Best and Worst Places in U.S. for Natural Disasters
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- Analysis of the major natural hazards that affect the U.S. I examine how and why natural disasters affect various parts of the country differently. I specialized in natural hazard preparedness planning prior to posting videos on RUclips and am really interested in this important topic.
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Kyle, seeing you discuss weather in front of the US map, I'd say you missed your calling as a TV meteorologist
No sharpie needed!
a special kind of intelligence is the ability to take something complex and explain it simply, like you did with the tornados, but to simultaneously make it this entertaining is a gift from God. thank you Kyle.
I literally laughed out loud within the first second because of the shirt
Kyle is a native Californian after all.
I love that shirt!
That was my exact reaction too! Ultimate Dad shirt.
Yep!
Is that La Palma tsunami landslide? o.o
Great video GK. 15:24 - "And that one you see looks like a red hashtag in Yellowstone? Yeah, don't worry about that one"... cuz if the Yellowstone caldera errupts, we're all screwed anyways :)
I laughed out loud when he said that, and watched that part again.
Nah I’m ready for Mellowstone. All hype
Flagstaff Arizona is also another caldera, it rivals with Yellowstone, go research it.
If Yellowstone happens the world is pretty much screwed. Years without a summer, significant temperature change, a halt in economy, basically destruction of the USA, and thousands of companies dying all at once
@@THX--nn5bu there’s only 4 active super volcanoes in the us and none of them are in Arizona
It's weird that heat isn't counted as a natural disaster even though heatwaves cause significant disruption and loss of life.
I mean, for some reason he added seasonal snowstorms as a disaster so who knows what the actual criteria was here…
In Phoenix we just call it the summer.
@@zdoko2490 phoenix has lots of ac, where I live in the pacific nw people don’t usually have ac so when we had 120 degree temperatures for a few days last summer many people died because of the extreme heat
@@jackfraley9590 then maybe they should get ac because I don’t think heat counts as a natural disaster
Heat doesn't damage anything, it only kills people. This world is all about money, so if it doesn't cost anything in damage, then it is not a disaster.
13:46 DID YOU ACTUALLY???? I lived in Monterey for 3 years and saw those signs!!!!! That’s actually really cool!
I didn't physically install them all but I decided where they got placed. Most were at beach info signs or in flat areas around the harbor and El Estero park. The most vulnerable areas are around Pajaro and Carmel Lagoon. I definitely miss living there. It was the nicest place I've lived.
@@GeographyKing Yeah I liked it a lot too, a very beautiful. I just wasn’t a huge fan of the constant cold overcast weather. I really loved going to Big Sur where usually it had a little nicer weather and great hiking. Even my profile pic is of Big Sur lol
they have them on the Cape too in Massachusetts, even though tsunamis are extremely rare there
The Oregon coastline has tsunami warnings up and down the coastline!
15:26 “Yea, don’t worry about that one” lol
I live in SC and was thinking, “Why are we so immune?” Then you pointed out that disasters seem to miraculously stop right below the borders of NC and TN. Good answer.
There were three small earthquakes in Summerville SC three weeks ago, Sept 30, 2021. About a 3.3 but you could feel it.
Recalling Hugo and some of the other major hurricanes that have hit SC, maybe nature just saves up for you. ;-)
Because we are in God's country.
@@wendellwhite5797 I graduated with Dabo Swinney. He fell from the mountaintop and apparently grabbed Superman’s (Nick Saban’s) cape and pulled him down too. 😉
@@hearmeout9138 Nah Saban gonna win atleast three if not four more titles the guys the absolute best to ever do it
Should mention the flooding is made worse if a drought happens before it rains. The soil can't absorb the water quickly enough so it builds up. Been hearing that a lot this year in Iowa
so make a video and fix it
Another well done, informative video. All of your content is worth watching. Great job, Kyle
Thank you!
Said the Packers fan.
(Said the Bears fan 😥)
Kyle I love all your videos man!
@@bigsky7617 Strange though it sounds for me to say, because it's never happened before that I'm aware of, these Packers and Bears fans actually know what they're talking about!
-Vikings fan
Another gem, Kyle! Keep it up!
لا اله الا الله محمد رسول الله.
