Aired (September 27, 2024): Bad news arrived in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina made landfall. The footage above reveals the scale of the destruction caused by the storm. #Amazing Earth #WorldsDeadliestWeather
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00:00Tonight, we will bring you the second part of a four-part special series
00:04where you can hear stories on the world's deadliest weather.
00:10After Hurricane Katrina, residents were saved by the rain.
00:22Thousands of victims were no longer seen.
00:31In a town flooded by fish, the car of the aliens fell to the ground.
00:43Suddenly, it started to rain.
00:45The houses were flooded.
00:48People risked their lives.
00:57They were infected by the rain.
01:11Not only developing countries like the Philippines are experiencing heavy rains,
01:16even the United States was saved from the devastating hurricanes.
01:20Just like Hurricane Katrina in 2005,
01:23where one of the cities of New Orleans in Louisiana was flooded.
01:28This is the story of the victims of the disaster.
01:32The biggest hurricane to ever hit New Orleans.
01:36And it's going to cause more devastation than Betsy or Camille ever did.
01:42In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast,
01:46more than 1,300 people were killed.
01:49Most of the victims were New Orleans residents who drowned due to the storm surge.
01:5480% of New Orleans residents were ordered to evacuate.
02:00Their weapons were broken.
02:02Soldiers were deployed throughout the city.
02:06They led the people who wanted to evacuate.
02:09They were forced to leave their homes.
02:13The resident, Ryde Hamilton,
02:15was forced to leave his home to video the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
02:19He also helped his fellow countrymen.
02:22He will now share his footage.
02:27He put his car on the Red Cross.
02:30He loaded supplies.
02:32Then he turned around.
02:33Many people needed him.
02:35He quickly ran out of supplies.
02:38He helped other people evacuate.
02:41Then he restocked supplies.
02:45He saw people with push carts.
02:48He thought, this store is kind.
02:50But later on, he saw the real situation.
02:54People entered the store and stole.
03:00And it was really hairy because you didn't know who was inside and who you were dealing with.
03:06It is believed that 100,000 people were left in the city.
03:10Half of them went to the Superdome and Convention Center.
03:14That means 50,000 more were left.
03:19You know, there was a lot of people that had guns and ammunition.
03:22The police lost.
03:23At night, you could hear explosions.
03:27It was a war scene.
03:29I mean, the military people that came in said it was worse than the earthquake.
03:33According to the military, it was worse than the earthquake.
03:35Robert Smallwood also left his residence.
03:38His family already left.
03:40He wanted to go out, but it was dangerous.
03:43Who would have thought that in such a chaotic situation,
03:46a hurricane could hit?
03:51After a week,
03:52Rides went to a dry place in the south, Plagemite Parish.
03:59He met a family there whose house was completely destroyed.
04:11He also met the Bartholomew family there who returned after the hurricane.
04:16Their house was almost destroyed.
04:23Only now.
04:25Most of their family photos are gone.
04:28If not destroyed, they are wet.
04:30But they still did not give up on finding
04:32even a decent baby picture or graduation picture.
04:37One baby picture, one graduation picture.
04:39Literally nothing was left of them.
04:43Except for one important item.
04:47Oh my God!
04:50His father served in the military.
04:52And when he died, he was given a burial flag.
04:56Now he's going to the laundry.
04:59So we can go hang it up.
05:02It'll be alright.
05:03It's gonna take time.
05:05Time heals everything.
05:07They also saw a picture of their mother
05:09who died in the accident of Katrina.
05:12They could not find her body.
05:15Maybe she was thrown into the sea.
05:17It's really dangerous in this place.
05:19Maybe it's better for them to look for a place to move.
05:23They are not allowed to cry because the fight is not over yet.
05:26At the height of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina,
05:29it seems that the end of humanity happened to those who were in the city.
05:34The search for the bodies of the victims lasted for a year and a half.
05:39Will they be able to recover?
05:41Here is the story of Amazing No. 4.
05:45Ten days after Hurricane Katrina.
05:49I was driving down the street, again, looking for people to help.
05:54He saw Robert Smallwood walking alone.
05:58Where are you going?
05:59Hey.
06:00Yeah, where are you going?
06:01I'm going to the end of the convention center to evacuate.
06:04Alright.
06:05They said this morning they're taking people to fly anywhere you want.
06:09And then I'm trying to go to Atlanta.
06:11That's where my kid is.
06:13Alright.
06:14He enrolled in school today.
06:16Ryan brought Robert to the evacuation center.
06:19Thank you, Ryan.
06:20I appreciate it.
06:22But it didn't stop the chaos in the convention center.
