
A volunteer goes deep into Hurricane Katrina's disaster zone and reports on the sacrifice, death, and destruction.
By Derek Burnett in Reader's Digest - November 2005
Sometimes when lightning strikes, you're not even safe indoors.
By Lisa Collier Cool in Reader's Digest - June 2006
We have the safest food supply in the world, but is it good enough?
By Kathryn Wallace in Reader's Digest - August 2004
The family was fast asleep -- the next moment they were fighting for their lives.
By William M. Hendryx in Reader's Digest - July 2006
A year after Katrina, Reader's Digest returns to New Orleans to see how one neighborhood is coming back to life.
By Derek Burnett in Reader's Digest - August 2006
George Griffin's fellow physicians thought he was a goner. But they didn't figure on one thing.
By Jerome Groopman, M.D. in Reader's Digest - March 2004
A tornado half a mile wide was headed straight for town.
By Christopher W. Davis in Reader's Digest - September 2006
Five stories that prove they happen every day.
The weather alerts were loud and clear: "Get below ground now." Not everyone could.
By Nancy Mathis in Reader's Digest - April 2007
A journey through Utah's most secluded corner reminds us that this high, lonesome country is not just a landscape of legend and lore but a real place after all.