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| Perfect Disaster Imagines What's Possible and Prepares for the Inevitable |
| Posted
on Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 12:00 AM |
With wild weather wreaking havoc across the globe in recent years, what have we learned to help predict and prepare for disaster? Now, witness these massive, devastating storms - before they even occur. Featuring vivid dramatizations and told from the perspectives of both weather experts and civilians, Perfect Disaster unfolds through the eyes of those fighting to survive virtual weather disasters premiering in may on Discovery Channel.
Expert scientific testimony, specially commissioned computer models, stunning CGI visuals from the team behind Walking With Dinosaurs, plus gripping storytelling that brings the science to an urgent and gut-wrenching human level combine to create the most devastating storm scenarios imaginable in this special two-part presentation.
Scientists warn that perfect storms are inevitable. They may not happen every decade or every lifetime, but when they hit the world's largest cities, they unleash perfect disasters. Perfect Disaster imagines storms overcoming Dallas, Texas, and New York City, hitting these cities where they are most vulnerable and where they can do the most damage. Featuring stunning CGI and dramatizations, Perfect Disaster goes inside a raging storm system and reveals the precise atmospheric factors that combine to create extreme weather conditions. The two-part special explains rarely seen storm phenomenon such as fish raining from the sky before a tornado and how a solar storm could cause a global blackout. Also, learn the warning signs of approaching extreme weather and how to react quickly.
Perfect Disaster - "Super Tornado"
Sunday, May 7 at 8 p.m. ET/9 p.m. PT
At 2.4 kilometres wide with speeds of over 560 kilometres per hour, a mega-tornado would reduce downtown Dallas, Texas, to a war zone within minutes. Scientists know it could happen and today is the day it does. James Abott from the Dallas Emergency Management office knows this is the worst
imaginable storm and he faces a choice: Does he stay in the control room
and help combat the biggest tornado the world has ever seen or does he try to save his wife and child, lost on a highway in the path of the monster?
With incredible CGI images and fascinating facts from the experts, learn how tornados develop, including odd phenomena such as fish raining from the sky and microbursts in supercell thunderstorms.
Perfect Disaster - "Solar Storm"
Sunday, May 7 at 9 p.m. ET/10 p.m. PT
Beneath the boiling surface of the Sun lurks an unseen force that could throw the modern world back to the Stone Age. Every 11 years, the Sun reaches its solar maximum - a turbulent period in its cycle - when Earth is most vulnerable to a solar storm. The next solar maximum is in 2011. With hours to go before a massive solar storm strikes the planet, the Mayor of New York faces her greatest challenge. Can Manhattan survive? There is one slim chance but it carries an enormous risk - weighing her options, will the Mayor's decision save the city?
A solar storm is one of the most destructive but little-known storms that could strike the entire planet, causing a global blackout. In this dramatic episode, experts explain how these storms develop through sophisticated and realistic CGI and fascinating scientific facts.
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