misleading Youtube videos

[Extremeweatherguy]

You know what I can't stand? Videos like this...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUb7VluMwZs&mode=related&search=#[/youtube]
**Click on the link to see it at youtube.com along with the comments and rating.**

Almost everything about it is inaccurate! The first pictures all obviously come from midwestern storms, and the only two that actually relate to Katrina are at the end. Also, it is pretty obvious that most of these pictures (if not all of them) were stolen from other sources and passed off as original work of the video producer. Then, to top it all off, are the comments and good ratings. People tend to believe everything they see it seems because the rating for this video is high and the comments all seem pretty positive toward the poster. No wonder so many people (especially those who do not live along the coast) can still not tell the difference between a hurricane and tornado! (FYI: When I first moved here to Houston, I actually did meet someone who thought a hurricane and a tornado were the same...lol).

[Weatherfreak14]

Yes very misleading,i live right on the coast and i talk about weather to everyone and 90% of them actuallty think a hurricane is a tornado and a tornado is a hurricane, whenever theres a tornado they say a hurricane hit that building then whenever a hurricane comes near they talk about oh how they evacuated for tornado flyod.
This frustrates me so much to see people soo under educated about threatning weather that can harm them.

[O Town]

Ya know I got a powerpoint slide show email that was almost exactley the same as that. And all I could think of was OMG people believe that. Come on now.
Kinda sad so many people are that gullable and weather ignorant. I guess not everyone is a weather geek like us.

[Dionne]

I agree.....there are alot of bogus Katrina spots on YouTube. Although there is one of a guy with a video camera.....in his attic......looking out his gable end vent as the water rises. And I thought the inland windstorm was frightening!

[bayway]

well... i think those are lagit pics... Many of you don't realize that Katrina ran the entire length of the state
of Mississippi. I have friends in the Delta who have sent me pictures very similar to the ones we see here
on youtube. The Mississippi delta looks a lot like the midwest...

the feeder bands spread out and got isolated and created many sights like these. Major tornado activity
inland all the way up the state.

[Weatherfreak14]

well... i think those are lagit pics... Many of you don't realize that Katrina ran the entire length of the state
of Mississippi. I have friends in the Delta who have sent me pictures very similar to the ones we see here
on youtube. The Mississippi delta looks a lot like the midwest...

the feeder bands spread out and got isolated and created many sights like these. Major tornado activity
inland all the way up the state.

I hate to say it to you but the pics is that youtube video is obviously from supercell storms in the midwest. not from a tropicial system

[bayway]

well... i think those are lagit pics... Many of you don't realize that Katrina ran the entire length of the state
of Mississippi. I have friends in the Delta who have sent me pictures very similar to the ones we see here
on youtube. The Mississippi delta looks a lot like the midwest...

the feeder bands spread out and got isolated and created many sights like these. Major tornado activity
inland all the way up the state.

I hate to say it to you but the pics is that youtube video is obviously from supercell storms in the midwest. not from a tropicial system

they do look to be obvious... I agree. I was amazed when my friend showed me the pics he took
in Clarksdale MS as the storm passed through his area. I will try and find them and post. They look
just like these. Keep in mind that Clarksdale is about 250 miles or more inland.

[Extremeweatherguy]

These pictures look similar to the ones I saw were being stolen from storm chaser Mike Hollingshead last year. Anyone remember that?

Bayway..though I don't doubt there were crazy cloud formations and storms in the outer bands of Katrina...these pictures do not show those events. Instead, the pictures in this youtube video clearly show supercell structures over corn fields. They were obviously taken somewhere in the midwest where corn is more commonly grown, and not in Katrina impacted areas. Also, some of these pictures show very well-defined supercell structures. These kind of features did not occur with Katrina.

[Extremeweatherguy]

Upon further research, it has been confirmed that these photos are not from Katrina. Check out this website for more info...

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/b ... ctures.htm

Here is the analysis from the above website:

The preceding images are dramatic and real, but mislabeled. They are not photos of Hurricane Katrina, nor is this the first time they have circulated under false pretenses. In May 2005 they made the rounds labeled as a "storm near Bunbury [Australia]." In July and August they were forwarded as pictures of storms in various parts of Canada.

