in tornado alley. I’ve have personally experienced two small, small earthquakes as well! The only reason I knew is my Crystal was linking in the China cabinet with one, the other my car seemed to move while at a stop! Both in the early 1980’s! Yikes
Tornadoes happen here in Canada too. I live in southern Alberta. We have own mini-tornado alley before the tornado season in the US. There was one which affected the Edmonton area. And there is a famous RUclips video of a farmer here in southern Alberta mowing his lawn with a tornado swirling behind him.
I grew up and live in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. I have been through many many earthquakes. You avoid windows and can dive behind a couch, get under a table, stand in a doorway, there’s options. My family went to Wisconsin one time and when we got off the plane there were sirens going off. We asked the car rental attendant what was going on, he said tornado warning. We asked what we should do if we come across one. He said stop the car and lay down in the ditch on the side of the road. That’s it! That’s all you can do! lol We saw seven tornadoes a few miles away from our hotel room. Those suckers scare me. Earthquakes, I’m not worried. Tornadoes are on land, hurricanes start over water and can make landfall but they’re very similar.
I'm not technically from Wisconsin but I'm 10 minutes across the border in minnesota. Our summers reach into the 90°F+ range and our winters can reach -40°F. Our weather range is mindblowing to outsiders.
The Nashville tornado he's talking about went by within a mile of my house, in the middle of the night. Me and one of my neighbors were outside as it passed, but because it was dark, we only heard the beast, we never saw it. The following day, when I left for work, the path of destruction told me just how close it was to my home. When I got to Nashville and saw the area it passed through there, I knew it would be a long time for that area to recover. The health and human services bldg, was wiped completely off the map, leaving behind only the concrete slab that was the floor. No other sign that there was ever a building there. What scared me most about that was because it was at night, there are a lot of homeless people who sleep under the adjacent bridge. The office was closed hours before the tornado came through, so I knew no one was in it during the storm.
Yes it gets cold in Wisconsin. The 1967 NFL Championship was played there, and it's probably the coldest NFL title game ever. It's nicknamed the Ice Bowl. If you haven't already it's a good title for a reaction video.
When you live in the USA, natural disasters are at the bottom of our list of concerns. Politics, poverty, poor infrastructure, unaffordable health insurance, the pandemic, crazy drivers, making a living, and global warming are at the top of the list.
Native Milwaukeean here. We sure do have four seasons: Early Winter, Winter, Late Winter, and Construction! All joking aside, Wisconsin has been known to hit triple digits (Fahrenheit) although that is thankfully rare; we've already had a number of high 90's days this summer. For you metric folks, that's in excess of 35 Celsius.
Here in the Midwest we all have our tornado plan where we have identified the safest place in the house to best survive a tornado. We listen carefully for sirens and Watches and Warnings. Even a small tornado can wipe out houses and love to eat roofs.
@Beesley, the 'a' and 'on' endings are Greek in origin/etymology. Also, to touch on the hurricane/tornado discussion, hurricanes' wind speeds are slower than tornadoes (below 200/322kph), but can settle in an area for days, causing complete destruction. Tornadoes' wind speeds, conversely, can be as much as 300mph/483kph, but are only around for a few minutes, in most cases, before they fizzle out. Also, they're very erratic, exploding a house, but the one across the street doesn't "get a scratch".
Tornadoes are very different than Hurricanes and the Whole west coast of the US is prone to earthquakes. Im surprised he didnt mention the Alaska quake from the 60s that was like a magnitude 9
Two of the biggest quakes in US history happened in Alaska. One that you are talking about and one that happened about a week before you posted this comment is #2. There was a 6.9 two days before I'm posting this. It was an aftershock of the the 8.2 from a couple weeks ago.
A huge contributing factor to the Great Michigan Fire in 1871 was its large lumber industry, which left debris (kindling) all across the state. Interestingly, the city of Detroit's motto, "Speramus meliora; resurget cineribus,” translates to “We hope for better things; it shall arise from the ashes.” This was coined after a massive fire in 1805 ripped through the entire city. In fact the city's flag features a picture of the city burning. As for the Great Chicago Fire, there is a wide spread folktale which claims that the fire was started when Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over a kerosene lantern.
I have lived in Tx for 6 years. I have seen 2, luckily neither were close. But another did go between my neighbor's place and mine. A couple of towns near me were each hit by three, a year apart from each other.
Wildfires don’t happen for a reason in Florida at least not since the 90s. Every summer we do a full forestry management survey of every piece of forest we have. We will cut back any overgrown area in a schedule to compensate for growth patterns. We also do prescribed burns where we set fire to certain sections of forest of course cleared of animals and people. And let it burn digging fire trenches and lines where the fire should never go with hoses and a full firefighting team ready for spraying it down. The burn forces the forest to grow better greener plants which are fire resistant at least until next year and the ash is natural fertilizer. You hear about this every year and literally it’s like ok smoke for like a mile on the road, not a big deal. Any trees for the wood industry are far away from this unless there is no choice. California does not do the burns because they think it’s pollution which it is not as the smoke isn’t toxic for anyone as it’s just wood and plant matter. Because they refuse the burn system they suffer bad wildfires every year. They are getting lazy with forestry management and they suffer because of it.
You are spot on. The whole west forestry management was taken over by extreme environmentalist that think everything should be natural. And what happened is during drought naturally the pine beetle came in and weakened the trees. Overgrowth was not cleared and more drought cases entire forests to burn. Talk about pollution! And now we are getting major rain in the mountains causing mud and debris slides on the burn scars that stop interstate highway traffic and damage the landscape further, let alone taking out more homes and businesses.
Also to add, after the Dry and the Wildfires, when the rain does finally come, it usually results in flash flooding due to the scorched ground (from the sun and the fire)
I watch the activity around that, almost daily. Between New Madrid, and basically the whole state of Oklahoma, there are multiple measurable quakes, every day.
fires play a part in the destruction following an earthquake. Gas lines are sheared, debris hampers movement also water lines are sheared compromising both the availability of water and the pressure to do so. I live about 200 miles from what is possibly the epicenter of the most destructive yet,rarely active fault in the lower 48.
