I remember the remnants of this going through the Pittsburgh, PA area. I think it was still considered a tropical depression at that point which is crazy
I survived this hurricane in Jamaica it was the most terrifying storm I ever been through and I remember after hurricane Ivan left Jamaica me and my mom was driving around Jamaica looking at the damage it did and we both saw a church that had it’s whole roof blown off but the building was still standing.
Thank you for FINALY talking about The Cayman Islands. It was one of the reasons I was waiting for this video to come out.( I live there and my parents went through the storm in Grand Cayman) Is anybody else from Cayman?
I remember hurricane Ivan. I lived in north Georgia at the time and it the first time I remember being sent to the basement because of weather. We lost power for days and there is still a reminder of Ivan on the road into my parent’s house. A large pile of trees brought down onto the one road in and out by Ivan, still sits rotting next to the road almost 20 years later.
First storm I experienced, I live just a 5 minute drive from where it made landfall in Baldwin County. The most fond and terrifying memory I have is walls moving in our small business' brand new showroom as if the building was breathing, all of course as usual at 3 in the morning so I didn't sleep that night. Somehow our mobile home dodged several tornadoes, two Pines and a 65 ft Water Oak from crushing it but the Oak flatten me and my sis' new swingset. It took well over a year to clean the debris away, even to this day there was still swathes of forest that hadn't fully regrown and then Sally happened exactly 16 years to the date and reset that progress once again. Speaking of, I'd love to an episode on Sally as I have feeling it will be overshadowed much like Ivan due to another storm that struck a certain city in Louisiana around the same time it occurred.
On final note, September the 16th happens to be my parent's anniversary so it's been a running joke ever since that they receive a hurricane as a present.
Great work.. Could you do one on Laura? And more in depth as in how wide the storm's destruction was and how far inland it went. There was heavy heavy damage all the way up to Fort Polk. And yet all you hear about is Lake Charles and the coastline.. and I have quite a few pictures and a couple videos of Laura's destruction if you'd like to use them
Thank you for making this! It's very quality work even with all the struggles you were going through. Hopefully now that it's done it's one less thing weighing on you and you can take some time to take care of you without feeling pressed by it :). Also, I didn't even know what the storm did to Grenada…
Suggestion but a 2008 Hurricane Ike video would be interesting! Did a ton of damage in the Caribbean and Gulf Coast, but also did a ton of damage in the midwest too! Was 13 when it came through Ohio and cause 1.1 billion dollars in damages, in ohio alone! Also was out of power for 8 days in the cincinnati area!
Another fantastic documentary Alferia! Great job 👏 your grandparents are so proud of you sweetheart ❤I was just having a mild argument with a Florida resident about tornadoes during hurricanes. He didn’t believe me and I was able to remember Ivan and Ida which caused a tornado outbreak up in my area in PA. I had no idea that Ivan did that crazy loop back into the gulf. That must make it one of the longest lived storms in history! I’m writing this before the end so maybe I’m right and you’ll go over that. The devastation is heartbreaking 💔 to see.
My grandmother had a time share in Orange Beach in Gulf Shores, Al. That got washed out and they never bothered with it since, a lot of money down the tube.
Ivan is always a little bit of a sore subject for my family. We had family that lost everything in Charlie, and so much of the emergency help got pulled away to deal with Ivan, and then later Katrina.
I rode Ivan out in Pensacola, not far from the back gate to the NAS. Had a lot of trees down and had to camp out without power for about a month. It's the biggest storm I have been that close to the eye, but have been in half a dozen smaller storms. It's part of living on the gulf coast.
The one thing my 5 year old brain remembered from Ivan was our back porch disappearing leaving only one of its support beams through my dad's windshield on the other side of the house. We still had a roof so I consider us lucky for a southern Mobile family.
