American Reacts to 5 Deadly Natural Phenomena America Has That Britain Doesn't!

This is Lost in the Pond’s fascinating comparison of natural disasters in America and Britain. From tornadoes to hurricanes, he dives into the deadly disasters that Americans face but are virtually unheard of in the UK!

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[laziojohnny]

It's thanks to you I now shout out loud ‘‘SHOW ME ON A MMMAP!!!’’ whenever someone on telly mentions a place I never heared before, making everyone around look at me as if I'm mental.

[tracymuckle]

Al Murray explains why the UK doesn't really get extreme weather lol

[jerbil]

This guy does my head in JJ, see you in the next one!

[nicw]

There are sometimes wildfires over here, like gorse fires in Cornwall, but nothing on the scale of what you have in the US or Australia.
I've felt one earthquake, I was sat in a chair at my Grandparents home and the chair moved across the floor. We are incredibly lucky over here

[sonya]

Yeah, we get wildfires here in the UK too. Last major one i remember is Saddleworth moor a couple of hours from where i live in the North west. It went on for 3 weeks

[klaxoncow]

The UK had a Summer, in 2022, where the temperatures hit 40C and there were some wildfires that destroyed homes.

Of course, yes, this doesn't compare with what some countries experience. But, for the UK, it was totally unprecedented (and, remember, we largely don't have AC in our homes, so it was horribly unbearable for a few days).

Climate change is coming to us all, unfortunately.

[stewrmo]

I must admit, I canny go this guy. I only watch for JJ. One love from Scotland. 💙

[JackMellor]

Britain has wildfires in the sense that occasionally harsh heat can burn large amounts of heathland or moorland black, but these aren’t raging infernos consuming neighbourhoods

Whilst we don’t have any active volcanoes as mentioned you can find ancient extinct ones.
Glencoe (a popular wild glen to visit in Scotland) is the eroded and twisted remnants of a large volcanic eruption and Edinburgh Castle is built upon an outcrop of volcanic rock.
Nearest volcanoes to us are in Iceland, where if a large volcano erupts the ash can reach the UK and ground air traffic as it did with Eyjafjallajökull in 2010.

[judithmitchell]

I remember the fires of 1976, probably because they came down my road. Thankfully, the damage was mainly to farmland, moorland and hedgerows - a couple of houses locally were lost though. We've had a few more since then. Our wildfires tend to be started from arson, negligence or sun reflecting off litter like glass rather than spontaneously like in hotter countries such as the USA and Australia.

I read somewhere that the UK gets more tornados each year than the USA - it is just ours our so much weaker and of shorter duration so we don't tend to notice them until they damage buildings.

[gennytun]

We do have wildfires occasionally in the UK, but on a very much smaller scale and frequency compared to other parts of the world. Summer of 2018 was very dry and large areas of wild moorland had fires. Even the small area of wild grassland called a Common on my doorstep had a fire that summer which burnt off most off the dry grass and damaged some of the trees. This is in a built up area but luckily no houses were damaged and certainly no people. It's been interesting watching the natural regeneration on the Common over the past 6 years.

Re the fire map of UK, the East of the country is generally much drier than the West, all that rain comes over off the Atlantic and gets dumped on the west coast.

[roowyrm]

I remember one UK earthquake, about 18 years ago. I was living in Bristol, on the top floor of a high-rise block, near the city center. I was lounging in bed, reading, when, all of a sudden the room swayed. I thought I was experiencing a vertigo spell...until I realised that my bed had actually been moved across the room (by around 12 inches). Interestingly, my son ( living in the same place) didn't even notice.

I have also felt two smaller earth tremors.

In 1970s the UK had a run of extremely hot summers. There were wildfires in many places, many of which were started by human carelessness.

[davidberesford]

The easiest way to live through a natural disaster is vicariously. Keep Reacting!

[GayJayU]

Our village nine miles east of Manchester has been evacuated three times, Moreland fires, floods and a 4/5 strength tornado.

[snowfirma]

I have seen corn fields ablaze quite a few time and they are scary . Fortunately emergency fire service come out quick and get then usually in control.

[TheWebcrafter]

10:30 - HURRICANES, which start in the ocean, are well-defined systems of showers and thunderstorms with a well-defined circulation center with maximum winds of 74 mph (64 knots) or greater. Hurricanes are categorized by the Saffir-Simpson Scale. The categories range from 1 to 5 with 1 being the weakest and 5 being the strongest.

[tonyjohnson]

I've witnessed two tornadoes in the UK.. one went right past me and took up some rubbish on the building site I was working on.. the other was pretty spectacular as the farmer who's home we were working on was in a field close by had been waiting for a dry day to mow his field no sooner had he finished when a big ( for UK) spiral went through the field and took up loads of the long hay and we watched both in amazement and with a sense of humour as half his crop disappeared into the distance.. I took pictures but I don't know where they are now

[carlgibson]

The backyard at my previous home was a tornado hotspot, with around 20 to 30 every year. Luckily they were always tiny and the only things picked up by them would be leaves or whatever litter had blown in from the street 🌪

[shmokinsweet]

The morning after the 1986 hurricane, my brother got up early to walk to work, he thought it was a bit windy but wasn't concerned until a shopping trolley appeared from a side street behind him and seemed to start following him for about half a mile, it totally freaked him out in the end, there was no one else in site, he said it was spookily quiet even with the wind and he started to think the trolley was possessed and after him lol

[fishtigua]

We do have many tail-ends of hurricanes in the UK. I've been through 7 Caribbean hurricanes, lost our house in Antigua one year. The 1987 one in England didn't make the morning news in Hamburg, where I happened to be up a shipyard crane 80m in the air, when the wind suddenly hit.

[stopanimalcruelty]

Seen a tiny tornado in uk and a tiny earthquake in geography lesson while in high school. We have very strong winds being on the coast of the Irish Sea .
We get about 3 inches of snow about every 7 years or so, that’s it.