I grew up in Rochester Michigan, on about June 1974 we had a hard rain and windy day. After the storm there were hundreds of tiny frogs all over our lawn. Before I cut the grass I would collect as many as I could in a tub and took them to a pond and deposited them there.
We can always count on you for informative stories! I was 18 in 1974, and I do remember the news coverage from the affected areas. I asked my Dad if we get Tornadoes in Baltimore, and he said no, we get Hurricanes (1955 and 1972 were cited also he remembered 1938 at his Great Aunt’s shore home that largely destroyed it . She was raising him. As you mentioned the cars still ran and they escaped with ailing Great Uncle Dave at the wheel of his 1933 Hudson. They lived the rest of his life in their Baltimore home, and he died of heart failure in 1944. Great Great Aunt Ann to me, lived with us when I was young. She passed in 1964 when I was 8
I live in the suburb of Brooklyn, in Wellington, New Zealand. It's 12:41am and I'm watching the section on hail and it has just started to hail here! Nothing like the hail described in your video thankfully. I'd say the stones are Lima bean size melting quickly but making a hell of a racket on the iron roofing.
I had the honor of working the WSR-88D radar program as active duty Air Force and Air Force contractor from 1992 through 2009. Watching the advancements in severe storm detection from the days of the FPS-77 and FPQ-21 to the WSR-88D was amazing. And the continued advancements in the technology and software updates to the WSR-88D, continue to improve the ability to provide more accurate warnings to the public.
Love your videos. Thank you for the one on hailstorms and raining frogs. I witnessed raining frogs in Northeast Texas back in 1972. No one believed me. You give truth to history.
On April 16,1998 I was driving from Nashville to Chattanooga, TN. A tornado had just struck downtown and was east bound. Near the junction of I-24 and I-840 during a torrential downpour, it started raining fish and frogs. Apparently, a tornado was nearby and picking them up from a lake or pond.
When you said, "fish and frogs," I thought you meant a saying similar to "raining cats and dogs." After the fish and frogs fell from the sky, did birds and other air and land critters have a feast?
"History is stranger than fiction" and as an Iowan with a penchant for climate and history former educator with a significant amount of logged duty time doing meteorology for the DOD services of the U.S. navy, this Extreme Weather compilation is sincerely a whole much very appreciated.
2011 ef5 that went thru Northeast Alabama was less than a mile from my house. It was the only time I have ever been scared of a storm, seeing a ef5 once is one time to many.
Thank you for sharing. My heart breaks for your loss. I am lucky to be married to an amazing woman that is my best friend and partner in everything. Thank you for reminding me what I have and I need to hug her tighter. Thank you for sharing your pain. I am so sorry for your loss. My prayers go to you and your family.
I'm going to circle back to this one in a month or so. Spent entirely too much time in the basement in the last week to want to enjoy extreme weather stories right now. We've been batted about a bit here in Northern Illinois this spring so far.
I recently heard our town's disaster alert siren on a Sunday afternoon. They test only on the forst Wednesday of the month at 1130 am. There are only two reasons it is used: an impending tornado, or an emergency evacuation due to an emergency at the nearby nuclear power plant. There wasn't a cloud in the sky. Apparently there was a tornado warning a few counties over that was erroniously transmitted to our county. That was a terrifying few minutes.
Will always remember huddling in an old farmhouse basement during tornadoes in Wichita, Kansas. Also the hail storm that totalled our family station wagon. Hailstones so big that they actually punched holes in the metal roof.
Excellent as always Sir!!! Thank you for sharing such important information with us, as always!!! I've only ever had two teachers/Instructors make History interesting for me..... I'm 52 now. The first teacher was my 5th grade History teacher, and the second would be you!!! You have a true gift and we are absolutely blessed you are compiling a list of so many videos that will hopefully inspire many GREAT History Teachers/Instructors and help struggling students gain a new perspective on the subject and at minimum be able to pass the classes with a C average if not better.
I’m from Pueblo and my grandparents were caught in this flood. I have photos of my great grandfather standing on the roof of his three story building. I’ve been told this story many times as it was so impactful on my grandparents.
