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A hurricane name is retired once it hits a certain threshold of damage estimates. Ian was retired because of that, Katrina was also retired, Andrew was also retired.

Okay, a few things:
1) that open circle is called the Eye of the hurricane. Inside the eye, it's beautiful - calm, quiet, & peaceful. But that is surrounded by the eyewall - the edges of the eye - where the winds are the worst & when the back end of the hurricane hits, it's worse because it usually brings higher wind speeds & faster atmospheric flow, which is the storm energy the hurricane is drawing behind it. Vicious stuff.
2) Yes, 125 billion. Hurricanes are brutal. Tornadoes are less controlled but destructive for a relatively short time period. Hurricanes sometimes will stay put for DAYS & dump an unholy amount of rains, causing flash floods & drownings.
We've become better about predicting them partly because of advancements in Sciences, but the other reason is because some weather scientists go up in a big ass plane & fly through the eyewall to get measurements.
That's a video I'd love to see you go over: hurricane hunters.
Also, you wanna see some beauties of tornadoes & lightning? Check out Pecos Hank on YT. He's been a stormchaser over 20 years & he's amazing.

"Katrina's gonna be the worst one."

1900 Galveston Storm: "Hold my beer."

Hey Adam if you didn't already know, Hurricane Helene hit Florida as a Category 4 hurricane on Thursday. She has swept entire neighborhoods away in Florida and has caused some of the worst flooding in North Carolina, Virginia, and other states that we have ever seen. Dams are breaking due to excessive floodwaters and entire towns have been engulfed by water. It is the worst hurricane we have seen since Ian and if this video were made after Helene, there is a good chance it would be on this list.

As a native of the Gulf Coast area we are a big target of hurricanes. Had one last month another coming this week.

I worked for relief efforts and demo after Katrina, I will never be able to articulate the feeling of being there. In side the houses it looked like someone had picked  up the whole house and shook it like a snow globe. Many times we would be walking on top of a foot or more of debris in the house. Windows all blown out, water stains just below the roof line of even 2 story houses. Just miles of debris and empty homes,  no grass and deafening silence; no bird, nothing

That’s the eye of the storm, winds are calm in the eye.

As a lifelong New Orleanian I am old enough to have lived through 2 of the storms on this list - Camille and Katrina. To answer your question, that middle part of the hurricane is called the eye, and I have experienced several. It is the most calm, peaceful, and still environment you can imagine. It's weird because the eyewall which surrounds it is the absolute worst part of the storm. You are in the middle of that and then it's like someone flips a switch, and everything stops and becomes quiet. Then you get to the other side and another switch is flipped and you are back in the worst of it.
And now Florida is about to take the brunt of what could be a very bad hurricane. Your neighbors in Louisiana are thinking about you guys - stay safe!

My grandfather was working on train tracks during this 1928 hurricane, an old Seminole man warned the crew to leave and that a great storm was coming. He came several days with his warning but they didn’t listen. Hours before the storm hit the men decided to leave and take shelter. When the storm was over the tracks were gone.

The circle is called the eye, 2:11 this is where it is mostly calm although you will eventually have to go through the rest of the hurricane while it passes.

I lived in Bradenton, Florida in 2005, and I actually visited New Orleans a month before Hurricane Katrina. I remember it very distinctly. Somehow I dodged an enormous bullet-- the hurricane passed over Florida just south of me, before slamming into New Orleans. The reason why Katrina was so devastating for the city, as I learned during a guided tour of the cemeteries when I was there, is because the bulk of the city is built below sea level, on a piece of land that is surrounded on three sides by water: the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River, and Lake Ponchartrain. The seawalls and levees are absolutely essential to the city's continued existence. When Katrina hit New Orleans, it was enough to breach the levees, which in turn flooded the city. In addition, the disaster was compounded by FEMA's incompetent slow response in reacting to the crisis, and governmental failures at every level up the chain, from local to state to federal.