I remember this storm very well. We lived far inland at the time, so never thought much about Ivan having any significant impacts on us. Schools were called off that day. But that night, as the storm came up through Georgia and Alabama, one of the bands dumped some heavy rain and flooded my hometown. The flooding was a combination of just the sheer torrential rain and the fact that a nearby river had become dammed up from debris which diverted it through town. The only real injury was myself. I woke up that night while the water was already a couple of feet into the house. I got up and tried to leave my room, but there was an electrical current in the water, and while scrambling to pull myself out and onto my chest of drawers, I cut myself on something, dunno what it was. The water current was so strong that they had to come in with a boat, and the electrical current was strong enough that the rescuer that came and rescued my family and I could feel it through his insulated rubber gear. We wound up losing everything, but the house was probably the worst thing we lost. It had been in our family for a couple of generations and was built by my great-great grandfather. Not long after we had been rescued, the water level rose eight feet and stayed that way long enough to pull the house off of its foundation and rot the house's lower structure. My grandmother spent the next several years after that to see if it could be fixed or rebuilt in any way, but it was a lost cause and finally had what was left of it demolished in 2011. Even though I still live so far away from the coast, thanks to Hurricane Ivan, I still very carefully monitor any storms that come through the Gulf.
Just wanted to pop in and say hello! Loved this video! I hope you are doing well with everything you've been going through! Keeping you in my thoughts and sending you positive, healing vibes! Thank you for your very thorough and interesting content, I love all weather (well, just about everything aside a blinding hot sunny day… Hehe) 🤭 Stay well, Friend. 💖
I remember Ivan back then. May of been 8 years old, but I remember the flooding it caused to Pennsylvania. Lived in the city of Butler about 30 minutes north of Pittsburgh.
I heard stories from my grandmother about how terrible Ivan was. I was 3 years old and living in tennesee at the time, but my grandmother had always lived in gulf shores, which is basically ground zero.
Then, 16 years later on the exact same day, at the exact same place… hurricane sally hit. We were out of power for eleven days.
I remember this storm well. Never seen anything like it. Ruined the natural canal between Eastern Lake and the gulf. To this day the lake never recovered despite many efforts over the years to dig the canal again. Killed so many saltwater fish and jellies who lived in the slightly salty waters. Now over run with gators and algae. Houses can be rebuilt but things like this really put the power of storms in perspective.
I was in Pensacola when this storm hit. The eye went right over the top of where we were staying and all I can remember was pure hell. I was 13 years old. The scariest experience I have ever been through.
I would say that Ivan wasn’t forgotten but it was overshadowed due in part to the overall 2004 hurricane season. By this time two other very notable hurricanes had made landfall. In the video you focused on Ivan but 2004 was a unique year of storms. Ivan was not the strongest land falling storm for the US in that season nor the deadliest and at the time it barely nudged out for the costliest. As someone who lives in the Florida peninsula the 2004 season was a benchmark in misery. The big four are what they are called even to this day. Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne.
Hurricane Ivan was an absolute beast in Pensacola with around 30 hours of high winds. I was living 17 miles east of the AL/FL border. It was probably a rogue wave that hit the I-10 bridge and damaged the Hwy. 90 bridges (there's multiple smaller bridges between Pensacola to Pace). It tore a semi trailer apart (it was carrying a load of peppers—folks in Floridatown reported living rooms being littered with them). Biggest tree damage came from Ficus, Australian Pine, and Water/Laurel Oaks—all which are invasive/non-native trees for the area.
It's here!! great job Alferia …excellent storytelling as always!
Lol the cough that he screamed
I think you should do a video on the parkersburg tornado there is ONE documentary on it and I would like to see a different view on the topic
I remember the remnants of this going through the Pittsburgh, PA area. I think it was still considered a tropical depression at that point which is crazy
I hope he does the Greensburg and Trousdale tornadoes next. 😊
Small correction: There is no air force base in Pensacola, it's the Naval Air Base. Confused me but still a minor error.
I survived this hurricane in Jamaica it was the most terrifying storm I ever been through and I remember after hurricane Ivan left Jamaica me and my mom was driving around Jamaica looking at the damage it did and we both saw a church that had it’s whole roof blown off but the building was still standing.
absolutely off topic but who had the best ace? 2020 2021 or 2022?
do u think you could do a video on hurricane harvey it would be amazing
Yesssssss🎉 I love these man!!
Great work Alferia. I enjoy your content.
