ALEX_DEAKIN ANGELA_PREECE BOB_BURDEN BORIS CLARE_NASIR DIANN_DOWELL DR_HAL_NEEDHAM JASON_BANKS JORGE_CIRETT MATTHEW_BOND NARRATOR ROXY SPEAKER TYSON_PEERS NARRATOR The weather� SPEAKER Ahh. NARRATOR �The pulse of our planet. SPEAKER Large tornado in progress. SPEAKER Woah! NARRATOR Capable of catastrophic destruction. SPEAKER Severe thunderstorm warning. NARRATOR Leaving landscapes in total ruin. SPEAKER Totally mash up. Everything flattened. NARRATOR As global temperatures rise� SPEAKER Ahh. Ahh. NARRATOR �The weather is spiralling out of control. SPEAKER Oh shoot! NARRATOR Where shocking up-close footage� SPEAKER We had 24 foot dumpsters rolling by. SPEAKER Oh shoot! I�m losing it. My trailer�s going. NARRATOR �From the front line of fear. SPEAKER This maybe the last time I�m in my house. SPEAKER Tornado! SPEAKER I got sucked out feet first. Felt myself hit the ground. SPEAKER Our island is in trouble. NARRATOR We meet the people who have stared death in the face. SPEAKER Oh dear God. SPEAKER All I could hear was run, run, run. NARRATOR And miraculously survived� SPEAKER Look at that. NARRATOR �The World�s Deadliest Weather. NARRATOR Coming up. SPEAKER Ah! Ahh. NARRATOR The most powerful hurricane� SPEAKER Oh God! NARRATOR �Ever to rip through Mexico�s Pacific coast. SPEAKER All night. NARRATOR In the UK, relentless rainfall turns landscapes into lakes. SPEAKER Everyone get back! NARRATOR Devastating communities. SPEAKER The town was underwater. NARRATOR In Florida, a terrifying tornado shows its unrelenting power as it smashes through residential homes. SPEAKER Ah! NARRATOR And an unstoppable storm in Northeast Italy� NARRATOR �Triggers flash floods. SPEAKER NARRATOR Threatening homes and lives. SPEAKER It was unstoppable. NARRATOR In one of Mexico�s biggest tourist resorts, a rapidly developing hurricane� NARRATOR �Breaks records, in the Eastern Pacific. NARRATOR Leaving a path of destruction. ROXY That is insane. NARRATOR And causing devastating consequences. ROXY Oh my gosh. NARRATOR Its name� SPEAKER Ahh. Ahh. NARRATOR �Hurricane Otis. SPEAKER DR HAL NEEDHAM Hurricane Otis was the strongest hurricane to make landfall in Pacific, Mexico with maximum sustained winds of 260 kilometres an hour. The National Hurricane Centre forecast it to make landfall as a Category one hurricane. It ended up making landfall as a very devastating Category five hurricane. ALEX DEAKIN Hurricane Otis was unprecedented in the speed of its development, going from a tropical storm to a Category five in just 12 hours. The storm then went on to barrel into the Pacific coast of Mexico. The strongest storm to hit that coastline on record. NARRATOR 400 kilometres away from Mexico City is the coastal city of Acapulco. NARRATOR Known as a popular vacation destination for its stunning beaches and vibrant nightlife. NARRATOR October 2023, Trainee Meteorologist and Weather Anchor, Roxy from San Antonio, US is on vacation in Acapulco. ROXY We were in Acapulco because it was my friend's 50th birthday. We rented out the apartment and it was really big. It was beautiful. It was an open kitchen. We had a hammock. We had a jacuzzi. We never expected anything to really end up the way it did. ROXY I remember checking the radar. I knew it was a tropical storm in the morning. And I have, you know, a lot of meteorologist friends who were texting me throughout the day telling me about it. I took a shower around 10 p.m. and then when I was done around 11 p.m., that's when it really started strengthening. And I remember my phone being blown up by my, my friends saying, you need to get out of there. ROXY Oh my God. Oh. Hey, can you carry this babe? Can you help me? Here. ROXY It was pouring outside, and we locked the doors and that's when the pressure really, really built in your ears. ROXY I wanted to look out the window, but I was also scared of being close to it and then seeing the water seep through the floors. But at some point the winds got so loud that we knew this is not going to be okay. ROXY We heard the whistling and the pressure, and then the windows shattered. ROXY ROXY I think that's what we really knew it was serious. All the pictures on the wall started falling. Everything. I mean, everything you can imagine started falling. I cut my leg and so we just started freaking out at that point. And we went to the corner of the closet and it just happened so fast. ROXY Ahh. Ahh. ROXY And we stayed in the closet for about 3 to 4 hours. ROXY NARRATOR November 2024, Storm Bert batters the west of the UK with torrential downpours bringing 80 mile per hour winds and a months worth or rain in just 36 hours. Flooding over 433 properties