Desperate Hours

In this episode we contemplate, from a safe distance, the lethal majesty of volcanoes.

Earthquakes have always been with us, but it is really only in the last 50 years or so.

This gets personal, meaning in this episode we really get under the skin with something that is a threat to us all, wherever we live.

In this episode, you can run for cover but you can’t hide from the wild winds. That means hurricanes, cyclones, tornadoes, twisters and typhoons.

In this installment, we turn up the heat to examine a natural phenomenon that is both a friend, and a foe to humankind.

In this instalment, we batten down the hatches, and run for dry land, as we look at the damage a little water can do, or rather, a great deal of it.

Our focus for this chilling but fascinating episode of Desperate Hours is on Nuclear and Industrial Disasters.

This episode of Desperate Hours is all about disasters at sea.

In this episode of Desperate Hours, we slip the surly bonds of earth to encounter disasters in the air.

Disasters in the air and misfortunes at sea grab our attention because of the unusually large number of fatalities involved.

Life on planet Earth is a fragile enough proposition as it is.

Volcanoes, earthquakes, tidal waves, and fires.