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♪♪

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

Man: Oh, my god!
A man trapped
in a violent twister,

Comes face to face
with death.

A raging flood destroys
everything in its path.

Man #2:
Get out of the car!

She better get out of
the car because she's
going to get killed.

Man #3: Hold on.
Narrator: What happens
when the ground opens up...

Earthquake!

...And the earth shakes
to its core?

Delgado: I have covered
so many earthquakes,

But this one
was a whopper.

Narrator:
Waves of terror are unleashed
on the cruise ship from hell.

The scariest moment for me
was when that ship lifted,

I'm like,
"this is falling apart.

I think the world is ending."

Narrator:
And even more jaw-dropping
weather phenomenon.

Woman: Dad!
That will make you thank god
it didn't happen to you.

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Imagine vacationing
on a luxury cruise,

Basking in the gorgeous views.

Relaxing on the deck,
having the time of your life,

When suddenly,
out of was nowhere,

The ship sails, right into...

A bomb cyclone.

Thousands of passengers
are tossed around like toys.

The seas wage war
from all sides.

The ship takes on water
and panic turns to mayhem.

Could this voyage
be your last?

January 2, 2018,
the bahamas.

Passengers aboard
the norwegian breakaway

Are enjoying some fun in the sun

On a week-long cruise
that departed for new york city.

My name is ashli de reus.
My brother and kevin de reus

Filmed all the footage
for the cruise ship videos.

My family and I,
we actually do this quite often.

We'll go on a cruise ship
for the christmas holiday.

Our destination was to florida,
the bahamas,

And then the last excursion was
the norwegian private island,

Which is around
the bahamas area.

Narrator: It's smooth sailing
for the first few days,

But once they arrive
at those private islands,

Something is amiss.

De reus:
We were waiting in line
to get off the ship

Because they were letting people
off the boat

Onto little smaller boats
to bring us to the island.

And they were like, we have
to cancel the entire excursion

Because the waves
were getting too strong

For the smaller boats
to bring people off.

Oh, yeah,
look at those waves.

At that point were just like

Pulling out our camera,
filming it.

We did not expect
what was coming.

Narrator: No one did.

And as the day wore on, things
went from unnerving

To flat out terrifying.

De reus: Later in the evening
was when we started

To see the bigger waves,
and it wasn't until midnight

Was when we went through
the bomb cyclone.

We didn't really know
what was happening,

I guess it was the few people
who had gotten internet

And were like, "we're going
through a bomb cyclone."

We were like,
what is a bomb cyclone?

That sounds terrifying.

Delgado:
We're talking about an area
of low pressure

Where the storm and the pressure
drops more than 24 millibars

In a 24 hour period.

It strengthened so fast,
it's basically

An area of low pressure
on steroids.

And what that does is it
creates a weather pattern

That is very destructive.

And it can be very deadly
for any ships

Caught in the path of the
bomb cyclone.

De reus:
I noticed the ship rocking
a lot more than usual

Because we were trying to get
to our table in our heels

And we couldn't
keep our balance.

And it was around dinnertime
was when I noticed

The waves hitting our window.

We were like,
we've never seen waves

Hit up to
the sixth deck before.

Around midnight was when
we went down the stairs

And we stepped in the water.

[bleep]

And we could just see a stream
of water coming through.

Water coming out
from the ceiling

And through the elevator shaft.

You could hear glass
just shattering.

There was picture frames
falling off the walls.

It was like nothing
we've ever seen.

We were just like,
"what is happening?"

At this point, you're thinking
you're on the titanic.

It looked like the ship
was sinking,

Like we were going under.

Martin:
Well, in the old testament,
the sea is a symbol of chaos.

And one of the reasons
in the creation story

That god divides the waters
is his control over chaos.

So you have this sense of great
chaos and terror and drama.

De reus: All you could hear from
if you went near the doors

Was that loud,
high-pitched wind howling noise.

And I just remember being like,
is this door going to break

Because of how strong
the winds were?

Vagell:
So with this bomb cyclone,
it looks like winds

Are swirling at 50, 60,
maybe even more miles per hour.

And in some cases in the most
intense bomb cyclones,

It can be equivalent
to a low-end hurricane.

Phoenix:
And this ship is tilting.

We're talking close
to 10 degrees.

