Calamity! Podcast

Kilauea is Hawaii’s youngest and most active volcano. After slowly building up momentum for years, a violent eruption in 2018 displaced 2,000 people, destroyed 700 structures, and changed the coastline of the island!

A delayed start and record-setting snowfall contributed to the misfortune of the Donner Party as they traversed the Oregon Trail in 1846.

The first major nuclear power plant disaster took the world by surprise in 1986. Business and government leaders were poorly informed and slow to react, but several groups of people took heroic action and save many lives.

When Flight 232 lost all hydraulic power, it’s fate should have been sealed. Instead, the experience and quick thinking of the crew helped save over a hundred lives.

In 1894 over 200,000 acres burned in Minnesota during a fast-moving fire storm.

The Bermuda Triangle earned a reputation for disaster after centuries of unsolved mysteries, sunken ships, and missing passengers.

Three separate, yet connected disasters strike the city of Lisbon in 1755. Surprisingly, these calamities forever change Lisbon’s fate as a city - for the better!

Disaster strikes the crew of the Indianapolis on their voyage back to the States after completing a mission during World War II.

A freak rain storm and poor environmental planning lead to devastation in Pennsylvania.

A perfect storm results in devastating loss for one small town in the 1930s.