Disasters
Most of these achievements are incredibly easy. You can get these by simply selecting the natural disaster tool and creating one of the appropriate type:
This one seems to require you have a fire watch tower detect the disaster in order for it to count:
This one needs to be done on a map with ocean access:
This one requires 10 total:
Scenarios
Losing is easy, pick a scenario that has the "have less than 0 money" loss condition. Build things to waste your money, turn taxes down to 1%. Save your game. You will lose momentarily. Pick the "Restart" option, then reload your save. Repeat this 5 times for:
Winning is a bit harder (but not too hard). If you have the Mass Transit DLC, the scenario "ferry empire" is ridiculously easy. See the Mass Transit DLC walkthrough page for details.
If you don't have the DLC, your best bet is "Tornado Country". You have tons of space out to the N/E so you can just purchase tiles so you have a 3x3 square, and easily fit in more grids than you could ever need. You will probably need to use water towers if you do this as there will be minimal water frontage to keep your sewage and drinking water separate.
Another option (suggested by II Loadsman) is the Alpine villages scenario. It's not too bad, but I am a bit wary of the deadline. If you don't hit your target in time, game over. He said, "I had a population of about 12,500 get 250k trips by bus in 250 (out of 350 allowed) game weeks. Just spam bus lines everywhere."
Whichever you pick, when you are close to winning save your game. Then just like for losing, reload your save and "win" again for the achievement. Then reload your save so you can "win" 5x.
What the...?
I've left this one for last, because this could take the longest of anything in the game. But you can start working on these at any point. It is easiest however if you have the save you made just before buying your first extra map tile.
Preparation
Load up that save, and buy as many tiles as you can, but extend them away from your city as much as possibly (i.e. buy two in a row north, then branch out E/W from that far northern city. We just want to maximize the chance of disasters hitting empty land far away from your city.
Idling
Load up your "idling" save, turn on natural disasters and maximize their frequency, and turn on the day night cycle. Go to sleep, go to work, I don't care. When you come back, much time will have passed, and your city may or may not have been damaged. You can either repair it or just reload your save, depending on how you feel. If you want to repair, then do that and you can let it continue to idle. If you are in the negative, the game is probably paused asking if you want a bailout. SAY NO. Then you can temporarily turn off disasters, pause the game, and take out all 3 loans. That should give you enough cash to rebuild and repair. Once you do, you should start making money again, and can turn disasters back on (maybe wait until you've paid off the loans to be on the safe side). Save your game periodically. It may not matter but it can't hurt to be progressing the game rather than running the same few months over and over.
Eventually, you will get:
or as i like to call it "When the @#$%??"
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