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0:00hey everybody welcome to this b1 english
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0:16you ready so today i'm going to talk
0:19about
0:19natural disasters this is an interesting
0:22topic
0:23because depending on where you live you
0:25might have to deal with natural
0:27disasters on a regular basis
0:29let's go through some of the most
0:31notable disasters that occur
0:33throughout the world first let's talk
0:35about earthquakes
0:37for a lot of people this might just be
0:39the scariest disaster
0:40because it can strike at any moment
0:42without any notice
0:44that being said the vast majority of
0:46earthquakes are minor and cause little
0:48to no damage
0:50as a california native i've obviously
0:52witnessed my share of earthquakes but
0:54i've only ever really experienced
0:56one major earthquake it just so happens
0:59that i was at the gym
1:00and when the earthquake started all the
1:02weights and machines
1:03started shaking i was definitely a
1:05little freaked out
1:07but that's really the only time i've
1:08been in a big earthquake
1:10if you live in certain parts of the
1:11world you might never have experienced
1:14an earthquake in your whole life
1:16for example my brazilian students
1:18usually tell me that they've never been
1:20in an earthquake before
1:21but on the other hand my students from
1:23chile and japan
1:25tell me that they feel an earthquake
1:27almost every week
1:28for most of us that seems insane and
1:31what about you
1:32have you ever been in an earthquake
1:33before okay so now let's talk about
1:36hurricanes
1:37hurricanes can be some of the most
1:39destructive events imaginable
1:41take hurricane katrina for instance this
1:44category 5 hurricane
1:46absolutely devastated the city of new
1:48orleans and caused
1:49almost 2 000 deaths and over 125 billion
1:53dollars in damage
1:55of course not all hurricanes are this
1:57catastrophic
1:58but all hurricanes cause some damage
2:01when they hit
2:01land thankfully i've never been affected
2:04by a hurricane before since i'm from the
2:06west coast of the u.s
2:08which is never affected by hurricanes
2:10but for people living on the south and
2:12east coasts
2:14these storms pose a constant threat i
2:16can't imagine what it would feel like to
2:18know that there's a hurricane headed
2:20straight in my direction
2:22i hope i never find out all right
2:24another natural disaster that can cause
2:26all kinds of damage is a tornado
2:29tornadoes are a phenomenon that happen
2:31in the middle of the u.s
2:32in states like oklahoma kansas and
2:35nebraska
2:36where the landscape is really flat you
2:39might have seen tornadoes featured in
2:41american movies before
2:42where the people have to take shelter
2:44underground and wait for the tornado to
2:46pass by their town
2:48i'm glad that i've never gotten caught
2:50in the path of a tornado before
2:52alright one more natural disaster that
2:54affects people
2:55all over the world is floods floods can
2:58happen
2:59in all kinds of different places if you
3:02live in a city that doesn't have a high
3:04level of
3:04infrastructure it's likely that you've
3:07seen some flooding before
3:09in mexico for example many parts of the
3:11big cities
3:12flood every time there's heavy rain the
3:15parts of the city that are at a lower
3:17altitude
3:18become like lakes and rivers and drivers
3:21have a hard time navigating
3:23sometimes the cars just stop and wait
3:25for the rain to subside and for the
3:27water to clear out
3:29as you can imagine the traffic becomes a
3:31complete mess
3:32i really hate the rainy season in mexico
3:35because
3:35all of this is a normal occurrence
3:38floods may not be the scariest natural
3:40disaster
3:41but they can be a huge inconvenience and
3:43they can become dangerous
3:45which natural disaster seems the
3:46scariest to you
3:48alright that's all for today leave a
3:50comment and tell me if you've ever
3:52experienced a natural disaster
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