in

21 Real Life Photos You Feel Are Maybe Fake

A new movie starring The Rock is coming out next week called San Andreas, and it features beautifully horrific CGI renderings of a fictional earthquake hitting Los Angeles.

But even the amazing technological illusions we can create with our computers could never replace the real-life horror of natural disasters. Here are some terrible photos taken in the aftermath of some of the worst earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanic explosions, and snowstorms ever caught on film.

Not even The Rock can save us from these…

Thankfully this guy’s parking was a little off.

21 Real Life Photos You Feel Are Maybe Fake

This is not Elsa’s castle, but maybe these homeowners should just let it go.

21 Real Life Photos You Feel Are Maybe Fake

No problem stopping here.

21 Real Life Photos You Feel Are Maybe Fake

Icicle branches.

21 Real Life Photos You Feel Are Maybe Fake

All this wood used to be part of the forest before an insane storm hit.

21 Real Life Photos You Feel Are Maybe Fake

Hurricanes can sometimes make buildings look like wet cake.

21 Real Life Photos You Feel Are Maybe Fake


You’re not tripping out on drugs. This is what an earthquake does to railroad tracks sometimes.

21 Real Life Photos You Feel Are Maybe Fake

It’s weird when most of a building just goes completely missing.

21 Real Life Photos You Feel Are Maybe Fake

Just think of all the traffic this is going to cause.

21 Real Life Photos You Feel Are Maybe Fake

Looks like someone sacrificed a goat to the storm gods last night.

21 Real Life Photos You Feel Are Maybe Fake

This looks like a river…until you see the road sign.

21 Real Life Photos You Feel Are Maybe Fake

This hurricane caused a boom in fence fishing.

21 Real Life Photos You Feel Are Maybe Fake

If earth waves were a thing, this is probably what they’d look like.

21 Real Life Photos You Feel Are Maybe Fake

21 Real Life Photos You Feel Are Maybe Fake

It’s always pretty great when you need a boat to commute to work.

21 Real Life Photos You Feel Are Maybe Fake

I mean, if you were gonna clean out the garage anyway…

21 Real Life Photos You Feel Are Maybe Fake

On the bright side, this person now owns TWO homes.

21 Real Life Photos You Feel Are Maybe Fake

Love those city lights. Wait…

21 Real Life Photos You Feel Are Maybe Fake


If you saw this while on the beach, you would pretty much have to yell "GODZILLA!" right?

21 Real Life Photos You Feel Are Maybe Fake

Well, even 1,936 years after the explosion, the bodies in Pompeii are still super spooky.

21 Real Life Photos You Feel Are Maybe Fake

Have a seat.

21 Real Life Photos You Feel Are Maybe Fake

Just a reminder that tornados destroy everything good in this world.

21 Real Life Photos You Feel Are Maybe Fake


As real as these disaster movies try to be, I don’t think they will ever capture how truly terrifying it is when you’re actually caught in a natural disaster. Luckily, I haven’t had to deal with many, but I can imagine it feels like your own planet is trying to kill you. And that’s just not cool.

Leave Your Comments