My 4 year old son and I love watching your videos. As a suggestion and request, if possible, a video on the 1908 Trinity River Flood in Dallas Texas would be awesome. We are from the area and hope to share some Texas history with others 🙂 Thank you for doing what you do, teaching, informing, sharing and remembering our nation’s unique history 👍🏼
My grandparents always had a veggie garden. He planted glass along the entire front of the garden. During hailstorm, she worried about the veggies while he worried about the glads. I hadn't been married long when the tornado outbreak of 1974 occurred. I remember all the confusion and looks of abject pain.
Rode my motorcycle to Ft. Collins, CO, 1979. Left my bike at friend’s for day trip into mountains. Came back into town in afternoon,kept seeing these big white things laying along the road and in fields and roads. Couldn’t wrap our heads around what we were seeing. Pulled into parking lot, huge dent in my brand new motorcycle gas tank and front fender. The hail was softball size! It was punching holes in roofs, destroying car windows, and if I recall, one child had been killed as mom was walking the child in a carriage and couldn’t get under cover in time. Tragic. We had just missed the storm!
I grew up in Colorado and don’t think I ever owned a car that didn’t have dents in the roof from hail. Never fixed the roofs as they would just get more dents the next summer.
I was 14 in 1974 and lived in Huntsville,Al. Our town got hit hard(we are not far from Tanner) but the surrounding area was flattened. A friend of mine's father had a barn full of antique cars. No barn, 2 cars trashed in a pasture the rest gone and dozens of cows and horses dead with 2x4's or limbs or sheetmetal sticking in them.. Truly Biblical. And yes, they really do sound like a train coming.
On April 3rd 1974 in Franklin county Kentucky I watched hail from baseball to softball size cover our yard. When they hit the street in front of our house some would shatter but some would bounce 6 to 8 feet. The yard was covered with many inches and buried in the dirt several inches deep.
We had 80 tornados in Indiana, I stood in our backyard and watched as they went through Wyatt and also there was a huge amount of damage in Elkhart. These were identified as the Pom Sunday tornadoes.
Such great stories. Such a great presentation. So much pleasure in listening to you Sir. How about a story on the Carswell AFB tornado which changed the countries nuclear posture.
Living at 9400ft in altitude in Colorado we get very extreme weather, can see mutable storm fronts at the same time. Hail of a baseball at lower altitudes, and damaging size hail is a normal occurrence along the Rocky Mountains. We much respect the weather, even the most entitled can't get thier way with it. Thank you for sharing this interesting information that effects some of us!
My gramma liked goldfish. We lived in a rural area and she usually acquired them at a fair or circus that occasionally came by. In the winter she and gramps might leave their small home. When they came back the goldfish were frozen in the glass globe on the kitchen table. After a fire was build in the stove, and the water thawed out, 😊these goldfish began swimming around. But if the water froze again, these same goldfish did not come back to life.
My brother and i witnessed frog rain in the Texas Panhandle 1980 or 1981. The frogs were under 1/2 inch, and they definitely survived the fall. They were not surviving being squished on the highway. We grabbed up hundreds and moved them to a creek in our neighborhood.
I saw a huge scary waterspout (tornado on water) right in front of me on Lake Michigan on the shoreline border between Wisconsin and Illinois in the summer of 2013. I have pictures.
Oh History Guy, You missed an opportunity to include a very devastating tornado that is known for killing many more people than it injured. I would love to see you do a video on the Great Natchez Tornado of 1840. "The second worst tornado in U.S. history hit Natchez in 1840. It killed 317 people and injured 109. This is the only recorded tornado in the U.S. that killed more people than were injured." This is history worth being remembered.
Extreme hail is something else in real life. I've only experienced marble sized hail myself, I can hardly imagine how devastating giant hailstones are.
I have seen some large and interesting 'dust devils'. They look like miniature tornadoes. I have also survived two near misses with tornadoes. One of them took the second story off of a house and destroyed a barn.
