Virus: It's one of the most deadly "bugs" ever created, unstoppable, incurable, uncontrollable and it's accidentally unleashed on the world. The population begins to die by the thousands and the only people who are safe are in Antarctica, but they face another equally terrifying disaster. Hurricane: A storm of unprecedented power is growing, headed straight for a tiny Mississippi town and is certain to destroy it. Hurricane watchers desperately race...

A dramatized global warming event triggers a barrage of epic natural disasters: tornadoes flatten Los Angeles, a tidal wave engulfs New York City and the entire Northern Hemisphere begins to freeze solid. An assortment of individual narratives are threaded together to follow the various catastrophes and their effects on local populations, including the stories of climatologist Jack Hall, his son Sam, and other small bands of survivors as they ride...