At this point,
anything that isn't tied down

Could become
a lethal projectile.

And that had to be

Absolutely terrifying
for the folks on board.

Narrator:
The ship continues to fight

Its way back up
the eastern seaboard,

With many passengers
now in panic mode.

De reus:
There was a lot of people
just sitting and just waiting

And worried for their life.
I did notice people praying.

I did notice people
just sitting in silence.

I'll never forget,
like I remember seeing a family

Sitting at the bottom
of the staircase,

Like they had so much fear on
their face.

They were so terrified.

The scariest moment for me was
when that ship lifted

And you just felt that bang.

I'm like,
"this is falling apart.

The world, is ending."

♪♪

In that moment.
You do feel helpless.

So it did have
that doomsday feeling,

Narrator:
Ashli had no idea if the ship
was going to survive.

We were actually terrified
for our lives.

Narrator:
And passengers wondered

If this would be
their last night on earth.

De reus:
The next day, I can see
what damage was done,

You just see chairs,
the pool chairs,

Like flipped over, almost like
falling off the ship,

Railings outside were broken
light fixtures were broken,

Signs were broken.

And to know that we went through
like we survived that night,

I was like,
"we're going to make it."

That was when I started
to feel hope

That we were going to
get to new york okay.

Man: [over p.A. System]
we are calling our guests with
green white and yellow...

De reus:
And once the ship finally
docked, we noticed that

That the entire side of the ship
was covered in ice and snow.

We just felt like
we were survivors of the storm.

Now it's like,
"ah, we made it."

Narrator:
Although ashli and her family
survived the cruise from hell,

They were left badly shaken.

Woman:
Proceed to our disembarkation
line on deck number seven.

It was so rocky
for like three days

That when we got off the ship,

I could still feel
that rockiness.

Narrator: But one thing
will never go away,

The dramatic memories of her
near brush with death.

Going back to it,
obviously,

It does bring back
those memories of fear I felt

When I was in that moment.

But I feel so much better
because I know I survived this.

[ wind howling ]

Oh, my god!

-Kris!
-Coming up...

Mandy:
It's coming toward us!

Narrator:
A tornado hell-bent
on destruction...

Man #4: Oh, my god!

-And...
-Everything is burnt!

Narrator:
Wildfires straight from
dante's "inferno."

Girl: Dad!

♪♪

Narrator: Have you ever wondered
what it would be like

To be trapped inside a tornado?

To be caught in its raw fury

And feel it's
awesome power firsthand?

Winds crashing at nearly
200 miles an hour.

Debris flying past your head.

Kris: Leave that door
so I can get in.

Leave that door
so I can get in.

-And now you begin to wonder...
-Oh, my god!

...If you become
its next victim.

Holy [bleep]!

Help!

♪♪

November 17, 2013,
in washington, illinois.

A tornado outbreak in the
midwestern u.S. Is underway

And has invaded tazewell county.

From his backyard,
kris lancaster records

An ominous twister
in the distance.

My name is kris lancaster.

I was living in washington,
illinois,

When an ef4 tornado
come through.

I grabbed my phone, was outside
talking to my neighbors,

And that's where
the video started at.

Narrator:
Kris's family all take shelter

In a concrete safe room
in the basement,

While kris and his
older son cherokee

Watch from their back patio
in awe.

That's when the funnel cloud
went from a small guy...

...And it just kept growing
bigger and bigger and bigger.

And it just kept coming to me
and coming to me.

There's only one thing you can
do with one of these tornadoes,

And that is hide.

Some of these can move as fast
as 70 miles per hour,

And that's not enough time
to get out of the way.

You got to get out of dodge.

Narrator:
Cherokee is ready to run now
and takes refuge inside

With the rest of the family.

But his father
refuses to leave just yet.

It's the most bizarre thing
I've ever seen in my life,

But also the most scariest thing
I've ever been in in my life.

I think as it hit the people's
close to me

That when I was like, "well, I
better get to the basement.

Felt like it was
the end of the world.

It sounded like a freight train.

Just like an amtrak horn.

I was pretty windy.

[ metal crashes ]

Vagell: For an ef4 tornado,
we have winds between

166 and 200 miles per hour.

This tornado had winds up
to 190 miles per hour.

