Disaster Deja vu
1 Season • 2021 PG
History repeats itself in Disaster Deja vu, an action-packed series that showcases cities that have been hit by the craziest disasters, not once but twice! Using GFX, original footage, and archival photos, step inside each of these disasters.
S1.E1 - Haiti & Australia
Next Showing on Quest:
Aug 14 @ 5:22PM
In 1939 and again in 2009, Australia watches helplessly as massive firestorms roar through bone-dry forests with devastating speed; monstrous earthquakes below sea level bring untold misery and devastation to Haiti in 1842 and 2010.
S1.E2 - St. Louis & China
Next Showing on Quest:
Aug 21 @ 5:30PM
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.
S1.E3 - San Francisco & Jerusalem
Next Showing on Quest:
Aug 28 @ 5:55PM
San Francisco experiences immense earthquakes in 1906 and 1989; Israel battles massive plagues of locusts in 1915 and again in 2013.
S1.E4 - Bangladesh & Calgary
Next Showing on Quest:
Sep 4 @ 5:45PM
The deadliest tornado in recorded history touches down in Bangladesh, repeating the havoc of another previous deadly weather system in 1973; a spectacular summer storm in Calgary, Alberta rains a massive onslaught of ice from the heavens.
S1.E5 - Japan & Australia
Next Showing on Quest:
Sep 11 @ 5:45PM
Exploring two big earthquakes in Tokyo's history and two cyclones that devastated Darwin, Australia.
S1.E6 - Zaire & New York City
Next Showing on Quest:
Sep 18 @ 5:45PM
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 the Ebola virus that first ravaged its people in 1976 before the virus rears its ugly head again.
S1.E7 - Galveston & Iceland
Next Showing on Quest:
Sep 25 @ 5:45PM
Hurricanes in Galveston, Texas and volcanos in Iceland, both of these places would experience their own Disaster Deja Vu.
S1.E8 - Chennai & Chicago
A disaster known as the most famous fire in American history: the 1871 Great Fire of Chicago; in 1934, Chicago experienced another destructive inferno; Southern India, in 1921 and again in 2015, was devastated by cataclysmic flooding.
S1.E9 - Charleston & Paris
Two of the deadliest storms to ever make landfall in the United States, Hurricane Hazel and Hurricane Hugo, both target Charleston, S.C.; two brutal summers of extreme heat claim thousands of lives in Paris.
S1.E10 - Montreal & Peru
In Peru, two avalanches in 1962 and again in 1970 tore down Mount Huascaran's north face, wiping out the towns of Ranrahirca and Yungay. In Montreal, two record breaking ice storms entombed the city in frozen ice in 1961 and again in 1998.
S1.E11 - New Delhi & Hawaii
A devastating tsunami hit Hilo, Hawaii, in the mid 1800s, then close to 100 years later, Hilo is hit again despite precautions; studying the overpopulation of monkeys in India, and how they have taken over the city center of New Delhi twice.
S1.E12 - Winnipeg & Pompeii
An ancient seabed returns to water as the mighty Red River spills its banks not once but twice in a century; Mount Vesuvius catches everyone off guard, devastating the city of Pompeii in A.D. 79 and erupting again in 1944.
S1.E13 - Florida & Sydney
Next Showing on Quest:
Jul 9 @ 10:45AM
Mother Nature unleashes the full fury of winter on unsuspecting citrus-rich Florida; day turns to night for Sydney, Australia, when dust storms engulf the city.