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♪♪

NARRATOR: Next on
"Doomsday Caught On Camera,"

an explosion of ice...

creates a tsunami of terror.

It was like everything
was in slow motion.

NARRATOR: The earth
rumbles to its core...

[ People screaming ]

...causing mass hysteria.

Buildings collapsed.

We were running.

It was like a nightmare.

NARRATOR: What happens
when a roaring flood...

WOMAN: It's at the window!

NARRATOR:
...ambushes an innocent family?

WOMAN: Quickly!

ABBOTT: Before long,
it's gonna be inside the house.

NARRATOR: A ruthless twister...

WELLS: Oh, my God!

I thought I was gonna die.

NARRATOR:
...ravages a community.

MARK: Our house
is freaking destroyed.

NARRATOR: And even more
jaw-dropping weather phenomena

that will make you thank God...

HOLLIE: Am I gonna die
on my vacation?

NARRATOR:
...it didn't happen to you.

MARK: Oh, my God,
the neighbors' houses are gone.

WELLS: Oh, my God!

♪♪

♪♪

NARRATOR: Glaciers,
colossal masses of ice

that form over
hundreds of years,

where fallen snow compresses
and transforms

into giant, slow-moving beasts.

While most glaciers occupy
Antarctica and Greenland,

they can actually be found
on nearly every continent.

And people from all over

flock to get a glimpse
of these natural wonders.

But when these monsters
begin to crack

and pieces plunge
into the waters below,

you better make sure
you're nowhere in sight.

HOOPER: Oh, my! Holy [bleep]

NARRATOR: August 10, 2019,

Chugach National Forest, Alaska.

This remote tourist destination
is home to scenic hiking trails,

rustic campsites,

and its centerpiece,
Spencer Glacier,

a magnificent
3,500-foot-high marvel

situated along pristine
royal blue water.

Visiting the glacier
is Andrew Hooper

and his friend Josh,

both of whom are touring
the Alaskan frontier

with their families.

Spencer Glacier,
we researched that,

found out the you can
get there by train.

It's basically
in the middle of nowhere.

Train comes by there once a day.

Josh and I decided
that we wanted to go kayak

that glacial pool
at the end of the glacier.

NARRATOR: Andrew and Josh say
goodbye to their wives and kids

and take the half-hour
train ride

into the isolated wilderness.

They arrive at
the Spencer Glacier Whistle Stop

to begin their journey.

HOOPER: We hiked in probably
about a mile, mile and a half,

set up our tents.

You can actually
stay there overnight,

which you have to do
because of the train.

And then decided it was time
to get in the kayaks.

And start tootling
around the area.

♪♪

We had to paddle almost a mile,
mile and a half

to actually get to the glacier.

We didn't realize it was
that far from shore.

And then once you get there,

it's obviously a lot larger
than you expected.

It was massive.

NARRATOR: The guys paddle around
the icy behemoth,

taking in all of its beauty,

when suddenly they hear
what sounds like crackling ice.

You could hear the cracks.

It sound like dropping a rock
down in a well.

Then sounded more
like a shotgun blast.

[ Ice cracking ]

But you don't really know
what's happening

just because you're still
getting the echo

from the mountains on all sides.

NARRATOR: Andrew and Josh
don't know it,

but Spencer Glacier
is in the middle

of a natural process
called calving.

PHOENIX: That means the glacier
is breaking,

so whether it's melting

or whether there's a pressure
being exerted on it, it splits.

Pieces of glaciers
that have calved

can be the size
of several city blocks.

You've basically got
a very large chunk

of something that is
extremely solid and mobile.

So it's definitely
a moving hazard.

♪♪

HOOPER: Every five minutes,
you can hear it cracking.

It's dropped a couple
pieces of ice.

The cracks were very small...

Lunch boxes, that type of stuff,
falling off.

There's a few more
little pieces.

Then the larger one,

probably about the size
of a Volkswagen Bug, fell off.

♪♪

Wasn't that the one
we wanted to go under?

We were ignorant to what
could happen, the dangers.

Yes!

We're running on adrenaline.

It was like, "Oh, this is cool
as cool could be."

This is pretty frickin' cool.

NARRATOR: At first,
Andrew and Josh are relaxed

and enjoying the show,

but as more ice begins to fall
and at a faster pace,

an eerie feeling washes over
the two friends.

HOOPER: Man, when that
whole thing goes...

NARRATOR: Suddenly...