06:26More than 20,000 victims of Hurricane Katrina were not forced to stay inside.
06:32Their situation was also not good.
06:34Outside, there were only nurses and doctors who were handling the evacuees.
06:39Robert just got on a military plane.
06:42He didn't know where to go.
06:45He was able to leave New Orleans, but he was still far from the home of his child.
06:51Ryan went to one of the most dangerous places of Hurricane Katrina.
06:57Ten days after the calamity,
06:59the hope of rescuers to see the survivors grew.
07:04In their homes, if a dog doesn't bark, it means there's no one there,
07:09whether alive or dead.
07:11The rescuers are also careful because there are many armed residents in some houses.
07:16That's why they put the rescue dogs first.
07:18They have no intention of giving up in finding the survivors.
07:29It's sad, but it's part of their job.
07:32They mark every house with a code.
07:35At the bottom, you can see the number of survivors.
07:41Things like this, this is what they put your end of humanity in the end,
07:45when it comes to this wild nature.
07:48So, if you drown, but the dog's alive, it's very subtle that you're done,
07:53but you're not, and there was a lot of that.
07:56It's been seven months, but the retrieval operation is still going on.
08:01Sixty percent of the residents of New Orleans have left.
08:05The whole place is abandoned.
08:11The rescue missions continued for a month.
08:20They just kept searching for the bodies.
08:22The search lasted for one and a half years.
08:32There are bodies that could be found in the trash can.
08:36That's what happened in 1901 in Galveston and in 1906 in San Francisco.
08:43But this is the first time that there's been such a wide range of retrieval operations.
08:49They searched every house in search of the bodies.
08:52He doesn't bark like that unless he's getting some sort of scent, but he can't pinpoint.
08:59The problem is, it's impossible to locate the bodies.
09:03And if it can't be recovered immediately, it's possible to decompose from the heat.
09:10Sometimes people were found in bathtubs, and you would just be bones and fat.
09:15It's hard to accept, but that's the truth.
09:19That's what was left to the former residents of this place.
09:26They were able to retrieve 1,245 bodies,
09:29but it's possible that it would have increased if the decomposed bodies were taken to the sea.
09:36This is the deadliest disaster that hit America in the past 35 years.
09:42It took a decade before the city was able to recover.
09:4620% of the population did not return here.
09:50To this day, survivors are still recounting their experiences.
09:56Events that they will never forget for the rest of their lives.
10:01A town in India was hit by an alien aircraft.
10:05The sun set on the ground, and in the aftermath of the Tsunami in Japan,
10:09no one was able to escape.
10:10Oh my goodness.
10:13All of that in the story of Amazing Number 3.
10:15Mysteries of Nature.
10:19There are strange events that we can't explain.
10:25Sometimes, you just can't understand the time.
10:30What we know is that the direction of the earthquake is always downward.
10:33That's right.
10:36Even though most of the earthquakes are downward,
10:39there are also ones that are in the opposite direction.
10:46It's strange, but it's easy to explain.
10:50What if a fish fell?
10:53In Gujarat, India, hundreds of fish fell in the fishing town of Nashik,
10:5860 miles from the sea.
11:00Residents were surprised.
11:03Wow, a fish fell.
11:05It was free.
11:07The fishermen believed that it was a tornado.
11:10Tornadoes shook the fish.
11:12It rained, and the fish fell to the ground.
11:17Wait, this is not an alien invasion.
11:19This is called a fog bank in the middle of Lake Michigan.
11:24Here it comes.
11:25Every summer, the hot wind blows above the freezing water.
11:31When the water cools down, the invisible water vapor becomes a giant bank of fog.
11:38Because of the cold, it remains like a waterfall.
11:42It's amazing, right?
11:45This cloud literally fell to the ground.
11:50There's light coming from inside it.
11:52That's why the people of Bangalore, India, thought it was an alien aircraft.
12:00They also thought it was a signal from the sky.
12:04But it's easy to explain.
12:06It's a giant ball of foam from a sewage plant.
12:12The foam was formed because of the compound of phosphates in the sewage plant.
12:17It's called panghi.
12:20In other words, it's nothing.
12:22It's just sewage.
12:23It's the so-called blessing of the Lord.
12:28Our last mystery can't be fully explained.
12:32In the aftermath of the Japanese Tsunami in 2011, Walter Carreño was the one who caught the calamity.
12:39But the reason why his video went viral is this.
12:42Was it Casper?
12:43A cloud of foam fell on the surface of the water.
12:47Not just once or twice, but three times.
12:51Did you see that?
12:52Experts studied the video and proved that it wasn't a dream.
12:58Even the uploader of the video couldn't believe what he saw.
