Top 10 Worst US Hurricanes

Thanks so much for watching! Which hurricanes would you have included on the list?

content:
0:00 intro
0:30 Hurricane Ian
2:22 Hurricane Camille
4:40 Hurricane Harvey
7:45 Hurricane Agnes
9:32 Hurricane Maria
11:15 Hurricane Audrey
13:11 Labor Day Florida Hurricane
14:38 Hurricane Katrina
16:25 Okeechobee Hurricane
18:25 Honorable Mentions
19:00 Galveston Hurricane

music: Epidemic Sound

#hurricane #naturaldisaster #top10

[SwegleStudios]

Thanks so much for watching! Which hurricanes would you have included on the list?

[alexroselle]

Who’s here after Helene and before Milton?

Yikes!

[anacampanita]

I appreciate you including Hurricane Maria. I’m from PR currently living in south Florida and my entire family lost everything. And unfortunately, I lost my Aunt to the hurricane. One of the hardest things during that time was hearing everyone on the mainland saying, “thankfully it only hit the Caribbean instead of us.” Although PR is a territory, we are still US Americans!!

[Protokuma]

My great great grandmother lived through the 1900 Galveston hurricane! She was incredibly young at the time and the whole family survived by taking shelter at the Bolivar lighthouse. She was one of the last through the door and had to dive down to get through it. She sat on the steps with a hundred other people and till the day she died never forgot the sound of the wind and screaming outside.

[maggien]

Interesting list. But I gotta say, Andrew not in the top 2 is amazing. Not being in the top 10 is flabbergasting. A storm that literally changed the building code, wiped out Homestead, tore the wind vein off the NHC HQ... Was the costliest hurricane before Katrina.

[KrogNar-yv]

I was a victim of Hurricane Ian in 2022. I lived in Fort Myers. I can't really explain how bad the devastation was. People were unprepared, as it made it's turn towards Ft. Myers at the last moment. Imagine someone coming into your house, and throwing everything everywhere, like a teenagers bedroom, but worse and with broken glass, a hoarders house. Then, upscale that for the entire city. I left Florida after the hurricane, but according to some of my old friends, there are parts of the city that are still heavily damaged as a result of the Hurricane.

[RIPjkripper]

The rainfall rates from Camille in Virginia were so intense that birds drowned in the air. Scientists believe that it dropped "the probable maximum rainfall which meteorologists compute to be theoretically possible."

[abigaillilac]

My dad adopted a tiny black kitten who was born during Hurricane Harvey. All the animal shelters near Houston were closed and damaged, so the shelters in other parts of Texas took the animals in. One of those kittens ended up at a shelter in Austin, where my dad adopted him. He grew up to be a HUGE warm cat with a loud purr. 😸

[mikesbikechannel]

You're gonna have to update this to include Helene when the results are in, but you may wait to include Milton. We're in for a very rough ride! God bless all those impacted by these storms.

[dustinschouest]

I'll never forget Katrina.
My dad evacuated us out if Houma. We were watching the landfall on Fox 8 News while in Camaren Parish. The most coked out meteorologist in history, Bob Breck, said those magic words. "We did it folks! We dodged the bullet!" I swear to God right as he said that, around 8am August 29th, the levees broke. I'll never forget that hubris.

Also, there are two hurricanes that I think should be honorable mentions: the Last Island Hurricane of 1856 and the Chenire Caminada Hurricane of 1893. The graveyard for that Hurricane is barely still there between Grand Isle and Fourchon

[terpfen]

Hurricane Andrew being an honorable mention instead of top 3 is silly. It made TWO separate US landfalls including one as a Cat 5, completely wiped entire cities off the map, was the costliest hurricane in US history until Katrina, created a massive permanent population displacement, and is still affecting Florida today (such as causing the Burmese python population explosion in the Everglades, and catalyzing building code changes that are resulting in the current redevelopment of coastal South Florida.) Andrew was so devastating the name was retired and replaced with Alex. Florida looks the way it does today because of Andrew. It's more impactful than Ian.

[sikorsky]

I sat through Harvey in an older house. I lived near Corpus Christi at the time and it felt almost like a fever dream witnessing the 140+ mph winds hitting first hand. I'll never forget how the old walls bent a solid foot inwards for much of the time the hurricane was active in our area. We had it relatively easy on flooding given the elevation, but it didn't save a lot of other towns from flodding significantly.

[ethangreen]

A very significant hurricane that I think often is forgotten, though recent, is category 5 Hurricane Michael in 2018. It completely destroyed the small town of Mexico Beach, FL and Tyndall Air Force Base, and caused significant damage further into the Florida Panhandle and southwest Georgia. Other than causing some bad damage in the eastern Panama City suburbs, it didn't hit any major population centers, which I think leads to it being forgotten. I drove through the FL Panhandle on I-10 a few months after the storm, and all the forest that used to cover the area it hit was completely gone. Just sparse trees. It was very sad to see, and it won't be the way it used to be for a long time.

[tacticalmattfoley]

Hurricane Katrina caused me to become a prepared minded citizen. I was a HS Science teacher in a town on the eastern side of the Birmingham, AL metro. Many families came to our area seeking refuge because they had family in our town. The kids that enrolled in our district had no documentation of any kind because all of it was lost in the storm. One of the kids in my classes had no idea about family members' whereabouts or mortality. Imagine finding yourself two states away tomorrow with no ID docs of any kind, no money, no change of clothes and no clue if you'd ever see some family members again. This young man didn't reunite with his mother until May of that school year....9 months later.

[Ansemthewise]

Hurricane Milton speedrunning right now to get #1 worst Hurricane

[LuciusVulpes]

Hurricane Maria survivor here. I didn't have electricity or running water for months. A lot of people lost everything. Personally I still have a form of trauma because of it, so hurricane seasons are extremely stressful.

[lizzykoehler]

My mom worked for the Texas government for my entire life (24 years) until this year. During every hurricane, tornado, or other natural disaster she would go work at the state emergency management bunker. I remember her basically living in the bunker during Harvey for weeks because of how bad it was. She has helped save thousands of lives and I’m so freaking proud of her. She now does the same job for the federal government.

[briandiaz]

I’m a Puerto Rican that lived the experience of hurricane Maria, I spend six months without electricity and I know that many people had to wait more than a year to receive electricity again, also many had to spend two, three or four hours in a line at a grocery store just for a gallon of milk. There are even disputes on the actual death rate of the event on the island, some suggest it could have been as high as 4, 600+. Truly, a tragic event that the island will never forget. Thanks for the mention of it in the video.

[harryshriver]

A very well done video, young man. When I was young, I used to track hurricanes on a sheet that was provided by the newspaper. I would track them and update their position every couple of hours, then marking the path all the way to landfall. I was fascinated by the meteorological phenomenon from a very early age but moved on to other things as I grew older.

[KawaiiKasai]

19:45
"This is not a good area, don't live in this area."
Me, who lives there: "Thanks."