I would like to highlight the severity of the earthquakes in the New Madrid fault zone. It was not just one single quake but a series of massive quakes and very large aftershocks that spanned a period of about 2 and a half months. Among *daily* weaker aftershock quakes in this area, during this short period the area saw a 7.6 and a 7.0 on the same day on 12/16/1811, a 7.5 on 1/23/1812, and the strongest of the series a 7.8 on 2/7/1812. In between those there were a handful of 6+ aftershocks including a 6.1 directly under Memphis TN. If a series like this happened today, it would cripple a huge portion of the midwest and midsouth.
The fault system is insidious too because it is deep and the mechanics that cause the quakes are not visible at the surface. Where as most faults have movement that can be tracked from the surface, there is barely any movement in the NMSZ. This is due to the fault being in intraplate fault and the mechanic that causes ruptures is an ancient sinking tectonic plate that was pushed under the west coast millions of years ago. It the same mechanic that raised the Rockies and high plains. This plate gentle slopes under the NA plate until it gets to the NMSZ where it plunges nearly vertically into the mantle. Its this downward stress that pulls at the fault and causes the build up of stress. Its nearly impossible to track from the surface due to all the alluvial water logged soils that bury the system from years and year of deposits from the MS river. This soil moves, compresses and expands like a sponge so it hides much of the motions related to this. I live near Memphis and have studied the fault system for years. Its super interesting to me because its such an oddball system. Considering the ancient plate is still in place as far west as CA, this system will be be active for a very long time.
Good use of the potential problems with the beer/liquor/club mix in describing how tornados work.
The worst scenario would be a Guinness, followed by 4 shots of Jagermeister and then the DJ puts on The Electric Slide.
Seeing you explain tornadoes in front of a US map was actually gripping. I'm not even sure why, but it was great. You were so into it, and so was I.
Oh my god I love those Blue tsunami signs in Monterey!! I really have been wanting to get a shirt or get a sign that I can put in my room as a decoration. They’re a bit more colorful and unique but still beautiful in their utilitarian manner to the San Francisco beach ones were there just white with the text.
Great graphic design man!
Tsunami evacuation zones are pot marked all along the california coast. But it is fairly easy to escape to higher ground. Most of California is quite a bit above sea level. Great video. Love all the maps.
As someone who grew up on the border of the Red River Valley in Minnesota, and who has a fiancé who tracks river water levels after rain events in Minnesota, this video hits close to home! 🌧⚡️❄️🌪🌊
On that first point, Davenport, Iowa and the three adjacent cities comprise the biggest metro along the Mississippi without a levee. Their downtown area gets flooded every two years or so, and it's always the same picture.
I’m actually in the Quad Cities atm. The Illinois side actually built up some barriers to protect against flooding.
Iowa side not so much
was literally just curious about this, and this gets uploaded!! thanks
What a disastrous video.
Well done.
Would love to hear a video talking specifically about how climate change is likely to affect different regions of the US. Great stuff, keep it up!
Don't worry about yellowstonegreat mix of humor and education. love the content. Do you miss Monterey County sometimes, it's cool to know that you did their water level planning
Kyle, thanks so much for a new video. I feel refreshed after watching your videos because they are not polarizing and I see facts presented by a knowledgeable and unbiased videos, but with a personable touch (which regional foods, which local breweries/bars to visit). I look forward to your new tales each and every time.
Thank you!
I live in WV and while tornados of any notoriety are pretty rare, there was an event that took place in 1944 known as the 1944 Appalachian Tornado Outbreak. Several violent tornadoes occurred over two days. The town of Shinnston which is half an hour or so from me had an F4 tornado. But overall WV is a pretty safe bet as far as natural disasters go.