I was 12 in 1974, and my sister and I sat in lawn chairs in the front yard, watching tornadoes form on the horizon and dissipate. My mom came out to see why we were being so quiet, saw what we were doing and made us all run for the car. We spent the rest of the night in the basement of a local church. We heard about Xenia on the radio. A few days later, I was in the woods near our house, and found a nearly perfect circle of downed trees, laid out like spokes on a bicycle wheel. Our area of Northwest Ohio didn't see much damage, the tornadoes were sporadic and more along the lines of forming, touching down for a moment, then dissipating. It was fascinating to watch. We weren't so lucky with the blizzard of '78....
At 07:21 “...2:54..” was misspoken “...2:64....” Because minutes contain no more that 60 seconds, this stuck out like a sore thumb. There was a sporting goods store who once put a sign in its window that said, “We sell golf balls the size of hail.” Along with the comparison to ping pong balls and softballs, let us put an end to the use of sporting equipment lest someone bring up cricket balls, polo mallet heads, etc.
A storm system once picked up a 3x1 ft steel sign from a housing development in Albuquerque and deposited the sign on the street in front of my house in Lewisville, TX. That was a trip of over 500 miles.
I was sailing down the St. Lawrence Seaway when I witnessed both a water spout and the subsequent raining down of all matter of creatures and debris from the sky. There were fish as heavy as a couple pounds coming down in a mailstrom that included odd pieces of wood, bits and pieces of fishing net and fishing line tangles, pieces of tattered clothing, including several shoes and a wallet w/ ID and a few Canadian dollars(?), plastic bottles and other small plastic items, etc, etc. Unless you've witnessed an event like this, you have a hard time believing its validity when you hear it recounted. The water spout was truly awe inspiring, but what came after was once-in-a-life-time stuff.
I remember these tornados. I grew up outside of Boston where tornados are extremely rare since we are near the ocean which moderates the temperature differences. I had never even heard of a tornado siren. In my freshmen year in the early 70’s we had hail the size of softballs. I hadn’t seen those either. Or seen a cow outside of a zoo, which my roommates thought hysterical.
About 15 years ago we had a hailstorm. That alone wasn't unusual. What was weird was how large the hailstones were. I went out after the hail and stopped and picked up a few of the bigger ones. I dug a golf ball out of my bag and photographed the ball among the hailstones . . . the hailstones were larger, and it wasn't all that close. A golf ball is 1.68 inches in diameter (for you metric folks 1.68 inches is 43 mm),
The ability of Galveston to complete that task is testament to what can be done when citizens work together regardless of political affiliation. Could anyone imaging that succeeding today?
Could you please do a segment on the Carrington Event of 1859? Also, there was a big meteor storm in the 1800s that was so spectacular that it woke people up from how bright it was outside. Some thought it was the end of the world.
About an hour ago we had pea-sized hail during a severe thunderstorm that passed through the Kansas City area. No tornadoes, even though it's tornado season here.
I can testify that the Galveston seawall is actually two seawalls, one about 40 feet behind the other. The 2nd seawall would stabilize the intervening sand backfill, making the system into a massive 50 foot wide seawall.
Some years ago a waterspout crossed Castle Harbour in Bermuda, and crossed the airport runway built on low reclaimed land, dropping fish which were flopping there to be cleared away before aircraft could use the airport again.
I have grown up in Texas and, while I have visited Galveston, I have never desired to live there. In part because the shore I know is the one in New Jersey. However, when I was in my twenties, I was trying to help my boss find records of her family's arrival into Texas. Into Galveston and, at the time, it was where those records were also housed. She had good reason to believe her mother's family was related to one of those great German composers, Brahms I want to say. However, despite her best efforts, and mine, there was never any chance of finding them since they were destroyed in the Great Storm, or The Hurricane of 1900. My best friend's father's family was of Czech decent, most of his family lived in the Wharton area and I understand many came in to Texas in Galveston. (Funny story there, another friend of mine actually had a teacher with the same unusual last name, she had married into the family. She had grown up in the Wharton area while my friend grew up in the Austin area.)
