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Narrator: Next on "doomsday caught on camera"...

Man: Oh, my god!

...A massive explosion.

Woman: Let's go!

...Of deadly volcanic ash.

A violent twister... Man #2: Come on.

...Attacks a crowded airport.

Man #3: People were definitely freaking out.

It was literally chaos.

Holy [bleep].

Scorching wildfires

Trap a truck of firefighters.

I thought I wouldn't see my family and all my loved ones

And friends again.

Man #4: Get out of here! Go!

A surging wall of mud...

The flash flood's right there!

...Steamrolls through a home.

That was the scariest moment of my life.

Sweep that up.

And even more jaw-dropping weather phenomena.

[ screaming, thunder cracking ]

That will make you thank god

It didn't happen to you.

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All across the globe, there are dangerous hot spots

Where wildfires burn uncontrollably,

Causing unimaginable destruction.

Heroic firefighters tirelessly battle mother nature's fury,

And though these brave men and women know

They are risking their lives,

They keep going because it's their job.

So what happens when the bravest among us become trapped

With absolutely nowhere to go?

[ radio chatter ]

All they can do

Is pray to live another day.

♪♪

[ fire crackling ]

December 31, 2019,

Nowra, australia.

Horrifying bushfires have been

Ravaging the continent for months.

And battling to help protect his native land

Is veteran full-time firefighter kayle barton.

Barton: I've always wanted to be a firefighter,

Ever since I was a young boy,

To help the community, do what I can to help people

When they're in their time of need.

Narrator: Kayle and three other fellow firefighters

Have been dispatched to help local residents

Who are trapped amongst the furious flames.

Barton: That was our priority, to get down there

And help to protect their lives and protect their homes.

[ siren wailing ]

We knew the conditions were incredibly difficult,

But as the day wore on,

We were getting reports that towns further south of

Where we were going were getting completely obliterated.

♪♪

Narrator: As the firefighters approach the town,

They see the first sign of trouble --

The wind has picked up.

Barton: The wind was getting stronger,

And that's when we started to see small embers

Floating across the road in front of us.

And that's when we knew the wind was pushing the fire

Directly towards us.

Narrator: And then darkness.

Thick smoke has engulfed the woods alongside the road.

The men are now headed straight into the depths of hell.

Barton: It felt like an absolute instant,

But it just went from darkness to the brightest

Red and orange flames we'd ever seen.

It was absolutely surreal.

We were all quite shocked that it happened so quickly.

Vagell: If there's enough wind, and if it's dry enough,

It can spread miles in just a matter of minutes.

Narrator: In an attempt to shield themselves

From the blazing heat,

One of the men grabs a fire blanket

And covers the window.

Barton: The purpose of that was to reflect radiant heat

Back out of the window

So that the interior cab will remain somewhat cooler.

Narrator: Kayle and the three other firefighters are now

In the middle of a blazing inferno.

Barton: Everywhere we looked was flames,

And there was absolutely no way out.

[ indistinct chatter ]

Everything was just orange and red.

We couldn't see the road more than about

3 feet in front of us.

And the flames were actually moving horizontally,

Which I've never seen,

Flames blowing just completely horizontal to the road.

The heat was absolutely intense.

We could smell burning plastics.

We could smell the smoke.

We could hear every piece of debris hitting the truck.

[ rapid thudding ]

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Dr. Abbott: This is really an apocalyptic scene.

You feel yourself in that truck.

"are we gonna get out of this or not?"

Narrator: Desperate, kayle immediately gets on the radio

To call for help.

But to his horror, nothing.

It seems all contact has been cut off.

Barton: We couldn't hear any replies coming back.

With the intense flames and the smoke,

It was really starting to affect the radio frequency.

And we were also worried that the antennas

On top of the fire truck had melted from the fire.

Narrator: Suddenly, the truck comes to a halt.

[ radio static ]

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The brakes have locked in place.

And as precious seconds tick away,

The situation looks increasingly dire.

