Do you remember the L.A. "Hurricane" of 2023
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When Florida man is the sensible one.... You know you're in trouble 💀🤣🤣
If a Florida-man is asking you if you're prepared for a hurricane, you should probably prepare for the hurricane.
Depends on the FL man. Most FL men will be prepared for hurricanes regardless. Some FL men will be like, "I'll be worried when it's a Cat 5"
my california friend lives in the high plains near me now, and she always asks what to do in tornados and bad thunderstorms
@@Sarara14 we call that natural selection
@@Sarara14The two kinds of Florida Mans: "I'll be worried when it's a Cat 5" and "...because I've prepared for a Cat 4"
I have had to have...so many convoluted conversations with people trying to like. Explain the correct level of panic LMAO. Like, be NORMAL but like. Check klystron 9, if you are told to evacuate please evacuate, if you do not know hurricane protocol ask a Floridian OR bay news 9 always has a page dedicated to explaining hurricane and disaster prep! I dunno how y'all didn't learn this!!! Really worried for u guys!!! This is why we keep talking shit about ur infrastructure!!!!!!!!
Ftr during hurricane season Floridians check the weather ALL the time lmao like if you aren't using your weather app? This is your sign to start!!!
During the London Riots several years ago when students were protesting college tuition, there were a few comedians who were Irish/went to Ireland and asked if they'd heard about the rioting in London, to which they responded "Riots? My _hole._ That were a shopping trip, _we'll_ show _you_ a 'protest'!"
Wasn't it Dara O'Briain? I vaguely remember that happening but i can't remember who it was lmao
Yeah, he said it when he was hosting the British panel show _Mick The Week". I didn't put specifics in the original comment since it's not exactly mainstream, particularly for American viewers.
@@michaelscott6022 Lmao that’s fair. I watch/listen to Mock the Week pretty much literally every day, which explains why I can remember that line so clearly😂
I’m curious to see their idea of protest now
@@CarbonatedCondensation Look up Easter Rebellion
Californian here! We also had an earthquake DURING the "hurricane". It was dubbed the Hurriquake.
“It’s a hurricane not….Alabama” 😂😂😂
Even better, this was from the Huntsville show, in north Alabama! I was there and I was dying up next to the stage
I think those that didn't laugh didn't know that Baja California isn't in the US.
@@chrisowens4550 It seemed like most people were laughing, though I did have a lot of people behind me, so I think most people knew
Yeah, that's the thing, us Floridians have minimal reactions to smaller hurricanes because a lot of our infrastructure is built to survive it. A Cat 1 is likely to do minimal damage in Florida, that same Cat 1 would destroy a city like LA.
Reminds me of the people who poke fun at texas for not being prepared for a deep freeze.
@@theduchyofmilanball3157I don’t blame the population, too much, since many Texans are from other places & state agencies apparently make little effort to educate residents. However, the conditions that cause a hurricane are unheard of in written history, in the Pacific. The same can’t be said of cold snaps or even multi-day freezes, in TX. The state government is even cozier with the energy industry than California’s. They deliberately leave TX off the US power grid, to avoid regulations on things they were repeatedly warned to fix. The part around El Paso that’s connected to the US grid, had no where near the problems as other parts of the state. Mexico had to briefly step in to provide access to their grid, where possible. Doubt many Texans know/ care about that.
That bit at the end, "it's sunny and 75 every day," just repeating, becoming a mantra of madness...I feel that, I live in Vegas, and I _hate it here._ It rains eight times a year, twice during spring and twice during autumn, and that rain is the only indication that those seasons are even happening. Everyone thinks I'm weird for loving storms, and loving rain, and going out for walks and hiking while it's raining, but fuck you! It's blinding daylight without any clouds for 99% of my year, _every year!_ It's only gonna get worse! Lemme enjoy my piddly little drizzle while I dream of actual storms!
Now I'm not from Florida but that is absolutely 100% my exact reaction to certain content creators who mocked how "oh everyone was panicking and oh no there's a twig in the road"
Sandy is the girl sitting at the top of the LA River watching the drag racing.
Am I old if I get that reference? 🤔
"Oh, Sandy
Bayabeeee...
