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Hurricanes: Fierce Earth (Series 1) (30:00) The Fierce Earth team encounters the most feared event in weather: the hurricane. Florida-based stormchaser Mike takes us on a wild ride into the eye of the storm; we meet three childhood friends who had their lives turned upside down when Hurricane Ike struck their homes in Texas; Leo is challenged to take hurricane force winds head on; and Zoe learns how we're designing buildings to cope with their awesome force. A BBC Production. A part of the series Fierce Earth (Series 1)
Hurricanes from Hell: The World's Worst Disasters Series (46:35) Sweeping in from the sea, these violent weather systems can travel thousands of miles, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake. Vast areas of the landscape are swamped with tidal surges of up to 20 feet high, deluged with torrential rain, and battered by ferocious winds, often exceeding 100 miles an hour. Buildings are flattened and trees uprooted, while boats, cars and other vehicles are thrown around like a child’s toys. Some of the world’s worst hurricanes have occurred in North America, Central America and the Caribbean. Given innocent-sounding names such as Hugo, Andrew or Mitch, they have wreaked chaos on an awesome scale, wiped out whole towns and villages, killed thousands of people and left many more homeless and destitute. But one hurricane in particular stands out: Hurricane Katrina. In August 2005, Katrina overwhelmed New Orleans in America’s Deep South, killing nearly 2000 people. It would be marked not only as one of the deadliest hurricanes on record, but also the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history.
Moyers & Company: Hurricanes and Democracy (36:00) Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on the East Coast, but Naomi Klein says that the tragic destruction can also be the catalyst for the transformation of politics and our economy. In this edition of Moyers & Company, the author of the international best seller The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism joins Bill to discuss hurricanes, climate change, and democracy. Klein has been in New York visiting the devastated areas—including those where Occupy Sandy volunteers are unfolding new models of relief—as part of her reporting for a new book and film on climate change and the future. “Let’s rebuild by actually getting at the root causes,” Klein tells Bill. “You know, dream big.” Broadcast date: November 16, 2012.
National Geographic: True Faces of Hurricanes (51:00) As the effects of climate change and global warming figure more and more prominently in earth science, meteorology, and other disciplines, it becomes increasingly important to study hurricanes and other extreme weather formations. Of course, actually observing a lethal tropical storm is easier said than done. But when a series of devastating hurricanes hit Florida in 2004, an army of film crews stood in their way. In this film, the amazing footage they captured is compiled and analyzed by experts, who find startling information uncovered from inside the storms. A National Geographic Production.
PBS Flying into hurricanes, scientists search for more certainty (07:39) How do meteorologists and scientists make predictions about the power and trajectory of a hurricane? Buckle up. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien joins a crew of scientists who fly right into the eye of Hurricane Florence.
PBS Killer Hurricanes (52:23) Killer Hurricanes examines an 18th-century, Caribbean superstorm that killed 22,000, the highest known death toll of any single weather event. To reconstruct its epic scale and investigate what made it so devastating, NOVA joins historians and storm sleuths as they reconstruct the event using eyewitness accounts, old ruins, and computer simulations.
PBS Rise of the Superstorms (53:30) Dive into the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. How can scientists better predict these storms, and what does the 2017 season tell us about the likelihood of similar storms in the future? Distributed by PBS Distribution.
Why Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger? (03:19) It's impossible to say that climate change is responsible for any individual storm or hurricane, but climate change is making these storms stronger. How much stronger? It turns out, Hurricane Harvey is the ideal test case to measure how a warming planet and warming oceans, amplify our worst storms.