[ coughing ]

We were running out of clean oxygen to breathe.

One of the boys in our truck,

He did send a final message to his mother,

Thinking that that was his last chance to speak with her.

I thought I wouldn't see my family and all my loved ones

And friends again.

This could be the end.

Narrator: It quickly becomes apparent that there is only one choice.

With no one aware of their impending doom,

The men decide to attempt the impossible --

To head through the fire on foot.

But it will not be easy.

Breathing gear and protective equipment

Can weigh close to 50 pounds, and the men have no idea

How far they need to walk to reach safety.

Phoenix: Whenever we attempt to play ball

In mother nature's court,

The odds are really, really slim that humans

Can survive a scenario like this one.

Narrator: About 15 minutes go by as if in slow motion,

Fighting through dense smoke

And withstanding blazing temperatures.

Barton: We were all wearing our protective equipment,

But the heat was still incredibly intense,

And we couldn't see more than 3 feet in front of us.

Narrator: Suddenly... [ siren wailing ]

...A miracle.

Through the smoke emerges a rescue truck.

Saved at last.

It was very emotional and quite incredible

To see that truck driving through the smoke towards us.

Once I saw that truck coming through the smoke,

I knew that at that moment, "yeah, we're safe. We made it."

Narrator: Kayle and his men are driven safely out of the fire storm

While their truck is left to burn in the wreckage.

♪♪

For the next three months,

The fires continue to rage throughout australia,

Causing complete and utter destruction.

Delgado: It was devastating. It's a beautiful country.

And then you see these images coming in of the animals

And just so many people that were impacted.

Narrator: Kayle is grateful to be alive,

But he will never forget when he and his fellow firefighters

Got stranded in the middle of a raging inferno.

This incident was definitely the most intense and traumatic

Incident I've been involved in.

There must have been some luck involved

Or someone looking over us to keep us safe.

[ radio chatter ]

♪♪

Narrator: Coming up...

...The earth explodes into the heavens.

And a tsunami of mud...

Man: Turn around! The flash flood's right there!

...Traps a family in their home.

Sweep that up.

[ thunder cracks ]

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Narrator: Hurricanes,

Tornadoes,

And blizzards.

All deadly natural events

That can be tracked in order to hopefully save lives.

But there's one terrifying weather phenomenon

That's nearly impossible to predict --

The volcano.

It erupts without warning, shaking the earth,

Spewing lava, and decimating everything in its path.

[ screaming ]

So if you find yourself in the line of fire,

Run for your life.

[ indistinct shouting ]

January 12, 2020,

The island of luzon in the philippines.

It's an ordinary Sunday for elizabeth caristea,

Who runs a family business based on local tourism.

Interpreter: Our life here is very simple.

No pollution, no noise.

Narrator: But while beautiful,

Her store sits in a risky location

Atop the country's second most active volcano,

The legendary taal volcano.

Elizabeth's two sons and her husband

Give guided tours of taal,

Which sits in the middle of a beautiful lake

And is only accessible by boat.

But because this active volcano hasn't erupted in 43 years,

It's also a ticking time bomb.

Phoenix: Volcanoes don't play nice.

Volcanoes, and particularly taal,

Erupt on their own schedule.

So with this volcano, it's not a matter of

If it will erupt again, it's when.

Narrator: In the very early afternoon while in her store,

Elizabeth gets the first sign something is wrong.

There's smoke coming from the volcano.

And then elizabeth feels a tremor shake

The ground beneath her.

And then another one.

Suddenly...

[ indistinct shouting ]

[bleep].

...A blizzard of volcanic ash

Has exploded just feet away from elizabeth.

[ indistinct shouting ]

Facing certain death if they stay

And with her family at the bottom of the volcano,

Elizabeth and the others

Must flee down the side of the mountain,

Which is a harrowing 2-mile trek.

[ sniffles ]

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Narrator: That thick smoke,

Along with scalding steam and volcanic ash,

Spews into the sky with a vengeance

A whopping 9 miles up into the atmosphere.