As someone who lives in Oklahoma which is smack dab in the middle of tornado alley. We are definitely cautious of tornados but many of us are not afraid of them. Many people have tornado shelters and some people even get in their car and go storm chasing.
What made the 1906 quake in San Francisco so deadly was two things. One, that was the era of gaslamps, so pretty much every building had gas lines running all through its walls, from lamp fixture to lamp fixture. Two, the earthquake not only broke gas lines -- sending explosively flammable gas out to collect in places where it shouldn't -- but it also broke all the water lines, so the fire hydrants where the firetrucks connected their hoses weren't working. People died from having things fall on them, yes, but most of the deaths and most of the destruction in the city was from the fires that broke out after the quake itself. Since then, we've figured out how to engineer both water pipes and gas lines so that they're much more quake resistent. Plus, we don't have gas lines running all over our houses; they just go to stoves and clothes dryers now, and some people (like me) don't have gas in their house at all. San Francisco took a lot of damage in the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, but there weren't any significant fires, and the injuries and deaths were much less than in '06, despite the *much* higher population of the area in '89.
I live in California and I've always known both earthquakes and wildfires are part of life and have experienced both. It does not make up a part of my everyday life. If you plan ahead and prepare for the possibilities then you have a good chance. Wildfires are easier to prepare for as you can see one coming vs an earthquake which is a total surprise and the only advance notice you may get is that your dog is being weird. No matter what area you live in, natural disasters are part of the american makeup. We have a strong will to survive, not run and rebuild, because FU mother nature.
When I was a teen I watched a tornado pass by me just across the street from where I was sitting on my porch. It had been a hot muggy evening and then it went pitch black as a massive supercell came overhead. The wind erupted into chaotic fury; trees started bending and breaking as large branches began flying through the air. It all happened so fast I had no time to run into the basement. Back then tornado warnings were rare and often only gave us minutes to respond. I'm now 72 so yes, I survived it. Quite exciting but I don't recommend it.
Wisconsin is cold and due to that most of the trees there are conifers, which produce sap that makes the wood highly flammable. This combined with the fact that Wisconsin is a relatively dry climate due to said cold, if a spark goes off and ignites some trees it can get very bad.
I was in the Joplin tornado, I still have nightmares. You do get a lot more warning on hurricanes than you do tornadoes. Sometimes you get no warning at all on tornadoes.
I believe that the most deadly category 5 hurricane in the U.S. happened in 1935 in the Florida Keys at Islamorada Key. Government workers were working on a railroad line to link Key West (Florida's largest at the time) with Miami when the hurricane went right over the Key and killed many workers on the labor day weekend.
The worst earthquake is before records were kept and was just south of St.Louis. It made the Mississippi River flow backwards for three days and rang the bells in the church towers in Boston. That’s like the wye river or the Sean river running backwards. That’s also like if it happened in London the bells in York ringing...
Of course back in the 1920's a tornado would appear without warning as there was no satellite imagery and no mass communications in place to warn everyone. I think the first commercial radio stations in the US started in 1920 but that was way over in New York. A place struck by a tornado in 1920 couldn't really even warn the next town away about it as likely the telephone lines were down because of the storm. Seeing a tornado in person is really quite rare unless you're actively hunting for them. I'm nearly 53 and in all these years I've only ever seen a tornado twice in my lifetime and neither was close enough to me to worry about too much, the closest being about a half mile away due south of where we lived at the time. The other was closer to 3 miles away.
Back when the Chicago fire happened, most of the buildings were all made of wood. They say a cow kicked over an old kerosene lantern in a barn that started the Chicago fire.
Hello from Wisconsin! Well, we are very cold in the winter & get as hot as Atlanta in the summer! Last week we had more than 10 tornadoes in one night! Wisconsin=weird weather.
Just looked up the Pestigo Fire. Never heard of it before. It said the fire jumped the Green Bay?!?!?! I've never seen the Green Bay, but I assume it is a large body of water.
@@heidistoeberl7176 I'm familiar with the Great Lakes. The fire did not jump Lake Michigan. It jumped Green Bay. The question was the size of Green Bay.
I've been through 2 pretty big earthquakes. The first one was when I was only 1but mom tells me I was in my crib and it had wheels. When she ran into my room I was standing up and laughing because my crib was rolling back and forth. The second one was in 1989. I was about 170 miles away from San Francisco and still felt it. Craziness.
America is also where the largest tornado that ever touched down. The tornado was 2.6 miles (4.2 kilometers) wide and touched down in Oklahoma in 2013.
Alaska is #1 for earth quakes in the US. March 28, 1964 - A magnitude 9.2 earthquake hit Prince William Sound in Alaska. We have hundreds of thousands of quakes a year up here.
Hurricanes are the same as typhoons, except for the location. Hurricanes form over the Atlantic, and typhoons form over the Pacific. Typhoons do not usually make landfall on the West Coast until they've weakened somewhat, and the mountain ranges stop them from getting to far inland. They do cause some pretty high wind, rainstorms on the West coast though. Hurricanes hit the East Coast regularly, and can cause great damage, and loss of life.
I'm from Oklahoma. In November 2012 we had a tornado warning (tornado in process) with sirens blaring and an earthquake at the same time. Since it's so flat an earthquake can be felt more at a lower magnitude than in say California.
Earthquakes are common in America and the big ones kill a lot of people. I remember a bridge collapsing on drivers during rush hour traffic. Wildfires have been bad this year Minneapolis has had some awful air quality from smoke coming down out of Canada. Wisconsin is cold in the winter but they actually have some nice weather in the summer when there isn't severe thunderstorms. They had a tornado rip through a border town last week. The storm missed us but took some roofs and barns down there.
Fire doesn’t care about temperature, it cares about how dry everything is. It will rage when the foliage is dry and spread fast. That’s why CA catches fire often, it’s in a huge drought.
