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

A tornado tears a mile-wide path through the American town of Moore, Okla., destroying two schools while the pupils are inside.

Police officers form a human chain to rescue a family during Tropical Storm Imelda; a sightseer takes a plunge down a 50-foot waterfall; a damaged dam threatens to unleash 300 million gallons of water through a community.

Blazing bushfires tear through communities as a good Samaritan saves panicked drivers; a skier captures the horrifying moment he is buried alive by a tsunami of snow; a man flees just before a landslide sweeps eight homes into the sea.

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.