Scary to think how quickly Ivan was overshadowed and outclassed despite all its records.
Thank you for FINALY talking about The Cayman Islands. It was one of the reasons I was waiting for this video to come out.( I live there and my parents went through the storm in Grand Cayman)
Is anybody else from Cayman?
I remember hurricane Ivan. I lived in north Georgia at the time and it the first time I remember being sent to the basement because of weather. We lost power for days and there is still a reminder of Ivan on the road into my parent’s house. A large pile of trees brought down onto the one road in and out by Ivan, still sits rotting next to the road almost 20 years later.
First storm I experienced, I live just a 5 minute drive from where it made landfall in Baldwin County. The most fond and terrifying memory I have is walls moving in our small business' brand new showroom as if the building was breathing, all of course as usual at 3 in the morning so I didn't sleep that night. Somehow our mobile home dodged several tornadoes, two Pines and a 65 ft Water Oak from crushing it but the Oak flatten me and my sis' new swingset. It took well over a year to clean the debris away, even to this day there was still swathes of forest that hadn't fully regrown and then Sally happened exactly 16 years to the date and reset that progress once again. Speaking of, I'd love to an episode on Sally as I have feeling it will be overshadowed much like Ivan due to another storm that struck a certain city in Louisiana around the same time it occurred.
On final note, September the 16th happens to be my parent's anniversary so it's been a running joke ever since that they receive a hurricane as a present.
Always a good day when Alferia uploads.
Hey alferia! Canyou make one about hurricane mitch?
Great work.. Could you do one on Laura? And more in depth as in how wide the storm's destruction was and how far inland it went. There was heavy heavy damage all the way up to Fort Polk. And yet all you hear about is Lake Charles and the coastline.. and I have quite a few pictures and a couple videos of Laura's destruction if you'd like to use them
I was in college in Pcola when Ivan hit. The damage in the community was stunning.
2004 hurricane season is so overlooked, it was still extremely destructive
tried to be up when it released but fell asleep
Thank you for making this! It's very quality work even with all the struggles you were going through. Hopefully now that it's done it's one less thing weighing on you and you can take some time to take care of you without feeling pressed by it :). Also, I didn't even know what the storm did to Grenada…
also, oil is one of the worst things to ever happen to the world 🙁
Suggestion but a 2008 Hurricane Ike video would be interesting! Did a ton of damage in the Caribbean and Gulf Coast, but also did a ton of damage in the midwest too! Was 13 when it came through Ohio and cause 1.1 billion dollars in damages, in ohio alone! Also was out of power for 8 days in the cincinnati area!
Hey I just move to Pensacola when Ivan hit. I really appreciate you covering this storm
That motherfucker tried doing a round 2, damn
Can you make videos about Pacific Hurricanes, Typhoons and Cyclone? I would love to watch that.😊
I was today years old when I found out Fidel Castro remained president of Cuba after the missiles crisis until 2008.
Another fantastic documentary Alferia! Great job 👏 your grandparents are so proud of you sweetheart ❤I was just having a mild argument with a Florida resident about tornadoes during hurricanes. He didn’t believe me and I was able to remember Ivan and Ida which caused a tornado outbreak up in my area in PA. I had no idea that Ivan did that crazy loop back into the gulf. That must make it one of the longest lived storms in history! I’m writing this before the end so maybe I’m right and you’ll go over that. The devastation is heartbreaking 💔 to see.
My grandmother had a time share in Orange Beach in Gulf Shores, Al. That got washed out and they never bothered with it since, a lot of money down the tube.
Excellent job on this!
The media however did kinda predict the future
Ivan is always a little bit of a sore subject for my family. We had family that lost everything in Charlie, and so much of the emergency help got pulled away to deal with Ivan, and then later Katrina.
I rode Ivan out in Pensacola, not far from the back gate to the NAS. Had a lot of trees down and had to camp out without power for about a month. It's the biggest storm I have been that close to the eye, but have been in half a dozen smaller storms. It's part of living on the gulf coast.