5:00, Beesley most Americans are taught about the 1906 Earthquake from Continual Continental Coast to Coast. This was 6 years before the Maiden voyage sinking of the "Titanic". The San Andreas fault line is a BIG reason why I'd rather not visit California.
Mt Lassen in California blew up in 1915, and is considered the southernmost active volcano in the US. Several years ago, I bought a piece of property about 13 miles south of Mt Shasta. In the disclosure of "hazards" were 100 year floods, wildfires, and, yes, you guessed it, cattle. Really. Nothing about earthquakes? I remember rereading the document and nope, nothing about earthquakes. So I went to the USGS web site and looked at their map of seismic activity in that area. It's quite curious. Almost no quakes above 3.0. Most are 2 something, or less. I suspect that's mainly trains rolling through the town.
You only need 1 thing to start a risk for wildfires. Dry. Hot, Cold, doesn't matter. It's the dryness that matters. If you haven't had much rain, everything drys out to basically makes a state full of tinder. Of course, heat adds to the issue because it just accelerates the process. But hot and dry and much more risky than hot and humid.
It is the warm gulf stream moving up to England in the Atlantic Ocean from Florida that keeps England's weather so termperant and keeps tornados and hurricanes away.
Idaho is one of the safest states when It comes to natural phenomena; it's very rare we get an earthquake, and it's not very strong, but all the other mager ones, I've never been in, the most we get is a thunder storm, or snow storm, but those aren't deadly, we do get wild fires but, those are mostly in the forest during the summer when it's hot, dry, and humid.
"Phenomenon" is the singular form of "phenomena." The word is Greek in origin, so it takes the Greek singular and plural forms. Most people who died in the San Francisco earthquake in 1906 died from the fires caused by broken gas mains. Earthquakes can go above 9 on the Richter scale. The Alaska earthquake of 1964 was 9.2 on the Richter scale and the devastation was complete. 131 people were killed. The only reason more people didn't die is that the population in that part of the state was fairly low at the time. I lived through Hurricane Sandy when it hit the New York City area. We were fortunate in that we lived far enough up a hill to avoid the flooding but low enough to miss the worst of the wind. The storm surge was the worst thing about that storm. It's the flooding that killed so many people, not the wind. Tornadoes and hurricanes are very different storms. Tornadoes are very localized -- even the biggest ones -- and they're spawned by supercell thunderstorms. Hurricanes are massive tropical storms that cover a huge area. Also, although hurricanes can generate very high winds, EF5 tornadoes can generate winds twice as high as the strongest hurricanes, and the air pressure can get so low that it sucks the air out of your lungs. You literally can't inhale.
There were terrible death tolls from hurricanes a hundred years ago like at Galveston, Texas. At the time there was no way to warn people that a hurricane was coming. Now we have satellite images of the storm as it comes across the ocean. There is much better warnings today. There are also building codes to minimize damage from earthquakes. These are still deadly events, but technology had made them less deadly today.
I survived Hurricane Andrew - another Category 5 Hurricane. I lost everything I owned, including my car, which was never found. When I saw the clouds on the horizon, I was able to count 14 tornadoes that were underneath the hurricane itself!
It’s not cheating at all to list hurricanes and tornadoes separately. They are completely separate phenomena. Hurricanes CAN spawn tornadoes sometimes, but they are not the same at all. The mechanics of how they form and what they do are completely different from each other.
My cousin is a pilot on the Air Force Hurricane Hunter team. He flies into tropical storms and the eye of hurricanes as the team obtains data to determine the strength and direction of the storm, potential location of landfall, and ways to advance future alerts of deadly hurricanes.
@@tupelohoney622 thanks for adding nothing to what the OP said 👍
@@JonnyQuest64 Well bless your heart for taking time to respond. Aren't you the sweetest.
@@tupelohoney622 thank your cousin for me. As much as I mess around on the web I do truly appreciate it...to me it just seemed like something you should idk...make your own comment about instead of saying absolutely nothing about what this guy is saying. Now I feel like I'm doing the same and bid you farewell.
@@JonnyQuest64 I actually did intend to post as a separate comment and didn't realize it ended up under someone else's post until you were such a gentleman to point out my error. Since it was over 3 months ago, I don't think I'll bother to correct. I'll pass your regards along to Will.
Hurricanes and tornados are not only not the same thing, it's not even close. They're both involve fast wind, but the conditions behind them and effects from them are usually so distinct.
hurricanes can spawn tornadoes but not the other way round... not the same thing at all, though many think so. love your content, and happy to see people expand their horizons. phenomenon is singular phenomena is plural
Thanks for the insight! Really appreciate that!
Thanks mom
@@douglasostrander5072 you're welcome, son
@@TheBeesleys99 you're welcome
And most hurricane spawned tornadoes are fairly weak...EF0 or EF1
Phenomenon is singular whilst phenomena is plural, so Lawrence is correct. A lot of people and even newspapers make that mistake, so don't worry about it. It's all about learning.
Every time I say the word phenomenon my brain just goes to that Muppet bit where they go Mahna Mahna do do do do do Mahna Mahna do do do do 🤣
@@pjschmid2251 I do too then sing it lol
Tornadoes are totally different than a hurricane, so it is not cheating.
Just some insight on the United States… no matter what state you’re in you’ll still get a summer and hot weather, so even Wisconsin and all other northern states can get hot. Northern states aren’t cold all year round and not even Canada or Alaska is cold all year round. Also, tornadoes and hurricanes are completely different. Tornado alley is in the Midwest, we aren’t near any ocean so we don’t get hurricanes, we get tornadoes. They aren’t even close to the same thing. The only similarity is they’re both storms with high winds etc.. but what you do to stay safe from them isn’t the same thing. You want to be in a basement for a tornado but not a hurricane, things like that. It’s just ALL different.
