
Personal stories of those caught up in sometimes deadly natural catastrophes, accompanied by camera footage showing meteorological phenomena, including hurricanes, earthquakes, monsoons and more.

In the Philippines, the Taal volcano violently erupts; a snowboarder in Utah rescues himself from a snowy mountain; in the Grand Canyon, mud and rocks barrel down on a group of tourists.

A record-breaking cyclone wrecks South Pacific islands; a cruise ship becomes stranded in a storm; two friends get caught in a deadly avalanche.

Heavy snow creates a treacherous situation for trekkers in the Himalayan mountains, when an earthquake-triggered avalanche sweeps into a busy base camp; in Australia, category three Cyclone Damien makes landfall and leaves a trail of destruction.

Hurricane Florence causes biblical-level flooding in North Carolina; a magnitude seven earthquake rocks Anchorage, Alaska; a colossal wave swamps a surfer in Nazaré, Portugal.