I live in WV also!! 😊
as a fellow west virginian, i can agree that wv does not really get much in terms of natural disasters, especially disasters that can destroy homes. the only possibilities depending on the areas are flood plains near river basins(don't live right on the river or if you do live mobile or live where there is a higher drop off into the river so you don't get affected, just logic there), mudslides/landslides i can see being a thing more with areas with less plant life or more plant life removal that is holding the land together to keep those things from happening, also completely preventable, considering most of the mountains in wv are completely covered with trees. blizzards are more of a thing, especially at higher elevations, but as long as you protect your pipes and have a higher slope on the roofing of your housing, and stay home and stock up beforehand, that is not a major issue either. humid heat waves or below freezing temperatures can be dangerous to people when we get them, but not exactly dangerous when it comes to houses.
i can count on one hand any other type of disaster, wildfires are almost nonexistent due to the high humidity with very few exceptions, there was literally 1 earthquake during college at wvu i felt in all my life and it was basically a joke where those that posted garden chairs fallen over and saying never forget because of how panicked folks were because of the rarity of it, lolXD even if we were to have more earthquakes, we do not have any major cities with huge skyscrapers. there was literally 1 hurricane recently that affected us only a little, and that was just the hail(i live in the eastern panhandle mainly). even though i heard of a tornado or two, it never really did major damage, i actually was closer to a tornado working at a call center on the pa/md state line on interstate 81 where everything because a crazy windy green mist outside my window where if you were outside, you couldn't see your hand in front of your faceO.O another joke would be tsunamis in wv, yeah no, not only is most of the state well above sea level outside of river basins in valleys, we are way too far inland, all the water from the glaciers would have to melt for us to basically become the new east coast to even have the slight possibility of this.
we are more susceptible to tree fall damage, mold, infestations, arson, hoarding, or terrible construction of the houses in the first place(cough cough dan ryan homes cough cough)screwing up our homes rather than any natural disaster in west virginiaO.O
Shhh, don't be telling everyone. We don't want outsiders moving in lololol
Another great video! In five years heat waves will figure prominently in disaster data. I never knew there was such a thing as a heat dome until it hit Vancouver last Summer. It was 42 C / 108 F
I moved from Tacoma to Tucson right before June and managed to miss that nightmare heat. At least here when it hit 115, there's AC and and respite from it. My little house back in Tacoma would have been an oven.
It’s just the opposite of a polar vortex
@@KanyeTheGayFish69 Why is it "just" the opposite? Polar Vortexes and Heat Domes kill people.
Love the shirt. Thanks for the videos, as always.
This is the video I've been waiting for sooooo long!
I will watch this video over and over again.
If you have the opportunity, please talk about Natural Disasters more often.
Such an underrated channel. Keep doing what your doing King
Perfect timing on this new upload Kyle, thanks again for the consistent and well made content👑
Speaking of tsunami's, I remember the moment of realization that I had when I was watching a seaside scene somewhere in Indonesia or somewhere where suddenly the water in the bay quickly receded out to sea. I remember thinking immediately that the water was probably pulled out by a huge offshore wave, and that it was going to come back in with a vengeance. At that time, I don't think the wave was even visible offshore, but it did come back in with a destructive wall of water. If the water suddenly goes out, make for high ground!
Excellent summary of natural disasters and their effects. I’d like to suggest that you drill down into some of these in a series. I have a background in emergency planning in the private sector and over the years have spoken with geologists, civil engineers, insurance experts and state/local emergency management people. On the subject of flooding, storm water in developed areas is a huge concern and think it’s poorly understood by the public. Development means less area for rain to soak into the ground. The more buildings and pavement diverts water to drains that if not properly cleaned, will lead the water to low lying areas. Not to mention towns with older infrastructure, but still growing, becomes a perfect scenario for disaster. I don’t think many people really understand the danger of rushing water.
Thanks so much for putting this video up. Very good information.
Thank you! There's definitely a lot more to go over for sure, especially as you mention that "flooding" is a very general term and there's a lot of different aspects about it that area specific to certain places and situations.
I'm an engineer (electrical, not civil but still had to take statics and dynamics) and I've seen some of the worst storm water handling in mountainous areas where a highway snakes down a winding path along the edge of rock cliffs and they'll clear a drainage ditch down the side of the road between the cliff and the road and then at a turn where the road basically cuts through the rock vein so that the cliff is now on the other side of the road, they just end the drainage ditch at the turn and then create a new one on the other side of the road next to the cliff face with NO drainage tile, pipe, or other mechanism to keep the water from going over the road. Those turns always have eroded channels exactly where the water runs over the road and I've asked them many times why don't they just pay to make a cut under the road for drainage but they maintain that it is more cost effective to have to re-pave the road over and over again than do anything about the real problem.