So in this case, he's trying
to get in the shelter,

But it's hard to get there
because it's almost like

You're being side swept
from the back.

Kris: There was so much debris,
insulation,

Wood, you name it,
flying through the air.

I don't know what part of it
I was in or not.

Narrator: Kris is in the eye of
the storm.

And as he battles for survival,
suddenly someone rescues him.

It's his son, cherokee!

Well, I go down the stairs
and cherokee just

Grabs my arm and pulls me
around the corner

To the concrete safe room.

I really don't know, but it was
just something tremendous

That could have been
the last chance.

There was no power.

Being in a pitch-dark room
where, couldn't see nothing.

Narrator:
Kris has been hit in the head

By flying debris,
but thankfully, he's okay.

The big question is, why did
he wait so long to take cover?

Kris: Truthfully, the reason
I stayed out there so long,

I was mesmerized by it
and it just kept me there.

I was caught in the moment like,
holy cow,

Look at all that debris flying.

Wow. There goes a car.
Wow. There goes that house.

Cano: Tornadoes are mysterious,
dangerous occurrences.

We look at them with wonder,

We look at them with
the appropriate amount of fear.

[ screams ]

The logical thing would be
to run to safety,

But he seemed
to be locked in place.

Aten:
What we saw with kris here,
I almost wonder

If to some extent
it kind of felt surreal,

Like, this isn't
really happening to him.

But rather something that
he's observing,

Even a sense of awe,

And kind of amazement of why
he was actually witnessing.

Delgado: It's kind of hard
to pull yourself away,

But you can hear his wife say,

"hello, kris,
it's time to get down here."

She was doing the right thing.
She was in the basement.

Narrator:
Miraculously, the disaster
spared kris and his family.

The house was not so lucky.

All the stuff we purchased when
we moved there

And just,
everything was gone.

When you look out in the things
that you've worked so hard

For in your life

Suddenly seem to be gone
and looks like a bomb went off.

How do we find our way forward
in something like that?

Narrator:
Kris and his family left
washington and started over.

Though, he's well aware he
cheated death by mere seconds.

Multiple times I saw
my life flash before my eyes,

I thought I would be in heaven
with my grandparents

Or my dad or I my kids be
without a father.

But he's left me here
one more time, for some reason.

I'm here on god's time,
I'm not here on my time.

Pinn: I think people
who survive natural disasters,

The inclination is to recognize
what really matters

In terms of still having life,
still having family and friends

And that home that car or that
technology can be replaced.

Martin:
It's just gratitude.

And you're
grateful that you're alive

And it just highlights
your gratitude

For the gift of life.

Today I would do things a lot
different and take shelter.

Mother nature is no joke
to mess with.

She's a hell of a monster.
[ laughs ]

I just recommend
anybody nowadays to take cover

And don't do what I did.

Fortunately, I'm still here
today to talk about this,

And I still have all my kids
and my life is beautiful.

[ crashing ]

Narrator: Coming up...

Raging floods battle through
a small town.

-Get outta the car!
-Get outta the [bleep] car!

Narrator:
And the earth quakes with fury.

Will anyone survive?

♪♪

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Narrator: A flash flood is one
of the deadliest climate hazards

Mother nature keeps in her
arsenal of doom.

And when she unleashes it,
you better pray

You're on high ground
and out of harm's way.

-Get outta the car!
-Get outta the [bleep] car!

Narrator:
But what if you found yourself
in the middle of a raging flood?

I can't reach.
You gotta get out!

Be prepared,
to fight for your life.

♪♪

July 30, 2016,
ellicott city, maryland.

As a summer day winds down
in this quaint river town,

Heavy rains begin to fall.

It was pounding down rain,
I walk out onto my porch

And looked across
at a fellow business owner

And we were looking
at each other like,

"wow, we've never seen it rain
like this."

By dusk, code red.

A severe flash flood.

Main street is now
a raging river.

And a local shop owner,
david dempster,

Is about to make
a terrifying discovery.

I walked out to the front
of the street

And started filming the cars
that were coming.

And one of the cars
was a black vw bug.

And there was
a screaming woman inside.

Narrator: That woman's name
is jamie knight.

Dempster:
And jason barnes, my next door
neighbor from all time toys,

He got out there
and this woman didn't want to

To get out of the car.

