Mitch R. is a policy analyst from Allen, Texas. On February 14, 2021, he moved into a Texas apartment. The very next day, Winter Storm Uri hit and knocked out power across the state. A huge share of Texas households lost power for days. The state’s power grid nearly collapsed completely. Temperatures dropped below freezing […]

Jason P. is a 52-year-old experienced snowboarder from Reno, Nevada. He has 35 years of skiing and snowboarding under his belt. On January 10, 2024, he was at Palisades Tahoe ski resort in California with his fiancée. It was the first day the KT-22 chairlift opened that season. Despite low visibility and strong winds, they […]

Shawn S. is a homeowner from Mobile, Alabama. In November, he was doing electrical work around his property with his electrician. His electrician noticed dark smoke pouring from a neighbor’s roof. Inside that house was a 92-year-old woman who lived alone. Shawn didn’t wait for firefighters to arrive. He ran to the burning home and […]

Shawn C. is a resident of Gulf Harbors in Pasco County, Florida. In October 2024, Hurricane Helene sent a devastating storm surge through his neighborhood. His family evacuated to a hotel to wait for the floodwaters to recede. When they came back to check on their home, they found strangers inside. “We had some people […]

Aaron S. is a 48-year-old from Pacific Palisades, California. In January 2025, he was caring for his 83-year-old father-in-law who has Parkinson’s disease and can barely walk. When the Palisades Fire erupted, Aaron had no car at the home. He flagged down a stranger named Jeff for a ride, but they became trapped in gridlock […]

A 57-year-old hiker from Massachusetts set out for a day hike in New Hampshire’s White Mountains in May. The man was an avid hiker with more than 25 years of hiking experience. But when he got lost between Weeks and Middle Weeks Mountain, he made one critical mistake. He’d been using a mapping app on […]

A 57-year-old hunter from Illinois was on a hunting trip in Colorado’s Rawah Wilderness. On September 22nd, he became separated from his group and texted that he was lost. Rescuers couldn’t deploy that night due to deteriorating weather and darkness. Over the next two days, 9 inches of snow fell in the mountainous terrain, creating […]

Amanda R. is a mother of five from Charlotte, North Carolina. On May 12, 2021, she needed gas like everyone else. But unlike the people who rushed to the pumps when they first heard about the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack, Amanda waited. And that decision left her stranded. You see, the Colonial Pipeline attack shut down […]

John S. is a 62-year-old Army veteran and retired union member from Cleveland, Ohio. On May 6, he was driving to work around 9:30 AM when he spotted smoke pouring from a two-story home on West 102nd Street. A mother was standing outside, screaming. She had managed to escape with one of her 11-month-old twins, […]

A woman from Goshen, Connecticut started receiving strange notifications on her iPhone. The alerts warned her that an unknown AirTag was traveling with her. At first, she dismissed it, but the notifications kept coming. Every time she drove somewhere, her phone detected the same unknown device following her. Finally, after a month of alerts, she […]