♪♪

It was like everything
was in slow motion.

You couldn't do anything.
It was too late to paddle away.

Things were traveling
at high speeds.

I dropped the camera
and shielded myself.

And I had put my hand
over my face

and kind of crouched down.

But it was definitely like,
"This is the end for us."

♪♪

Oh, my!

NARRATOR:
Fearing for their lives,

the guys furiously begin
to paddle.

It was the fight-or-flight
type thing,

and I was going as fast
as I could to get away.

Holy [bleep]

Josh was a little bit behind me.

My left hand's going numb
because, you know, it got hit.

I'm looking down in my kayak,

and I've got two inches
of water in there.

We were both scared, afraid.

You know, all the emotions
at one point in time

to get to a safe distance
away from the glacier.

Oh, my God!

[ Rumbling ]

Josh was to my left, and I took
the majority of the water.

I still had
my regular hiking pants on

that weren't waterproof.

I had on a regular jacket
that also wasn't waterproof.

It was very cold really quick.

DELGADO: Easy to get knocked out
or you're tipped over.

This is a glacier.

So that means
that the water is cold.

How about hypothermia,

in addition just to being
scared out of your pants?

ABBOTT: And you're looking
at hunks of ice

that weigh hundreds,
even a few thousand pounds.

A few thousand pounds of ice
fall on you, you're dead.

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HOOPER: I got hit right below
my left breast,

and my hand got hit, as well,
and it was bleeding.

And you're bleeding
in the middle of nowhere

with a train
that comes once a day.

It's like,
"What's gonna happen?"

Everything was still
moving around.

There were still
additional pops.

Was that the calm
before the storm,

or was that the big punch?

NARRATOR: Incredibly,
both Andrew and Josh

manage to escape the icy grip
of the crumbling glacier.

Once we got a little bit away,
the waves were calm,

and we sat there
for probably 5 to 10 minutes

and just caught our breath, you
know, assessed the situation.

So we're still just in...

in awe.

Very, very blessed
to have seen it and survived.

We were thinking
our lucky stars and God

for having to get through that.

Un-[bleep]-real.

NARRATOR: The men eventually
make it back to dry land,

where they recover
alongside a roaring campfire,

and take the train home
the next morning.

But the magnitude of this
near-fatal catastrophe

has them severely shaken.

HOOPER: We got very lucky.

There were pieces
the size of baseballs

that were just skipping off
the water right next to us,

shards of ice
that have sharp edges.

It could have been a lot worse.

The amount of power
that was in the glacier,

and to say that we walked away
from it was absolutely amazing.

♪♪

Holy [bleep]

NARRATOR: Coming up,
a twisted vortex of chaos...

...comes knocking
at the front door.

And an entire country
is shaken to its core.

[ People screaming ]

♪♪

NARRATOR: A tornado
is a creation of pure evil.

Hot and cold air
collide in the sky.

An updraft of rotating winds
begins to churn,

and a funnel cloud grows
and descends upon the earth...

engulfing everything
in its dreadful path.

And if you're in the way...

...pray it doesn't
take you with it.

November 17, 2013,
Washington, Illinois.

Josie Wells
and her father, Mark,

are at home
enjoying a lazy Sunday.

My sisters and my mom
were out of town.

I was actually sleeping in late
that day.

NARRATOR:
But this isn't any Sunday,

because a massive
tornado outbreak

is blasting through
America's heartland.

WELLS: I got, like,
an alert on my phone

saying "tornado warning."

My dad was like,
"You should come downstairs."

I was already watching TV.

And then he had the news on.

The people went off air.

And that's when I knew something
was getting, like, serious.

NARRATOR: As the swirling terror
closes in on their town,

Josie and her father
venture outside

to try and catch a glimpse.

WELLS: My dad's always been,
like, a thrill seeker,

wanting to, like,
see the natural disasters,

follow tornadoes.

In his brain, I think
he was just thinking, like,

"Oh, I want to get this
on video.

This is so cool."

I was in shock.

This is, like, cool but scary
at the same time.

Fear started to shake in

when he realized
there was debris

and it was coming towards us.

NARRATOR: Without hesitation,
Josie and her dad run downstairs

to a shelter
designed specifically

for this frightening situation,

and they lock themselves inside.

A tornado shelter's
just this big cement hallway.

It goes really far back
into the structure of the home.

There's no electricity.
It's literally like a dark hole.