This is just like Houston. Due to hurricane Katrina, there were city and state officials interviewed the week before hurricane Rita concerning the idea of setting up Contraflow lanes. Every single one said it was impractical. After Hurricane Rita the very SAME official said it would have worked! Everyone was disgusted. It took us 24 hours to drive what normally takes us 90 minutes. We evacuated with 5 children, a friend who had no insulin (because they city closed the public health clinic three DAYS before mandatory evacuation), 2 cats, a turtle and a hamster. We ran out of gas in Cleveland Texas. We are still grateful to the local church who brought us a gallon of gas so we could make it to the local TX department of transportation station where they were gassing up cars. We eventually reached Oklahoma where we were able to find a motel and a nearby town to fill her prescriptions.
We had 13" circumference hail stone storm with wind blowing them sideways, totaled 2 car dealerships, many stores closed for months. They came through roofs
Absolutely no one describes history as exciting and informative as the history guy.
The bit about the nuns almost brought tears to my eyes. Your power of storytelling is profound! Thank you, History Guy!
I grew up in Rochester Michigan, on about June 1974 we had a hard rain and windy day. After the storm there were hundreds of tiny frogs all over our lawn. Before I cut the grass I would collect as many as I could in a tub and took them to a pond and deposited them there.
Love the cat guest star at the end!
We can always count on you for informative stories! I was 18 in 1974, and I do remember the news coverage from the affected areas. I asked my Dad if we get Tornadoes in Baltimore, and he said no, we get Hurricanes (1955 and 1972 were cited also he remembered 1938 at his Great Aunt’s shore home that largely destroyed it . She was raising him. As you mentioned the cars still ran and they escaped with ailing Great Uncle Dave at the wheel of his 1933 Hudson. They lived the rest of his life in their Baltimore home, and he died of heart failure in 1944. Great Great Aunt Ann to me, lived with us when I was young. She passed in 1964 when I was 8
I live in the suburb of Brooklyn, in Wellington, New Zealand. It's 12:41am and I'm watching the section on hail and it has just started to hail here! Nothing like the hail described in your video thankfully. I'd say the stones are Lima bean size melting quickly but making a hell of a racket on the iron roofing.
Pea-size is the scientific term.
I had the honor of working the WSR-88D radar program as active duty Air Force and Air Force contractor from 1992 through 2009. Watching the advancements in severe storm detection from the days of the FPS-77 and FPQ-21 to the WSR-88D was amazing. And the continued advancements in the technology and software updates to the WSR-88D, continue to improve the ability to provide more accurate warnings to the public.
Love your videos. Thank you for the one on hailstorms and raining frogs. I witnessed raining frogs in Northeast Texas back in 1972. No one believed me. You give truth to history.
On April 16,1998 I was driving from Nashville to Chattanooga, TN. A tornado had just struck downtown and was east bound. Near the junction of I-24 and I-840 during a torrential downpour, it started raining fish and frogs. Apparently, a tornado was nearby and picking them up from a lake or pond.
Whenever I see this I remember the story of a mad man and mad woman in a psychiatric hospital who kept tapping and tapping and tapping to...see more
When you said, "fish and frogs," I thought you meant a saying similar to "raining cats and dogs." After the fish and frogs fell from the sky, did birds and other air and land critters have a feast?
@@conniewojahn6445 I can only assume the birds did. I got out of there as quickly as I could. It was quite intense
Woowoo wrcb! Chattanooga native here!❤😊
Also long time storm spotter & 28 years in Disaster Svcs American Red Cross, so very interested...
I will never forget the Lubbock Tornado on May 11, 1971. It took over 40 years for most remnants to be cleared away.
Wait,40 years?!
Lost cousin and wife that one😣😣😣
Sorry for your loss.
This is one hail of a video! ❤
The smartest person at the bar, it's you, get this person a drink!!!🙏🍹🤣👌❣️
@@mauricedavis2160 - Sarcasm noted, LOL! I nevah sad I waz smurt.
@@Erin-Thor , there is a chain of autobody repair shops in Calgary Canada whose advertising motto is, "We'll pound the *hail* out of your car!"