@@hearmeout9138 I think you have to have seen the damage water can do to appreciate the seriousness of the problem. In March, 2010 we had a 3 day storm with ~10” of rainfall (SE CT). We had a man made pond (~3 acres) for fire water. There’s a building with about 15 480v MCC buckets raised about a foot above the pond level. The pond had 2x 24” overflow weir’s that couldn’t keep up. The pond over flowed, and began pooling against the railroad line for local railroad which started to overflow the railroad. We opened 2x 24” pond drainage pipes. The overflow of the pond saved the MCC’s (we cut power remotely, but you can imagine cost if water made it into the buckets). But the railroad wasn’t so lucky. By the time we were able to get ahead of the pond level, the rail Bed was completely washed out for about 100 yds and 6’ from the rail. Once you see it and have to deal with it, you instantly get religion. Unfortunately most people don’t have to manage these problems like the one you described and focus on only near term problems.
@@danbuchman7497 Ironically, water isn’t even an electrical conductor. It’s a dielectric with a moderate breakdown voltage but all the crap in our typical water electrolyzes it and turns it into a conductive electrolytic solution. At a company where I worked after college, we had a power control circuit board with 230VAC inputs duty cycle controlled by triacs and a full microcontroller chipset that operated flawlessly while immersed in distilled water for over three years. The board eventually degraded enough for something to oxidize enough to start random electrolysis and eventually a conductive path of cathion flow developed that caused the ground plane to oversink the circuits and it blew the power supply fuse.
Anywhere in the great lakes is the best place to set up. The largest collection of fresh water in the world is nice to be around.
Only Lovers Left Alive is an arty film about arty, beautiful vampires in love. Starring Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton.
As a music lover, he loved Detroit. They showed the bad parts of town but immortal vampires take the long view. Detroit has water!
Hellholes of Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland! No Thanks Don't want to be shot/mug/robbed !!!
@@Gyalog44
Every city has neighborhoods to avoid after dark. Better than countrysides with murderous inbreds.
One of your most interesting videos to date, on a fascinating topic. Well done.
I can't wait to see you do a break down of each of these disasters. How tornadoes forming in the mid-west is nothing like the tornado formation in California. How hurricanes like Andrew can be small and mighty and pack a big punch, but tropical storms like Harvey can wipe out huge swaths with the amount of rain being dumped.
As a formally meteorology major this is definitely my favorite video. The last picture Los Angeles county stands out. Hurricane Matthew bought back some memories here in North Carolina. Loved the video. Side note it’s interesting to see the current population shifts more and more into areas with more natural disasters.
not gonna lie, these are some REALLY cool maps!
There’s a tiny dot for a tornado in a town called Littleton in northern New Hampshire. It hit my house and wrecked 16 trees. Got a lot of firewood and timber but the weirdest part was living without a lot of trees that used to shade our yard. Fortunately we took down 2 dead trees that were hanging over our house the year before, otherwise i might not have survived as I was upstairs when it hit our unsuspecting town.
dude. i am sold on this channel. this is probably my #2 interest, natural disasters
Cackling uncontrollably at the tornado analogy
Dude, you could break down the ingredients of a loaf of bread and have 100% of my attention. Great stuff!
The floods you're talking about in the Midwest actually devasted Arkansas too. We are down river from all the places you mentioned. We had two "100 year" floods within 5 years. The Arkansas River absolutely devasted the river valley.
Starting at about 7:00 into the video, Kyle, I can just image you doing the 6pm weather report. In all seriousness, really enjoy this channel!
Amazing video! Far more detailed than others. Fantastic job!
The number of active composite cone volcanoes near the Seattle metro area is super ominous. A major eruption at Mt Rainier or Glacier Peak would be devastating!
Been there a long tome aga, and I remember seeing a lot of volcanoes on the flight up. Had to take a connecter from SF and there were so many volcanoes , knda cool though
Basically, if Rainier chooses to have an event, say goodbye to Sumner, Puyallap and many other cities in the path of the lahars. Fingers crossed this doesn't happen for eons.
Here in the UK, we think it's the apocalypse when a fence gets blown down.
