lives in the disaster. dozens of homes are ruined and 15 square miles of land are affected. all of this devastation leaves more questions than answers. because it s the first spill of this type of material, no one has really studied how this material behaves in a natural environment. in time, more will be understood. meanwhile, the investigation into the cause of the breach is under way. as residents rebuild, they look back in sadness on the day the red flood marred their picturesque town forever. sadly, just as nature can strike in an instant and create terrible destruction, man can also wreak havoc on nature and leave behind catastrophic damage. it s a delicate balance. i m contessa brewer. that s all for this edition of
within a few seconds. oh, my gosh. and then i started realizing, oh, i didn t put my car in the garage. yeah, our cars are ruined. the deluge is so intense and the hailstones so large, aaron can t risk running the 20 feet to his cars. basically, i didn t want to go outside and risk dying. the house is shaking. i mean, that s a real possibility to get hit in the head with a baseball-size piece of hail and die immediately. so there was nothing we could do but watch our cars get beat up. that s all hail. that s not snow. aaron is helpless as the waves of projectiles fly downward, and he s not the only one. the storm is now full force and oklahoma city is getting pounded with thousands of large hailstones. armageddon. just five miles away, mak maddux it s armageddon. is taking shelter from the falling destruction at his
residents live with on again/off again lava flows that once reach into their community, causing some isolated destruction. but then in june of 1989, the lava creeps to within a mile and a half of the village. and by the time the flow stops, the wahala visitor center just west of the town is burnt to the ground. no one is killed, but the fire at the visitors center serves as an ominous warning. one year later, the lava returns, this time, pushing farther than before. in april of 1990, the nightmare scenario begins to unfold. when the lava first came into kalapana, it was pretty ominous. it was pretty serious that something serious was going on. the molten rock can reach temperatures of 2,000 degrees and eats everything in its path. but fortunately, the slow-moving
but the town s proximity to a very active volcano means residents live watchfully and remindful of the threat of destruction. in january, 1983, kilauea erupts, blasting lava high into the air. nick and his crew begin to film the explosive events. the high fountain back in the 80s, once a month, once every three weeks, it would high fountain 1,500 feet in the air and it was absolutely amazing. this high fountaining is a spectacle, but looks could be deceiving. it s not explosive like mount st. helens. dump ash on surrounding towns. 20 miles away, it s not in imminent danger, that is until something changes.