@@goodun2974 - That’s hilarious! 🤣
@@Erin-Thor you must have taken it wrong, no sarcasm intended my friend, your comment made my day👌👍👻❣️
I recall the Tornado outbreak in 2011. When to Joplin MO the weekend after to help cleanup. Wow...just wow.
"History is stranger than fiction" and as an Iowan with a penchant for climate and history former educator with a significant amount of logged duty time doing meteorology for the DOD services of the U.S. navy, this Extreme Weather compilation is sincerely a whole much very appreciated.
As a meteorologist, all I can say is: great job! Bring us more!!! 👍🏻
2011 ef5 that went thru Northeast Alabama was less than a mile from my house. It was the only time I have ever been scared of a storm, seeing a ef5 once is one time to many.
Thank you for sharing. My heart breaks for your loss. I am lucky to be married to an amazing woman that is my best friend and partner in everything. Thank you for reminding me what I have and I need to hug her tighter.
Thank you for sharing your pain. I am so sorry for your loss. My prayers go to you and your family.
I'm going to circle back to this one in a month or so. Spent entirely too much time in the basement in the last week to want to enjoy extreme weather stories right now. We've been batted about a bit here in Northern Illinois this spring so far.
I recently heard our town's disaster alert siren on a Sunday afternoon. They test only on the forst Wednesday of the month at 1130 am. There are only two reasons it is used: an impending tornado, or an emergency evacuation due to an emergency at the nearby nuclear power plant. There wasn't a cloud in the sky. Apparently there was a tornado warning a few counties over that was erroniously transmitted to our county. That was a terrifying few minutes.
Ours rings once at 7 noon and 6
Also for fires tornado and I haven't herd it but I gess a drowning it rings differently depending on what it is
I understand
@@jarroddraper5140you don't get fire tornado gulf coast you get those from broken refinery huge amounts in urn petroleum products deadly poison
Thanks for your honesty you best
Ours is "tested" every Sat at ^pm. Or was. Not sure I've heard it lately. The times that I had was a clear blue sky.
When it comes to fun snipits in time,
We get to enjoy,
History, The History Guy. 🎶
That’s my quick snipit jingle of joy
Will always remember huddling in an old farmhouse basement during tornadoes in Wichita, Kansas. Also the hail storm that totalled our family station wagon. Hailstones so big that they actually punched holes in the metal roof.
Excellent as always Sir!!! Thank you for sharing such important information with us, as always!!! I've only ever had two teachers/Instructors make History interesting for me..... I'm 52 now. The first teacher was my 5th grade History teacher, and the second would be you!!! You have a true gift and we are absolutely blessed you are compiling a list of so many videos that will hopefully inspire many GREAT History Teachers/Instructors and help struggling students gain a new perspective on the subject and at minimum be able to pass the classes with a C average if not better.
I’m from Pueblo and my grandparents were caught in this flood. I have photos of my great grandfather standing on the roof of his three story building. I’ve been told this story many times as it was so impactful on my grandparents.
My 4 year old son and I love watching your videos.
As a suggestion and request, if possible, a video on the 1908 Trinity River Flood in Dallas Texas would be awesome. We are from the area and hope to share some Texas history with others 🙂 Thank you for doing what you do, teaching, informing, sharing and remembering our nation’s unique history 👍🏼
Great information presented in this video! One of your absolute Best Yet! 😎
History Cat! A humbling group of stories to have items for emergency for peace of mind as much for neighbors.
My grandparents always had a veggie garden. He planted glass along the entire front of the garden. During hailstorm, she worried about the veggies while he worried about the glads.
I hadn't been married long when the tornado outbreak of 1974 occurred. I remember all the confusion and looks of abject pain.
Were they first generation immigrants?
Any idea why he put the glass down like that?
Rode my motorcycle to Ft. Collins, CO, 1979. Left my bike at friend’s for day trip into mountains. Came back into town in afternoon,kept seeing these big white things laying along the road and in fields and roads. Couldn’t wrap our heads around what we were seeing. Pulled into parking lot, huge dent in my brand new motorcycle gas tank and front fender. The hail was softball size! It was punching holes in roofs, destroying car windows, and if I recall, one child had been killed as mom was walking the child in a carriage and couldn’t get under cover in time. Tragic. We had just missed the storm!