I just found your video/link today March 10, 2023 🤷& thank you, thank you, thank you! You were spot-on covering everything regarding weather patterns & climate change in USA. I wish I had received your link/video a year ago.🤔 Please continue to do more your Awesome!
Your channel is so informative. Thank Kyle!
Very well done video. Appreciate the hard work making this. Thank you!!
Heat waves were completely missed. See the 1995 & 2012 heatwaves. These can cause significant lose of life. Also was omitted was hurricane Bob which managed to churn up well into the Northeast. He also missed snowstorms or another way blizzards. These cause financial disasters for snow removal, and interstate commerce. I would have liked to see these included.
Best description of tornado formation I've ever heard.
It'll be very interesting to see how these patterns shift over the next couple of decades. I live in Missouri which is not at all known for major forest fires but is largely covered in deciduous forests. It has been becoming increasingly dry here over time with this spring/early summer being remarkably unusual. It has been extremely dry in the atmosphere with humidity in the 20's and 30's. If that continues, we will have major forest fire issues (the love and prevalence of fireworks in the summer months here won't help either). I can't think of any region that has extremely dry conditions and large deciduous forests.
Thank you, Kyle. You’re the best. I watched the entire video with great interest on all the data you present.
Lmao randy marsh at the end had me laughing out loud
It’s the episode where they divert the lava from an eruption away from South Park but right into Denver lolol
I LOVED your explanation about tornados. I’m not sure I’ve seen you actively explain something in the middle of a video like that, usually you just show pictures, maps, and graphs. Especially liked the analogy about beer and liquor lmao
Great video. People with asthma and other pulmonary problems face a forest and prairie fire smoke risk that I feel is not well represented in your final map of composite risk. The smoke from forest fires can present a serious health hazard to vulnerable individuals at a fair distance from the fires themselves. Weather, topography and local air pollution can magnify the health hazard from relatively distant fires. This can adversely affect tourism. I love the West, but I'm cautious about traveling there during fire season.
You are lifesaver to some degree, thank you for the professional information. 👍👍👍
I'm getting ready to move from Whidbey Island in Washington State to Greenville, North Carolina. From West Coast to East Coast, North to South. From cool, mild weather with occasional wind storms to hot, humid weather with a pretty significant risk of hurricanes. Somehow the risk of a cataclysmic earthquake or volcano seems more abstract and less threatening than hurricanes, which happen every year. But I'll be going from somewhere with the least amount of pests (bugs, vermin, etc.) of any place I've ever lived to somewhere that is famous for them. I haven't needed air conditioning for over forty years; that will probably be the hardest thing to get used to. Not to mention moving from a house in the middle of a small town with everything within walking distance to an apartment complex next to a mall out where the stroads don't look very bicycle friendly. But it will be affordable.
keep up the great work dude!
first time i’ve ever seen northern kentucky and the cincinnati region be mentioned for its flooding! i grew up missing out on a lot of things (concerts, activities in the parks, etc) bc of the flooding!
Fantastic video. I love weather and when you put maps with weather. Home run. I am from South Jersey and recently we had a tornado outbreak. It was crazy. We had a F-3 tornado that destroyed a lot properties. Thanks Kyle for a awesome vidoe
Dammit Kyle. I never like videos. But when you ask, I gotta give you the thumbs up for another great video.
The Flint River in south Georgia flooded in 1994. Albany got hit hard. My mom said that Lake Blackshear was drained out and many people walked across the bottom. Basically all the fish were wiped out there I guess. I was born 3 years later and luckily the lake has been well stocked ever since, although it's heavily fished so the fish are very pressured and it's hard to catch them.
I've always had this question in my head considering I live in Oklahoma (thought we had a little bit of every disaster, including earthquakes) but now I know literally every state has some degree of disaster.
I‘m also from OK and when I try to explain the state to people unfamiliar with it, I always say, „between tornados, heat, drought, earthquakes, and ice storms OK is actively trying to kill you“. I noticed how bright red it was in that last map, but was just as surprised as you about how many natural disasters happen literally everywhere.
Awesome video with great content!
