Perfect Disaster

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Perfect Disaster is a 2006 Discovery Channel mini-series depicting the worst-case scenario major cities could expect in the near future if hit by extreme weather. A large part of each episode is based around the lives of citizens from each city, with the remainder of the program showing us real-world scientists discussing the very high probabilities of these disasters. The series' trademark logo is "When the conditions are right, it will all go wrong."

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Dallas, Texas: Devastated by what is declared a "super-tornado" - one exceeding a category 5 on the Fujita scale. The presentation also describes the fact that the probability of this catastrophe is the highest of all the proposed scenarios.
New York City: In the year 2011 being subject to a solar storm, causing widespread damage to electronics, and several bizarre extraterrestrial anomalies.
Sydney: Engulfed in flames from a large firestorm brewing out of control.
Hong Kong: The victim of a super typhoon from the South Pacific.
London: Deluged by a massive flood that breaks past the city's levees.
Montreal: Stricken by a severe ice storm.

Though seemingly unrealistic, each disaster is represented as terrifyingly large and powerful, in order to show the worst possible scenario in the case of each city. The Series was Produced by Impossible Pictures the same people that made the 1999 BBC mini-series Walking With Dinosaurs, which was screened in the USA on the Discovery Channel.

The computer graphics were completed by Gareth Edwards (Super Tornado and Solar Storm); Lola (Firestorm and Ice Storm) and Red Vision (Flood and Typhoon)