My disaster-quest is ongoing (a week's holiday meant we packed in a near-apocalypse every night).
That said, we came close to our match twice. They say you don't really learn kung-fu till you've been spent several years being trained by the ninja monks of a remote inaccessible Nepalese mountain top monestry. Disaster-questing is a bit like that. I learned from watching the works of Nic Cage and reading Dan Brown (sadly, I've still not finished Inferno, but one day, one day...). Basically, I have case-hardened myself. I have to warn you, do not attempt a disaster-quest until you have adequately prepared. The human mind is not simply ready for this level of near-apocalyptically poor acting, scripting and special effects.
Super-Cyclone started well, it stars Ming-Na who everyone should know in the awesome Agent May from Agents of SHIELD. She's a meteorologist, of course, because as explained, if you're approaching an apocalypse then the key people to have on hand are meteorologists or seismologists. And a nuclear bomb, though fortunately this one was solved with sodium iodide nano-flakes. I confess the plot of this one merged in my brain with 500 MPH Storm. They mostly seem to revolve around people being chased around a parking lot in SoCal by a poorly rendered twister. I dunno, maybe leaving the parking lot would have improved matters. More so, given most of the filming was on evidently summer days under of a vault of flawless blue sky. Basically, those killer storms were confined to the parking lot. Also, the film-making belated noted that cyclones aren't a big feature of LA, so had to use radar imagery from Florida. So perhaps the storm had taken time out to go on vacation. Notably, the storm was never where the filming was and was forever minutes from destroying LA despite having already destroyed it. It seemed a bit unsure of itself. Have I destroyed LA yet? Anyone remember?
Ming-Na's main acting face portrayed the desperation of an actor who had recently received a large bill (and not from their agent).
Fire Twister, took an alternative take, because we're bored with weather and meteorologists (as if). So how about a petroleum engineer and some enviro-hippies, along with a conspiration from Big Oil? Hola! Intelligent fuel catches fire and runs amok through LA. They'd saved themselves the issue of dealing with sunny days and made some good use of wildfire footage. Big bomb saves the day!
Meteor Apocalypse was a bit easier on the brain and did what it said. Toxic meteor not only makes big splody holes in things but poisons the world's water supply. It could happen. Or, if you're American, you can simply rely on corrupt politicians and incompetence to do the poisoning of your water supplies for you.
Storm Cell was a Twister-lite, featured a meteorologist and no nuclear bombs. But the 'teenage' step-daughter was OK in the end, which is what you want with errant step-children (really, these movies have it in for the kids, who admittedly mostly seemed to have reached their early 30s of their teenage years). Frankly, giant storms are the only way they win.
I was missing a good old fashioned earthquake after all that weather. I was worried that San Andreas fault had joined the super-cyclone in Florida. Fortunately, it hadn't as San Andreas Quake proved. Anyone know a good seismologist with a laptop and a theory?
Then, well, it had all got a bit mundane with twisters both firey and wet and earthquakes, I wanted a bit more out-of-this-world so Earthtastrophe fitted the bill. What if the Earth fell through a wormhole? It's a big worry of mine for a while, you don't know what those scientists are up to. People are worried about 5G weaponised bats. Shit, priotise people, prioritise. At any moment they could bowl us through a wormhole to some kind of dystopian future where humanity is only clinging on, disasters aplenty. Fortunately, they reverse it with more science. Is science bad? I just don't know. Bonus points for the title and having the perpetually bemused Leo from Charmed in it.