I contacted storm chaser and photographer Mike Hollingshead, to whom the photos have been attributed, and he confirmed taking them (most can be found via this page on his Web site). They actually document various supercell thunderstorms, tornados, and other meteorological phenomena Hollingshead observed in 2004.

Previous hurricanes have generated similar "photographic urban legends," as when emails circulated in the aftermath of Hurricane Lili in 2002 and Hurricane Isabel in 2003 offered up mislabeled and/or doctored images purporting to document the storms.

[P.K.]

They've been circulating around the internet for a couple of years. They got posted to here a while back with the claim to being from Israel. I've even seen them printed in newspapers as being from Katrina where they clearly didn't check the source of the images they were sent. Have a look at http://www.extremeinstability.com/ for more of these great photos.

[skysummit]

LOL...those pics have been going around for years. In 2004, they were from Hurricane Charley. My ex has sent them to me a couple times now forgetting that I've already told her they are not hurricane pictures. I'm sure this year they'll be from another history making hurricane.

[AL Chili Pepper]

I received both the "Bunbury" email and the "Katrina" email. I've finally - almost - convinced my friends to Snope before forwarding.

[wxmann_91]

Yep, they've been around for a long time.

Someone might also tell the guy who posted the video that those images are Copyright Mike Hollingshead, and that this qualifies as copyright infringement.

[Aslkahuna]

Actually tell youtube so that they can yank the video and block him from further access.

Steve

[jimvb]

The video author does not call his storm a hurricane or tornado. He calls it a "beauty leathel". What's a leathel? By the way, I gave it a "poor" rating, both because the video lies and because he forces you to watch it on Youtube.

[Extremeweatherguy]

The video author does not call his storm a hurricane or tornado. He calls it a "beauty leathel". What's a leathel? By the way, I gave it a "poor" rating, both because the video lies and because he forces you to watch it on Youtube.

It is titled "pictures of katrina over mississippi", so he is calling it a hurricane, but at the end he does say some crazy stuff. For instance, he miscorrectly spells tidal wave, "title wave"...and he does use the odd phrase "how was that beauty leathal?"...what I think he may have been trying to say is how can something so beautiful be so deadly. That would have made more sense. It does kind of sound like he is calling "leathal" an object though. Very strange wording.

[jimvb]

"Title Wave" more aptly describes the housing boom of the last few years, when lots of titles changed hands. The boom has ended, so fewer titles are coming. The wave is receding. Besides, the title wave on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts is subject to getting hit by a TIDAL wave, from a hurricane.

[UptownMary]

I got some of those stills forwarded to me in an email called The Start of Katrina, that had been forwarded to many other people. I knew from looking at the clouds that no way were those hurricane shots. And the landscape did not look like coastal Miss. I just replied to the sender, with the urbanlegends analysis from Extremeweatherguy pasted in, and told the sender to pass it on to the mis-informed. Just doin my part!

[Typhoon Hunter]

I saw these pics last year and had to explain to a few people that those were nothing to do with Katrina. I've left an appropriate comment against the video.

Yes very misleading,i live right on the coast and i talk about weather to everyone and 90% of them actuallty think a hurricane is a tornado and a tornado is a hurricane, whenever theres a tornado they say a hurricane hit that building then whenever a hurricane comes near they talk about oh how they evacuated for tornado flyod.
This frustrates me so much to see people soo under educated about threatning weather that can harm them.

Arrrghhhh don't even get me started on that. 90% of people I speak to have no idea what a typhoon is and they always think it's a tornado......still, I must be patient. Just another reason why these hazards need highlighting to the public!

[Janie2006]

It is ridiculous. I ran across many of these so-called "hurricane" videos quite a number of months ago and I still think they're quite irritating. Most of the people posting these things on U-Tube don't have a clue and will get very angry with you for pointing out the glaring errors.

And the spelling! As Jerry Seinfeld might ask, "What is the deal with that?" Leathel? Here's my new favorite: bookoo for beaucoup.