So-omeday
When high-yai school is done,
Scientology will come
And mess our heads up. Fun!"
Old School Floridians know that until it reaches Cat 2 it's not even worth putting the shutters on.
These people are crazy. I’m a masshole and even I have a fowl weather/disaster equipment. My parents still use the same equipment they had back when Bob came through in ‘91.
Also, in regard to Sandy, as someone who’s water and power were disconnected, my your local Publix get burned down.
*foul
As someone living in the LA area, what's a Publix?
@@GoErikTheRedThink Safeway, but on the eastern side of the Mississippi
I live in eastern Canada and I have to say something similar every year "we dont have the infrastructure to handle storm surge or rain"
You live in fire country in California, you have an emergency bag. (Not SoCal)
Parts of Socal, but not LA except near Santa Monica mountains or North SFV
@@deborahgoldberg3878 Fair
People really do forget that infrastructure makes all the difference. I'm a native Rhode Islander, and we're generally pretty fine when hurricanes make it up here in New England because we're prepared for blizzards and nor-easters(I was 7 years old when Hurricane Bob hit), but a few years back there was a magnitude 3.4 earthquake in Buzzard's Bay that did a fair bit of damage to New Bedford and the surrounding area (nothing major, though there was one death when a guy went outside afterwards to check his house for damage and his chimney fell on him). Las Angeles wouldn't even _notice_ a magnitude 3.4.
I remember when my brother moved down to South Carolina years ago, his first winter there they got a quarter inch of snow and the entire state _shut down._ Cars were gridlocked on the highways. My brother went in to work and they were _shocked_ that he made it in, employees were calling out left and right because of the snow, and he was like "Guys, it's a quarter inch of snow, I'm from Rhode Island, this is _literally_ nothing for me. The roads are _slightly damp."_
I think the reason why they don't know what an emergency kit is is that's not what we call them in LA. Growing up we had earthquake and fire kits. When was enough stuff to survive after an earthquake for 7 days. The other was usually a bug out bag that you can also include important documents and medication in case you had to leave because of a Forest Fire.
I can confirm, Hurricanes are not to be messed with. I live in NJ so I don't get them but I lived Sandy and I knew what it does. There's also snowstorms which can be just as bad if they can't clear the roads.
You mention Sandy and everyonei in NY abd NJ just twitches. PTSD is a bitch. I kuved on a hill. I sat in my living room and watched the lights go out block vy block in a nearby city. And then the cops guarded our bridge yo keep loorers out. Good times.
I did!!!! I twitched!!! Absolutely, and NYC .... it's made up of islands connected by bridges and tunnels... and the transit system being flooded out where the water inside subway stations went to the ceilings and up the steps to swish on the sidewalks... so nobody could travel anywhere. And roller coasters floating in the sea as a water ride now... ooof.
Yeah, it actually hit the west side of the Sierras. So we in Las Vegas got drenched but we also missed the actual hurricane. Still was a mess. We have emergency stuff due to us getting brownouts during the 115+degree summer heat waves where everyone has their AC running. But then again, all we need to do is go to our neighborhood casino as they all have their own generators for such an emergency. LOL
I’m so glad they are fine but….them not needing to swim seems unfair😂
Something tells me ben isn't fine
He is. He confirmed it with It's Sunny and 75 🤣
Sunny and 75.......
Sunny and 75.....
I would not be fine either.
When you are the only friend in your friend group who has a go-bag 😂
I'm hearing your inner Bill Burr coming out of you.
As someone from FL and been in CA for the past 20 years, I feel this on a spiritual level.
I've been waiting for this video!!!!! This is exactly how I expected this to go.
The only "Florida man" I've ever met in person was a friend's brother who moved to live near his family in Massachusetts after a decade plus in America's appendix.
He drove his car up having sent his belongings via a shipping company.
Well. It was December, we had a foot of snow and a cold snap, and his radiator only had water in it.
Oh! And he was diabetic and had left his stuff in his new apartment!
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Luckily, my mother was ALSO diabetic, and was able to concierge his morning testing and injection, offering any of three different glucose meters and either human-derived or cow-derived insulin.