And jason went down, boom,
out of the frame.

I thought he was a goner.

♪♪

I am the guy who went out
into the water

To try to help the lady
in the volkswagen bug.

I could actually see
there was a woman

In the driver's seat
looking frantic

And just empty out what little
was in my pockets, and...

♪♪

If you look at the bottom corner
of the video,

You'll see a trash can fly by.

That's what made me
lose my footing

Because that thing was
just flying down the hill.

I mean, this water
is going fast.

It's moving at maybe 25, 30
miles an hour.

It's a steep hill.

This is so incredibly dangerous,
not just for jamie,

But also jason.

Flash flooding is the number
one weather-related killer.

We're talking more
than tornadoes,

Avalanches, hurricanes,
combined.

Flash flooding, it is deadly.

I ended up going down the hill
probably about 50 to 75 feet,

Probably only was 5-10 seconds
I was gone

But felt like an eternity.

The water was over my head
and it was brown murkiness

And one of my shoes shot
right off my foot and like,

Okay, where does this ride end?

Narrator:
But can jason get back to jamie
before her car gets swept away?

Miraculously he does.

Dempster:
We all formed a human chain

And I didn't even
think about it,

I just kept the camera rolling.

I didn't know
it was going to work,

But I felt like I had a chance.

I remember her saying,

I can't swim
and I can't touch the ground.

I think the shock of the
situation had the best of her.

Dempster:
I was thinking that, "she better
get out of the car,

'cause that car's going
to wash down main street

And she's going to get killed.

Delgado:
I can't imagine what was
going through jamie's mind,

You know, actually I can,
absolute terror.

She's trapped in a car where
the water is rising rapidly

And she had to make
a life or death decision

Because she knew
if she stayed in that car,

She was likely going to drown.

Barnes:
Once I got to the car,

I decided to help her
get out of the car.

Fortunately,
she was extremely light.

She was able to grab
johnny's hands

And that's when
he was able to grab her.

And we just all kind of shot in
all at once.

♪♪

Delgado:
Unfortunately for her,

A car is the absolute
last place you want to be

When a flood hits.

You need to get out of your
vehicle and up to high ground.

Because just a very,
very small amount of floodwater

Is strong enough to
pick up and move

An entire vehicle downstream.

Narrator: Within a few hours,
the flood tapers off.

That's when the water
started to recede

And the full scope
of the damage really sunk in.

The water was going through
these buildings

And you're like,
"oh, this is huge."

It wasn't until I got home
about 2:00 in the morning

That I could start feeling
the wounds and everything.

And the next day
was very difficult to walk.

He could have
easily been killed.

And to really risk your life
for complete stranger?

Hero, a flat out.

Barnes:
I never felt comfortable
with the term "hero"

Because it's nice
to get appreciation,

But you don't do
something like that

For the appreciation.

Life is life and if you can help
someone continue living

You only get one go around.

♪♪

Narrator: Coming up...
Macdonell:
Everything is burnt!

Welcome to hell on earth.

Dad!

The panic.

One of the most destructive
plagues in history

Is back for revenge.

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator: Fire --
a chemical reaction

That is as mysterious
as it is deadly.

But when it's surrounding you,
at night,

It's hell on earth.

Woman: Dad!
And if vicious wildfires

Threaten
to incinerate your home...

Macdonell:
What can I do?

You'll be faced with
two options --

Oh, no!
Escape the firestorm...

Everything is burnt.
...Or die trying.

[ yells ]

♪♪

December 30, 2019,
australia.

Since July,
record-shattering temperatures

Combined with a severe
drought and strong winds

Have sparked massive bushfires
along the southeast coast

Of the continent.

But in the small town of
gongura,

The macdonell family
is praying the fires

Will somehow pass them by.

[ australian accent ]
so we were just kind of feeling
calm, like, you know,

The fire actually isn't
as bad as what they're saying.

But we knew the fire
had been coming closer

And we've been checking the wind
patterns online ourselves.

We knew that it was
blowing towards us.

On the 30th December,

That was the day
that we had been warned about.

Wow.
So waking up,
I sort of had an expectation

That we were likely
to see fire that day.

By the afternoon, the sky
was completely orange.

In no time at all,
the wind had blown it all around

And just the whole mountain
was on fire.