And I just went straight
to the tornado shelter,

and I was like,
"Dad, get in here,"

'cause I knew
it was getting bad.

There was no other place
for us to go.

My dad doesn't really
ever get scared,

but I felt his fear.

When he came in, he said,
"It's gonna get bad."

I was kind of, like,
cradled down holding the dog,

and then he was, like, over me,

and we just kind of,
like, huddled together.

The terror of the unknown,

and you don't know
if you're gonna make it

from one moment to the next.

NARRATOR: Within moments,

they hear the tornado
rapidly approaching above them.

[ Rumbling ]

What sounds like a power drill
on overdrive

brutally assaults their senses.

The sound, it makes you cringe
a little bit.

You're like, "What is that?"

[ Buzzing ] [ Crying ]

I was afraid, and I heard sounds

that I've never
in my life heard of.

I would relate it
to a freight train.

NARRATOR: And then that train

barrels straight through
the property,

swallowing up
everything in sight

while Josie and her dad
brace themselves underground.

Death definitely went through
my mind in that moment.

[ Clattering, banging ]

[ Screaming ]

I blacked out, like,
what was going on.

[ Crying ]

[ Banging, crashing ]

MARK: Oh!

I thought I was gonna die.

[ Banging, crashing ]
[ Screams ]

NARRATOR: After roughly half
a minute of raucous mayhem,

the sounds of destruction stop.

The tornado appears
to have passed.

Mark walks up from the shelter

and stumbles toward the living
room to assess the damage.

But he is not prepared
for what he's about to see.

WELLS: And to hear, like,
the sadness in my dad's voice,

that was heartbreaking to me.

MARK: Oh!

This tornado with wind speeds
up to 180 miles an hour,

this is the kind of a thing

that homes just are not designed
to stand up to.

I didn't know what
we were supposed to do next

if our whole house is gone.

I didn't know where we were
supposed to go that was safe.

MARTIN: I really found this
very, very sad to watch.

I really felt this family's pain
as they were going through it.

I know that my dad loved
that house, and he built it,

and we had
so many memories there.

So it was the most devastating
time of my life.

NARRATOR: As he tries to process
the loss of his home,

Mark makes another
shocking discovery.

I remember this happening,
and this was devastating.

You're never prepared
for when you actually walk out

and you see
the damage firsthand.

[ Wells sobbing ]

WELLS:
There was no homes in sight.

So many of the people I loved,

their house got hit by a
tornado, as well, not just ours.

Just did not feel
like real life.

It was, like, something, like,

out of the zombie apocalypse
or something.

[ Sobbing ]

When I looked at that,
I thought people were dead.

VAGELL:
Having the storm shelter,

that's probably the only reason
why they really survived this.

But even though
the storm's over,

there's still danger there
that lurks.

NARRATOR: Now fearing
what's left of their house

will collapse,

Mark frantically calls
for his daughter.

Josie and Mark eventually
get to safety.

And then the news
of the devastation...

The EF4-rated tornado
not only crushed their home,

but decimated hundreds of other
houses in that community,

tragically claiming one life.

I don't know why everybody
feels so, like, sad for me.

I'm just lucky to be alive.

After that, I just felt grateful
to be alive and for life.

Expressions of gratitude
in those situations

are really very common.

They're also very beautiful.

WELLS: Houses and places
can be rebuilt.

Some of the items that I lost,
they were just items.

They didn't fulfill
my happiness.

The people around me did.

The relationships and the people
are what matter the most.

NARRATOR: Coming up...
SHERMER: Oh, my God!

...vicious floodwaters...

...turn a home into a prison.

And a road trip...

[ All screaming ]

...filled with terror.

HOLLIE:
I hope we don't die, guys.

♪♪

NARRATOR: Mother Nature's mayhem
knows no bounds.

And one of her deadliest acts
is a flash flood.

One minute everything is calm,
and the next absolute chaos.

Beware the horror, because these
floods can hit unexpectedly

and without mercy...

...trapping you...

...with no escape.

SHERMER: Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

NARRATOR: June 9, 2019,
Dallas, Texas.

On this summer weekend,

the Shermer family is spending
some quality time together,

hanging out at home.

SHERMER:
My name is Danielle Shermer,

and I live with my husband
and my two sons and my mom.

We live in Lake Highlands,
Dallas, Texas.

We live on a small
trickling creek

that winds around our house.

We were just watching soccer,
having our coffee.

I saw a friend of mine
on Instagram.