I grew up in Colorado and don’t think I ever owned a car that didn’t have dents in the roof from hail. Never fixed the roofs as they would just get more dents the next summer.
I was 14 in 1974 and lived in Huntsville,Al. Our town got hit hard(we are not far from Tanner) but the surrounding area was flattened. A friend of mine's father had a barn full of antique cars. No barn, 2 cars trashed in a pasture the rest gone and dozens of cows and horses dead with 2x4's or limbs or sheetmetal sticking in them.. Truly Biblical. And yes, they really do sound like a train coming.
On April 3rd 1974 in Franklin county Kentucky I watched hail from baseball to softball size cover our yard. When they hit the street in front of our house some would shatter but some would bounce 6 to 8 feet. The yard was covered with many inches and buried in the dirt several inches deep.
I also watched a tornado pass in sight of my home and after dark heard another pass as well.
❤Thank you for speaking up.
At 2.64 the Hail Storm begins. Excellent video.. Time is an Affliction 😂
We had 80 tornados in Indiana, I stood in our backyard and watched as they went through Wyatt and also there was a huge amount of damage in Elkhart. These were identified as the Pom Sunday tornadoes.
Such great stories. Such a great presentation. So much pleasure in listening to you Sir. How about a story on the Carswell AFB tornado which changed the countries nuclear posture.
Living at 9400ft in altitude in Colorado we get very extreme weather, can see mutable storm fronts at the same time. Hail of a baseball at lower altitudes, and damaging size hail is a normal occurrence along the Rocky Mountains. We much respect the weather, even the most entitled can't get thier way with it. Thank you for sharing this interesting information that effects some of us!
biggest hail i've seen was the size of a golf ball.... scary
I’ve seen baseball (hardball not softball) sized hail, pretty much flattened cornfields in Iowa, shredded trees, etc.
I we had fist size northwest of Denver. Beat the crap out of cars and homes.
A REALLY EXCELLENT EPISODE! YOU ARE THE BEST HOST-NARRATOR ON RUclips!
My gramma liked goldfish. We lived in a rural area and she usually acquired them at a fair or circus that occasionally came by. In the winter she and gramps might leave their small home. When they came back the goldfish were frozen in the glass globe on the kitchen table. After a fire was build in the stove, and the water thawed out, 😊these goldfish began swimming around. But if the water froze again, these same goldfish did not come back to life.
My brother and i witnessed frog rain in the Texas Panhandle 1980 or 1981. The frogs were under 1/2 inch, and they definitely survived the fall. They were not surviving being squished on the highway. We grabbed up hundreds and moved them to a creek in our neighborhood.
I saw a huge scary waterspout (tornado on water) right in front of me on Lake Michigan on the shoreline border between Wisconsin and Illinois in the summer of 2013. I have pictures.
Oh History Guy, You missed an opportunity to include a very devastating tornado that is known for killing many more people than it injured. I would love to see you do a video on the Great Natchez Tornado of 1840. "The second worst tornado in U.S. history hit Natchez in 1840. It killed 317 people and injured 109.
This is the only recorded tornado in the U.S. that killed more people than were injured." This is history worth being remembered.
Fantastic once again sir
Extreme hail is something else in real life. I've only experienced marble sized hail myself, I can hardly imagine how devastating giant hailstones are.
I cant imagine, it looked like that trailer in the image got machine gunned
3:43
I've only experienced pea sized hail and that alone was just. So weird to see in person.
I’ve never seen it raining frogs
But I remember a time in the 1980s when, according to all sources, it did actually rain MEN.
I have seen some large and interesting 'dust devils'. They look like miniature tornadoes. I have also survived two near misses with tornadoes. One of them took the second story off of a house and destroyed a barn.