Two days later, it was warm enough that his radiator could be drained and filled with actual anti-freeze.
Luckily, no engine or radiator damage, and he didn't die from a diabetic reaction.
It’s also hilarious explaining mountain flooding to someone who lives where it’s flat.
“This area’s fine. Twenty feet away, this girl’s apartment and place of business are sitting in the creek. She’s staying with me so she doesn’t have to live in her car. I’M fine! This poor girl has no home!”
now Im seeing tornadoes in SoCal and winds circling enough to knock a leaf off a tree, as an Oklahoman I find that irritating
A real storm surge in LA would be a disaster for the coastal areas, for sure, but the areas a bit further inland would be mostly fine. There’s a reason the LA River and most creeks are channelized, and why Sepulveda Basin exists: to move water quickly to the ocean and hold back the excess until it can drain safely - preventing a repeat of the 1938 floods. There are also several flood basin areas along the river (including Griffith Park and Rio De Los Angeles State Park that are flood basins in disguise, if the river does need to overflow its banks downstream of Sepulveda dam. There are a ton of more flood control damns at the base of the Santa Susana and Santa Monica Mountains, as well.
The real damage from heavy rain comes from mud slides, especially in burn scar areas, and in the explosive growth in grasses and shrubs that later become fuel for new fires in the late summer.
I am nearly to this point with this year's winter. We jave had about 3 weeks of winter. Today is inthe 70's tomorrow is in the 30's and I'm gonna be pissed off at all of the complaints.
How do you not have an emergency/earthquake kit after Northridge?!? I get not understanding hurricanes (I was at universal studios that day) but you need an earthquake kit out here! & 90% of those things also apply to hurricanes. Gen Z & alpha in LA have no clue what an earthquake can be.
That’s what blows my mind. I wasn’t worried about a potential hurricane because I already have supplies for an earthquake, and those are basically the same things you need for a hurricane - minus sandbags, maybe? And we live in a second story flat on top of a 6-car garage so flooding isn’t a huge risk to us anyhow.
Mostly we just have to make sure the car is charged up so we can run the fridge and some lights off of it for a few days if need be.
But the amount of people who have absolutely zero earthquake prep here is pretty terrifying. They won’t survive 3 days, much less a week.
Sandy wasn't that bad!
Yes, I know it was. I have relatives on Long Island who lost lots. The joke is, when Sandy was parked hammering New York City for days, the eye was sat on top of my town, so there was barely any weather. We were sittingbat 830 millibar, though.
As a Texan, we get hurricanes occasionally here as well. We also have a bunch of recently transplanted people from other states who have no idea how to be ready for it.
When Hurricame Andrew hit Miami in the 90s, my 5th-generation Miamian self who was living in Seattle, called my ER-nurse mom in Miami and said, "Don't worry about me. I'm ready for the hurricane!" Mom laughed and said that my sister, also in Seattle, had said the same thing!
Sandy? Did you just say freaking Sandy? People from LA never heard of KATRINA?!!! How can they think "hurricanes aren't that bad"? Almost 2k people died and there still are Americans out there thinking hurricanes aren't that bad?!!!
Yeah but most of those people were poor and black so no one cares.
He said Sandy wasn't a real hurricane. It was a Cat 1 which would be nothing in Florida but was devastating for the areas unprepared for it. Obviously Katrina would have been devastating anywhere it hit.
@@cocomonkilla When Sandy hit New York it really wasn't a hurricane anymore.
It was still very devastating.
I was raised in Guam where we have typhoon season - a typhoon is a coconut-flavored hurricane. Currently, I live in Washington State and my mom is in L.A. When the hurricane happened, I asked if she was going to throw a Typhoon Party. She laughed and said no because she was tracking it and saw what it was bringing. "It looks like it'll be like a Western Washington winter, except warmer. There MIGHT be a bit of flooding, but I don't think it'll be THAT bad. I do feel sorry for Vegas, though. Looks like they'll get wetter than here, and they're even less prepared than we are." She was right about L.A., but Vegas wasn't hit as bad as she thought, getting just over half an inch of rain over about 2 days. I think Palm Springs got it worse.