She talked about
some crazy storm

that had just come through
that looked pretty bad,

but especially in the summer
in Texas, it's pretty dry.

We don't have big storms
normally in the summer.

So I just kind of went on
with my morning.

NARRATOR: Then the weather
takes a sudden turn.

SHERMER: I remember looking out

and noticing that
it was getting dark quickly.

The winds picked up, and then
it just started raining.

It was hard,
and it was a lot all at once.

[ Thunder rumbling ]

The electricity went out.

We heard the trees starting
to fall on the house,

and I thought for sure
it was a tornado.

NARRATOR:
But this is no tornado.

A rumbling sound
catches Danielle's ear.

And suddenly...

water everywhere.

It's the creek,
which has now exploded

into an extreme storm surge.

The power of the water
was shocking.

It was a raging river.

It was rushing so fast.

That's the crazy moment
where you're like,

"Is this really even happening?"

MARTIN:
Living by this beautiful creek

that suddenly turns deadly,

there's a sense almost
of betrayal.

This thing that we love,

which was so calm
and little and pretty,

this thing is now
going to destroy us.

SHERMER: Every time I had
looked out the window,

I was worried that a large log
or, like, a piece of debris

could hit our window
and break it

and the water
would just rush in.

NARRATOR:
For the next 20 minutes,

the terrifying flash flood
continues to intensify.

SHERMER: It just kept getting
higher and higher,

and it was still raining,
and I didn't understand,

like, when it would end
or how it would end.

♪♪

DELGADO: This is not one
of those slow-moving events.

This is one where
the rainfall rate

was too fast for the ground
to absorb.

Basically, their house,
it turned into an island.

It was really difficult

to try and make a decision
on what to do.

We just... We felt really stuck.

The waves start hitting
into the windowpane,

almost as if it's knocking,
saying, "Can I come in?

Oh, I don't need
your permission.

I'm coming in."

A foot deep of water's carrying
500 pounds of lateral force.

It's climbing even higher.

Before long, it's gonna
break through the glass doors.

It's gonna be inside the house.

And when that safe zone
is compromised,

there's nowhere to run.

♪♪

NARRATOR: As the water outside
keeps rising,

Danielle and her family

are essentially prisoners
inside their own home.

SHERMER: The way that our house
is situated on the creek,

it wraps around the house.

So as we realize that waters
were coming down

on all sides of the house,
we just felt so trapped.

It was really
a suffocating feeling

and a really helpless feeling.

A complete nightmare.

NARRATOR:
A nightmare they can't escape.

And so the kids are told to take
shelter on the second floor.

Even if you've made it
to the safety

of a high point in your house,

there's still the possibility

that the flood could sweep
your house off of its foundation

and actually move
the entire structure.

NARRATOR:
Danielle watches helplessly

as the floodwaters
continue to attack her home.

And then...

the brutal surge of water
begins to recede.

As quickly as it came up,

that's as quickly
as the water went down.

It was a huge relief
that it crested where it did

because if it had gotten
much higher,

I don't think the windows
would have held.

NARRATOR: Danielle braces
herself for the damage.

I remember going out
and just being like,

"What just happened?"

NARRATOR: And it's substantial.

But thankfully, she and her
family survive the ordeal.

Still, they will never forget
the mighty forces of nature

that nearly washed
their home away.

It was super emotional.
It was so shocking.

And I felt very grateful,

because I feel like it could
have been a million times worse.

And I'm reminded of that
all the time.

DELGADO:
They're all lucky to be alive.

Imagine if they just had
a ranch house

and they only had one level.

They might have not been here
to even tell us their story.

SHERMER: It was one of
the craziest days of my life,

and I just never thought
that something like that

could ever happen to me
or my family.

And I think the biggest takeaway
is it can happen to you,

and you may not expect it,

but just never take the weather
for granted.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

♪♪

NARRATOR:
Coming up, the earth rumbles,

and a nation runs for cover.

And a merciless mudslide
consumes all.

♪♪

♪♪

NARRATOR:
It strikes without warning,

shattering buildings,
mangling roadways...

even leveling entire cities,

shaking the ground
with such violence,

you'd think the world
was imploding.

Oh, you can try to prepare.

[ Rumbling ]

But in the end, Mother Nature
always holds the upper hand,

because nothing can stop
an earthquake.

April 25, 2015, Pokhara, Nepal.

Pokhara is the country's
second-largest city,

about 120 miles west
of Nepal's capital, Kathmandu.