Narrator: Which means those
scorching flames

Are headed directly
for the macdonell residence.

While the rest of the family
has already evacuated,

19-year-old india
and her father, sean,

Attempt the unthinkable.

To defend their house
by fighting the bush fires

Themselves.

It was an easy decision for me

Because I had my dad there
keeping me calm.

We have a fire bunker

And we just had
the right amount of gear

To feel as though
we'd be safe.

Delgado: It's amazing
that she was able to do this,

But I can't stress enough,
do not try this yourself.

Battling a fire
is super dangerous.

These fires, they come fast
and they come furious

And they have
a mind of their own.

And the next thing you know,

You're trapped
with nowhere to go.

Narrator:
But india is comforted,
because her father has been

A volunteer firefighter
for the past 20 years.

Macdonell: So we had face masks,
gloves, [indistinct].

We also had goggles to protect
our eyes from the smoke.

We had fire hoses.

And that was my source of water
for the front of the house.

Narrator:
But will that be enough?

Macdonell: By evening,
the firestorm is upon them.

As it got closer, it just made
the sky go pitch-black

Like it was midnight, and it
was only 6:00 in the evening.

The whole mountain was on fire.

It was pretty
much surrounding us.

We did our best to keep
the house wet,

So that no embers
were able to ignite.

♪♪

The wind at the beginning
was really, really strong.

Oh! [ gasps ]

And it almost felt like it
was blowing in every direction

Because the embers were just
going absolutely everywhere.

It was like
a massive ember attack.

If you had to paint
a picture of h-e-l-l,

This is what it would look like.

You don't see anything else
other than

The orange
and yellow glow

And the flames
just kind of dancing around.

It really feels like
the world is ending

Because you don't see anything
but just flames.

The smoke was extremely thick
and just it was really hard

Because you have to run around
in it and breathe it in,

And then I wasn't sure
how much smoke it would take

To make someone pass out.

Narrator: The relentless flames
threaten to engulf the house.

No, no, no, no, no!

And before long,
the sheds behind india's home

Are now ablaze.

Delgado: I can't imagine
what this girl, india,

Must have been feeling.
I can tell you

What the temperature
might have been like.

We're talking anywhere
from about

1,400-1500 degrees fahrenheit.

Now, you add in
the smoke inhalation

Just burning your lungs.

Can you imagine
trying to save your home

When you're essentially
in an oven, times 10?

Narrator: For several hours,
father and daughter

Battle the insurmountable odds.

[ coughs ]
how will they both survive?

Ah, no!

♪♪

It's now morning.

India and her father
have been battling the blaze

Through their darkest night.

But they are alive.

And their house
is still standing.

Okay, it's 7:20,
we saved our house.

Macdonell: Having that house
being built by my dad,

It's quite a special place.

And that was the only thing
that we were trying to save.

Martin: I found that very,
very inspiring.

For her to have the presence of
mind to defend her house,

Turn the water in the fire,
really live through hell.

And to film it
was pretty amazing.

[ british accent ] how is
a woman showing such strength

In the face of something
so incredibly frightening?

It's a really beautiful picture
of how powerful

A human being can be.

Narrator:
But their achievement
is bittersweet as india

And her father soon observe the
mass destruction around them.

Macdonell:
Our town after the fire,

Just looked like
a post-apocalyptic town.

It was burnt
so incredibly badly.

It's really hard
to explain that feeling.

But it was intense.

Narrator:
Would india do it again?

Yes, but only if her father
was by her side.

Macdonell: Surviving that
I just felt empowered,

But I wouldn't have stayed

If I didn't have my dad there,
who was experienced.

It's probably going to be one of
the things I'm most proudest of.

But that was definitely the most
terrifying night in my life.

Macdonell: Dad!

Narrator: Coming up...

The earth opens up and wreaks
doomsday-level destruction.

[ clattering ]

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator: Earthquake.

Just the word conjures up
images of chaos.

[ screaming ]

Violent tremors,

Collapsed buildings,

People running for their lives
with no escape.

An earthquake can also trigger
other natural disasters,

Like tsunamis and landslides,
which lead to more destruction.

And the only thing more
terrifying than all that...

Is when it happens to you.

♪♪

November 30, 2018.
Anchorage, alaska.

