00:00Marriage is not only about happiness, mutual support, love, and friendship.
00:06Marriage is also about trials, crises, and storms.
00:10And this Swedish couple survived several storms during their honeymoon, literally.
00:15Not screams, insults, and drama, but real hurricanes, fires, earthquakes, and other
00:19natural disasters.
00:21This is a really cinematic love story, newlyweds against nature.
00:28Meet Erika and Stefan.
00:29They met in Stockholm while working on a joint project, parted but started chatting with
00:34each other on social networks.
00:36Their long-distance communication lasted for several years before Stefan decided to ask
00:40the woman out on a date.
00:42And it's worth paying tribute.
00:44It wasn't a typical date in a restaurant or in a park.
00:47Stefan suggested that Erika fly with him to go diving in Egypt.
00:52They realized that they both loved to travel and finally fell in love with each other.
00:57After a fabulous wedding and the birth of a beautiful daughter, the couple decided to
01:00go on a four-month honeymoon.
01:02The tour was impressive.
01:04From Sweden to Indonesia, then to Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and China.
01:10They didn't expect that the trip would turn out to be a real adventure where safety was
01:14not guaranteed.
01:17At first, they got stuck at Munich Airport.
01:20All flights were delayed because of a severe thunderstorm.
01:23In Bali, Indonesia, they went to a high mountain with their little daughter.
01:27A strong wind began to blow at the top.
01:30It tore off the roof of the tourist bus where our heroes were sitting.
01:35Fortunately, no one was injured, and there were no other problems.
01:38But at that moment, it was just a teaser of the coming disasters.
01:43The couple arrived in Australia, where a wildfire first started near the city of Perth.
01:48Stefan and Erika didn't want to cough up thick smoke, so they quickly left for the city
01:53apart.
01:55It was during that period when a ferocious cyclone began there.
01:59The storm was so strong that the Australian Red Cross service provided shelter for 2,500
02:06people in the mall.
02:07And there, another problem began.
02:10Imagine 2,500 people in a big, hot room without electricity while a hurricane is raging around.
02:17Oh, and there were only five toilets in the entire building.
02:22How nervous do you think people were?
02:23Erik and Stefan recall that some guys started fighting because of stress.
02:29The tension was getting stronger, but fortunately, the mall guards kept the situation under control.
02:35Wildfires?
02:36Hurricanes?
02:37It seems that something is missing.
02:38Oh, yes.
02:39What about an earthquake?
02:41The couple faced two earthquakes during their honeymoon, one of which happened in Japan in 2011.
02:48They went through all this together with their little daughter.
02:51Just imagine how their daughter was amazed by all these adventures.
02:55Such a trip strengthened their marriage.
02:58Of course, after natural disasters, any domestic quarrel would seem like a mere trifle.
03:04Erika admitted that in crisis situations, Stefan fully justified her trust and behaved as she
03:10had hoped.
03:11Oh, how sweet.
03:13What if we create tours for married couples who are planning to divorce?
03:17Survive the storm, fire, earthquake, and flood together, and then think again whether
03:21you should leave each other.
03:23Imagine that you've gone through several natural disasters in your entire life.
03:27Now the question is, are you lucky?
03:30Because you've survived?
03:31Or are you an unlucky person because you've run into such troubles?
03:35It depends on how you feel about it.
03:37For example, there's a woman, Dana Weiland, who lives in California.
03:41She has survived several disasters throughout her life and continues to smile.
03:46And more recently, she's faced another disaster, wildfires in her home state.
03:52But let's take it in order.
03:53In 2005, Dana Weiland lived in New Orleans.
03:57And if anyone doesn't know, that year, Hurricane Katrina destroyed many houses in this and other
04:04cities.
04:05Dana's house was no exception.
04:07According to her, the lower floor of the house was completely flooded with water.
04:11Of course, she had to give up everything and evacuate.
04:15Dana and her family drove to Texas to a friend's place for about 20 hours.