Hurricanes and Tornados are VASTLY different. The difference between a tornado and a hurricane is like the difference between a .50 cal sniper rifle and an exploding land mine. One is much smaller, more precise, and affects a small area, while the other has vastly more power overall, but affects an area vastly greater, and not as intense on a pinpoint level. The causes are even very different.
Temperature isn’t really as much of factor as you’d think when it comes to what areas are prone to wildfires. While Wisconsin was an odd place for wildfires, it’s not because it’s cold (and it definitely is), but because it isn’t very dry. Dry areas and places in a drought are much more likely to have wildfires, including both forest fires and bushfires. Like how you and Lawrence said, Australia and California (and most of the Western USA) are well known wildfire areas because of just how dry they are.
That fire was so bad because the extensive logging at the time left all the limbs and branches laying on the ground drying out. Huge fuel source. The death toll is unknown, estimates between 1,200 and 2,500 people as twelve towns were burned down.
@@mikehermen3036 right. fuel is the other half of the equation, which is why citywide fires were more common when buildings were more made of wood and why most fires we hear about are brushfires and forest fires
Also BC in Canada. That smoky air we were suffering from last month into this month was from forest fires in BC. Don't know about the other wildfire spots - most of BC's fires were caused by lightning.
Peshtigo, WI is very cold in the winter, and that was a major reason for the number of deaths. The fire drove many people into the Peshtigo River, where they died of hypothermia.
When asking about the temperature in Wisconsin it depends on the season. The average high in Madison Wisconsin in July is the same as Lagos Nigeria. The Midwest is very cold in the winter and very hot in the summer.
Hurricanes and tornadoes are really very different. Hurricanes start far out to sea and are much larger, with wind fields 10s of miles wide and tropical rain bands stretching over 100 miles. Tornados almost always form over land, and even F5 tornados rarely cause serious damage past a mile or two from the cone. Also, half of hurricane damage comes from the storm surge (coastal flooding where they come ashore). Tornado damage is mostly from the wind, sometimes with hail, lightning, and local flooding. And last, hurricane movements can be predicted fairly accurately days in advance, but a tornado forms with almost no warning and goes wherever it wants to, unpredictably.
I remember Mt St Helens erupting. A huge mushroom cloud to the southeast of where I lived. Fun fact: The Burlington Northern Railroad owned the top of the mountain, as part of a grandfathered-in land grant from the construction of the Northern Pacific Railway in the late 19th century. After the eruption, they sold it to the state for $1. How generous!
I live in Colorado, and I remember that for weeks after Mt. St. Helens erupted you would wake up every day and there would be a thin layer of ash/dust on your car. There were also times when larger bits of ash would be falling almost like it was lightly snowing.
Depreciating value.
Didn't the eruption of Mount St. Helen's cause its own weather system?
Hurricanes and tornadoes are definitely different beasts. I've lived both in the Midwest where we had some pretty bad tornadoes and in South Florida where we have those category 5 hurricanes and both are devastating.
I can see the confusion of someone whose never witnessed either thinking a tornado and a hurricane are the same. They are both twisting air columns but, man, are they different. The wind is way, way stronger in a tornado but effect a much tinier area than a hurricane. Hurricanes are not slouches in the wind department AND they usually bring a deluge along with them.
After watching many videos by Brits about America, I have realized that Brits tend to say many words in the plural form that are different in America. For example Aircrafts instead of aircraft. In America, aircraft is both the singular and plural form of the word. The same goes for deer, bison, cod and fish. Although fish does have a plural form that changes the meaning of the word. Fish is also plural and fishes means groups of fishes. The same happens with the word people. For example: The world is made up of many different people. The sentence: The world is made up of many peoples means the world is made of many groups of people.
Hurricanes and tornadoes are two distinct weather events. They are NOT the same thing. They both involve rotational wind patterns, but the dynamics are totally different. (If you lived in the US, you would know that.)
Or opened a fxxxing book...
Having survived 3 tornadoes 🌪 I definitely recommend having a basement. Also went through a tropical storm while on vacation in Florida. Hurricanes and tornadoes are definitely not the same category.
Tornados and hurricanes are completely different
The number 5, 6, 7, etc. are not linear, each is a magnitude order of 10 greater than the previous number. So a 7 is 10 times greater than a 6 and 100 times greater thana 5.
California in particular is the epicenter of earthquakes in the USA. In fact, the entire western coast of the USA, and up through Alaska is more at risk for earthquakes. Google ring of fire for more about the how the land that borders the pacific is ripe for earthquakes and volcanoes.
Tectonic plates
Actually, some of the biggest Earthquakes in the US have been in Alaska. But Missouri is also a hotbed too.
@@Wiley_Coyote New Madrid Fault
Top four, Alaska, California, Nevada, Hawaii... And then Wyoming or Montana.
Also Utah and Ohio are in the top ten for sure.
Illinois is the other state at risk because we’re on the fault line.
The entire west coast is prone to earthquakes (including Alaska), but it’s only really oregon on up you run into volcanoes in the cascade range. I live near Mt Rainier which is among the most dangerous in the world right now, if it were to blow seattle, tacoma and olympia are in huge trouble. St Helen’s ain’t too far from here either.
Hey now... we have Lassen and Shasta here in California! They even rumble a bit now and then! Why am I proud of our potentially deadly volcanoes?
California has one more active volcano than Oregon.
I just looked it up because I had no idea. 🙂
Oregon has 17, California has 18... But Alaska, Alaska has more than 130 volcanos and at least 50 of them are considered active!!!
I assume that Vancouver is on the list of vulnerable West Coast cities.
@@johnmurkwater1064 Alaska is also huge and sparsely populated. Some of those volcanoes are spread out on the Aleutians.
This puts a whole new "twist" on the "realism" of the premise of The Wizaed of Oz; a wind that can sweep you to a whole other reality. That was a great "mechanism" for the story. Love, Hope, and Joy.
