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

Witnessing Hurricane Ida's devastation as it reduces Louisiana to rubble; following a man running for his life from California wildfires; facing a deadly sea swirl with a Norwegian ship crew; looking for a snow kiter engulfed by an avalanche.

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

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.

Wildfires devastate the seaside village of Mati in Greece; monster hail pummels tourists and zoo animals in Colorado; hikers in Turkey fight for survival after they're stranded by a flash flood; a tornado rips off roofs and catapults cars in Canada.