04:20One month later, Hurricane Rita arrived there, and Dana and her family evacuated again.
04:26It looked as if nature was following her around.
04:29But our heroine was not one of the timid ones.
04:33Several years later, she faced another disaster, Snowmageddon.
04:37This was when a huge amount of wet, cold snow flooded cities and roads, strong wind, blizzard
04:43and endless snowfall.
04:45All traffic stopped.
04:47The lights turned off.
04:48The streets were empty.
04:50Dana sat for 11 days without electricity during this snow apocalypse.
04:56And after all these disasters, she got the exact opposite of snow.
05:01Wildfires in her hometown of Lake Arrowhead in San Bernardino County.
05:07Let's hope that this time, everything will be fine with her again, and she will meet any
05:11adversity with a smile on her face.
05:15Have you heard that lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place?
05:19Can it hit the same person twice?
05:22What if it strikes the same guy seven times in a few hours?
05:26This is not a movie plot in a tragicomedy genre.
05:29This is the real story of Roy Sullivan, a man who got into the Guinness Book of Records for
05:34the number of lightning strikes survived.
05:37There are more than 8 million lightning strikes on Earth every day, which is about 100 strikes
05:43per second.
05:44But even so, the probability of getting struck is extremely low.
05:49One chance in 10 million.
05:50For Roy Sullivan, these chances were too high.
05:55For his strange record, people nicknamed him the Human Lightning Rod.
06:00For the first time, lightning struck him in 1942, when Roy was on a watchtower that didn't
06:05have a lightning rod.
06:07A bright flash of light and a powerful current discharge scarred the man, but didn't cause
06:11crucial damage to health.
06:14The next accident occurred in 1969, when lightning struck a tree near the road.
06:20The lightning passed through the tree to a car.
06:23Guess who was driving this vehicle?
06:25Roy lost control and almost drove off a cliff.
06:28Fortunately, he stayed alive again.
06:31Okay, the first time he was on the tower during a thunderstorm.
06:35The second time was on the road next to a tree, and as we know, lightning often strikes
06:40trees.
06:41This meant Roy was in a potential risk area every time.
06:45But the third time happened in his front yard.
06:48Lightning struck the transformer and caught his shoulder.
06:51The fourth time happened in 1972.
06:54Lightning struck Roy while he was working.
06:57From that moment on, the man began to suspect that this natural phenomenon was somehow attracted
07:02to his body.
07:04Maybe it was a curse, or maybe everything could be explained from a scientific point of view.
07:09A year later, lightning struck him for the fifth time.
07:13A thunderstorm started that day.
07:15Roy decided not to try his luck again and hid in his truck.
07:19And so, when the storm calmed down, Sullivan got out of the car, and bam!
07:24Another lightning struck.
07:26There were two times left before the record.
07:28They occurred in 1976 and in 1977.
07:33Roy's bad luck spread to his wife.
07:35One day, lightning struck her too.
07:38It didn't hurt her, but scared a lot.
07:41So far, no one has broken Ray's record.
07:43But obviously, people haven't tried to do that.
07:46Okay, lightning, fires, snowstorms, hurricanes, and earthquakes.
07:51But how about tsunamis?
07:53Unfortunately, this is one of the most terrible and devastating disasters on the planet.
07:58If you survived it, you're definitely lucky.
08:02Zarul Fuwadi from Indonesia survived these devastating water disasters twice.
08:07The first occurred in Indonesia in 2004.
08:11And the second happened a few years later during an earthquake in Japan.
08:16During the second time, Zarul was in the building on the third floor and felt a jolt.
08:21He was shocked and immediately remembered the tsunami he had experienced before.
08:27The tsunami hit the city, but our hero and his family survived.
08:33After this double trouble, he decided to move to his homeland, Indonesia.
08:37Despite the terrible events, Zarul looks at what happened calmly.
08:42Any catastrophe can happen to any person at any moment, but it doesn't mean you should
08:46live in fear forever, so he focused on the bright side of life.
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