Phoenix: Volcanic ash -- it's not like fireplace soot.

What it actually is,

Is pulverized fragments of volcanic rock.

You breathe it in and it essentially shreds your insides

Because it's sharp, fragmented rock.

Narrator: Thankfully, elizabeth arrives safely at the bottom

And is able to reunite with her family.

But the only way to fully escape the wrath

Of this pressure cooker

Is by boat across the lake and to the mainland.

The terror in her voice

Are absolutely legitimate and understandable.

[ elizabeth sobbing ]

It just really broke my heart

Just to hear this woman screaming

Because she knows that she is losing everything.

Narrator: About 20 minutes later,

Elizabeth and her family land safely across the lake,

Narrowly escaping the belching furnace.

But mother nature is just getting started.

Eventually, it gets to a point where

High enough in the atmosphere, it's cold,

And that's causing static electricity,

Which is producing lightning.

Isn't it enough that we have to deal with the ash

And all the other things that are happening with the volcano?

Then you throw in lightning from the sky.

It feels like the world is coming to an end.

Within the religious context, lightning becomes a way for god

To stop us in our tracks,

To secure our attention, and to demonstrate divine power.

Narrator: In the end, the eruption blanketed the area

With thick ash,

Transforming the usually lush tropical paradise

Into a ghostly gray wasteland,

Including elizabeth's home and store,

Which sadly were both obliterated.

And while elizabeth and her family are fortunate

To be alive,

Turning the page on this near-death experience

Won't be easy.

Dr. Aten: Recovery isn't something that happens overnight.

This could impact a community for years,

If not even, sometimes, decades.

Narrator: Coming up...

Man: Holy [bleep]. Wow.

...A terrorizing twister.

Annihilates an airport.

And...

A shocking river of blood.

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[ woman speaking over pa ]

Narrator: Airports are notoriously boring places

Where most of us try to pass the time by reading,

Napping, or just zoning out on our phones.

Now imagine this.

You're patiently waiting for your flight...

Man: Waiting, waiting.

...When you notice in the distance...

[ thunder cracks ] ...Lightning.

Wow, I just saw that hit.

Little do you know...

A monster tornado is on the loose,

And it's coming...

Right for you.

[ wind whistling ]

April 22, 2011,

St. Louis, missouri.

Dave igras is flying from detroit to las vegas

With a couple-hour layover

At lambert st. Louis international airport.

There was four of us, two couples.

We were on our way to las vegas to start our vacation.

We were gonna spend about three days in vegas

And then tour california for a week

And then go on a cruise out of long beach, california.

When we landed in st. Louis, our flight was delayed.

Igras: Waiting, waiting, waiting.

He went and grabbed a couple of drinks,

And then we realized every flight was delayed or canceled.

We had no idea why.

But we noticed that the terminal started filling up with people,

And then the rain came.

[ thunder cracks ]

And all of a sudden, the rain went from a downpour

To blowing sideways.

Okay, this isn't good. We're gonna be here all night.

Narrator: Gazing through the terminal windows,

Dave discovers that one very serious storm...

[ thunder cracks ]

...Is brewing outside.

Wow, I just saw that hit.

I saw the lightning.

[ thunder cracks ]

I heard the thunder.

It caught us totally by surprise.

Narrator: In addition to the intense rain and lightning,

There's something far more dangerous looming outside.

And dave and the hundreds of other stranded passengers

Have no idea.

Delgado: They're just going about their business.

But little do they know there was an ef4 tornado

That was heading right towards lambert airport.

[ thunder cracks ]

Narrator: An ef4 twister can reach wind speeds up to

260 miles per hour.

It's the kind of monster where the last place you'd ever want

To be sitting is next to a window.

Cano: What really gets me about this clip

Is the vulnerability of everyone there.

There's really no place to go.

Dr. Pinn: Everyone's told, "if a tornado is approaching,

Move to an interior room,"

But in this airport, the terminal,

You're surrounded by windows.