As someone who loves severe weather, you are right: I live in about the worst place in the country in West Virginia to enjoy that consistently. But even we have had severe weather. An EF3 tornado crossed the Ohio River and claimed the life of a friend's uncle. And a couple years later we had what we simply call "The Derecho," which was an unusually strong derecho that caused incredibly widespread power outages, even by typical derecho standards. It was the equivalent of a massive EF1 tornado covering hundreds of thousands of square miles. And people think because we are "The Mountain State," we must get a lot of snow. Some parts of the state do, but mine does not! In fact, we have the "warm wedge" that creeps up the Ohio River Valley and nukes many snow events, to my chagrin.
😀As someone who is scared ****less of severe weather, I finally found a reason to like living in my part of WV after all. A tiny local river floods every spring and winter, but all it does to me is give an excuse to not go to work due to road blockage. Now if only there was a cure for grinding poverty and relentless ignorance, I'd be all set.
I think is really dope how you worked for monterey county!
I really liked living there, especially doing a job that was in my field of study.
One of my geography GIS classes worked on Merced County preparedness/response. Every semester the professor has each class work on another little section because it's a massive amount of work to collect the data and keep it up to date. I can only imagine the amount of hours he spent posting those signs.
Nice shirt haha!
I laughed so hard reacting to your tornado explanation 🤣 another great video Kyle
The video is amazing, you clearly put a lot of passion in searching the most reliable sources and explaining them in a very simple yet comprehensive way.
I have just an observation about the earthquake map at 11:35 which is very accurate for the West Coast but underestimates the risk for other parts of the country. More specifically, there is a big active fault in the Great Plains of southeastern Colorado - marked light blue on the map - which might cause a magnitude 7.2 earthquake. Being in a flat area, such event would cause massive shaking to all the surrounding area, including that white spot between Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska. The probability is remote but it does exist, even if those areas are sparsely populated.
As for the final map at 15:30 I think you're absolutely right about Georgia and SC, they probably got much more than what they actually reported.
Anyway, congrats for the video.
Thank you for the comment and info!
Hey Kyle, awesome videos! It would be incredibly helpful if you could include an arrow or circle, or anything that indicates the area you are talking about when you're listing off features/facts about specific locations while we're looking at maps of the entire US; for your international audiences lol
by international - means space cadet - Americans who don't know the states and their locations
Invaluable video.
Thanks.
This was very informative, thanks!
The purple shading of the winter storm map at 10 minutes really threw me off. I was wondering why SC is darker than WV. Then I saw that it was based on the number of billion-dollar disasters over the last 36 years. It's almost more of an indication of an area's readiness for a winter storm.
Thats a good catch, New York is dark because it has lots of winter storms like blizzards, freezing rain, Nor'easters which occasionally are intense enough to overwhelm our standard protections. (Building code, knowing how to handle it, winterizing stuff)
But the south is darkly colored because they don't normally have to deal with a strong winter so when they get 2 inches of snow nobody knows how to handles it and infrastructure breakes because it wasn't winterized. For example Texas's winter storm/cold snap last spring which would barely be a bad winters day in the north almost broke a state that isnt used to a northern winter.
Conversely a heatwave will be far more dangerous in the north for the same temperature in the south for all the same reasons.
Disasters, maybe not at the federal level abound in Florida. Central Florida does not usually get hit with major hurricanes, but every seven years or so one makes it inland. We get lots of tornado watches, but few warnings. The summer thunderstorms roll in with a fury and give us a good sound and light show for about an hour. Then, as it gets into the evening they dissipate, so we don't get much rain in the night hours. Most of central Florida is known as "Sinkhole Alley." The underlying bedrock is mainly a carbonate limestone and other soluble rocks, called "karst." It is riddled with caves, pockets, cracks, and holes. As time goes by these become unstable and collapse, causing sinkholes. In 1981 a sinkhole the size of a couple of city blocks took out some houses, businesses, and even an Olympic-sized swimming pool. Looking at a map of central Florida you will see lots and lots of circular lakes. Most of them began as sinkholes! In 2013 a sinkhole that had been filled in reopened in Seffner, Florida. It opened up under the bedroom of Jeff Bush and took Jeff with it. Disturbances to the ground, like lots of rain, drought, and development cause them to develop. In 2013 a sinkhole took out part of a luxury condo complex near Disney World. Every now and then I hear of another one opening somewhere, causing damage to roads and neighborhoods. When they develop they cost a lot of money to fix and can certainly be called a disaster, and a concern for those moving to the area.