I lived in Portland Oregon for 25 years. You can see three volcanoes from most places in the city. If you go up to Council crest which is a park on top of a high hill, on a clear day you can see like five or six from Washington down to Oregon. Portland is also the only city that has an exinct volcano within city limits.
A few weeks ago it seemed like the entire West Coast was on fire. I live in eastern Washington and the smoke has been getting worse, its almost like fog.
It was hazy in KS the other day due to the smoke from the fires.
Been the same here in western Canada last month because of the forest fires in BC. It's becoming a regular annual thing in southern Alberta. I never used to notice that kind of thing, but there were the consecutive summers of smoky skies, so I expect every summer to be a bit smoky. Not too bad this year. No orange/red suns.
Edit I haven't opened my windows very much since the beginning of July because I didn't want to breathe smoky air. It can get really bad outside.
I've lived in far-northern California most of my life, and I've been through at least six "greater than 6.0" earthquakes. We tease people coming to college or University here (we have a State College, and a State University) when they feel their first 4.0 (which we have a couple times a year, at least)... but, when things pass 5, we take it more seriously. When things hit a 6.0, things get pretty real. a 7.0 or greater? NO fun at all. None. Things start flying out of cabinets, and your furniture starts sliding across the floor, and things start creaking like the building is going to fall down. I've been through a couple of those. I learned in 1980 not to put your bed under a bookshelf and put hardback books on it. They clobbered me good!
And if you think a 7.0 is bad, Alaska had a 9.2 quake in 1964. Look up some pictures of that one. And, as a special bonus - the Cascadia Subduction zone, offshore from just north of where I live, to north of Seattle, is fully capable of creating 9+ quakes, with earth movement breaking along HUNDREDS of kilometers (most quakes are "breaks" across less than a Km). When that REALLY lets rip, it's capable of creating tsuami waves 40 METERS high, that will hit the coast within five minutes. It'll hit the entire Pacific Rim over the next 14 hours. I'd be perfectly happy if I did not live long enough for a major quake on the Cascadia Subduction zone. The ones we get at our "triple junction" of the Pacific, North American, and Gorda, plates is plenty for me.
Wisconsin has hot and humid summers and cold snowy winters. Beautiful fall colors and spring is rainy.
I've lived in Houston for 42 years.. hurricanes suck.. I have always lived on high ground..
I was a kid when Mount St. Helens went off. We even got some traces of ash here in Wisconsin.
Actually, California does NOT have many desert like areas and for most of the southern part of California the temperature is relatively steady all year round. The problem with the fires is lack of moisture (rain) and the grasslands and forests in the hills becoming super dry and even the smallest spark can ignite the countryside. Unfortunately, there are thousands and thousands of people who live in those hills.
And the weirdos don’t like to do control burns that would stop most of the devastation!
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Yep in the summers around here in southern/central California are steadily HOT! It's the lack of precipitation and horrible drought that doesn't help with the fires. Once one ignites it just takes off.
doesn't matter if wisconsin is cold in the winter cause the fires will just happen in the summer, same in Canada right now we have wildfires all over the country
It's not cheating to mention hurricanes and tornadoes separately because they are two different types of storms.
I live in Iowa. We've been blanketed by a layer of smoke, for the last three weeks, in the upper atmosphere, from the West coast and Canada wildfires.
Sorry to hear that. I live in Alberta where the smoke was really bad from the BC forest fires. Surprised it made it south.
You should check out the Barneveld tornado in Barneveld, Wisconsin on June 7, 1984. It was an F5, killed 9 people and completely destroyed the entire town. I lived about 10 miles away, it came in the middle of the night & we were only spared because the Cave of the Mounds in Blue Mounds spun the tornado back into Barneveld.
When one thinks of earthquakes in the U.S. most people don't think of Idaho. But in 1983 a 7.2 Richter (downgraded to 6.9) occurred at Borah Peak and two school children died when crumbling masonry fell on them.
1) Lawrence also says "most deadly" in relation to earthquakes, when the correct word would have been deadliest, so don't beat yourself up. We all fumble language now and again.
2) The San Francisco earthquake was that deadly for many reasons, which certainly included the severity of the earthquake, but also there was no real industry code when it came to building houses, the most common material was wood and people still used fire to cook and to heat their homes. (They also used gas, which they likely still do, which helped spread the fire.) So, when the earthquake caused fires throughout the city, they spread quickly. Attempts to stop the fires sometimes made them worse and attempts to take down destroyed buildings sometimes created new fires. So, I certainly don't want to minimize the severity of that earthquake, but there were other factors that contributed to making it a catastrophe.
I live in the Atlanta, Ga area where I have seen both a hurricane ( Hugo ) and several tornadoes, one of which destroyed my parents house. While I was aboard ship headed for Desert Shield / Storm, I saw a tornado at sea, which is known as a waterspout. That was the scariest for me because there is no way to run. Ships just can not move fast enough. So, we had a bumpy ride for a bit.
It sucks having to hear the phrase “the big one” when living in California 😭😭 we are done for if that ever happens.
I lived in Oklahoma for 8 years. I currently live in Florida. I've been through multiple hurricanes and tornado warnings. They are most definitely NOT the same...
I live in Chicago and we do get an occasional tornado although never had one in my neighborhood. However there's a phenomenon called the derecho which is a straight line wind associated with thunderstorms rather than a twister. One of those tore down a street in my neighborhood about three or four blocks north of where I live. Did quite a bit of damage.
Given you'll have a lot of brick structures that were built before modern building codes I'd guess that the 6.1 did a bit of damage. On the West coast we've been building with 'the big one' in mind for as long as I can remember. The 2001, 6.8 Nisqually earthquake in Olympia WA had one fatality as a result of a heart attack. If you live along the ring of fire you have an earthquake plan and probably tsunami and volcanic eruption plans as well depending on personal situation or all three if you're along the I-5 corridor, particularly Northern OR/Southern WA.
Beesley, something that wasn't mentioned here by Laurence is the phenomenon related to tornadoes, namely, waterspouts, which are tornadoes that spend their short lives over water rather than land. Of course, if you're not a distance sailor, or in the Navy or Merchant Marine, you'd never encounter them.