across England and Wales. ALEX DEAKIN There's actually lots of different types of flooding. Torrential rain can spark flash floods, but also you get flooding from rivers bursting their banks or the sea can cause flooding. And it can have devastating effects for water gets into your house, for example. NARRATOR Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire, 25 miles from the Welsh border. NARRATOR A small market town with a population of around 4000. And is home to Matthew Bond who has lived in the towns centre for 10 years. MATTHEW BOND Tenbury Wells is a small, beautiful, historic market town that looks like it's come straight from the history books. The thing I love about Tenbury Wells is the people. Everybody knows everybody. MATTHEW BOND Storm Bert hit the UK in November of last year. To the north we've got the River Teme and to the south we have Kyre Brook, which both back up when we get heavy rain from Wales and the River Teme is the second fastest flower in the river in Europe. MATTHEW BOND I've got the flood warning on the Saturday night and throughout the whole night I was wondering will it flood. The rivers were expected to burst their banks and peak at a high level. But we weren't expecting it as bad as we got it. And I was very nervous. I was very anxious. NARRATOR Diann Dowell, a local business owner has lived in the town for the last 30 years. She regularly monitors the water levels and provides updates for the other local traders. DIANN DOWELL I generally take responsibility for reporting, showing the levels of the River Teme and the brook. DIANN DOWELL That's the Riverside walk. So there's the river. DIANN DOWELL So the day before you could get a vibe that this was going to be a bad one. DIANN DOWELL And the rains just started again as well. Look how much that's come up. DIANN DOWELL The energy of the River Teme, right, was so close. And it just showed how vulnerable we actually are. DIANN DOWELL It's 900 o�clock, everyone's out waiting for it. And this is the brook now. DIANN DOWELL And it was really high. I knew that we were going to flood, but to what degree that bit, you don't know. You have to let that play out. And that is quite scary when you see the force that close. DIANN DOWELL Look at this. I've never seen it bubble up like that before. DIANN DOWELL What was surprising for me was the water bubbling up through the drains. And that's just telling you that you know that the water levels are filling up and they're filling up rather rapidly. You think how bad is this flood going to be this time? NARRATOR Angela Preece has lived in Tenbury Wells for the last eight years and runs the local fishmongers. ANGELA PREECE We knew from the news and the weather reports that week that Storm Bert was heading our way. It had been predicted with high winds and heavy rain. Since I've taken on the business last September, it's obviously become more stressful due to where the business is. So as soon as we have a lot of rain, you're constantly checking the river level and the brook level. Myself and my husband came across and put the flood barrier up in the doorway. I don't think I quite understood at that point just how scary it was going to get. NARRATOR As the water levels rise in Kyre Brook, the only thing standing in the way between the town and the river is a brick wall. ANGELA PREECE The fire brigade at that point did say to us that there was a chance that the wall could collapse. And, and at that point, your heart sinks because you just think to yourself, well, what, what can I do? How do I save my business? MATTHEW BOND Even though it wasn't a flood defence wall, it did provide us with some form of safety from the rough waters there. I was thinking that it was only a matter of time before the wall came down, and it did come down. SPEAKER Get her out! SPEAKER You alright? SPEAKER Everyone get back! SPEAKER Get back! MATTHEW BOND And that was a torrent of water. The fire engines were scrambling now to get out the way. People were running, almost like for their lives. SPEAKER Get back! MATTHEW BOND They were shouting to everybody, get back, get back, get out of the way. I was watching the water come down the street, watching the people run and scream. It was a scary moment. It was. SPEAKER No, mate, can you get back?! MATTHEW BOND I live here, this is mine! MATTHEW BOND It was like white water rapids. It was a massive wave coming through the street and nothing was stopping it. MATTHEW BOND And the water just came straight down it. It was deep. It was very, very powerful. MATTHEW BOND There goes the beer MATTHEW BOND It was black, it was muddy, it was dirty, it smelt. There was