@@markmarco6277 The way I see it is that most places aren't completely free of a natural disaster of some kind. And if it isn't a natural disaster to think about, it's a manmade one. I'd be very leary of buying a house on a fault line, or across the street from a beach. I look at it as how likely is it to happen. I know that before this area was built up a geologist came out and assessed the sinkhole probability. I don't know how closely they regard such things today, as I see new developments going up on 100-year floodplains pretty frequently. Lots of agriculture and construction can destabilize the ground and small, circular lakes are a good sign of sinkhole activity. I think people have their own ways of rating the likelihood of natural disasters they are ok with before moving there. Earthquakes are definitely at the top of my list.
Really really enjoyed this video Kyle!👍
Great work! I learned a lot of great Information in your video
Thanks alot
another great video! thanks!
The only type of winter weather that can cause great damage in New England is ice storms, especially in the fall before the leaves fall. Otherwise, it is very safe here...
I've always wondered why some parts of New England aren't so significantly more expensive than other parts of the country that doesn't get any snow, because the plowing, salting, road re-paving, downed powerlines, and frozen pipes are all regular issues up here. Then I realized we don't have to save up so much money for the immense amount of damage that other disasters cause.
No area of the country is much safer than any other part, it's about the local geography. It's pretty near the water but don't build there. Trees are windbreaks, missing some? Plant more. Build to last, check the soil underneath first ...
Yeah, I mean overall we miss almost all of the standard disasters. Even our worst snow and ice storms clear out in a couple days. None of the old people in my town ever remember losing power or water for days on end, or not being able to buy food or supplies. He inflates the nor’easters into something menacing when it’s really just annoying at worst.
Looking at the raw numbers of damage due to natural disasters, I’d count northern New England as one of the top safest places in the country, hands down.
It's funny but there is actually a State the lower 48 but not in the Northeast that is considered ideal for many, many reasons. I won't say which, it's still sort of a well kept secret.
@@arcanondrum6543 then why bring it up?
Love this video, I've always been looking for the best place to retire. Don't want to pay the insurance companies $$$.
If you don't have a mortgage, you can just self insure and shoulder the risk yourself. Of course, you still might want some sort of liability coverage.... 😎✌🏼
I’ve been waiting for this one woo
Grew up in Northern California (San Jose) lived in Paradise for some years (yes the burned down town).
I’m retired now in Northern Colorado…on the Frontrange and feel pretty safe from disasters.
I’m below the mountain forests where fires can happen, and West of I-25 (East of I-25 you get tornadoes out on the prairie where the landscape looks like Nebraska).
I love the Colorado powdery snow (melts fast).
We get a few more days of sun than San Jose.❤️
About your only concern is flash flooding and dam failure, which is pretty easy to evaluate.
I have been waiting 3 years for this
Northern Michigan is clearly the safest place in the USA. Plus the access to clean water. That's the place to be
Flint on the other hand
@@paulinotou Flint is not in Northern Michigan. It's Three hours from Northern Michigan. And that's a human disaster, not a natural disaster.
Yeah… just ignore Yellowstone. If that one goes, it’s all over anyway🐝❤️🤗
Great video as always!!
Love your channel ❤
And as always no mention of sinkholes.
I enjoy your videos. Thank you.
I was hoping for an overlay of all of the disaster maps at the end to build what would be theoretically the "safest" place to live. I noticed several times one of your favorite areas - tri cities TN - was in the safe area. No flooding, no earthquakes, small threat of tornadoes, and no blizzards! (Although that one hurricane had to be different)
Very fascinating and informative! Thank you!
Upstate NY is pretty safe: tornados are very rare, hurricanes are generally weak when they get here if they do at all, no earthquakes, no tsunamis, that basically just leaves snow and honestly I'll take that over the other stuff
Same thing with NH. We rarely get Hurricane's and everything else we don't get besides snow and were used to it.
Lived through the 8.8 earthquake in Chile in 2010, several significant hurricanes In Florida, near miss from a tornado in Alabama. Quake was by far the scariest. Hope I never feel another.
THANK YOU for this very interesting vid!