Waterspouts also happen on the Great Lakes. I live on the southern shore of L Erie, & have seen a few waterspouts on the lake.
I’m from Michigan born and raised, we get our share of tornadoes too, even we are not in tornado alley. I’ve have personally experienced two small, small earthquakes as well! The only reason I knew is my Crystal was linking in the China cabinet with one, the other my car seemed to move while at a stop! Both in the early 1980’s! Yikes
Tornadoes happen here in Canada too. I live in southern Alberta. We have own mini-tornado alley before the tornado season in the US. There was one which affected the Edmonton area. And there is a famous RUclips video of a farmer here in southern Alberta mowing his lawn with a tornado swirling behind him.
I grew up and live in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. I have been through many many earthquakes. You avoid windows and can dive behind a couch, get under a table, stand in a doorway, there’s options. My family went to Wisconsin one time and when we got off the plane there were sirens going off. We asked the car rental attendant what was going on, he said tornado warning. We asked what we should do if we come across one. He said stop the car and lay down in the ditch on the side of the road. That’s it! That’s all you can do! lol We saw seven tornadoes a few miles away from our hotel room. Those suckers scare me. Earthquakes, I’m not worried. Tornadoes are on land, hurricanes start over water and can make landfall but they’re very similar.
I'm not technically from Wisconsin but I'm 10 minutes across the border in minnesota. Our summers reach into the 90°F+ range and our winters can reach -40°F. Our weather range is mindblowing to outsiders.
I live on the Gulf Coast we just hope we are on the clean side of a storm. Enjoy
The Nashville tornado he's talking about went by within a mile of my house, in the middle of the night. Me and one of my neighbors were outside as it passed, but because it was dark, we only heard the beast, we never saw it. The following day, when I left for work, the path of destruction told me just how close it was to my home. When I got to Nashville and saw the area it passed through there, I knew it would be a long time for that area to recover. The health and human services bldg, was wiped completely off the map, leaving behind only the concrete slab that was the floor. No other sign that there was ever a building there. What scared me most about that was because it was at night, there are a lot of homeless people who sleep under the adjacent bridge. The office was closed hours before the tornado came through, so I knew no one was in it during the storm.
Yes it gets cold in Wisconsin. The 1967 NFL Championship was played there, and it's probably the coldest NFL title game ever. It's nicknamed the Ice Bowl. If you haven't already it's a good title for a reaction video.
When you live in the USA, natural disasters are at the bottom of our list of concerns. Politics, poverty, poor infrastructure, unaffordable health insurance, the pandemic, crazy drivers, making a living, and global warming are at the top of the list.
I was in Wisconsin last weekend and it was bloody hot and humid. Wisconsin has four seasons, so of course it gets hot.
Native Milwaukeean here. We sure do have four seasons: Early Winter, Winter, Late Winter, and Construction!
All joking aside, Wisconsin has been known to hit triple digits (Fahrenheit) although that is thankfully rare; we've already had a number of high 90's days this summer. For you metric folks, that's in excess of 35 Celsius.
@@DerrelliThePyro Chicago has the same seasons as Milwaukee!
@@mslafave5689 Sure does... I've been down that way a few times; still have family in Chicago too.
A Tornado 🌪 And Hurricane 🌀 Are Two Very Different Storms. You Have 2 Weeks To Prepare For A Hurricane But Only 2 Hours To Prepare For A Tornado
not even two hours but minutes, tornadoes last for some minutes, hurricanes last for many days.
I was born and raised in southwest FL and i love hurricanes.
Here in the Midwest we all have our tornado plan where we have identified the safest place in the house to best survive a tornado. We listen carefully for sirens and Watches and Warnings. Even a small tornado can wipe out houses and love to eat roofs.
@Beesley, the 'a' and 'on' endings are Greek in origin/etymology.
Also, to touch on the hurricane/tornado discussion, hurricanes' wind speeds are slower than tornadoes (below 200/322kph), but can settle in an area for days, causing complete destruction. Tornadoes' wind speeds, conversely, can be as much as 300mph/483kph, but are only around for a few minutes, in most cases, before they fizzle out. Also, they're very erratic, exploding a house, but the one across the street doesn't "get a scratch".
You do not need heat to produce fire, and cold doesn't put out flame. Wisconsin has 4 seasons, the summers get hot.
Tornadoes are very different than Hurricanes and the Whole west coast of the US is prone to earthquakes. Im surprised he didnt mention the Alaska quake from the 60s that was like a magnitude 9
Two of the biggest quakes in US history happened in Alaska. One that you are talking about and one that happened about a week before you posted this comment is #2. There was a 6.9 two days before I'm posting this. It was an aftershock of the the 8.2 from a couple weeks ago.
A huge contributing factor to the Great Michigan Fire in 1871 was its large lumber industry, which left debris (kindling) all across the state. Interestingly, the city of Detroit's motto, "Speramus meliora; resurget cineribus,” translates to “We hope for better things; it shall arise from the ashes.” This was coined after a massive fire in 1805 ripped through the entire city. In fact the city's flag features a picture of the city burning.
As for the Great Chicago Fire, there is a wide spread folktale which claims that the fire was started when Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over a kerosene lantern.
Lived in tornado alley for more than 30 years and never saw a tornado, saw lots of extreme weather though...
I have lived in Tx for 6 years. I have seen 2, luckily neither were close. But another did go between my neighbor's place and mine. A couple of towns near me were each hit by three, a year apart from each other.
