re: What's the scariest natural disaster footage you've ever seen?

Footage not needed, was in the eye of Betsy in ‘65…

Can't find it now, but it was footage of a guy in the US filming a tornado coming his way from the second floor window of his home. It reached the house and the camera cut out as it was being ripped apart. Pretty sure him.and his family died.

There was one of a guy filming an EF3 or 4 tornado from his 2nd floor that hit his house directly. Ironically he somehow lived but his wife who was in a closet downstairs died

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April 27th, 2011 Super Outbreak

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3 dead bodies

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The next day me, my dad, my uncle and grandfather took a ride out to my grandfather's lot on the river in Ohatchee/Southside, AL. Apparently, they had some disputes between neighbors and then some shite heads that came through the neighborhood overnight and early that morning looking to take advantage of the chaos and steal shite. Basically looting. So the law enforcement officers in the area were on high alert. It was a nicer neighborhood for that area and LE was posted up at the entrance and patrolling on foot throughout with AR-15s like we were in Baghdad. So we went in not knowing what to expect.

Anyways, we get down to my grandfather's place and start checking for any damage to the property. I went around back of the house and walked down to the dock. He lived in a slough and I was looking across at the damage the houses across the slough. 2 of the 3 were taken out to the slab. Never seen anything like it in my life.

I was talking to the neighbor on his dock when a couple of boats with blue lights pulled into the slough. They started asking if we had seen anyone in the water. The neighbor and I both said no. About that time we started hearing some hollering from across the slough at the destroyed houses. Fire and Rescue had found the person they were looking for. I watched as they fished an elderly woman out of the brush on the bank about 50 yards away.

I later read about that lady in the paper. I've never felt so bad about the death of a stranger as I did that lady. Just all the destruction that was around that neighborhood. Houses just completely gone and the foundation and exterior brick stairs left. Big arse trees broken and tossed like toothpicks. Dead horses scattered around a barn and adjacent to pasture. Then you had the juxtaposition of places like my grandfather's. He had a tree take out the service line to his house and a 2" long by 1/4 wide hole in part of his vinyl siding. We never did find what it was that caused the hol, but didn't really care and thanked the Lord for sparing his place.

The images I saw around that place will be forever burned into my mind. I can't even imagine what something on the scale of Katrina was like for some of yall.

Probably the Indian Ocean tsunami hitting Indonesia and other countries back in 2004.

People getting separated and running out of places to go, and some of the places people were in didn’t seem like they were going to last much longer.

The footage of the floods last summer in Texas that devastated those summer camp.

Yikes. That must have been what happened way back in 79, when the entire city of Pompeii, about 20,000 people, was literally mummified within minutes of the cataclysmic eruption of Vesuvius. When Pompeii was unearthed during the early part of the last century, it was surreal how whole families were discovered literally frozen in place in their homes, including the dogs