Before watching, I would say MN, WI, MI would be the safest, in the middle of the North American Plate, with no Earthquakes, and no risk of tsunamis. Tornadoes are the biggest perceived threat, where on average 1 person dies in each state each year from a tornado... However major floods about once a decade are actually the deadliest... If you don't count deer, which are the deadliest animal in North America due to car accidents.
(Edit after watching):
"Beer, liquor, here's the club" LMAO! "Yellowstone, yeah don't worry about that one" lol Great video as always! We can really tell you put a lot of research into it.
What I would change: Instead of average XYZ disasters/year, you could have listed average deaths/year. That takes into account the regions preparedness and is much less scary looking (except for Oklahoma) lol.
What you left out: You didn't mention car crashes caused by wildlife which is a major killer each year based on geography but I'll let that slide. The major disaster you failed to include is an East coast tsunami caused by volcanic landslides off the coast of Africa which happen to be erupting right now 👀. And also droughts causing food shortages like the dust bowl, but that's been mostly alleviated through planting wind breaks at the edge of farms.
I would've liked to see your opinion through a custom map you made considering all topics covered and your final rankings of the safest States at the end. I still maintain MN, WI, & MI are the safest.
Thanks again!
(edit 2 for fun facts):
Did you know, that the largest mountain on Earth is actually Kilauea when measured from the sea floor? It is located at 19.5 degrees North of the equator and is the most active volcano on Earth... Coincidentally (or not), the largest mountain in the solar system is Olympus Mons on Mars located at 19.5 degrees N as well! Same as the great Jupiter red spot. 19.5 degrees North! The same latitude of surface contact points if you were to intersect a 'double tetrahedron' within a sphere with 2 of the points aligned to the poles!
Greetings from the New Madrid fault zone. 🙃 In Dec. of ‘15, I got to experience flash flooding followed by normal flooding. I was in an RV park in the St. Louis area. I was lucky in that when the FF happened I was home & able to drive out. I was in the lowest tier of the park. The folks who were away for what ever reason didn’t fare so well. Eventually the lower level flooded so bad it reached the tops of the trailers.
I found it interesting that San Luis Obispo County, California is supposedly most at risk for flooding, but it's surrounded by wildfire risk counties. I've lived here for most of my life and don't remember any extensive flooding in the area.
Thanks for the video Kyle! Very insightful, as usual!
"Notice that little mark on Yellowstone" (SUPER VOLCANO) "Don't worry about that one"... lol
Excellent video!, I love the phenomenon of weather and even learning about geographical events, does anyone have a friend or relative(s) that feel that because they live in a state like Virginia; they are safe from natural disasters because some states don’t have super chances of certain disasters, but yet there’s always a chance. I’m only 22 I’ve lived in three states so far Virginia (where I was born), Georgia and now Florida and in all states I’ve experienced Tropical storms, Hurricanes, Severe thunderstorms, the earthquake that was in central VA in the 2010’s, and even a hail storm.
I remember a meme after that Virginia earthquake. It was a photo of a plastic lawn chair knocked over with the caption, "Virginia Will Recover" and the date of the earthquake. :-D
16:04 As someone from the California desert, I will note that invasive plants have been making it easier for wildfires to spread out here (e.g. dried invasive grasses helping fires spread between yuccas and chaparral out in the region I'm from)
Bad year for fires and heat in B.C. this summer. One entire town burned down and 600 people died from the heat in Vancouver.
I'm still shocked that places up there saw temperatures above 40.
Thank you sir. This was very informative material that you have given us today. God bless you sir and your family. 🙏❤🙏❤🙏😊😊😊
As usual, you did a great video. I would like to see you do something on Devils Lake in North Dakota. The lake, which has no outlet, is higher that it has been in decades. Roads have had to be rebuilt a few miles away because the old road is under water. The town of Minnewaukan was over 10 miles from the lake when i was a kid, now The towns football and baseball fields are in the lake. The lake was a salty lifeless dead lake once, but now is one of the best fishing lakes anywhere, There are probably other lakes that have transformed with way; of course lake Chad and the Aral Sea went from being full of water to being dry.
Thank you. I'll have to look into Devils Lake. I'm not familiar with it but it sounds really interesting.