13:02Did a cloud of foam fall on the Tsunami?
13:05This is what the experts explained.
13:08The white object in the water is a gas canister that released a spray of air.
13:15It means that it's not just one canister.
13:18But there are still many doubts.
13:21They still believe that they saw a spirit.
13:28In places where the drought is long, it's best to wait for the rain to stop.
13:34But as the saying goes, be careful what you wish for.
13:37In Chile, people are waiting for the end of the drought to return to the land.
13:42This is the story of Amazing Number 3.
13:48The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is the driest place on earth.
13:52Only a few weather stations here are not affected by the rain.
13:57The town of Copiapo is located near a river that is several hundred meters long.
14:02In 2015, the drought hit Chile.
14:05It became the scene of wildfires in the southeast.
14:09But everyone was surprised when the rain suddenly poured.
14:12There was no warning at all.
14:14Jonathan Fortes is a resident of Copiapo.
14:18He plans to take advantage of the rain that the residents here are waiting for.
14:23Jonathan Fortes is a resident of Copiapo.
14:26He plans to take advantage of the rain that the residents here are waiting for.
14:32The first rain that fell was heavy.
14:35It's not usual for it to rain in this area.
14:38So people went out to enjoy the rain.
14:43For 12 hours, the rain was pouring down.
14:46But due to the hard soil, the water did not drain.
14:50In Elqui, the mudflow was caught on camera.
14:54Wow!
14:56The former dry river is now full of muddy puddles.
15:00Many other places in the 40,000 square miles desert experienced the same kind of flooding.
15:07Some towns, like Copiapo, were flooded because the puddles did not go straight to them.
15:13The dry riverbed is not recognizable anymore.
15:17The residents are fed up with the look of the river.
15:21Others are terrified.
15:24Eight years ago, there was no water flowing in the river.
15:27And now, it suddenly floods.
15:29The water level continues to rise.
15:32What's worse is that the river does not go straight to the city.
15:36Residents in Elqui cannot believe what is happening.
15:40As the water level began to rise, it did not last long.
15:53The 12-hour rain in the driest place on earth was a big blunder.
15:59Imagine, the rain that poured here in one day is equal to seven years.
16:05The hard soil became thick mud.
16:09This was not tolerated by the river channelists.
16:12Barabarangay was destroyed.
16:15Cars and houses were swept away.
16:18The whole town was swept away by the flooding.
16:23The roads and railways of the train were destroyed.
16:26Copiapo was isolated.
16:29In other parts of the world, the flooding is just mild.
16:32In Chile, it was severe.
16:35The next day, the flood came.
16:37Jonathan went around the poor barangay near the river.
16:42There are still communities submerged in the flood.
16:45There are also black ponds.
16:47That's why the water spread.
16:51There are six families here.
16:54They came together after the flood.
17:05They sent Jonathan to their house.
17:07He has just seen a house like that in Copiapo.
17:12Houses like this are next to the river.
17:16Residents come back here with their saved items.
17:22They live in very precarious houses.
17:27In a resident's house, almost nothing has been saved.
17:31Even the children's items are gone.
17:34The houses can no longer be lived in.
17:37More than 28,000 houses were destroyed,
17:41while 126 people died or were injured.
17:45Don't mess with nature.
17:46We can't fight when nature is angry.
17:49But some people's heads are hard,
17:51and they still don't learn.
17:53This is the story of Amazing No. 1.
17:55When you're in trouble again.
17:58Sometimes, it's hard to balance the time.
18:01Some people are still struggling.
18:04If a dog fell in the middle of the ice like this,
18:07it will die.
18:09But if you're lucky,
18:11if a dog fell in the middle of the ice like this,
18:14will you catch it?
18:16Ivan, a Russian, didn't hesitate.
18:20He swallowed the cold water until the dog panicked.
18:27After that, Ivan picked up the dog and called him Rex Astig.
18:34Because his friends were happy,
18:37this man agreed to dive in a frozen swimming pool.
18:42Let's see if your talent is for the Olympics.
18:55Every year in the USA,
18:56almost 8,000 people die after falling in the ice.
19:01Including those who dive in a frozen swimming pool.
19:0580% of accidents on beaches in America
19:08are caused by the current.
19:11Because of the strong winds and waves from the ocean,
19:14the water channels that flow back to the sea shrink.
19:19These people can swim.
19:21It's not just dangerous for those above the water.
19:25Even divers can swim here.
19:28They're still safe.
19:31Meanwhile, in Brazil,
19:33a woman will pose on the rocks to get married.
19:36Ate O is beautiful.
19:38She knows what's next.
19:48It's a good thing she's not wearing her gown yet.
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