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  • The girl at the end was way pretty!!!

  • Welcome to Georgia Hank, we should really be renamed the bipolar weather state...

  • I live in Texas and we had a really intense drought this past summer... fortunately it didn't end up flooding, but the fires were really bad. Climate change sucks.

  • I live in Tennessee. We had a very similar situation. I didn't go to school for a week because everything was flooded.

  • I remember this~ I live in Georgia...I didn't realize that practically nobody knew about it...it was hard not to know about it when you live in Georgia ><;

  • let me tell you a story

    I live in Texas and all summer (a calendar summer, as the summer in texas lasts about 7 months) and it had not rained for about 4 months. Then our middle school had an event where we would play at our two local high schools game against each other. Of course, there is a giant thunderstorm, of course with all of us having large metal instruments, we were not allowed to play. Given that I hate football with the passion of 1000 burning suns, I was happy about it.Aqillies.

  • I live in Georgia and the entire state didn't flood. Just sayin'. What was on the news was the extreme of it, nothing too bad happened near me.

  • Yeah that was what the Australian floods were like, little to no rain for years then suddenly water is everywhere.

  • the middle Tennessee flood didn't get the attention it deserved either

  • Are you sat in a bathtub?

  • I've never knew about this either...

  • WATERADE!!!!!!!!!!

  • Wait... What? I NEVER heard about this.Not the drought. Not the flooding. Nothing. What is WRONG with us?

  • I HAVE THOSE CURTAINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH :D 

  • My dad dug a channel in our yard after the flood to keep water from re-entering the basement

  • Ugh. It totally sucked. Both the drought and the flood. A lady was walking her dog past our school and she got washed away. And the police had to follow her in a boat. And the dog drowned :(

  • I was drinking a bottle of water while he was talking about this....I feel like a bad person now.

  • i didn't even know about the flood.I was caught up in Kanye West and Taylor Swift.

  • Haha yeeeah I remember this! We were out of school for a week because people were using the school as a place for refugees to stay in. It was weird.

  • Why can't we just redirect the water drains to the bedrock?

  • You could barely see the top of the Ninja ride. Kinda cool actually. The floods themselves were awful but the droughts were worse so....

  • Yeah, Georgia FTW!!!!

    i remember the floods, we were out of school for 2 days, because no one could get to the school, the roads basically became rivers....

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  • I seriously do not remember this happening. . . ??? hmmmm not even a little bit . . . i'm horrible. . . .

  • hehe, this vlog was on my birthday.

  • Yay for watershed management!

  • I lived in GA back in late 07-08. Bonaire area didn't suffer, thank the Gods :)

  • Yep, I live in Henry county GA. Our weather is screwed up no matter which way you look at it.

  • I completely agree. strange though. I remember having rain this summer. oh well.

  • The twenty-first century is where everything changes, and you've gotta be ready.

  • And Torchwood is ready

  • @thepurplequeenling Haha, glad to see I wasn't the only one xD

  • @Lokifan13 I love Torchwood :D

  • Strange how the media prioritizes, isn't it?

  • Actually- the southeast gets a lot more rain in the winter. Drought aside, the summer is usually the dryer season. (I live in the southeast)

    Also, I don't know that everything people claim to be true about global warming is true. I remember being told in school that the ozone layer is non-renewable (once gone, gone forever). But lo and behold, now we find out that it does renew itself. Hmmm.

  • I live here in Georgia, when the flood happened I remember swimming across my apartment complex to the public laundry room to dry most of my cloths. Looking back on it now it made sense at the time, but not in story form. For the record the dry cloths were put in garbage bags to keep them dry.

  • i had to learn about this for higher geography last year! :)

  • i remember learning about that in geography!

  • Hey, trust me. It's nothing against water. If I could stop that whole constantly-coverting-to-urine thing it would make 5-hour orchestra rehersals much eaisier.