raw sewage in it. Town was flooded. Within a minute the town was underwater. MATTHEW BOND It felt very dangerous. It did make you worry if you were to lose your balance and get swept away. NARRATOR As well as water, wind can also be an extremely devastating force of nature. Many weather measuring instruments have been completely destroyed before recording the most violent tornados. Despite this, the highest winds ever recorded have reached 407 kilometres per hour. NARRATOR Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, China, 2017. SPEAKER NARRATOR An eerie cyclone has captured the attention of the entire city. NARRATOR Residents stand in awe watching the terrifying sight. NARRATOR At first local residents thought the rare sighting was a waterspout, as this was the first tornado in Tibet since records began. The phenomena only lasted around ten minutes. NARRATOR And fortunately no damages or causalities were reported. NARRATOR Fort Myers Beach, Florida, 2022. SPEAKER Y�all, that�s a waterspout. NARRATOR A sunny afternoon at the beach has taken a dramatic turn. SPEAKER Oh my God! SPEAKER Here comes the storm. Dude, this is crazy! SPEAKER Oh my God, is it going to turn into a tornado? I�m, like, tripping right now. NARRATOR Initially a curiosity capturing beachgoers attention turns to a moment of panic as people run for cover. SPEAKER What the ? SPEAKER Crazy! NARRATOR The National Weather Service said the tornado had peak winds of around 104 kilometres per hour, in terms of tornados these sunbathers got off lightly. SPEAKER What the ? SPEAKER Crazy! NARRATOR October 2023, Otis intensifies to a Category five hurricane in just 12 hours. ROXY NARRATOR Bringing with it thousands of lightning strikes and devastating consequences. ROXY NARRATOR Jorge Cirett, a Geologist from Hermosillo, Mexico is staying in a hotel in Acapulco for a work convention. JORGE CIRETT We were staying in a five-star hotel complex with several buildings and a swimming pool. It�s a big complex. We were lucky enough to be on the 9th floor looking into the ocean. JORGE CIRETT It was around 5pm. The sky was overcast, but there was no rain. So it was hard to believe that a really big storm was coming. While we began to take a look at the weather warnings, but really they were not that strong. JORGE CIRETT When the wind was starting to pick up, I could feel that the building was trembling. It was not very much but it was something like feeling a big truck passing by. JORGE CIRETT JORGE CIRETT I took a look to the water on the table and it was trembling. The sound of the storm was really strong. JORGE CIRETT All the banging noises of things that were being rumbled by the wind. JORGE CIRETT My room had a big window. It was all glass from the, from the floor to the ceiling. I could see the window bend. I could see outside of the balcony things were very chaotic. I could see pieces of the buildings flying around. By that time, I knew things were going to be bad. I just didn�t know how bad. When the storm was blowing at its strongest you just couldn�t see anything. JORGE CIRETT There were a lot of noises coming out from the corridor. So that meant that some windows had already been breached. JORGE CIRETT The windows on the floor must have been broken. JORGE CIRETT Because the wind was really strong inside the building. Things began to fly in the corridor. I began to realise how strong the storm can be. NARRATOR As Category 5 winds batter Jorge�s hotel, in an apartment nearby, Roxy and her friends are taking shelter for their lives. ROXY ROXY We started hiding in the closet once the window broke. We could just see the water and debris on our feet. And I could see the blood from my leg just going down towards my boot. And that was our view for two hours. ROXY You couldn't even hear yourself think, the sound was so loud. ROXY ROXY It was just non-stop. Everything being tumbled all across the room. And I kind of just zoned out at that point and I just shielded myself. ROXY Oh God. ROXY The mattress kind of was blown towards us. So we used it as a shield because there was glass, you know, around the areas. I remember just keeping my head down because I was so scared of the glass again. I actually I thought, the glass is going to go in my eye or some point. So I made sure to just keep my head down for as long as I could. There was one point where you could actually feel the building move a little bit or rock. And that was a point where I was like, this building is going to go down. And I remember texting, trying to text my mom, I love you. It was not going through. I mean, at that point was just the fear of just not seeing my family