Perfect Disaster, on Discovery Channel

[moggycattermole]

Hey Everyone,
It looks like the Discovery Channel will be showing a new series based on the worst natural disasters possible.
From the site

Perfect Disaster
Sundays, March 19 - April 16, at 9 p.m. ET/PT

Perfect disasters are storms that are larger, more dangerous and more deadly than any before them. When all the right ingredients combine, the resulting catastrophes will be "impossible" — a tornado with wind speeds that exceed those seen in a category 5, or a solar storm that causes a worldwide blackout. What would happen if one of these "super storms" crashed into a city like New York, London, Hong Kong, Dallas, Sydney or Toronto?

Episode 1: Super Tornado

At two miles wide and with wind speeds of more than 350 mph, a super tornado would reduce downtown Dallas to a war zone within minutes. Scientists say it could happen. When it does, a Dallas emergency city manager is forced to choose between making sure his family remains safe, or saving the lives of millions.

Episode 2: Solar Storm

Beneath the boiling surface of the sun lies a force that could destroy crucial technology and electrical grids, throwing the modern world back to the Stone Age. With only hours to prepare, a New York City engineer struggles to convince the mayor to take an action that may save an entire country.

Episode 3: Super Typhoon

The Pacific breeds the biggest and most powerful hurricanes in the world. So far, the 7 million inhabitants of Hong Kong have escaped a direct hit. But a slight change in weather will send an emergency coordinator scurrying through the streets to make sure her city is safe while the super typhoon sets its sights on the island.

Episode 4: MegaFlood

We saw what happened to New Orleans after the sea breached its levies. Could the same thing happen to London? The city is well protected against the power of a storm surge, but there is one weakness.

Episode 5: Fire Storm

There is a point at which a wildfire becomes unstoppable, and a phenomenon is born that can destroy anything its path. The Australian city of Sydney faces this threat every year. For the men and women working at the forefront of fire science, the nightmare is about to begin.

Episode 6: Ice Storm

It happened more than a decade ago: An ice storm brought the Canadian city of Montreal to its knees. Scientists now believe there is far worse to come. Strangely enough, the big freeze begins with a warm spell.

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/perfectdisaster/perfectdisaster.html

 

[Texas Writer]

In 1957, a tornado almost that size hit Dallas, entering from the southwest. It cut a huge swath through Oak Cliff, jumped the Trinity River and continued on a northward path until it hit Bachman Lake at the end of the Love Field runway.

I didn't see it, but reports are the tornado sucked that lake dry and then sort of fell apart.

I did see the destruction in Oak Cliff as it went down Polk Street less than two blocks from our house.

 

[deja]

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[dimensiondancer]

I did see the destruction in Oak Cliff as it went down Polk Street less than two blocks from our house.

Texas Writer, my paternal grandmother who lived in Oak Cliff at the time was standing at a bus stop when that tornado came through. She watched it whirl along but was in no danger herself.

I hate it when they use the city of Dallas for those case studies. I remember them using New Orleans as a case study for a hurricane, and I just don't like it - it's like bad voodoo.

The season is brewing.....

 

[Green Co.]

I couldn't wish a monster tornado on my worst enemy.

May 11, 1970 the wife & I were living in the city of Lubbock, Tx. You could hear the thing coming...15 minutes... 26 people dead, most of a great plains city destroyed.

Remembered here. http://www.lubbockonline.com/tornado/

 

[SurvivalRing]

Yep....nothing good comes from Twisters...

I couldn't wish a monster tornado on my worst enemy.

Same here...April 8th, 1998...F-5 twister

Jefferson County, Alabama...Tuscaloosa county to North Birmingham, Alabama...

Aunt and uncle lost everything they owned in that one...their daughter survived direct hit in their house, by hiding in the closet when it hit...somehow she made it...when neighbors died...read details here.

http://www.survivalring.org/twister98.htm

Can't tell you how many times I saw wall clouds, funnel clouds, or tornadoes on the ground, in the 8 years I lived in a little town called Abernant, Alabama. THEY are the reason we live in Wyoming now.

Rich

 

[moggycattermole]

bump for tonight

 

[Fuzzychick]

Armeggedon was on tonite...hmmm.