Narrator: Then suddenly, the tornado-force winds

Begin slamming into the glass.

Holy [bleep]. Wow.

And what happens next

Is straight out of a disaster movie...

[ glass shatters ]

...When seemingly out of nowhere,

The violent vortex of doom enters the airport.

Igras: Somebody yelled at us to take cover.

I just heard a lot of screaming. Nobody knew what was going on.

Glass was shattering, and the wind was coming through.

It all happened so fast.

[ glass shattering ]

It was literally chaos.

Delgado: You see how strong this tornado is, you see the debris,

You see trash cans being pushed around,

Sharp objects just coming through.

It was confusing, and it was scary.

Narrator: Dave, the other passengers,

And airport personnel

All quickly scrambling, taking cover wherever they can.

Dr. Pinn: In the dark, we're at our most vulnerable

Without any way to prepare or to brace ourselves

Because we can't see what's coming.

Narrator: For the next few seconds,

They pray for survival.

...Until silence.

The tornado has passed. [ child crying ]

Delgado: You see windows blown out.

You see planes with their tail blown off.

It really did look like a war zone.

Igras: The damage was incredible.

Igras: Wow!

Looked like a bomb had gone off.

Narrator: Dave and his fellow travelers

Seem to have avoided a catastrophe

When suddenly, they notice something unbelievable.

The plane at the gate moved about 30, 40 feet.

It was a full-sized plane.

And that's when we knew, yeah, something serious is happening.

Narrator: The violent tornado has, in fact,

Tossed the massive airplanes

Along the runway like little toys.

Then horror -- the realization that these planes

May blast apart at any moment.

The plane could possibly have been filled with fuel.

Dude, I would probably get away from that plane.

It could explode.

I don't want to be here.

Dr. Abbot: Something like airplane fuel,

If it ignites, you have an instant monstrous bonfire,

And you don't want to be anywhere near that.

[ indistinct chatter, screaming ]

Igras: People were definitely freaking out.

And everyone just ran, basically, downstairs.

We had no idea where we were going.

Yeah, we're all being evacuated here.

Narrator: After a few minutes,

Everyone is safely outside the terminal.

And luckily, only a few minor injuries are reported.

But dave will never forget the day he found himself

Inside a monster tornado.

[ glass shatters ]

Igras: Seeing a tornado up close and being right there

Is definitely one of the scariest things

I've ever witnessed.

All that glass could have shattered,

And there could have been a lot of carnage.

Dr. Pinn: It could have just ripped this airport terminal apart.

It could have been a really bad scenario.

Holy [bleep].

It's actually pretty amazing that we were all safe.

Wow.

We could have all died very easily.

[ indistinct chatter, screaming ]

♪♪

Coming up, a terrorizing wall of mud barrels through a town.

Man: Get out of here! Go!

And a super typhoon attacks. [ car horn blares ]

Will everyone survive?

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Narrator: Southern california is home to some of the most

Devastating natural disasters on record,

And one of mother nature's biggest threats to ravage

The region are mudslides,

Similar to a tsunami but made up of rocks and debris.

If your neighborhood

Is bulldozed by one of these monsters,

Little can be done to spare your home...

Narrator: ...Or your life.

[ water rushing ]

January 9, 2018,

Montecito, california, 90 miles north of los angeles

And nestled between the pacific ocean

And the santa ynez mountains.

Heavy rains are in the forecast,

So marco farrell, who lives with his aging parents,

Spends the day preparing for a possible flood.

I set up sandbags, two-high,

Around various places in the house

And then a row of three-high between

The house and the street.

We sit below street level by a couple of feet,

So it's always a challenge.

Narrator: Marco goes to bed

Knowing rain is headed their way,

But at 4:00 a.M., he's jolted out of a deep sleep

By a surprisingly violent downpour.

[ thunder cracks ]

Farrell: I woke up to the most torrential rain storm

I've ever experienced.