again. NARRATOR November 2024, Storm Bert brings torrential downpours to the UK, causing many rivers to burst their banks. CLARE NASIR It was really the compounding effect of one storm that caused a month�s worth of rain. And that meant huge amount of flooding. That amount of rainfall and water across this region meant that rivers were flooded and they annihilated that particular area. NARRATOR Tenbury Wells resident, Matthew, is watching floodwaters surge through his town as the wall of the Kyre Brook gives way. MATTHEW BOND The town was flooded within a minute it was, the town was underwater. MATTHEW BOND I was worried for the shops, I was worried for the families that had homes on the street as well, smashing up against the windows, flooding the shops and causing irreparable damage. It was a terrible sight to see. NARRATOR One of the business owners directly affected, is local fishmonger Angela. ANGELA PREECE It was just like a torrent of muddy, brown, horrible gunky water. The tsunami of sewage water that went up the street. There was just no way that my flood barrier could cope with that amount of water as it was just coming over the top of it at that point. I think there was just a strong feeling of disbelief. The shop was filling up with water rapidly. By midday we were completely underwater. The barrels that are in the shop were floating around on top of the water pumping out. It was pointless because there was nowhere for it to go. ANGELA PREECE I didn't know how I was going to get out. If I stay in here, the water's just going to get too high. There's nothing that I can do for the shop now. It was just heartbreaking and terrifying all at the same time. I did think to myself, this, this is the end for my business now. I'm not going to be able to carry on. I knew that I was going to have to call the fire brigade to get me out because there was no other way that I was going to be able to leave the shop. NARRATOR Angela was rescued by boat as the flood water surged through the town centre, damaging all the homes and businesses in its path. DIANN DOWELL So it�s over. NARRATOR By the evening the flooding had retreated. DIANN DOWELL It�s going down into the river, not coming up. MATTHEW BOND It was a relief to see the water going back into the river and the brook and then knowing tomorrow you can start the clean up. It was just carnage everywhere. It was heartbreaking. ANGELA PREECE It looked like a tornado had ripped through the town and just left walls in its wake in the middle of the street. It's devastating. DIANN DOWELL This is it. At a quarter past 4. We can take a walk up town and see. DIANN DOWELL When the flood finished, what I saw was a brown, thick sludge everywhere. To see all the stock floating about and the shelves had fallen, furniture upside down. It's so sad and you can almost feel the dread of every individual who has to experience the clean up operation, their businesses, their homes. You could, it's like a real sombre feel through the town. I could really feel their pain. DIANN DOWELL And I don't like to see people suffer. ANGELA PREECE When I first came back into the shop after the storm and saw the initial mess, I said to myself, that's it. I'm not a reopening. I don't want to do this anymore. You're worrying for your business, your income. If it keeps happening, the town will become a ghost town because shopkeepers like me just won't be able to carry on. DIANN DOWELL We lost businesses in this last flood, and when you lose that, you lose a bit of Tenbury as well. It's like somebody's property's been ransacked, but not by a human, by the weather. NARRATOR Tenbury Wells has been flooded 7 times over the past 4 years and there are Concerns that the town centre could be abandoned in the future due to increase in unpredictable weather. ANGELA PREECE The future feels uncertain. And then you dust yourself down and you pick yourself up and you say yes, yeah, we're going to, we're going to fight Mother Nature for now, and we're going to carry on doing what we do. MATTHEW BOND I've always respected Mother Nature. She does this to remind us that we don't own this earth. NARRATOR October 2024, as Hurricane Milton spirals across the Gulf of Mexico, the category 5 storm is preceded by a record-breaking 46 tornadoes that tear across the east coast of Florida. NARRATOR The National Weather Service issues 126 tornado warnings in one day alone. The outbreak causes widespread damage across the state, hours before Hurricane Milton even makes landfall. NARRATOR Hobe Sound, on Florida�s East coast is home to Bob Burden and his wife Jean. October the 9th, 2024 is a date they�ll never forget. BOB