What’s so funny, is that in Florida we just sit in the rain and glare at the sky like ‘Come on, that all you got!’
I know someone who was in San Francisco at the time, asking people online if he should use Doordash to get groceries, because anyone out in that weather MUST need the money, right?
You can tell Ben spent part of his life in Daytona and Ormond Beach, because Orlando/Kissimmee people who are about 60 miles inland don't prep unless the forecasted path says it's following I-4 and is Cat 4+. This means it will hit O-Town at a minimum Cat 3. Charlie came through along I-4 and messed up WDW and O-Town Downtown. The trees have finally grown back at EPCOT near the monorail track, so it is hard to tell it ever occurred, but for a while the knocked down trees were evident. Since then, Ian came through and flooded everywhere, but the damage from wind was minimal. Sandbags would have been no help, and your 7-day food kit would require a boat, canoe, or waders for replenishment trips. If Charlie hit LA, you'd suffer damage like occurs with Santa Ana winds, with added rain and standing water. If Ian, hit LA, you'd drown. We've all heard that West Covina is 2 hours from the beach with traffic it's 4. In miles at 32.3, West Covina is still closer than Orlando/Kissimmee to the beach, but we can still see rocket launches from the Cape, because we sit on higher ground.
Ben, you're fricken awesome! So funny. On the spot. I nearly peed myself! Needed that laugh today. ❤
I don’t understand. I live in the Los Angeles area. We all know to have earthquake safety kits and go bags ready. That covers all the emergency preparedness stuff Ben discussed. How did Ben’s friends not know about/ not already have these preparations? I swear, the majority of Angelinos are much more prepared.
L.A. is on or near a fault line, in danger of being basically scraped off into the Pacific or shaken until it's flat as a tray full of sand, and they still don't have any kind of emergency kit or anything? My goodness.
Now I feel bad for never having a proper emergency kit for all four years I lived in Florida, though to be fair, I lived in the one small section of Florida that rarely got hit by hurricanes.
My first hurricane was Mathew. I was living in Cocoa, and honestly, I was so disappointed until I went to work on the Cape and saw the damage.
Fun fact: the bad decisions in the past that resulted in the extremely extensive drainage network in LA/OC/Riverside counties is why LA has one of the best swift water rescue teams in the US.
The bad decisions in the past? To design the drainage network in such a way as to move as much flood water as possible to the ocean as quickly as possible. It’s why the LA River, San Gabriel River and Santa Ana River are all concrete-lined with extensive flood channels, all concrete-lined, feeding into them. At the narrower points of the LA River, the water can get up to some seriously fast speeds.
I believe now that more is known how to mitigate flooding without throwing away all that water they’ve begun steps to allow the ground be more of a sponge in places. It’ll take a *long* time to undo the mistakes of the past, just like the wetlands restoral efforts along the coast will take a long time to reclaim areas once drained and used for industrial purposes (though it’ll never be able to fully restore due to how much land was used for construction). As much as I love CA, given the history I don’t have a ton of faith they’ll stick to the effort needed.
Great video.
The Sandy bit killed me lol
I had been in L A for just a year before the hurricane. So I have the same feeling about telling my friends and co-workers about getting ready and then it missed us entirely. I didn’t even have to use a battery charger or any of my water supply. Now I just try to make friends with people south of LA who know the score.
Ben needs to bring his friends to Florida for a hurricane season
His frustration is the embodient of East Coasters' annoyance of the West Coast when it comes to their ignorance on natural disasters and weather phenomena😂
Oh shit Wiseguys on 4/10! I'll make plans to drive back in (why couldn't you come to Vegas when I lived there? Never mind, something something gift horses)
So, uhh, as someone who lives in Las Vegas. We barely got hit by the "hurricane". We actually got more rain the following weekend
I bet you didn’t have to tell Dan Povenmire about hurricanes. He was in Mobile during Frederick.
My daughter and I moved from Florida 3 years ago and apparently mossed Florida so much that we brought a hurricane with us.
We have emergency kits in VA and we haven't had a bad disaster in a while knock on wood
Hurricane culture is listening the local news on one of those hand crank radios and hearing that all of those stupid houses built on stilts next to the ocean collapsed and fell into the water
I'm Loui. I co-sign *ALL* of this.