It's 8:29 a.M. Local time,
and before the sun rises,

People across the city
are just starting their day --

For work, for school,
just a regular

Friday morning in alaska.

In the rogers park neighborhood,
jennifer and tony skilja

And their 4-year-old
daughter, sophia,

Are in the middle
of their usual routine.

I was doing my makeup,
getting ready for the day

In our bathroom upstairs.

And tony and sophia
were downstairs

At our dining table,
I think coloring?

Yeah, we were coloring.

I think we were doing like arts
and crafts and drawings.

And then suddenly
the tremors began.

Caught on their
home security cameras,

You can see tony immediately

Pick up sophia and race
out the front door.

♪♪

Jennifer is right behind them
as she rushes downstairs

And outside to reunite with
her family.

♪♪

There is like a sixth sense,
I want to say,

Or a combination of senses
that makes you move really fast.

Jennifer:
Aah!

I realized the entire ground
was shaking.

I was just like,
"I got to get out of here."

Aah!

I could hear her screaming.

It felt like the stairs
were going to cave in.

And there's a big chandelier
above our stairs.

I thought it was
going to fall on my head.

The earthquake is frightening
because there's no way

To prepare
psychologically for it.

It is terrifying.

When the earthquake hit,

It feels
like the world is ending.

There's no other way
to describe it.

All I remember
is being so scared.

Narrator: And they had
every reason to be.

Because the earthquake they just
experienced was a massive one.

Measuring 7.0
on the richter scale.

Man: Earthquake!
Earthquake!

Delgado: I have covered
so many earthquakes

And we're talking strong ones,
but this one was a whopper.

♪♪

Narrator:
While the skilja family was
terrified by the shaking ground,

The sound of the earthquake

Was something
they will never forget.

I had no idea that earthquakes
could be so loud.

Honestly, it sounds like
then the washer's stuck on

That shaking spin cycle,

And it's like a megaphone
of that.

So earthquakes happen
very quickly,

But at the beginning,
of an earthquake

You may hear that low-pitched
like a rumbling or a grumbling.

Abbott:
Those first seismic waves,

We call them the p waves,
they are actually sound waves.

So what you're literally hearing
the seismic waves

Come out of the earth
and propagate through the air.

Narrator: Those sound waves are
what first alerted tony

To spring into action.

Delgado:
But the dad instincts
were great.

He grabbed the child.

But the problem
is he went outside.

That's the wrong thing to do.

Man:
Oh, get in the doorway!

The main thing we suggest
is drop, cover, and hold on.

Dive under something
like a heavy dining room table

Or in the office,
dive underneath a desk.

Hold on to the legs of it.

Man: Hold on.

We've got a lot of criticism
for going outside,

It not being the safest thing,
but we felt like

There's more stuff in the house
that can fall on you,

Whereas outside it's a little
bit more open space.

When the house is shaking,

No matter what anyone says,
you do want to

Stay in the house,
it just does not feel right.

It just feels like it's going
to come down on you.

Delgado:
Imagine being a parent,
you've got a little child here

And you're thinking,
"what do I do?"

I was thinking about getting
to my daughter.

Our daughter was first.

Right when we were
all together outside,

You could still see
the house shaking.

It felt like forever.

I was just like,
when is this going to end?

Because I've never experienced
anything like it.

Narrator:
After standing barefoot in the
freezing cold for 45 minutes,

The skiljas venture back inside
to assess the damage.

I couldn't believe how much
stuff had fallen.

We lost all of our dishes,
glasses,

A lot of the stuff
hanging on the walls.

But the terror
was far from over.

Within just four days
of the initial quake,

An astounding 170 aftershocks

Of varying strength
occurred in the region,

Including a 5.7 shake just
minutes after that first jolt.

The aftershocks
were insane.

They just kept going at it
for days and weeks.

And then tsunami warnings,

'cause we're right on the ocean
kept flooding up.

Just tsunami warning,
tsunami warning.

And you don't know if one was
going to come.

You wonder if something bigger
is happening,

If that makes any sense?

Is there a bigger natural
disaster that's going to happen?

Is the world ending?

Thankfully,
the tsunami never happened,

But the damage to some of
anchorage's infrastructure

Was undeniable.

And while the skilja
family was unharmed,

The quake of 2018
still haunts them to this day.