The one thing my 5 year old brain remembered from Ivan was our back porch disappearing leaving only one of its support beams through my dad's windshield on the other side of the house. We still had a roof so I consider us lucky for a southern Mobile family.
I remember this storm very well. We lived far inland at the time, so never thought much about Ivan having any significant impacts on us. Schools were called off that day. But that night, as the storm came up through Georgia and Alabama, one of the bands dumped some heavy rain and flooded my hometown. The flooding was a combination of just the sheer torrential rain and the fact that a nearby river had become dammed up from debris which diverted it through town. The only real injury was myself. I woke up that night while the water was already a couple of feet into the house. I got up and tried to leave my room, but there was an electrical current in the water, and while scrambling to pull myself out and onto my chest of drawers, I cut myself on something, dunno what it was. The water current was so strong that they had to come in with a boat, and the electrical current was strong enough that the rescuer that came and rescued my family and I could feel it through his insulated rubber gear. We wound up losing everything, but the house was probably the worst thing we lost. It had been in our family for a couple of generations and was built by my great-great grandfather. Not long after we had been rescued, the water level rose eight feet and stayed that way long enough to pull the house off of its foundation and rot the house's lower structure. My grandmother spent the next several years after that to see if it could be fixed or rebuilt in any way, but it was a lost cause and finally had what was left of it demolished in 2011. Even though I still live so far away from the coast, thanks to Hurricane Ivan, I still very carefully monitor any storms that come through the Gulf.
Oh, is that Trauma Team ost I hear in the beginning section of the video? That haunting melody is hard to forget.
Just wanted to pop in and say hello! Loved this video! I hope you are doing well with everything you've been going through! Keeping you in my thoughts and sending you positive, healing vibes! Thank you for your very thorough and interesting content, I love all weather (well, just about everything aside a blinding hot sunny day… Hehe) 🤭 Stay well, Friend. 💖
I remember Ivan back then. May of been 8 years old, but I remember the flooding it caused to Pennsylvania. Lived in the city of Butler about 30 minutes north of Pittsburgh.
65 foot waves in Tobago as a cat 3?!?!
Do Cyclone Bhola
You should do a video about Irma
ACE, a not so helpful place
would like a video on harvey/irma/maria. tho maria has to do with puerto rico’s complex political situation
This hurricane is the worst one I’ve been through
I heard stories from my grandmother about how terrible Ivan was. I was 3 years old and living in tennesee at the time, but my grandmother had always lived in gulf shores, which is basically ground zero.
Then, 16 years later on the exact same day, at the exact same place… hurricane sally hit. We were out of power for eleven days.
I remember this storm well. Never seen anything like it. Ruined the natural canal between Eastern Lake and the gulf. To this day the lake never recovered despite many efforts over the years to dig the canal again. Killed so many saltwater fish and jellies who lived in the slightly salty waters. Now over run with gators and algae. Houses can be rebuilt but things like this really put the power of storms in perspective.
How the hell has the leak at that oil platform not been fully stopped nearly 20 fucking years later? -_-;;
I was in Pensacola when this storm hit. The eye went right over the top of where we were staying and all I can remember was pure hell. I was 13 years old. The scariest experience I have ever been through.
I would say that Ivan wasn’t forgotten but it was overshadowed due in part to the overall 2004 hurricane season. By this time two other very notable hurricanes had made landfall. In the video you focused on Ivan but 2004 was a unique year of storms. Ivan was not the strongest land falling storm for the US in that season nor the deadliest and at the time it barely nudged out for the costliest. As someone who lives in the Florida peninsula the 2004 season was a benchmark in misery. The big four are what they are called even to this day. Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne.
Hurricane Ivan was an absolute beast in Pensacola with around 30 hours of high winds. I was living 17 miles east of the AL/FL border. It was probably a rogue wave that hit the I-10 bridge and damaged the Hwy. 90 bridges (there's multiple smaller bridges between Pensacola to Pace). It tore a semi trailer apart (it was carrying a load of peppers—folks in Floridatown reported living rooms being littered with them). Biggest tree damage came from Ficus, Australian Pine, and Water/Laurel Oaks—all which are invasive/non-native trees for the area.