I put my boots on, my slickers, my rain gear,

And wanted to go and check the sump pump,

Get the water away from the house.

Narrator: He heads outside when suddenly...

I heard a noise, and it was really far away.

[ rain pattering ]

It was this low rumble.

Narrator: To marco's horror, the rumbling is getting louder,

And he sees something moving in the distance.

This can only mean one thing.

Farrell: Turn around! The flash flood's right there!

The flash flood's right there!

But it's too late.

A gigantic tsunami of water, mud, and debris

Is barreling down the street.

Get out of here! Go!

I could see all the way a 1/4 mile up the street

And start to see,

"oh, my god, there's a wall of debris coming."

It was moving between 20 and 30-plus miles an hour.

I mean, it was really moving incredibly fast.

Narrator: Marco knows he and his family are in danger

Because they are in the merciless sights of a mudslide.

Oh, my god! Mom!

♪♪

Close the door!

Farrell: I immediately turned around and started sprinting

And yelled at my mom to go wake up dad,

That we were gonna have to leave,

That something bad was happening.

Ready to go out. Wake dad up.

Narrator: Marco's father,

Who's asleep and not wearing his hearing aid,

Can't hear his son.

Wake up!

Wake up!

Then suddenly... [ mud splatters ]

...A wall of mud slams into the house.

Farrell: When the mud hit our house,

It sounded like the biggest bucket of pancake batter

Got just thrown against the house.

It was the most horrific, violent sound I'd ever heard.

Narrator: The incredible force shatters the kitchen door,

And a rushing a river of mud invades the house.

Farrell: And instantly, it was ankle then shin then knee-deep.

And the whole house shaking.

I'd never experienced anything like it.

Vagell: I can't imagine the thoughts

That are going through your head.

The mud is rising.

Your entire home is being invaded by mud.

It's like the world is ending.

It seems like it's a doomsday situation.

Narrator: Marco's dad is now awake with his wife and son,

But with no safe place to go,

The three of them stand in the hallway...

...Processing the horror unfolding before their eyes.

The whole house is getting shaken by rocks

And trees and debris getting hit.

I was very, very worried

That structurally the house would fail.

I really didn't think we were gonna survive.

Narrator: In desperation, marco opens the back door,

Which proves to be the right decision.

Farrell: That single-handedly saved our lives.

Had I not opened that back door, the mud would have continued

To go up within the house, higher than it was outside,

And eventually the weight

And pressure then crushes the house.

Narrator: Marco and his parents

Have barely escaped with their lives,

And with no way to leave the neighborhood,

They ride out the rest of the night inside the house.

The next morning, they awaken to assess the damage.

We were one of the worst-hit homes on our street

That survived.

Narrator: All told, the montecito mudslide

Destroyed several hundred homes and killed 21 people.

I hate to say it, but it was a disaster

Really kind of waiting to happen.

Montecito, of course,

Dealt with wildfires the previous year.

Anywhere that has suffered from

A tremendous amount of burn scar,

They're going to be perfect targets for mudslides.

Narrator: Which only highlights just how lucky he

And his parents were to live through the ordeal.

Farrell: That was probably the scariest moment of my life.

It wasn't until a few days later that the magnitude

Of what we survived really kicked in.

Turn around! The flash flood's right there!

Being granted life again makes every sunrise

And every sunset that much more brilliant.

It re-prioritizes life to, at its core, what is important.

Get out of here! Go!

Coming up, a calamity of ancient bible plagues...

[ screaming ] ...Invade the present day.

[ thunder cracks ]

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Narrator: Frogs,

Darkness,

And rivers of blood.

Three of the 10 disastrous plagues

Detailed in the book of exodus,

Each dreadful and dangerous in their own chilling way.

The plagues were meant not only to showcase god's awesome power,

But also as a sign of the world ending.

So if you came face-to-face with these biblical curses,

You couldn't help but wonder, "has the end finally come?"

