Angry Planet

Ground Zero for host George Kourounis stormchasing is Oklahoma City,capital of North America's 'Tornado Alley'. George tracks a building storm that threatens that tough mid-western city, chases a hail storm, fights to get in the middle of a vicious dust-devil and the funky roadside Americana of the American Midwest.

George Kourounis explores the American Southwest during the Desert Monsoon. To up the danger factor, he travels with a wild Atheist Shock-Jock, RJ Evans, to track these huge lightening storms. The pair too close, to big electrical clouds swirling over Tucson, Sedona and Monument Valley.

Nyiragongo Volcano exploded in 2002, sending 125,000 residents of the city of Goma, Congo running for their lives. George Kourounis heads to Africa to climb the steep and very active volcano, witness the bubbling lake of molten lava and investigate the risk the dangerous volcano poses to both the people of Goma and the Mountain Gorillas who live on the jungle slopes of the Virunga Volcanos.

With summer wildfires burning across the Yukon forests, George Kourounis heads north, following the fabled route taken by the sourdoughs to the Klondike Gold Rush, through the town of Skagway, Alaska, paddling the whitewater rivers and the White Horse Rapids into the Yukon. He travels by Cessna, steam train, mountain bike and whitewater raft to experience the huge fires and meet the northern fire crews battling the blazes.

The Autumn of 2006 brings hurricanes to the North Atlantic, and hot dry winds fanning furious forest fires across Northern Ontario. George Kourounis has traveled to some big hurricanes, including Rita and Katrina, with his stormchasing pal Mark Robinson. This year they head for Newfoundland, site of the hurricane that that pulled Robinson out of a life-threatening depression.

In 2005 we saw some of the wildest weather in the history of the planet. Adventurer George Kourounis tracks twisters through the Tornado Alley of Oklahoma and Texas, descends into the Erte Ale Volcano in the Danakil Depression of Ethiopia (the world's hottest place), then witnesses Hurricane Katrina destroying the town of Gulfport, Mississippi from a steel-reinforced bunker facing the beachfront action.