Disaster Deja vu

In 1939 and again in 2009, Australia watched helplessly as massive firestorms roared through bone dry forests with devastating speed. We then experience the tragic events of Haiti in 1842 and 2010 when monstrous earthquakes below sea level brought untold misery and devastation.

Two of the deadliest "natural phenomenon" disasters in recorded history take place in two very different countries: the Great Jaingsu Flood in China in 1931 and the Great Cyclone Disaster of 1896 in St. Louis.

San Francisco experiences immense earthquakes in 1906 and 1989; Israel battles massive plagues of locusts in 1915 and again in 2013.

The deadliest tornado in recorded history touches down in Bangladesh, repeating the havoc of another, previous deadly weather system in 1973. Then, a spectacular summer storm in Calgary, Alberta rains a massive onslaught of ice from the heavens, tearing apart homes, businesses and cars.

Exploring two big earthquakes in Tokyo's history and two cyclones that devastated Darwin, Australia.

The Great Blizzard of 1888 brought NYC to its knees, then another blizzard strikes again 128 years later. Africa tries to come to grips with a disease that first ravaged its people in 1976, before the Ebola virus rears its ugly head for another go in the same location in 1995.