BURDEN On that day my wife Jean, and I were sitting on the patio outside just watching the rain and watching the lightning and enjoying the storm. Abby, our friend, came out the door to join us, and then we had this lightning strike and saw the bushes moving. Abby is the one that said, let's go inside. It�s scaring me. So we got up and walked in. SPEAKER Right, come on. SPEAKER It�s definitely a tornado! My God! BOB BURDEN As soon as I closed the door, I saw the very furniture we were sitting in just slammed to the side of the patio. SPEAKER Oh my God! BOB BURDEN Oh Jesus! SPEAKER BOB BURDEN The tornado went right through the backyard and took the patio and everything with it. BOB BURDEN And I could just see it floating, you know, maybe 100 feet high. We don�t even know where it is now. The doors that open and close and lead out to our patio are hurricane rated doors, which means they should sustain up to 140 miles an hour. I was thinking, are those doors going to hold? Jean, my wife was standing behind me and Abby was much farther away. I remember thinking to myself, what am I going to do if these things fail? What if they fall in on us? You can feel the wind pushing on them, but they didn't collapse at all. They did not fail. They actually protected the house. SPEAKER You hurt? SPEAKER No! SPEAKER Oh, my God! BOB BURDEN You're not sure it's really happening until it all stops, and it gets quiet and then you look around and say, that really happened. SPEAKER Yeah, we�re OK, we�re OK! BOB BURDEN It's a strange feeling. NARRATOR The tornado that took Bob�s patio was later categorised as an EF2, which means it was travelling at speeds of up to 217 kilometers per hour and caused �considerable damage� to homes in the area. BOB BURDEN One of the first things we did is we went out the front door. It was just the kind of devastation you see when a bomb goes off. I looked around and all my neighbours down the street, I could see the roofs damage. I could see the trees falling over. Everything is damaged. BOB BURDEN I looked up across the street and saw the neighbour�s spa that was up in a tree. It�s amazing that something that heavy, probably a couple hundred pounds, could be thrown up in the air and come down right on top of a tree. It was just unbelievable. But nobody got hurt. Nobody got killed. So we're very fortunate. BOB BURDEN I've always been in awe of what hurricanes and tornadoes can do. NARRATOR As well as tornados, lightning can also strike when least expected. Around the world, there are over 3,000,000 flashes every day. That's around 44 strikes every second. NARRATOR Yogyakarta, Indonesia April 2021. An electrical storm batters the city bringing extreme winds and rain. And when the lightning strikes, its incredible force wipes out a roof causing it to come crashing down. NARRATOR The storm lasted for hours causing widespread damage. NARRATOR Guizhou, China, April 2024. A peaceful scene in a mountainside village. NARRATOR Suddenly shattered by lightning. NARRATOR Sparks fly, as molten fragments explode off a building. With a potential 1 billion volts of electricity surging through the home. Fortunately, the house had been abandoned for over a decade, so no injuries were reported. NARRATOR Back in Acapulco, Otis is recorded by the National Hurricane Centre as the strongest on record to make landfall on the Pacific side of Mexico. ALEX DEAKIN One thing we are noticing with climate change is the speed of the intensification of these storms, that they're just becoming bigger beasts more rapidly and that causes problems. It doesn't give people as much time to prepare as they would have done in the past. Otis, a classic example going from just a tropical storm to a Category five storm in half a day, just 12 hours. NARRATOR At their vacation apartment, Roxy and her friends are sheltering from the hurricane in a closet. ROXY You could hear everything being moved. But once I felt the actual building move, I was like, that's it for us. Let's see if we get through this or not. We were almost going to hide in the bathroom. But there was a skylight and the skylight completely shuttered, so all that glass would have fallen on us. So I'm actually really grateful that we, we didn't stay in the bathroom. ROXY This is all destroyed. ROXY We were just holding each other so tightly, I had no idea what was going to happen. But once I felt the building move a little bit, I was just like, you know, I'm just happy to be here with you guys no matter what happens. And I just prayed. ROXY Ahh. NARRATOR Also taking shelter in his room is Jorge who is in a nearby hotel. JORGE CIRETT My business partner came into the