
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 deadly volcano eruption causes catastrophic destruction, and a tornado flips cars on a highway.
Flash floods tear through Maryland in the US, a couple get stranded in a Himalayan blizzard, and a boat race is besieged by a rare weather phenomenon.
Hurricane Sandy whips up wild waves in the Atlantic, prompting a rescue mission by the U.S. Coast Guard; cavers in California get caught out by flash floods; wild winds cause a crash for hot air balloonists; residents narrowly escape a landslide.
A twister outbreak in Texas leaves a storm chaser trapped; in Florida, dangerous riptides drag swimmers out to sea; a sudden storm hits a holiday resort in Greece; a giant wave crashes through a restaurant in Italy.