And it's home to 23-year-old
Shristi Mainali,

who was about to graduate

from the Central Institute
of Science and Technology.

I was studying bachelor's
in public health.

So in our study
during the last semesters,

we are sent in the community
to work there for one month.

So I was sent to work

in the district public health
office of Pokhara.

NARRATOR:
After an eight-hour bus ride,

Shristi settles in
at a local youth hostel,

where she and some classmates
decide to blow off some steam.

MAINALI: In our group,
we were nine girls.

We had planned to go for a movie
that Saturday

because from Sunday,
we had to work a lot.

NARRATOR: It's just before noon,
and the movie is set to begin.

But out of nowhere,

an unusual rumbling noise
fills the theater.

MAINALI: We thought that
it was like generator

or something like that.

Maybe the movie hall,
they started the generators.

It makes certain sound like
[Imitates rumbling]

NARRATOR: But it's clear
this is no generator.

The chairs and all
in the movie hall were shaking.

People started to shout that,
"Earthquake, earthquake,"

and everyone started
to run out of the theater.

Just imagine the chaos there.

It was literally shaking.

The building was shaking a lot.

There was the sound
of the earthquake,

of the earth shaking.

NARRATOR: That's because
the epicenter of the quake

is less than 80 miles away
from Shristi and her friends.

And it isn't just
shaking Pokhara.

The massive
7.8-magnitude monster

is sending shock waves

throughout the entire country
of Nepal.

[ Indistinct shouting ]

♪♪

[ Rumbling ]

[ Glass breaking ]

[ People screaming ]

DELGADO: Nepal is no stranger
when it comes to earthquakes.

What made this one so much worse

was this one was only
about 34 kilometers deep,

very close to the earth's
surface, and it was violent.

So that's why the damage there
was just so devastating.

NARRATOR: Outside
the movie theater in Pokhara,

Shristi and her friends

are immediately thrust
into the mayhem.

[ People screaming ]

♪♪

And then we realized that, okay,

this was like of high magnitude
of earthquake.

It was scary because when
everyone around starts to panic

and starts to shout,
then you get more scared.

[ Indistinct shouting ]

There's that feeling of doom,
of panic.

You don't know
what's coming next.

You don't know where to go,
where is a safe place.

There probably are none.

MAINALI:
All the buildings collapsing

and the dust
erupting out of there,

the birds flying,
people shouting.

The only word which I can
describe about it

is it was very scary.

There's something
inherently frightening

about standing on the thing
you thought

was the most secure thing in
your life, which is the earth,

and having it suddenly move
underneath you.

NARRATOR: Upping the fear
even more for young Shristi

is that she's hours away
from her family,

who live in Kathmandu.

Anything happens to me
or anything happens to them,

then we cannot meet immediately.

There is no, like...
The transportation was halted.

The flights
and everything were halted.

[ People screaming ]

NARRATOR: So all she can do
with her friends

is to pray
they get through this alive.

MAINALI: We were trying
to pacify each other,

to support each other.

Everyone tried
to survive together.

♪♪

NARRATOR: Shristi, her friends,

along with her family,
did survive,

though it took her
31 nerve-racking days

to finally reunite with them.

Luckily, nothing happened
to Dad, Mom,

my brother and sister,
four of them.

Luckily, everyone were fine
at my home.

NARRATOR: But not everyone else
was as lucky,

with the disaster claiming
a heartbreaking 9,000 lives,

making this
the deadliest earthquake

to hit the region
in over 80 years.

People are going to
lose their lives.

It's just unavoidable
with that size of a quake.

[ Indistinct talking ]

ORR-EWING:
And a conclusion we might draw

from that kind of scale of loss

is how amazing,
how precious to be alive

if one has escaped death,

and certainly
that sort of scale,

to experience massive gratitude

but also to really reflect
on the meaning

and purpose of one's own life.

NARRATOR: Although Shristi
is certainly grateful

to have survived,

the dramatic quake
still haunts her to this day.

I could not sleep properly,
and every time,

even the slightest
of the tremor would scare me.

And it was like a nightmare.

It was like a nightmare.

[ People screaming ]

NARRATOR: Coming up...

a family road trip...

[ All screaming ]

...turns into a nightmare.

HOLLIE: Am I gonna die
on my vacation?

[ Screaming continues ]

♪♪

NARRATOR: Mother Nature
unleashes her wrath

in countless ways,

and one of the most common
yet terrifying

is a roaring thunderstorm.