room to tell me that we all should weather the storm either in the bathroom or the closets, so we moved a big piece of furniture against the door. I really just turn around to see my business partner go into the other room and just as he was going to step into the room the ceiling board fell. It just missed hitting him. JORGE CIRETT There was a big hole in the roof and water was pouring down and by that time, water was entering my room I didn�t dare to open the door to the corridor because the banging sounds were pretty strong. NARRATOR May 2024, heavy rain pounds the Venato region of Italy causing widespread flooding, and destruction of residential homes. CLARE NASIR With climate change, the intensity of storms increases. We know that because for every degree of warming, we see at least 7% more moisture in the atmosphere. That's the reason why levels can rise so quickly. A huge amount of rain fell during May 2024, which caused catastrophic consequences for Italy. And that meant huge amount of flooding. NARRATOR 70 kilometres west of Venice in Venato�s wine making region, sits the rural village of Vo� Euganeo, home to less than 4000 residents. NARRATOR Including car specialist, Boris. BORIS I live in a country house with two floors and a small courtyard. And on the front of the house, I have a small stream. We usually have rain but not that strong. Not that dangerous. BORIS We was warned about the storm coming, but not in this area. NARRATOR May 13th 2024, Vo� Euganeo experienced exceptionally heavy rainfall. BORIS When the storm hit, we were watching TV. I was with my girlfriend in the guest room on the first floor. It started raining a lot, that we couldn't hear the TV. At a certain point, the electricity went out. I thought it was a general problem. But when I looked out from the window, I saw a big vortex one and a half, two meters inside my garden. BORIS Inside the vortex, I saw all my stuff from the garden, like tables, chairs. Everything was moving. I realized that all that stuff was damaged. The vortex of water inside my garden made the house shaking like an earthquake. BORIS We were scared that it could collapse on us. After five minutes, I realized the danger. I went downstairs and I saw that the water were coming inside the house, from the main door. And at that point, I realized that we had a problem. A big problem. BORIS BORIS After a few minutes, the main door broke and a big wave of water came inside the house. The water level went from 2 inches to 2 metres in 30 seconds. BORIS BORIS I felt scared. We have to find a way to get out, that I didn't know what to do. So I had to smash the window to get out. The water came inside, and all the furniture started to float and you could hear the water going inside the furniture. Like some bubbles like pop pop pop. I was staying on a table because there was half a meter of mud and also the water started going out of the house. The water was dirty, muddy and it was like two meters inside the house and also in the garden. I realized that it was unstoppable. And I left it. I surrendered and the water won. BORIS NARRATOR As the flood water retreated, the next morning Boris could see the devastation left in the wake of the flood. BORIS In the daylight, it was clear how much damage were done. Everything was destroyed. It was a real mess. In ten minutes the water and the mud made thousands of Euros of damage. I realized that the situation was really worse than we thought. So we started working. We washed and cleaned a lot of things, but all electrical stuff was damaged. It was really, really hard. BORIS It took one week to bring back the house to a liveable status, with the help of the friends and the neighbours, but only after five months, we cleaned up everything. NARRATOR The floods in the Veneto region of Italy during May 2024 were part of a larger pattern of extreme weather events affecting various parts of Europe throughout that year. BORIS I didn't see nothing like that before. Especially the vortex inside the garden. It was crazy. The positive things that I saw the community of the neighbours and the friends that help us. That�s the only positive thing. Fortunately, no one was harmed in the flood. But we are still scared that it will be it will happen again. At that moment, I realized the power of nature. So I think Everyone should respect mother nature. NARRATOR Back in Acapulco, Category 5 hurricane Otis has made landfall on Mexico�s Pacific Coast battering everything in its path. With winds reaching a staggering 260 kilometres per hour. ROXY Ahh. Ahh. DR HAL NEEDHAM For the residents of Acapulco that were completely surprised by Hurricane