  • i lost my new mustang gt in tha flood and georgia said ''they'll see what they can do'' so im not miving to atlanta stayin in agusta

  • pukes

  • the next 10 people to rate and comment on my video: "The Man in the Mirror (Trailer)" Gets a free sub!!

  • it hardly rained in florida this summer and normal it rains everyday and it rained like two times a week.

  • i don't believe in global warming.

  • no, this is Georgia the state, not the country.

  • we pollute the water with fluoride and our unabsorbed prescription medicine. then flush a cup sized amount of urine down with a gallon of water. what the heck is wrong with us.

  • where's obama on this? the whole state is under water??? wanna talk about it was BUSH'S fault that rescue for katrina couldn't begin until it was safe to do so....

    where's the great obama on this?????? oh yeah... begging for olympics and getting a peace prize for NADDA

  • Woot, i live in one of the areas tha flooded badly, hurray fro georgias strange weather patterns? =]

  • ikea is where that curtian came from i have the chair

  • curtain im not crazy

  • thanks for the information, Hank! You're educating me, as always..

  • the things people do to try 2 get famous on youtube smh

  • quit talking so fast! ur video is only 3 minutes ...u have time!

  • I blame the russian. They shouldn't have started the war with Georgia. I'm sure they're behind the floods.

  • i live in texas and hurrican ike was a killer!

  • 5 stars for talking about my home state! ^_^ the news was pretty much the only thing i watched when it was raining. i missed 2 days of school! (finally, thanks cobb county!) it is ironic how there was a drought and then flood. so i guess we're out of the drought? weather is a mystery.

  • Using Kanye's logic, I can only conclude... Barack Obama doesn't care about white people. LOL.

    The whole world waits for the gay fish's next assholish stunt...

  • georgia sucks anyway

  • Why the hell is Kanye a news story but horrific floods in Georgia get no mention? This is one of the many reasons why a society in the best possible place to understand reality of any in history, and we can't do it. we'd rather hear about yet another celebrity douche off.

  • Thanks for posting!

  • The twenty-first century is when everything changes, and you've gotta be ready.

  • lol, sorry, i hadn't watched the whole video yet, thats basically what I was saying about the paved roads

  • A lot of times, after droughts, there are like these epic floods. Its because once it does rain again, even if its not a bunch of rain, it sits on the pavement and concrete instead of soaking into it.

  • Don't worry about getting close to the water. I'm sure it'll come to you!

  • he says a lot of things that make sense. overall the amount of information surpasses the entertainment value of this guys approach, but hey, thats his niche, and he did an excellent job. i subscribed. check out my songs and rants, im solid, show some love

  • in az we havent had a significant rain in like 6 months. (im not counting the one like 2 weeks ago because it rained for like 3 min....)

  • It's Climate Change. The planet was warming up in the 80s and 90s, and now it's cooling down.

  • i attended an environmental science camp over the summer and did a project based on the lack of soil in urban areas, causing flooding and pollution in nearby bodies of water. thank you for making the issue more public and hopefully if anyone reading this is deciding on what to do with their driveway-consider patios laid over soil, gravel laid over soil, or grass. google image search it. it's very pretty

  • kanye = ass. even obama thinks so.

  • yeah but obama is an ass.

  • yes we can , obama = joke

  • Wait, what's wrong with Oklahoma? You got something against my state? >-P

  • amen.

  • No. I live in Oklahoma. I love Oklahoma, but you have to admit, the weather is aggravatingly unpredictable.

  • Hank! i misssed you!

  • That kinda explains why there was bad flood in Rotherham (UK) a few years ago. The paving = not good. Glad to be informed.

  • climate change is a natural process that humans are speeding up.

  • Oh dear. Georgia, darling, I believe you've been spending too much time with Oklahoma. You know he isn't a good influence, right? And that cocaine he gave you? Darling, it's not medicine to make you feel better, it's drugs that give you terrible mood swings. So please, Georgia, don't go near Oklahoma again, he has a really bad perspective on life andlikes to make his citizens miserable for it. Georgia, don't be like Oklahoma!!

