hello my friends and welcome back to another video here on life's biggest
questions I'm your host Jared Bronstein and today
we're talking hurricanes before we get into it do make sure you are subscribed
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video so hurricane durian a category 5 hurricane which is being considered one
of the most intense hurricanes of our time it's reached winds at 185 miles per
hour on landfall tying the Labor Day hurricane of 1935 and is only second to
hurricane Allen who reached 190 miles per hour in 1980 according to the
Washington Post it's the strongest storm on record east of Florida and north of
the Caribbean if you've turned on the news you could see it's absolutely
destroying parts of the Bahamas and is getting stronger as it heads to Florida
as of now it's a category 5 which is the max level for hurricanes but we decided
to question what would happen if Dorian turned into a category 6 hurricane
before we explained what would happen if Dorian hit a category 6 let's talk about
what categories are according to the saffir-simpson hurricane wind scale a
category 1 hurricane is a hurricane with sustained winds of 74 to 95 miles per
hour and could cause some damage due to dangerous winds based off of this scale
the categories increase as the winds and dangers intensify the categories go up
per 20 miles per hour so what category 2 would be winds of 96
to 110 miles per hour and so on for a hurricane to officially hit a category
it has to sustain these winds for at least 1 minute
according to the National Hurricane Center and Central Pacific Hurricane
Center a major category 5 hurricane would reach 157 miles per hour or higher
and I quote catastrophic damage will occur a high percentage of framed homes
will be destroyed with total roof failure and wall collapse fallen trees
and power poles will isolate residential areas power outages will last for weeks
to possibly months most of the area will be unhittable for weeks or months and
quote it's believed there are currently talks about adding a category 6 to the
scale and if they decided to add it well technically durian would be a category 6
assuming that a category 6 would be a hurricane with winds sustained at 178 to
198 miles per hour durian as well as a few other previous category fives would
be moved up but here's why the category scale is a bad in the
of how serious a storm is it only focuses on the maximum wind speeds
lasting for at least a minute not taken into consideration other factors that
determine how destructive a hurricane can be a good example would be Hurricane
Katrina which was the costliest storm in US history it was a category three storm
when it hit land took the lives of an estimated 1200 people and cost the u.s.
an estimated 108 million dollars in property damage but again this was a
category 3 storm so what would happen if Dorian became a category 6 hurricane
well technically it already is and although it's being considered a
category 5 that's because as previously mentioned a category 5 is any hurricane
with winds exceeding 157 miles per hour but as you could see currently the
category scale of hurricane is only focuses on maximum wind speeds even
though it should also consider things like total rainfall or rainfall over
time now before I continue let me be very clear
I'm not saying Dorian isn't a serious hurricane by any means as of now it's
believed that's claimed the lives of approximately seven people has destroyed
tons of homes and left many people stranded it's still a very serious storm
and shouldn't be taken lightly based off what I just said it's a category 5 storm
for a reason and should be treated accordingly as of now it's unclear
whether or not a category 6 will ever be added some believe it should while
others say anything category 5 is so catastrophic there's no need to add
another category beyond it however other scales are now being developed to help
determine how destructive a storm could potentially be James Dunne a scientist
at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado has been working on
a project for a few years called the cyclone damage potential index which
considers storm size and its forward speed both factors and how destructive
the storm could be however he's made it clear it would just measure the
potential of how destructive it could be and that it shouldn't replace the
saffir-simpson hurricane wind scale but instead be used alongside it
as always we love hearing from you so please do drop us some comments right
down below with your thoughts on the whole situation as well as this video do
you think there should be a category 6 hurricane let us know in the comments
below but for now let's respond to some comes from the video what would happen
if you fell into quicksand JC mendoza said what would happen if you
fell in quicksand me you died after watching this video me Oh
turns out it's kind of impossible to die I mean if you watch the video to
understand maybe like you could drown if a current came over you but just fight
Lily scan any quicksand it's impossible Larry Kolya said if two vegetarians
fight wouldn't that be beyond beef I see what
you did there I don't know I guess cuz they don't need thief but is it beyond I
think wouldn't it just be like two vegetables fighting I don't know obba
Babatunde I think I said that right said I was walking in a river and I walked
into some quicksand and since it was under water it was pretty dangerous but
luckily it was only a few centimetres deep so I was fine I'm happy to hear
you're okay still must been pretty scary like I
won't lie if I were to ever step in a quicksand I would still be scared even
though I I would know what to do now because it's the video I did on this
channel pro tip you just lean back and your body
should float to the top but still it'd be very scary you just step into
something slowly going down because you know it's just having no control I don't
know I'd freak out but that's just me anyways guys that does it for this video
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