Wildfires don’t happen for a reason in Florida at least not since the 90s. Every summer we do a full forestry management survey of every piece of forest we have. We will cut back any overgrown area in a schedule to compensate for growth patterns. We also do prescribed burns where we set fire to certain sections of forest of course cleared of animals and people. And let it burn digging fire trenches and lines where the fire should never go with hoses and a full firefighting team ready for spraying it down. The burn forces the forest to grow better greener plants which are fire resistant at least until next year and the ash is natural fertilizer. You hear about this every year and literally it’s like ok smoke for like a mile on the road, not a big deal. Any trees for the wood industry are far away from this unless there is no choice. California does not do the burns because they think it’s pollution which it is not as the smoke isn’t toxic for anyone as it’s just wood and plant matter. Because they refuse the burn system they suffer bad wildfires every year. They are getting lazy with forestry management and they suffer because of it.
You are spot on. The whole west forestry management was taken over by extreme environmentalist that think everything should be natural. And what happened is during drought naturally the pine beetle came in and weakened the trees. Overgrowth was not cleared and more drought cases entire forests to burn. Talk about pollution! And now we are getting major rain in the mountains causing mud and debris slides on the burn scars that stop interstate highway traffic and damage the landscape further, let alone taking out more homes and businesses.
Also to add, after the Dry and the Wildfires, when the rain does finally come, it usually results in flash flooding due to the scorched ground (from the sun and the fire)
Surprised he didn't mention the Alaska earthquake in 1964 - that was a 9.2.
Checkout the New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-1812 for non-West Coast biggies .
I watch the activity around that, almost daily. Between New Madrid, and basically the whole state of Oklahoma, there are multiple measurable quakes, every day.
fires play a part in the destruction following an earthquake. Gas lines are sheared, debris hampers movement also water lines are sheared compromising both the availability of water and the pressure to do so. I live about 200 miles from what is possibly the epicenter of the most destructive yet,rarely active fault in the lower 48.
As someone who lives in Oklahoma which is smack dab in the middle of tornado alley. We are definitely cautious of tornados but many of us are not afraid of them. Many people have tornado shelters and some people even get in their car and go storm chasing.
The Peshtigo Fire was a result of drought, heat and piles of scrap leftover debris from lumbering.
Phenomenon is singular phenomena is plural
What made the 1906 quake in San Francisco so deadly was two things. One, that was the era of gaslamps, so pretty much every building had gas lines running all through its walls, from lamp fixture to lamp fixture. Two, the earthquake not only broke gas lines -- sending explosively flammable gas out to collect in places where it shouldn't -- but it also broke all the water lines, so the fire hydrants where the firetrucks connected their hoses weren't working. People died from having things fall on them, yes, but most of the deaths and most of the destruction in the city was from the fires that broke out after the quake itself.
Since then, we've figured out how to engineer both water pipes and gas lines so that they're much more quake resistent. Plus, we don't have gas lines running all over our houses; they just go to stoves and clothes dryers now, and some people (like me) don't have gas in their house at all. San Francisco took a lot of damage in the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, but there weren't any significant fires, and the injuries and deaths were much less than in '06, despite the *much* higher population of the area in '89.
They now sell tornado shelters for both above-ground and below-ground protection that will protect even in a category 5 tornado!
Recently Yellowstone has had a lot of activity, similar to that of Mt. St. Helens before it blew. I live about 2 hours away from st helens
Wisconsin is very cold in the Winter but VERY hot in the Summer
Wisconsin is not cold in the summer. It gets quite hot and humid there in the summer and can sometimes go over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
I live in California and I've always known both earthquakes and wildfires are part of life and have experienced both. It does not make up a part of my everyday life. If you plan ahead and prepare for the possibilities then you have a good chance. Wildfires are easier to prepare for as you can see one coming vs an earthquake which is a total surprise and the only advance notice you may get is that your dog is being weird. No matter what area you live in, natural disasters are part of the american makeup. We have a strong will to survive, not run and rebuild, because FU mother nature.
When I was a teen I watched a tornado pass by me just across the street from where I was sitting on my porch. It had been a hot muggy evening and then it went pitch black as a massive supercell came overhead. The wind erupted into chaotic fury; trees started bending and breaking as large branches began flying through the air. It all happened so fast I had no time to run into the basement. Back then tornado warnings were rare and often only gave us minutes to respond. I'm now 72 so yes, I survived it. Quite exciting but I don't recommend it.
I was able to witness it cuz the lightning was apocryphal at the time.
Wisconsin is cold and due to that most of the trees there are conifers, which produce sap that makes the wood highly flammable. This combined with the fact that Wisconsin is a relatively dry climate due to said cold, if a spark goes off and ignites some trees it can get very bad.
With tornadoes you get little warning. I was in one when I was 14 (in Florida) and it was terrifying - we lost our home.
I was in the Joplin tornado, I still have nightmares. You do get a lot more warning on hurricanes than you do tornadoes. Sometimes you get no warning at all on tornadoes.
I believe that the most deadly category 5 hurricane in the U.S. happened in 1935 in the Florida Keys at Islamorada Key. Government workers were working on a railroad line to link Key West (Florida's largest at the time) with Miami when the hurricane went right over the Key and killed many workers on the labor day weekend.
The worst earthquake is before records were kept and was just south of St.Louis. It made the Mississippi River flow backwards for three days and rang the bells in the church towers in Boston. That’s like the wye river or the Sean river running backwards. That’s also like if it happened in London the bells in York ringing...
Of course back in the 1920's a tornado would appear without warning as there was no satellite imagery and no mass communications in place to warn everyone. I think the first commercial radio stations in the US started in 1920 but that was way over in New York. A place struck by a tornado in 1920 couldn't really even warn the next town away about it as likely the telephone lines were down because of the storm. Seeing a tornado in person is really quite rare unless you're actively hunting for them. I'm nearly 53 and in all these years I've only ever seen a tornado twice in my lifetime and neither was close enough to me to worry about too much, the closest being about a half mile away due south of where we lived at the time. The other was closer to 3 miles away.
Back when the Chicago fire happened, most of the buildings were all made of wood. They say a cow kicked over an old kerosene lantern in a barn that started the Chicago fire.
Hello from Wisconsin! Well, we are very cold in the winter & get as hot as Atlanta in the summer! Last week we had more than 10 tornadoes in one night! Wisconsin=weird weather.