  • says the man who's YOUTUBE username is, wait.. what the f...? dancing band geek? I think its you who needs to stay off the cocaine. The only climate problem I've observed is the Tornados and Wind, and im not miserable at all, thanks.

  • Great reason to live in a state that is not very paved... like Montana

  • I live in Atlanta... Haha.  That flood...

  • I live right here in Savannah, GA. We've had a few rainstorms that were the remnants of Atlanta's storms, but luckily we haven't faced anything harsher than a few days going without mowing the lawn. And since we live so close to the Savannah River and the ocean, we don't have to worry about the shower problem.

  • Hmm. Sounds like your describing the rain fall of Texas. Minus the flood. Dear USA, I know we have big scary conservatives but please stop forgetting Texas. Some of us are normal and made of awesome and are vehement about being are own country separate from you...

  • lol We are a special kind of crazy, we Texans. Who else would emancipate themselves from the rest of the country and create their own (admittedly, rather useless) currency? Also: we have Davy Crockett. And ranch dressing.

  • mmm. Ranch Dressing :) hahaha.

  • Thank you for this, no I had no idea there was this flooding in Georgia! I've been to Georgia and it was beautiful, I feel really bad for the people living there. The vlogbrothers should be in charge of CNN!

  • I didn't even hear about this! It's sad how Balloon Boy and Kanye take over the media. Publicity stunts over actual news. *sigh*

  • whoa u couldn't shower for 3 years!?! haha

  • Sounds like Georgia is getting Australian style weather: unpredictable extremes. sux 2 be u, I'm sorry.

  • Really? Because it rained most of the summer in New England.

  • there is a six flags in georgia? i live in santa clarita, california, which is right on top of a six flags, but i didnt know there were more...

  • The Original Six flags is in Texas, because the name is derived from the 6 flags Texas has had in its history. All the others came later.

  • who is Talor swift.

    Did she win a award too?

  • YOU'RE.

    YOU'RE SO BRAINWASHED.

    GOD.

  • i totally agree with the whole news thing i mean seriously people you might wanna get your priorities (SP) straight!

  • hey! i have those same curtains. i'm going to turn them into a duvet cover...neat.

  • has anyone played pajama sam's "thunder and lightning aren't so frightening"? because global warming just always reminds me of that

  • Fuck You!

    I was watching a different video until you fucking dumbass pornstar pop up.

  • Wow that was surprisingly informative.

  • Remember when the governor and the rest of Georgia prayed for rain a couple of years ago? Someone prayed too hard.

  • John you urinater!!!!!! What kind of SICK person converts water to urine? How can you sleep at night?

  • "Not the least of which is constantly converting it to urine - Asshole"

    Awesome...

  • Um. I think I speak for everyone when I say, "The girl at the end was really, really hot"

  • maybe in a few years? She looks like she's 13.

  • nahh

    I think she looks at LEAST 16-17.. at the very least

  • I'd say no older than 14. My friends are all 15, 16 and 17, and by then girls are obsessed with looking like women.

  • k, 16...thanks....

  • Well, looks like I'm a douche bag. No offence intended.

  • AHAH I was thinking the same thing

  • GLOBAL WARMING

  • Oh, that two months of no rain was nice.

  • I live in Georgia and... well honestly speaking, it wasn't that bad. There was only like 1 or 2 weeks about a year ago where it got serious. (and people would put buckets of water in their showers so that they could water their plants) but otherwise the drought wasn't really that bad at all... sometimes it was hard to believe that they actually called it a drought, but the floods were really cool... for me at least because i just looked at the creek that turned into a lake, i didn't get flooded.

  • the harp project!!!!????

  • I had the worst dream ever! I want to be a youtube star and i have an idea of what I want to do for my youtube series or whatever, Anyway! You were in my dream and I was telling you my Idea then, you said it was horrible... and called me a whore....weird... Am I thinking to hard about things? would you really call me a whore after insulting my youtube idea?