Sounds as if it was about as serious as the Battle of L. A. In 1942.
From SE PA. Sandy wasn't the worst part. The worst part was the BLIZZARD that hit a week later while half the county was still out of power from the downed trees
YES! I’m from Long Island I was 8ish but I still remember that we didn’t have power for 2 weeks because the day after we got it back the blizzard hit
Is that where they filmed the chase sceen in Teminator 2
Oh my god that’s me
You'd think that the earthquakes would teach them at least some basic prep
My li'l cousin lived on the west coast her whole life n never experienced real Canadian winters until last yr when she lived with my parents for a few months. Her first winter n she was like "this ain't so bad" n I'm like "my mom drives u the 5 blocks to ur work cuz u still wear sneakers every day n thx to global warming it is like -20 on a bad day but when I grew up -40 was a normal day. So was she ever sitting herself when we got a flash ice storm n half the city lost power for a week. 😹😹😹 sometimes kids need to learn the hard way. She owns better boots now 🙃
Sandy was definitely not a Hurricane. I felt that..
Is that where they filmed the race scene in the movie "Grease"?
Yes. Also the motorcycle chase from Terminator.
That’s our River. They’re cemented in because a century ago there was a flood & the River overflowed its banks & engineers said, “what if rivers don’t have banks?” to fix that so now all our water has a freeway to the ocean & we’re perpetually in a drought even if we flood.
@@Sk8rToonkinda? We also built a ton of flood control dams and basins: the LA Flood Control System is FAR more vast than the LA river channelization.
It also hasn’t been the major contributor to California’s repeated droughts: those aren’t new. The big issue is that we don’t get as much mountain snow as we used to, and our seasonal rains have become even more monsoonal: we’ll get a months worth of rain in a few days, meaning most of it never had a chance to be absorbed into the ground naturally. The ground just can’t absorb it that fast, and storing it all long enough for that natural process to happen (I.e. in a flood basin) would require absurd amounts of space and time.
That’s all part of why we’re moving so fast on water recycling: by fully reusing the clean water we have, and recycling every drop of storm water we CAN capture into the San Fernando Aquifer, LA should be water independent by 2035.
Soooo would you call it the……Baja Blast?
TOILET PAPER!!! I felt like that about living in Washington and rain was a gully washer at 1 inch a day. I've seen that much in 5 minutes and the creek was rising. And twisters! NO! If there was one, it had to be verified by an Okie, an Arkansan, a Louisianan or a Texan, which actually happened once! The mayor who didn't want to salt the streets, damn hills, in a very bad ice storm with outages for weeks. It would make the bay more salty when it washed down. Bay water will exchange with other water to quickly to be a problem, and he was told that. You should have seen the videos, and probably did, of cars skating down the hills towing humans trying to stop them.
They didn't even have an emergency kit? What is wrong with these people? I've lived my entire life in the Midwest, and I have an emergency kit because you never know what could happen.
At $4+ a gallon, who needs gas?
That's fucking cheap.
@@archapmangcmg it's like 2.90 here
@@TylerFurrison It's $4.50-5.50 in Australia and $7 in Europe.
So, at $4+ a gallon, the answer is "Everyone except Middle East and Americans".
$4 a gallon would be in California, which has the highest gas prices in the US right now@@archapmangcmg
While your shorts are pretty funny, can you upload a stand-up special? You're one of my favorite newer comedians, but I'm not gonna sit and 100 30sec clips. Your state joke clips are pretty funny, but I don't think they're as good as your stand-up. Besides a stand-up special, I would really like if you were on an episode of the downside podcast cause you and the theater kid comedian are easily my favorite 2 comedians on the come-up. (Maybe 3 cause I also really like Josh johnson (I think that's his name (I'm not good with names, but I'm trying to be supportive))) lolz
...you, uh, you doing okay there, pal? Cuz you seem quite distraught about the West Coast hurricane and the trajectory...
So... Where do we watch or buy the full shows of these my guy? Because as great and funny as you are, your not stepping foot on American soil great.... Although to be fair, nothing is that great