[ water rushing ]

August 15, 2010,

Chimacum, washington.

In this small community about 40 miles northwest of seattle,

Josh kinney is spending the day

With his nephew near a local lake.

Me and my nephew went mountain-bike riding,

And at the end of the ride, we went down to the boat launch

Just to kind of check out the lake.

And as we got to the water, I looked over,

And basically, the whole side of the hill was moving.

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It was like a black, moving darkness.

When I approached the area, I then noticed that it's frogs.

Narrator: Frogs, the second plague recounted in the bible,

And enough of these alarming amphibians

To make it look like the ground is moving.

Kinney: I've never seen that many frogs before.

The whole hillside was moving. I was pretty shocked.

What in the frick is going on here?

There are frogs everywhere.

Kinney: You could hear them all crawling

On top of each other, kind of like slithering.

It was just really bizarre.

Dr. Aten: If I came across a swarm of thousands of frogs,

I'm not gonna lie, I would be freaked out.

Martin: I don't think there's anyone in the world,

Even if they're not religious, who wouldn't look at this

And be reminded of some sort of biblical plague.

Narrator: As the ancient story goes,

God threatened to inflict 10 plagues upon the egyptians

Unless their ruler freed the enslaved jews.

And an invasion of frogs slithering literally everywhere

Was one of the cruel punishments they would have to endure.

Hundreds of thousands of frogs

Kind of take over the whole land,

And that's meant to be a sign from god

That slavery should be brought to an end.

Narrator: It might feel like the end of days,

But at least there's a possible explanation for it.

Vagell: Could be a lot of factors that are causing that --

Rising water levels,

Increasing temperatures, changing weather patterns.

Kinney: The whole thing was a little bit weird.

It felt a little "twilight zone."

I think we both left there with a little bit uneasy feeling,

That's for sure.

Narrator: An invasion of frogs is definitely alarming.

But what if the sun suddenly disappeared

And pitch black descended upon the earth?

Well, then you'd be dealing with the ninth plague -- darkness.

August 21, 2017.

All across the united states, families throughout the country

Are gathered to watch a solar eclipse,

That rare natural phenomenon

Where the moon passes between the earth and the sun,

Shrouding the area in total darkness

For more than two minutes.

[ crowd chattering ]

The big solar eclipse of 2017.

Everybody remembers this one. The frenzy was crazy.

Man: Oh, look at that!

Narrator: That may be because this is the first time in 38 years

That a total solar eclipse will be visible in the u.S.

Whoo!

On an average day,

The sun comes up, the sun goes down.

But to break that pattern where something causes the sky

To go dark when it's in the middle of the day can be scary.

It can be unnerving.

Narrator: The midwest is where the eclipse will be in full effect.

And if you're in the path of totality,

Causing the temperature to drop noticeably,

It's even more unsettling.

It's very startling, even just watching clips of an eclipse.

It's very dramatic.

Narrator: But a solar eclipse can also present horrible danger

Because looking directly into the sun

Can literally burn your eyeballs and cause blindness.

The trouble with some of these eclipses are, as the sun

Starts getting covered, it's not as bright.

So it's tempting to look, but looking at the sun

At any time is a grave danger to your eyes.

Narrator: Of course, the sun doesn't have to burn your retinas

In order for it to feel like the world is ending.

♪♪

What if the river near your house

Suddenly turned from crystal clear to...

Blood red?

June 14, 2017,

Kingston, jamaica.

A local man out for a walk comes upon this startling sight,

Reminiscent of the very first plague...

...Where god literally turned the water of the nile river

Into blood.

Dr. Pinn: It is quite a sight.

You've got this rushing water, and it's not just a bit of it

That's red, a red tint.

It is blood red.

You know, a lot of people are very religious,

And when they see things like this,

They think this is a sign from god.

This, once again, takes us back to the bible

And the 10 plagues of egypt.

Martin: Where the lord says to pharaoh, "with my staff,

I will strike the water of the nile

And it will be changed into blood.