I still have
anxiety about it,

Because you never know when
the next one is going to come.

I definitely felt like
it was doomsday for us.

I mean, that was the craziest
thing we've ever experienced.

So for sure,
we, we felt like that was it,

That was the end.

Jennifer: Aah!

♪♪

Narrator: Coming up, a swarming,
devastating plague...

Of biblical proportions.

♪♪

Narrator: Ancient stories
in the book of exodus

Recount the 10 plagues

God threatened
to inflict on egypt's pharaoh.

They were repulsive,
violent, dangerous.

And symbolized the end of days.
[ thunder crashes ]

Among them a bug-like creature
with the power of a scorpion,

Who with its lion like teeth

Could devour anything
in its path.

The eighth plague,
better known as locusts.

Is this a sign of
the end of the world?

♪♪

February 20, 2020,
khobar, saudi arabia.

In the middle east,
which conjures images

Of deserts, dunes, and sand,
but there do exist

Fertile valleys of plenty
filled with luscious crops,

Crops that are under siege
because millions,

If not billions of locusts

Are wreaking havoc
and destruction everywhere.

Meanwhile, on a highway
near khobar,

At approximately 4:30
in the afternoon.

This car heads into a massive
swarm of them,

Without even realizing it.

Delgado:
You're driving along and you're
looking up and you're thinking,

"oh, wow, there's a sandstorm,"

But then you get a little
closer, and then you're like,

"this isn't a sandstorm.
It's an invasion!"

Martin: There's something
more disgusting

About it being insects.

I think there's something
in our human mind that recoils

At the idea of millions of bugs
crawling over your body

Or crawling over your car.

Delgado:
You're thinking, "is the world
coming to an end?"

I mean, come on,
this is biblical.

In the bible, locusts are spoken
of as this kind of

Swarm of destruction

That comes through
and eats the massive crop.

In the book of exodus,
locusts served

As a sign of punishment.

In the book of revelation,

Locusts constitute
one of the plagues

That will be visited
upon the world

As a sign of the end times.

But for those who continued
reading exodus 10.14

Says, "never before
has there been a plague

Of locusts like this
and there shall never be again."

But seeing it and being
in the middle of it

Is definitely scary for sure.

Narrator: The sky and the
highway are dominated

By the hovering locusts,
and it seems there's no escape.

Sometimes when something
seems out of place,

It can be hard for our minds
to wrap around

And to know what
we're actually experiencing.

Delgado: You know,
we've seen events like this

Happen where we see
these locusts invading an area.

A couple of years ago,
we saw this in las vegas.

This invasion was so big,
it actually showed up on radar.

Interestingly enough,
we have learned in recent years

That there is no leader
in a swarm.

We get similar swarms
in some species of fish.

And you also see
the swarming birds.

But those locusts, it is amazing
that they can move so fast

And through
such intricate patterns

Without bumping into each other.

Narrator: The group may be safe
from the swarm,

But the devastation
these locusts can inflict

Cannot be underestimated.

In a matter of minutes,

Locusts can eat through acres
and acres of crops,

Wreaking havoc
on the world's food supply.

Phoenix:
These locusts have the ability
to utterly devastate

People's way of life

Because they destroy everything
that they can possibly eat

When they swarm through an area.

So it is a doomsday event.

It's history reappearing
before our very eyes today.

Narrator:
And thanks to mother nature,
there's a strong chance

This won't be the last time
these insects come out to play.

Phoenix: Increases
in global temperatures

Lead to increases
in extreme weather.

So after we have these
severely increased rainfalls,

We see the locust
swarms intensifying,

Breeding pretty much
out of control.

So this shows us that
the effects of climate change

Are going to have
broad-reaching impacts.

Martin: It's this sort of
perversion of nature,

It's like nature
turning against you

And I think the last part
of nature

That I would want turn
against me are bugs.

So it's doomsday.

What would you do if you were...

Caught in a bomb cyclone
in the storm of the century...

Man:
Oh, my god.

...Faced with the wrath
of a tornado...

Kris: Leave that door
so I can get in!

...Trapped in deadly
raging waters?

Woman: Get out
of the [bleep] car!

Or the fires from hell?

Macdonell: Dad!

Just hope and pray,
you live to tell about it.

Kris: Oh, my god!

♪♪

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