20 Photos Of Shocking Real Life Scenes You’d Only Expect In A Disaster Film

I’m always astounded by the quality of graphics and CGI in disaster films and how shockingly real they can make extreme destruction appear. Though from the safety of my sofa, as impressed as I am, I quickly grew used to the levels of catastrophe depicted in movies and now even the splitting of the earth’s crust isn’t enough to phase me.

Any type of surreal scene is immediately accepted and passed off as casual if we see it in a film – but what about when it happens in real life? These 20 times, that’s exactly what happened.

1. Good job he’s parking was a little off

2. You won’t need to tell me twice

3. Icicle branches

4. This is the result of an insane storm that hit these woods

5. You know when you make a cake too high?

6. A railway track hit by an earthquake

7. There today, gone tomorrow

8. Traffic is coming

9. When a tree takes a nap

10. You’ll think this is a river…look again

11. The fishes wanted no part in that hurricane

12. Just a casual ‘earth wave’

13. Always nice to get a boat to work

14. Spring clean

15. Two houses are better than one

16. Shits about to blow

17. Not what you expected when you booked your all inclusive holiday to Lanzarote

18. 1,936 years after the explosion in Pompeii

19. Have a seat

20. And a final reminder, tornados fuck up all things nice

Mother nature can be a bitch. If you’re not sure how much of a bitch, check out this shocking footage from Nepal’s two recent earthquakes.