Just looked up the Pestigo Fire. Never heard of it before. It said the fire jumped the Green Bay?!?!?! I've never seen the Green Bay, but I assume it is a large body of water.
@@kathyp1563 If you google the map of Wisconsin, Lake Michigan borders WI, IL, and MI. It's a big lake. It's part of the Great Lakes in the US.
@@heidistoeberl7176 I'm familiar with the Great Lakes. The fire did not jump Lake Michigan. It jumped Green Bay. The question was the size of Green Bay.
I've been through 2 pretty big earthquakes. The first one was when I was only 1but mom tells me I was in my crib and it had wheels. When she ran into my room I was standing up and laughing because my crib was rolling back and forth. The second one was in 1989. I was about 170 miles away from San Francisco and still felt it. Craziness.
America is also where the largest tornado that ever touched down. The tornado was 2.6 miles (4.2 kilometers) wide and touched down in Oklahoma in 2013.
Alaska is #1 for earth quakes in the US. March 28, 1964 - A magnitude 9.2 earthquake hit Prince William Sound in Alaska. We have hundreds of thousands of quakes a year up here.
Hurricanes are the same as typhoons, except for the location. Hurricanes form over the Atlantic, and typhoons form over the Pacific. Typhoons do not usually make landfall on the West Coast until they've weakened somewhat, and the mountain ranges stop them from getting to far inland. They do cause some pretty high wind, rainstorms on the West coast though. Hurricanes hit the East Coast regularly, and can cause great damage, and loss of life.
I'm from Oklahoma. In November 2012 we had a tornado warning (tornado in process) with sirens blaring and an earthquake at the same time. Since it's so flat an earthquake can be felt more at a lower magnitude than in say California.
Earthquakes are common in America and the big ones kill a lot of people. I remember a bridge collapsing on drivers during rush hour traffic. Wildfires have been bad this year Minneapolis has had some awful air quality from smoke coming down out of Canada. Wisconsin is cold in the winter but they actually have some nice weather in the summer when there isn't severe thunderstorms. They had a tornado rip through a border town last week. The storm missed us but took some roofs and barns down there.
Fire doesn’t care about temperature, it cares about how dry everything is. It will rage when the foliage is dry and spread fast. That’s why CA catches fire often, it’s in a huge drought.
5:00, Beesley most Americans are taught about the 1906 Earthquake from Continual Continental Coast to Coast. This was 6 years before the Maiden voyage sinking of the "Titanic". The San Andreas fault line is a BIG reason why I'd rather not visit California.
Mt Lassen in California blew up in 1915, and is considered the southernmost active volcano in the US. Several years ago, I bought a piece of property about 13 miles south of Mt Shasta. In the disclosure of "hazards" were 100 year floods, wildfires, and, yes, you guessed it, cattle.
Really. Nothing about earthquakes? I remember rereading the document and nope, nothing about earthquakes. So I went to the USGS web site and looked at their map of seismic activity in that area. It's quite curious. Almost no quakes above 3.0. Most are 2 something, or less. I suspect that's mainly trains rolling through the town.
You only need 1 thing to start a risk for wildfires.
Dry.
Hot, Cold, doesn't matter. It's the dryness that matters. If you haven't had much rain, everything drys out to basically makes a state full of tinder.
Of course, heat adds to the issue because it just accelerates the process. But hot and dry and much more risky than hot and humid.
Phenomenon is singular phenomena is plural. The etymology is from Greek.
It is the warm gulf stream moving up to England in the Atlantic Ocean from Florida that keeps England's weather so termperant and keeps tornados and hurricanes away.
Idaho is one of the safest states when It comes to natural phenomena; it's very rare we get an earthquake, and it's not very strong, but all the other mager ones, I've never been in, the most we get is a thunder storm, or snow storm, but those aren't deadly, we do get wild fires but, those are mostly in the forest during the summer when it's hot, dry, and humid.
During the Landers quake we had two 7+ quakes within hours. The Landers Earthquake and the Big Bear Earthquake.
That was a crazy day. I wound up getting a new dog because of all the craziness, so over all a good day.
You should do a reaction to the earthquake that happened in 1989 during the live broadcast of the World Series.
"Phenomenon" is the singular form of "phenomena." The word is Greek in origin, so it takes the Greek singular and plural forms.
Most people who died in the San Francisco earthquake in 1906 died from the fires caused by broken gas mains. Earthquakes can go above 9 on the Richter scale. The Alaska earthquake of 1964 was 9.2 on the Richter scale and the devastation was complete. 131 people were killed. The only reason more people didn't die is that the population in that part of the state was fairly low at the time.
I lived through Hurricane Sandy when it hit the New York City area. We were fortunate in that we lived far enough up a hill to avoid the flooding but low enough to miss the worst of the wind. The storm surge was the worst thing about that storm. It's the flooding that killed so many people, not the wind.
Tornadoes and hurricanes are very different storms. Tornadoes are very localized -- even the biggest ones -- and they're spawned by supercell thunderstorms. Hurricanes are massive tropical storms that cover a huge area. Also, although hurricanes can generate very high winds, EF5 tornadoes can generate winds twice as high as the strongest hurricanes, and the air pressure can get so low that it sucks the air out of your lungs. You literally can't inhale.
Wisconsin’s super cold in the winter but summers are normal. Even days in the 90’s
There were terrible death tolls from hurricanes a hundred years ago like at Galveston, Texas. At the time there was no way to warn people that a hurricane was coming. Now we have satellite images of the storm as it comes across the ocean. There is much better warnings today. There are also building codes to minimize damage from earthquakes. These are still deadly events, but technology had made them less deadly today.
I had an EF3 tornado hit my town 5 years ago… about a block from my house.
I survived Hurricane Andrew - another Category 5 Hurricane. I lost everything I owned, including my car, which was never found. When I saw the clouds on the horizon, I was able to count 14 tornadoes that were underneath the hurricane itself!