As a 30 year resident of Houston I have often heard about the raising of the Island but never knew how. It's time for another trip to The Island
Thanks for the modern pics I moved I needed to but I still miss galveston
Very interesting. And the cat was a nice touch. :)
18:03 attention to the classic supercell trace with the distinctive hook echo appendage on the southwestern side.
Amazing program! Thank you.
I literally just lost my house in the recent Little Rock AR tornado (3/31/23) but I still gotta watch THG!
The storm of 1974, was one of the most frightening event, I've ever lived through.
Was a kid in Ohio when Xenia was trashed. Impossible to overstate the sense of shock and surprise.
The last one was the most terrifying, comparatively 😢😢
That was very interesting, thanks for the education 👍
Tysm. This was a great video.
15:10 is a great video summary of mesocyclone structure.
I was 12 in 1974, and my sister and I sat in lawn chairs in the front yard, watching tornadoes form on the horizon and dissipate. My mom came out to see why we were being so quiet, saw what we were doing and made us all run for the car. We spent the rest of the night in the basement of a local church. We heard about Xenia on the radio. A few days later, I was in the woods near our house, and found a nearly perfect circle of downed trees, laid out like spokes on a bicycle wheel. Our area of Northwest Ohio didn't see much damage, the tornadoes were sporadic and more along the lines of forming, touching down for a moment, then dissipating. It was fascinating to watch. We weren't so lucky with the blizzard of '78....
Science and THG, does it get any better!!!🙏🌬️👌👻❣️
Hands praying/clasping, blow air, okay gesture, ghost, heart.
What do these pictograms mean
@@Hongobogologomo appreciation for the subject, but of course you knew that, any more jerk questions cuz!!!😡
I love the History Guy.
❤ The Vaults !! 👍😎✊
I really enjoy the history of very large storms. How far back can we go to study really bad storms?
There are massive problems with the radar network. We have a good many " radar holes" in tornado Alley, and Dixie alley.
I was raised in Columbus Ohio I was 16 years old
When Xenia was destroyed. We went there and it was
Indeed horrific!
Never forget that. 😢😢
At 07:21 “...2:54..” was misspoken “...2:64....” Because minutes contain no more that 60 seconds, this stuck out like a sore thumb.
There was a sporting goods store who once put a sign in its window that said, “We sell golf balls the size of hail.” Along with the comparison to ping pong balls and softballs, let us put an end to the use of sporting equipment lest someone bring up cricket balls, polo mallet heads, etc.
The nerd vomits at 11:55! True gold sir! 👍👍🏿😁
A storm system once picked up a 3x1 ft steel sign from a housing development in Albuquerque and deposited the sign on the street in front of my house in Lewisville, TX. That was a trip of over 500 miles.
Was not expecting the first one, Dubuque was where I went to college and up the road from my hometown
I was sailing down the St. Lawrence Seaway when I witnessed both a water spout and the subsequent raining down of all matter of creatures and debris from the sky. There were fish as heavy as a couple pounds coming down in a mailstrom that included odd pieces of wood, bits and pieces of fishing net and fishing line tangles, pieces of tattered clothing, including several shoes and a wallet w/ ID and a few Canadian dollars(?), plastic bottles and other small plastic items, etc, etc. Unless you've witnessed an event like this, you have a hard time believing its validity when you hear it recounted. The water spout was truly awe inspiring, but what came after was once-in-a-life-time stuff.
I remember these tornados. I grew up outside of Boston where tornados are extremely rare since we are near the ocean which moderates the temperature differences. I had never even heard of a tornado siren. In my freshmen year in the early 70’s we had hail the size of softballs. I hadn’t seen those either. Or seen a cow outside of a zoo, which my roommates thought hysterical.
Isaac's Storm about the 1900 Galvesron hurricane is a fascinating book.
Aussie, NSW, here and our storm season is late spring to early summer right when our fruit is almost ready
About 15 years ago we had a hailstorm. That alone wasn't unusual. What was weird was how large the hailstones were. I went out after the hail and stopped and picked up a few of the bigger ones. I dug a golf ball out of my bag and photographed the ball among the hailstones . . . the hailstones were larger, and it wasn't all that close. A golf ball is 1.68 inches in diameter (for you metric folks 1.68 inches is 43 mm),
It would be nice of you to say where this happened.