As a person whose never lived outside the American south, I’m every state I’ve lived in we’ve experienced a hurricane or two. Hurricanes are normal to us.
Btw, Adam gets so shocked and pauses with his shocked face for so long that everytime he does it I’m always wondering if my phone is buffering or not and then he’ll blink or something and I’ll go “oh it’s just Adam’s shocked face, the internets fine.” Lmao 🤣
Also, Katrina was on my sisters birthday, five days after mine, and we couldn’t do anything for her birthday bc of the hurricane so we just stood in her garage with the door open on lawn chairs and watched. 🤷🏼‍♀️
RIP SIS I love ya

I’ve been in the eye of Hurricane Opal and it was solid blue sky, eerily calm, and birds were circling above.  They probably stayed in the eye for safety all the way until the point of storm dissipated.  

Before the eye came over us, the winds were blowing west at 140 mph and all the trees were bent westward.  As the eye passed over, we could see the opposite end of the eye wall, where the winds were fiercely blowing at 140 miles an hour to the east.  The eye was over us for only about 28 minutes.  As it approached, the winds dramatically dropped off to 0 mph and as the opposite end of the eye wall approached the winds suddenly and dramatically picked back up to 140 mph.  It was amazing!

Of course, this meant that all the trees that were bent, westward were suddenly bent eastward and so….snapped off or broke.  There wasn’t a tree in sight after that.

We still talk about Camille often down here. I've lived in the bay (Bay St Louis) for about 20 years. When Camille hit, she wasn't very big but she was incredibly strong. The storm surge only just made it to the train tracks about a mile inland but her wind totally flattened the Bay and Waveland. Katrina, meanwhile, was enormous. Her winds were impressive but nothing we haven't dealt with before. Her trouble came from the storm surge. Where Camille only put about a foot of water on my parent's property south of the tracks by the beach, Katrina had somewhere around 20-30 feet of water over the roof of our house. There are still many places in town where you can go and see bare slabs, nearly horizontal-growing trees, and long-since-abandoned flooded buildings from Katrina. This isn't a pity story, though. We live here and we love living here. Before any major storm, hundreds of hurricane parties occur all up and down the coast and out on the river. Basically, you and all your neighbors go out the night before the storm and throw a block party and cook all of the food that's going to be spoiled or destroyed when the storm hits. It's a macabre final send-off for your house and belongings before you leave town and see what's left when you come back.

The 'EYE' of a hurricane is a calm spot, it's really eerie. I've been in two of them in all the hurricanes I've seen. The problem with the eye, is that generally the highest shearing winds are in the eyewall around it, and they change direction relative to the ground as the storm moves, so things that are hit by the eye get the worst twice, but from both directions.

We’re New Orleanians and my mom spoke a lot about hurricane Audrey.  I was 13 when Camille hit the Gulf Coast and we had 100mph winds by our house, lost power, and rained like crazy.  Camille tore up most of highway 90 also.  That story about the hurricane party is REAL. There was an apartment near the beach and they were having a “hurricane party” because they didn’t believe a storm that strong was coming.  The complex was blown off its foundation and torn apart.  One woman was blown into a tree which broke almost every bone in her body. She’s the only one who survived.  When we finally got back to Gulfport, there was nothing left.  No road, no houses, no trees, nothing.  Big antebellum houses on the coast… all gone.

We were dead center under the rain bands of Harvey in Galveston and Texas City. It churned for 3 days and we were so glad that we sheltered in Texas City. We're protected by Archimedes screws on the back side of the loop and out by the Texas City Dike. I looked at a lot of houses before I bought and when I came to look at my house with a realtor, she apologized because the street was torn up because they were putting in 10 foot drainage pipes under the street. I said that's my house, right there. Our poor friends in League City and Webster lost their houses, their pets and all their belongings. We took in everyone that we could. It was an awful time and my heart goes out to anyone hit by a hurricane.

You might want to check out, The National Hurricane Center online. As you are going to FL next month. It hasn't formed yet, but it will be hitting as a hurricane soon. I live in Dothan AL, and am prepping for it. As I am pretty sure we will lose power. I am basically north of Panama City Beach, FL. So, I well remember Hurricane Michael. We lost power for 2 weeks here. It is so hot right now in the South, ughh!

I really wish they could figure out a better way of rating hurricane categories than the Saffir-Simpson scale. It only measures wind speed, but with hurricanes, water is what causes the most damage and fatalities. That’s why you can have storms that are rated lower that are actually quite more severe than people realize. Also, people will let their guard down when a hurricane’s category is lower and won’t evacuate when they really should leave. It’s a problem.