  • I am a conservative.

  • When Hank said jerk, he looked a lot like John!

  • no oooooo

  • Oh God, I don't know what to do...

    my friends are saying i've become an idiot because of Nerdfighters, and I don't get why. All I've done if subscribe and watch you're videos, I don't even talk about you that much to my friends...

  • i feel for you

  • If your friends are calling you an idiot, maybe they're not really your friends.

  • Ride it out, friends can be assholes. Teach yourself to laugh at yourself, and to laugh at life. Shit happens, and there's little you can do about. Laugh with them, ignore them. You have an armour on that deflects stupid little comments. In your head, see their insults bounce off. Remember, you control your life. Don't let people tell you whom to watch etc :) Good luck.

  • wow, thanks. That really made me smile, and you're right. he's just one person. i shouldn't have him making me feel worse, he's not worth it. thanks :3

  • Just telling you what someone told me a few years back. Life has been good since then. I find when things go wrong, just shrug your shoulders and get on with life.

  • This whole drought/flood thing happens in Florida too, but luckily the coast is pretty safe because the tide just rises a lot. I can't wait for flying cars to be invented so that we can dig up all those ugly roads and parking lots!

  • I love living in Portland now. Absolutely loooooooooooove it. (Not that I didn't before)

  • I love those ikea curtains.... I've been contemplating getting them for a while now...

  • as always, i find your videos very interesting and im always learning new things. good job

    dftba

  • Its probbly not climate change, but long turm climate flux patterns, isnt georga like where their was a lot of cotten and what not back in the day, which is a really thirsty crop, so that would lead me to think that mayb a lot of area of urbon sprawl would be on to flood plain areas and areas of reclained lands which would flood nantraly if the river was in its natrat state, this problum is only exaserbated fether by the increased run off due to moor effishant dranage and concreating and tar-mac

  • Yo Georgia! Imma really happy for you, and imma let you finish, but the Philippines had the best flood ever!

    :D

  • Waterade... does it have electrolytes?

  • Hmmmm, That does explain a lot of the stranger flash flooding stuff that actually makes it onto the TV.

    Nothing to worry about tho, the Polar icecaps (yummy) will pump enough old water vapor into our expanding atmosphere to compensate. (yay internet sarcasm)

  • Solution: sky cities. Put all the building up on giant stilts, like in The Jetsons. Water reaches the soil and we get around this whole issue.

    Treehouse cities are an acceptable alternative.

  • Yeah, and to think that if Katrina did not almost LITERALLY WIPE OUT the entire New Orleans and other states, it might not have even come noticed in the news. Apparently, SOMEONE needed more headlines for his online-command-and-conquer-war­-update during that time than the reality in his own backyard. Needless to say, is it any more different now than it was? You be the judge. And, oh, I suppose for your sake, pray that it gets worse, or else no news headline would even find room for it. Good day

  • I really liked this video, Hank

  • Meanwhile, 337 people die in the Philippines in deaths related to Typhoon Ketsana, with water levels and flooding higher than Katrina's, and I have yet to see significant coverage of that.

  • The weather where I live (Central Wyoming) has been so odd this year. I've lived here all of my life, and my parents have lived here for at least 30 years, and we've had a flash flood, for like the first time my family can recall. It was pretty awesome. Anyways, it also snowed once in September (but didn't stick) and another time last week (2 inches), record lows, and it was 55 degrees (warm!!) yesterday, and rained today. Very odd indeed.

  • Hank, I usually agree with everything you ever talk about - BUT NOT global warming... It's a scam!

  • .... then you kind of don't agree with ANYTHING Hank says.

    You DO know that he heads ecogeek, right?

  • @Nani101 Yes I do. But that doesn't mean I have agree with EVERYTHING! Does it?

  • @joshua5049 Well, fighting global warming is sort of a huge chunk of Hank's life. It's a little like you denying that Hank is John's brother. I'm just not sure how it works.

