Deadline to Disaster

Memorial Day weekend 2018, almost 10 inches of rain in two hours sends a monster wave of water through downtown Ellicott City, Md.; it traps tourists and business owners, sweeps vehicles away and collapses buildings.

Category 5 Dorian becomes the strongest hurricane to hit the Bahamas; as storm surge pours into his home, a family wades through chest-deep water in a quest to find higher ground; locals on jet skis rescue neighbors from flooded homes.

A tornado outbreak erupts over central Iowa on July 19, 2018; after an EF3 tornado makes a direct hit on a heavy equipment plant filled with hundreds of workers and guests, another EF3 twister tears directly down Marshalltown's main street.

August 2005, Hurricane Katrina's massive 27 foot storm surge batters the Mississippi coastline obliterating beachfront property; in Waveland, a father and son forced to flee their home by boat, find themselves rescuing neighbors from the storm surge.

On the day after Christmas in 2015, 13 tornadoes hit the Dallas area; as a tornado rips through more populated areas, families that were hunkered down emerge to see their neighborhoods; amateur storm trackers go house to house hoping to help victims.

As Hurricane Michael fury peaks, deadly flying projectiles force a storm tracker and his team to ride out the eyewall in their car; Panama City News Herald employees hunker down at a building housing their printing press.

During a three-hour onslaught, the small town of Canton is caught in the crosshairs of two deadly tornadoes, the most powerful being an EF4, and seven twisters rip through the rural area.