[ Thunder crashes ]

But sometimes these tempests

contain a more vicious
ingredient... hail.

And when solid chunks of ice
smash down onto your car,

all you can do is hope
the roof doesn't cave in.

HOLLIE: We're about to die
on the freeway.

[ Children screaming ]

NARRATOR: June 1, 2019,
Amarillo, Texas.

Diego and Hollie Ortiz
and their five children

are on their way home
to Albuquerque, New Mexico,

after a family vacation
in Branson, Missouri.

HOLLIE: There's gold in there.

You guys excited?

[ Indistinct talking ]

I'm Hollie. I'm Diego.

We have five kids.
Our oldest is a boy.

We have twin 6-year-old girls,
a 4-year-old girl,

and then a 2-year-old girl.

NARRATOR: With four more hours
of driving ahead of them,

the family spots an ominous wall
of clouds on the Texas horizon.

While Hollie is growing nervous,
Diego is excited.

HOLLIE: This stinking storm
we're about to drive through,

I swear we're gonna
see a tornado.

Diego, his whole life, I think
he just wants to see a tornado.

I could care less.

I mean, I would like to live.

I love rain.

I love just, like,
the dark weather.

I don't know why.
It's just so beautiful to me.

A lot of people,
when they see bad weather,

it's almost intoxicating.

It draws you into it.

You just want to see
what's going to happen.

HOLLIE: Like, this is so,
like, a black storm.

They're, like, low.

I had a really bad feeling
when I saw the dark clouds.

I hope we don't die, guys.

This might be the last
you see of us.

It looked like you were driving
into some black hole of clouds,

and you had no clue
what was gonna be around you

inside those clouds.

NARRATOR: Suddenly, the radio
warns of a severe thunderstorm,

advising drivers to get off
the road and take cover.

We weren't used to the storm
warning on the radio,

which was kind of scary.

I guess I don't realize, like,
the danger sometimes of things.

And I just think, "Oh, we'll
just drive right through it."

[ Thunder crashing ]

I remember kind of thinking,
like, "Should I?

Eh, maybe I shouldn't."

And she's like, "Oh,
you need to pull over now."

It's too late to seek shelter.

So Diego pulls off
at the next exit

and parks the minivan
next to a building.

HOLLIE:
That's what I said, Ezra.

I just basically pulled up
on the side of it,

pretty much, like, on their
sidewalk of the building,

just to try to get as much
protection as we could.

I am afraid of storms.

Like, deathly afraid.

We're about to die
on the freeway

on the side of the road,
and it's pouring.

It's, like, flooding.

NARRATOR: But the storm
is just getting started.

Out of nowhere, a violent
onslaught of hail attacks.

[ All screaming ]

The hail was just, like,
pounding down so hard.

I was praying and hoping
that nothing would happen.

[ Hail pounding ]

And that was what
scared our children

was the loudness of the hail.

And I screamed
and scared everybody, probably.

I couldn't control
my fear, either.

I was like, "Am I gonna die
on my vacation?"

[ Screaming continues ]

I think the hardest thing is,
especially as a parent,

is helplessness,
the fear in their eyes.

They're pretty terrified.

[ All crying, screaming ]

How am I going to
protect my children

even if I have to lose my life?

[ Hail pounding,
children crying ]

At one point,
it got to golf-ball size,

which I'm surprised that didn't
smash our windshield.

When the golf-size hail came,

I actually
turned off the camera.

[ Children screaming ]

Will the windshield be strong
enough to protect the family?

♪♪

We just waited.

We waited probably...
I want to say maybe 15 minutes,

and then there was all this hail
all over the floor.

It was such a relief
once we got through the storm.

Once it was gone, I was like,

"Thank you, Lord,
for getting us through this."

And to see my kids and how happy
they were to get out of there,

it was great.

Having survived the brutal hail

and with all five children
now calm,

Diego and Hollie head back home
to New Mexico,

ending a family vacation
they won't soon forget.

You're just glad
you got out of it.

Now it's like PTSD almost.

The kids still
freak out to this day

just from the rain
as much as I do.

It's likely that these kids
will remember this situation.

It was that traumatic.

But the question becomes,
will they have an opportunity

to process it
and that way get over it?

NARRATOR: One thing's for sure,

if the family ever ends up
facing a storm like this again,

Diego and Hollie now know
exactly how to handle it.

