Top 10 Towns Devastated by a Disasters

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1. The town I grew up in was kinda flooded when a dam was put in to supply power for ATL. I say kinda because people knew and some was flooded to make Lake Lanier. (There are huge towns now around the lake) If you go dive in the lake you can still find old farms, churches, and graveyards. They claim all the churches and stuff were relocated but they weren't. Now they claim it's haunted. My friends grandma moved their stuff back far enough not to be flooded. Ended up with lake front property. Fun facts about Lake Lanier in GA.

2. Why didn’t you put centralia on here?

3. Why don't you look up the meaning of MICROSCOPIC DUMMY!

4. And just like that the government killed disgruntled vets in vanport Oregon. 😱🤪

5. I've taken Route 66 across the nation many tines and stayed at some of the coolest old motels and eaten at old fashioned restaurants. We've dine it countless times, it's always fun.

6. A town the government built destroyed yet the government says trust me… interesting video

7. Union beach NJ, a low incone town, was destroyed during hurricane sandy

8. I knew you would include Vanport. Very sad story. Very interesting video!

9. You should addd Mayfield on this list.

10. The Johnston, PA Flood in 1889 caused when the South Fork Dam failed.

11. Great video, here it is over a year later and I still ignore masks (doing great too🕊️) zinc, vitamin D and exercise just a little bit more than we usually do every day that's all ✌️

12. Mask literally have nothing to do with this

13. Paradise, California, known to Donald Trump as Pleasure, California.

14. I have some relatives that lived in Paradise when the Camp Fire burned down their town. My one cousin lost her house and business and her daughter lost the house she had just purchased. It was a beautiful town especially the little church where my cousin got married (gone), the hall where he had his wedding reception (gone). He actually passed away 5 years prior and his ashes were kept at his daughters new place when it was destroyed along with his ashes inside. My one cousin is rebuilding her business and home but her daughter is not. Both blame PG&E, but also blame California governor Newsom for bailing out PG&E and preventing the citizens from suing PG&E. It just so happens PG&E was a major donor to governor Newsom's election campaign.

15. Welcome to America! Where cities fucking blow up 😀

16. Florida Man here. I live in Melbourne about 1/2 hour from the Kennedy Space Center. KSC, Canaveral Air Force Station and the Merrot Island Wildlife Refuge were formed in the late 50s. In the process, towns such as Shiloh, Wilson, Allenhust and host of others were bought by the government and then ceased to exist. I visited the remains of Allenhurst located by the Haulover Canal. Very little is left of the buildings, but the streets still exist under lots of brush. Prett cool place

17. Planning a vacation to San Juan, PR. They need all the help they can get as they haven't fully recovered. It’s a fantastic place to visit

18. I am very suprised that you did not cover Peshtigo fire in Wisconsin. 2400 Where they where baked alive. Reports also stated that the peshtigo river was boiling in areas.

19. Wow ,Texas City , I guess go big or go home , I remember my dad telling me about this when I was a kid , but we are from Houston

20. Well Briggs, you did it again. I started watching one of your videos, only to transform into binge watching. Thanks! 🙂

21. I grew up and lived in Paradise for 17 years, left a year before the fire happened. I've been back to visit a couple times since then to help my mom weed her now vacant lot (so she doesn't get in trouble with the town for having fire hazards on her property) and it was pretty surreal the first time to drive through these areas and neighborhoods I was very familiar with that were then reduced to rubble. Now they're mostly all vacant plots. I don't understand the people who want to move back there, but there were a lot of folks who were very attached to the town and yeah, there is a bunch of construction going on.

22. I thought in the US corporations were people, legally speaking? Hm…

23. What's up with that graffiti, "BEER IS CANADIAN COCAINE"? lol, 8:28 if anyone missed it. I wonder who wrote that, haha.

24. Why is New Orleans and Katrina not on this list

25. The word $HIT was derived or invented by the explosion of ships carrying manure ,inside of ship. Was found out the vapor gas made explosions, thus the initials S.H.I.T………………….. .Ship High in Transit

26. Two of these disasters (Galveston and Texas City) are within 25 miles of my house. Oh, goodie…..

27. I guess the people of Texas like to learn things the hard way. Even today.

28. You forgot Cetralia, Love Canal. And Jonestown. My cousin and his wife were in Le Marque during the Texas City disaster. They said they though the world was ending that day. Wild stuff

29. For your next town on this list. For your Part 2 video. Consider Greensburg, Kansas. In the 1990's a tornado more than a mile and a half wide hit the town. 95% of the town was destroyed in that storm. It has since been rebuilt. Now with large parts of it using wind and solar energy.

30. You are good with statistics and research…..research the true medical facts about ‘masks’. Truth is the best medicine.
    God bless!!

31. Centralia. HELLO???

32. I would love to see a video base solely on natural disasters. I can give quite a few recommendations if you want to research it for a potential future video @World According To Briggs

33. Yikes…
    #1 I was born in Portland Oregon during the Vanport Flood (Emanuel Hospital)
    #2 I lived in Paradise CA (my parents & grandma who are buried there).
    Our houses are gone!
    My grandma was in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake & fire.
    Feel pretty safe on the Frontrange Colorado as long as the Yellowstone Volcano doesn’t blow!
    Yikes!

34. I was in the Campfire in Paradise Ca. PG&E has sent out warnings that week that due to the high winds they might shut the power off , they never did. To add to that their aged faulty equipment (they where more concerned about saving money than being safe) that failed and caused the spark than the high winds a perfect storm for a disaster was created. The town of Paradise was built in a way with lots of roads that dead end and only have one exit also the majority of the people that died were Senior Citizens who had no means of escape. A incredible tragedy especially as I know some of the people who lost their lives.

35. Surprised the Buffalo Creek Disaster did not make the list.

36. Being submerged due to a dam-created reservoirs, is not, technically, a disaster. It was man-made and planned. While man-made disasters have happened, they aren’t generally “planned”, but are unexpected. (BayOcean, OR)

37. My favorite piece was the Texas City disaster, because I watched a very well done video about it. I also liked the piece about Flagstaff Maine.

38. Paradise California

39. Decimated means 1 of 10 destroyed. If the entire town was burned it would be more than 1 in 10. Not being a smart ass…just sayin

40. Definitely New Orleans

41. Jerrell Texas wiped off the map by an F5 tornado. Heaps killed. Whole town leveled. Completely gone.

42. I lived in Liberty NY years ago and hated driving across the Neversink dam, especially at night.

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