The fish and the nile will die, and the river will stink,

And the egyptians will not be able to drink its water."

And that is meant to be a sign,

A symbol of coming doom, of the end of days.

Narrator: While terrifying,

There is a logical explanation for why it appears

This river has turned to blood.

Vagell: It's linked back to dye tracing,

And dye tracing allows scientists

And other officials to track pollution,

See where there's leaks in the water system,

And it can also be used, too, to address drainage systems.

Narrator: Although only temporary,

It's no less frightening.

Cano: And these are things that subconsciously have embedded

Themselves into our psyches.

We are modern people,

And yet when we see something like this,

We think old testament,

Real wrath-of-god stuff, and it affects us.

Narrator: Coming up...

A monster surge spits out...

A person?

[ thunder cracks ]

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Narrator: Typhoons.

Hell hath no fury like one of mother nature's

Most lethal mega storms.

[ screaming ]

The sheer power of a typhoon can decimate cities

And wipe out entire villages,

And they're dangerously unpredictable

Because out of nowhere,

A typhoon can leave you blindsided and at its mercy...

[ car horn blares ]

...With no time to escape and little chance of surviving.

[ wind rushing ]

August 9, 2015,

Tainan city, taiwan.

Residents are digging out after typhoon soudelor,

Which was upgraded to super-typhoon status,

Struck hard and fast with sustained 140-mile-an-hour winds

And torrential rain.

So, a typhoon is a tropical cyclone

Over the northwest pacific.

These super typhoons are usually more intense than the most

Devastating hurricanes in the atlantic ocean.

There's more fury, there's more intensity

With these storms as compared hurricanes.

Narrator: But now the storm has passed,

And the worst is thought to be over

As people begin to venture back outside.

[ man speaking mandarin ]

Then suddenly, as a white car turns onto the road,

This vehicle's dash cam captures...

[ car horn blares ]

[ woman screams ]

A spontaneous, horrifying surge ambushes the white car in front

And lifts it off the ground, tossing it like a toy.

There's a suction vortex.

It's almost like a hose from a vacuum

That's getting sucked and dragged along the ground.

You can't drive out of the situation.

This is a classic example of a typhoon-induced tornado.

They're very hard to predict.

And this video here actually shows you how it falls apart

And moves away just as quickly as it forms.

Narrator: A perfect storm of moisture and heat spawns

The intense whirlwind without any warning whatsoever.

[ car horn blares ]

[ woman screams ]

Dr. Pinn: It's one thing to have an opportunity

To not only physically prepare,

But to mentally prepare for the natural disaster.

But with this, it just hits,

And there is no opportunity to prepare.

Narrator: The vicious remnants of typhoon soudelor disappear

Just moments later.

And the man and woman in the car with the dash cam

Are stunned but safe.

Now look carefully.

There's a woman sitting on the side of the road.

Oh, my god. There's a lady on the side of the road.

The people in the car,

You could tell they were puzzled.

They're like, "why is this lady on the side of the road?

Did she just fly past my car?"

Narrator: The woman is in shock and tells the driver

She was thrown from her motorcycle when the storm hit.

Delgado: That woman was lucky to be alive.

You know what they say, "go buy a lottery ticket."

She won the lottery that day.

Narrator: The truly terrifying encounter leaves everyone

At the scene shaken but feeling lucky to be alive.

What immediately comes to mind for me

Is the power of nature,

A power that we can't control, we can't harness,

That we are always and already vulnerable to.

Watching this, it forces a sense of humility.

There is so much that we cannot control.

♪♪

Narrator: So, doomsday has arrived.

What would you do if you were trapped inside a raging inferno,

Surrounded by deadly volcanic ash...

[ screaming ]

...Running from a twister...

Igras: Holy [bleep].

...Or chased by a mudslide of debris?

Farrell: Get out of here! Go!

Just hope and pray...

Caristea: The volcano is erupting!

...You live to tell about it.

Let's go!

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