If the guy on the radio
is saying,

"Get in and find shelter,"
go find shelter.

Don't try to take a risk,

'cause it can turn into
something more serious

and you can literally
be risking your life.

[ Hail pounding,
children screaming ]

Coming up, monster mud
swallows up the innocent.

Will this woman survive?

♪♪

NARRATOR:
Dangerous weather lurks

on all four corners
of the planet

and can strike without warning
at any time.

One of the most frightening
and devastating is the mudslide.

This gruesome mix of water,
debris, and gravity

moves at record speeds,

devouring everything
in its path,

from cars to animals to,
God, help us...

...people.

March 15, 2017,
Punta Hermosa, Peru.

This picturesque beach town
sits 25 miles south of Lima,

the country's capital.

In recent weeks,
a barrage of thunderstorms

fueled by the climate pattern
known as El Niño

have been dumping 10 times
more rainfall than usual.

El Niño is a variation in the
earth's normal weather patterns.

In this instance,
it produced heavier rains

than normal
for this part of Peru.

Adding all that rain
leads to landslides and deaths

and people drowning in floods.

NARRATOR: As flooding begins
to drench Punta Hermosa,

the hills start to erode
and the rivers roar.

And almost instantly,

a massive mudslide barrels
through the area.

VAGELL: Sometimes these
mudslides can reach speeds

that are 60, 70,
80 miles an hour.

That's like end of the world.

That's like a doomsday situation
with a wall of mud.

NARRATOR: A crowd of shocked
onlookers watch helplessly...

...as the unstoppable avalanche
of monster mud

carries with it remnants of
this charming coastal community.

DELGADO: The situation here
was just terrifying.

Everything in its path
was its casualty.

You can see homes.

You can see the debris
left behind.

You see, like, parts of a roof.

NARRATOR: But it's not
just wood and debris

that are caught in the
cross hairs of this calamity.

All I kept thinking was,
"Somebody help that cow out."

The cow, she's probably
just so shell-shocked,

like, "What happened?"

Then you see
the little baby pig,

and it didn't look like
the pig was moving.

This was one of the most
heartbreaking videos I've seen.

PHOENIX: You can't overstate
the dangers that mudslides bring

to communities that are
a little bit more rural.

You've got livestock that's
at risk, as well as people.

NARRATOR: The already dangerous
situation turns dire...

...when a 5,000-pound
shipping container

swept up in the violent torrent

gets wedged at a bridge opening,

creating a potentially lethal
whirlpool effect.

When you're talking about
several feet of mud,

debris moving, swirling around,

the latter stage of a mudslide,

you wouldn't want
to be near that

because that could be
a deadly situation.

The power of this mudslide
is no joke.

Its ability to disrupt
and to tear up is profound.

NARRATOR:
And then amidst the chaos,

a sight even more harrowing.

It's almost like a scene
out of a scary movie.

It really is.

It's really even
kind of hard to tell

that it's actually a person.

They're covered in so much mud,

they essentially look
like kind of the debris

and the wood there.

NARRATOR: The woman
is seen desperately trying

to claw her way
out of the wreckage.

Well, my immediate thought was,

she can't possibly
have survived it

'cause of the sheer force
of the movement.

And then to see
that she was alive

and clambering out and the
amazement of the crowd watching,

it must have been overwhelming
odds against her surviving that.

She was able
to pull herself out,

exhausted, bruised,
walk across that debris,

and make it to shore
and save herself.

I feel her survival was
almost paranormal in nature.

If this happened
2,000 years ago,

she might have been hailed
as the mud goddess

that was to be worshiped
because of her survival

of something
so incredibly massive.

NARRATOR: Not only is the woman
somehow alive,

equally miraculous is the fact
that she avoids serious injury,

being treated later
at the hospital

for only minor cuts and bruises.

It just seems so surreal
that somebody's gonna be

coming out
of this dangerous mudslide.

And she came out of there
like a superhero.

She was a fighter,
and she came out of this alive.

NARRATOR:
So doomsday has arrived.

What would you do if you were
trapped inside a twister?

MARK: My house
is freaking destroyed.

NARRATOR:
Attacked by a wall of ice?

HOOPER: Oh, my!

NARRATOR: Caught within
the crumbling earth?

Or held prisoner
in your own home?

WOMAN: It's coming up.
It's at the window.

NARRATOR: Just hope and pray...

[ Indistinct shouting ]

...you live to tell about it.

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