@@dennishayes65 southeastern South Dakota
Had a hail storm happen right as I was watching this. What are the odds lol?
Very interesting. I need to look up Pueblo, Colorado now. I don't remember exactly where it is. Thanks!
The ability of Galveston to complete that task is testament to what can be done when citizens work together regardless of political affiliation. Could anyone imaging that succeeding today?
Very interesting video 🐸
Must of been one heck of a storm for the phrase "It's raining cats and dogs" to come about.
From this last round of tornados, it's amazing how few people were killed.
thanks
Could you please do a segment on the Carrington Event of 1859? Also, there was a big meteor storm in the 1800s that was so spectacular that it woke people up from how bright it was outside. Some thought it was the end of the world.
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THG did an episode on the Carrington Event years ago 😃
in 1999 in central indiana, i saw a softball sized hail storm that is on the top end of hail stone size.
About an hour ago we had pea-sized hail during a severe thunderstorm that passed through the Kansas City area. No tornadoes, even though it's tornado season here.
I can testify that the Galveston seawall is actually two seawalls, one about 40 feet behind the other. The 2nd seawall would stabilize the intervening sand backfill, making the system into a massive 50 foot wide seawall.
Well done.
LIKE your f4 corsair model
The various outbreaks need to remind us that severe weather is not a "recent" phenomenon.
I was born at St Mary's in Galveston in 1951...
Good evening
2:64 pm? OOPPPS!
Some years ago a waterspout crossed Castle Harbour in Bermuda, and crossed the airport runway built on low reclaimed land, dropping fish which were flopping there to be cleared away before aircraft could use the airport again.
Unfortunate amphibians . Great description and laughed out loud
Yuri Gagarin's flight anniversary tomorrow. I'd love to hear its history presented in your style. Perhaps next year!
Talked about it briefly in this episode: studio.ruclips.net/user/videoQ4OcWac9jJQ/edit
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Thanks!
I have grown up in Texas and, while I have visited Galveston, I have never desired to live there. In part because the shore I know is the one in New Jersey. However, when I was in my twenties, I was trying to help my boss find records of her family's arrival into Texas. Into Galveston and, at the time, it was where those records were also housed. She had good reason to believe her mother's family was related to one of those great German composers, Brahms I want to say. However, despite her best efforts, and mine, there was never any chance of finding them since they were destroyed in the Great Storm, or The Hurricane of 1900. My best friend's father's family was of Czech decent, most of his family lived in the Wharton area and I understand many came in to Texas in Galveston. (Funny story there, another friend of mine actually had a teacher with the same unusual last name, she had married into the family. She had grown up in the Wharton area while my friend grew up in the Austin area.)
It was tragic that it took a tornado outbreak to basically. upgrade the weather monitoring system. What is sad is how it's often ignored these days.
This is just like Houston. Due to hurricane Katrina, there were city and state officials interviewed the week before hurricane Rita concerning the idea of setting up Contraflow lanes. Every single one said it was impractical. After Hurricane Rita the very SAME official said it would have worked! Everyone was disgusted. It took us 24 hours to drive what normally takes us 90 minutes. We evacuated with 5 children, a friend who had no insulin (because they city closed the public health clinic three DAYS before mandatory evacuation), 2 cats, a turtle and a hamster. We ran out of gas in Cleveland Texas. We are still grateful to the local church who brought us a gallon of gas so we could make it to the local TX department of transportation station where they were gassing up cars. We eventually reached Oklahoma where we were able to find a motel and a nearby town to fill her prescriptions.
49:00 That's amazing a prayer to Jesus saved them both ..... but stuff all the others that prayed their guts out. Gawd works in mysterious ways.
We had 13" circumference hail stone storm with wind blowing them sideways, totaled 2 car dealerships, many stores closed for months. They came through roofs
Love it, frog hail, sounds like a biblical plague on Pharo.
"I looked up and saw a two storey home coming over the hill!"
Yep, seems like a pretty shitty day😂😂