Otis. A rapidly intensifying hurricane can literally just shred buildings on the coast. We saw high rises that were just stripped with whole floors where everything is completely gone except the elevator shaft. There�d be no way to survive that hurricane in buildings like that. ROXY And at some point, the rocking stopped and I felt like I could breathe again. ROXY That is insane dude. That�s a whole other side. Like a whole other apartment. It took everything. ROXY It was pitch black. No light whatsoever. You know all the electricity was lost. ROXY This is the window that shattered. I cut my leg. This whole wall came down right here. The glass right here shattered. Even the ceiling outside completely blew away. ROXY Everything shattered and destroyed. Some parts look like absolutely nothing happened. And the other side of the bedroom, everything was destroyed, everything. ROXY This is where I was filming just a couple of hours ago. ROXY Everything was moved to places, even like the wall between the apartments was gone. ROXY Good morning everyone. ROXY And the Jacuzzi almost, almost was, like, broken in half. SPEAKER I can�t believe this ROXY Imagine if we were on that side. ROXY We had another apartment next to us. The wall between the apartments was destroyed and collapsed. And actually, I'm grateful that we were in the apartment we were in as the other apartment had so much more damage. I remember just the view was so beautiful the day before and the day after, you could just see all this destruction. It was a state of shock. We got ready to leave. ROXY Okay, I need to get out of here. We set out all our clothes to dry and we�re just going to go look for help I guess. Oh, oh my gosh. What is that? SPEAKER That�s the water tank from on top of the roof. ROXY Oh my gosh. ROXY The gas tank was right outside of our apartment it was huge and it was just in the middle of the street, uprooted trees. You could see all the cable wires destroyed and it was just a mess. SPEAKER Wow. Look at this road. ROXY I could not believe about all this destruction. Is that the people of Acapulco had so much resilience, so much willpower to start cleaning right away. Just seeing people get water and ice and trying to make food for the community. A lot of helping each other, a lot of neighbour protecting neighbour. ROXY At some point, we did get a signal. So that's actually when I was able to contact my parents about 3 or 4 days later. They were crying on the phone. ROXY It was a very humbling experience and I am very grateful for everything that I have now. I don't take anything ever for granted. JORGE CIRETT There were rooms that had no walls. Everything was strewn on the floor and not just the windows but the walls and the furniture and the beds. The wind struck the building on the other side, not on the side that we were. It was very clear that we had been very, very lucky. And then when the wind went down a little bit more what I saw was utter destruction. The extent of the damage as I looked around in the lobby, it just looked like a warzone. Everything was thrown around. It was just a mess. There was even a car inside the lobby that wasn�t supposed to be there, so it had been dragged by the wind by at least 20-30 metres. JORGE CIRETT The buildings, all the damage in the trees. Those winds were powerful. NARRATOR Over 250,000 homes were damaged by Hurricane Otis costing up to 16 billion dollars and tragically 52 people lost their lives with many others reported missing. ROXY I want to take the good parts of it. You know, I don't see it as something bad and I learned from it. And I'm grateful to be here. But it was it was very traumatising at that moment. JORGE CIRETT It was quite an experience. One that I don�t want to go back through again, but still, just one more day under the sun DR HAL NEEDHAM Hurricanes reshape landscapes and knows no boundaries and no mercy, which can catch people off guard and cause extreme amounts of devastation. When Mother Nature unleashes hell, humanity is helpless. NARRATOR The weather� TYSON PEERS Tornado! Stay low. NARRATOR �The pulse of the Earth. SPEAKER NARRATOR And an uncontrollable force. SPEAKER Our island is in trouble. NARRATOR As global temperatures rise� SPEAKER This might be the last time I�m in my house. NARRATOR �The weather is getting more extreme. JASON BANKS It�s an unstoppable force. NARRATOR And even more catastrophic. SPEAKER That�s the most active I�ve ever seen it. NARRATOR With devastating consequence. SPEAKER You better go. It�s coming. NARRATOR Proving once again� SPEAKER NARRATOR That we are no match for the world�s deadliest weather. SPEAKER Oh dear God.