  • @Nani101 I am not sure if I totally understand the analogy... :-) I understand that Hank's life work is about eliminating "World Suck" which includes his stance on Global Warming. However, my geological undergraduate work points me in a direction to think that everything is cyclical and that we will be talking about global cooling in the next 30-40 years. That doesn't mean we shouldn't take care of our resources though. We should never take advantage of our environment.

  • @joshua5049 No, actually Hank's full-time job is manning the Ecogeek website. His 'life work' is mostly about raising awareness about global warming and green technology.

    Perhaps the analogy was a bad one. How's this: you meet an alchemist whose life dream is to discover the philosopher's stone, and then proceed to say, "I agree with pretty much everything you say. The only thing is... I don't believe in alchemy!"

  • Hank you need to go to South Georgia if you want the non-paved part of the state. It's where I'm from, and there's lots of dirt roads and very few houses, because almost no one lives here. You must have been near Atlanta.

  • Question: If you speak quietly, could you turn the gunshot down a little to match your volume, because I had this turned wayyy up for how silent you were, and then the gunshot came out as A CANNON BLAST. BOOM. And I'm a little afraid my parents will freak out about gun fire coming from my room!

  • 0:46 HOLY EFFING CRAP!

    I grew up in Alabama, and Georgia was always just a thirty minute drive away... It's so wierd to see something I call home... Underwater... Wow....... I hate how CNN was covering Barac Obama's Nobel prize closer than Georgia...

  • yeah, i live here in ga, and right now its raining like hell.

  • are you an the katherine planning on having kids?

  • There is absolutely climate change occurring. But I really don't think it's because of anything mankind has done. The climate changes. You know... sometimes ice covers everything, sometimes everything is lava... and this was happening WAAAAY before people. I just think that when you're spending time and money trying to reverse it? You're wasting time and money. All you can do, like Hank said here, is get ready.

    And that's my opinion on climate change/global warming.

    K I'm done.

  • ^__^ agreed

  • Well, I'm glad someone agrees.

    *feels less alone*

  • Weird.... my dad lives in Georgia =/

  • Wow. That really bites.

  • This video reminded me that we haven't seen anything from you on the ecogeek channel for a while - Hank, we can has Ecogeek?

  • Could you provide more explanation as to how climate change is directly causing flooding/ other natural disasters?

    What is a feasible solution to the problem of pavement in urban cities? In singapore, improved drainage systems seem to be the solution, rather than the problem.

  • History recalls how great the fall can be

    While everybody is sleeping the boats put out to sea

    Borne on the wings of time

    It seemed the answers were so easy to find

    Too late, the prophets [profits] cry

    The island is sinking let us take to the sky

    Ventura Sheehan Perot Paul

    Nader McKinney Kucinich Kaptur

    Grayson Gravel Gonzalez Clemente

    Choate Carter Baldwin Anderson

  • I've learned a lot today. Really interesting stuff!

  • thanks hank, i'm now slightly more edumacated.

  • you lay off your buttcrack asshole!

  • The Aussie Wheather is insane atm. But my favourites are the massive Electrical storms

  • i never thought about the whole issue with paving but yeah...that makes sense...scary sense!

  • That is the way it always is where I live in Ruidoso, NM. Drought and then flooding. Last year, two people died, but I was volunteering in Romania. But it was on the news there. My hostmother wasn't really fluent in English but she was trying to translate for me, and I was seeing this footage of my flooded hometown from across the Earth. So. It probably got coverage in Romania... a second world country.

  • i live in georgia and it's been basically insane that we have no middle ground with this water this.

  • This year is an El Nino Year which is a Southern Oscillation whereby the ocean temperature of Southern Chile and Indonesia swap. This may sound like it only affects these two places, but it leads to repercussions all over the world. Such as milder winters, sudden floods etc. Obviously the large urbanisation of Georgia doesn't help the floods, but that is why it was so severe; the combination of the two. El Nino has already started and normally lasts about 18 months.

  • Now explain the sand storms in Sydney =)