May 8 2008What The Apocalypse May Look Like (That Is, If It Happened Naturally And Not At The Hands Of Giant Robots And/Or Zombies)
These are pictures of the Chaitén volcano erupting in Chile (the country, not the delicious mixture of beans, meat and spices) and creating a "dirty thunderstorm". Dirty thunderstorms are caused by the incredible amount of static electricity generated in a volcano's ash plume and are not to be confused with "dirty thunderwearstorms" which are created when a coworker (i.e. The Superficial Writer -- thanks a lot dude) is taking his afternoon nap on the only commode in the building and there's nowhere else to relieve yourself.
Several more pictures of the apocalypse after the jump.
Eye Candy: Chilean Volcanic Thunderstorm [ohgizmo]
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Reader Comments
1. j shlong - May 8, 2008 5:17 PM
holy shit that looks cool. terrible, but cool.
2. Mindy - May 8, 2008 5:19 PM
The world is an amazing place
3. The Superficial Writer - May 8, 2008 5:39 PM
*wakes up*
DON'T STEAL MY BURRITO! Wait, where did everybody go?
4. Rithly - May 8, 2008 5:41 PM
@#2
Yes, and it's going to KILL US ALL!
5. Ok - May 8, 2008 6:18 PM
and there is nothing worng with death. our lives are the earth's doing.
6. max - May 8, 2008 6:25 PM
So i'm chilean ok?, and here i'm surfing your blog to distractme from all the disaster that is all over the news, and i found the same thing!!!...do your job and distract us from the horror of everyday life!!! ....that is all we ask!!...
...in other news, the towns near the volcan has been evacuated, just one person dead so far from a heart attack... several animals are going to die anyway...
....the volcanic plume is reaching the atlantic, there is satellital pictures from NASA somewhere...
7. SlowMonkey - May 8, 2008 6:41 PM
I'll bring the beer. Somebody needs to bring chips.
8. Val - May 8, 2008 6:51 PM
I'll bring them. With dip.
This is some scary shit, by the way.
9. none - May 8, 2008 6:55 PM
i think if i was standing there watching this, i'd shit myself. in fear. yes, lots of it. i mean the fear, not shit..
10. pickle - May 8, 2008 7:00 PM
this is cool. i can't wait til they team up with tornadoes to kill everyone.
11. Uncle Eccoli - May 8, 2008 7:14 PM
What, no horsemen?
12. Some - May 8, 2008 7:14 PM
I want this as my wallpaper. Need higher resolution!! Goes so well with my disaster theme. Hurricanes, Earthquakes, Ryan Seacrest.
13. captainlaziness - May 8, 2008 7:37 PM
Lol@ 10
Those are the most frighteningly beautifull pictures I've seen since 2G1C.
14. temp - May 8, 2008 11:29 PM
fucking awesome!
15. kevin - May 9, 2008 12:44 AM
Anyone got a high res link? These pictures are amazing
16. Rossella - May 9, 2008 2:00 AM
I am from Chile, i live en Santiago, the capital of Chile, and is very sad what is happening but the picuteres and the videos are pretty sweet is like Mordor!, the storms are happening all the nights, but we can't have por photos becose in Chainte the are no people left, only remeins two guys in Chainten that the are hide somewhere...
17. rodcontr - May 9, 2008 2:26 AM
i also live in chile... (pegó el blog acá parece, yo creo que el escritor no sospechó ser leído tan lejos)
@10: because of a high pressure center located over the pacific, in front of our long and thin country, we can't get tornadoes around here. We do have LOTS of earthquakes though, misteriously disappearing lakes, ah! and the MOAI (easter island is a part of chile).
@15: UPI sells high resolution pictures of the volcano at U$40 (may seem a lot, but the dollar is quite cheap now)
18. pickle - May 9, 2008 7:09 AM
@17: come on now, rod, can't means won't. you'll never accomplish anything with that stinky attitude of yours.
19. Sarah - May 9, 2008 7:09 AM
Holy shit. That is fucking awesome. I had to see it to believe it. Fucking War of the Worlds. :-)
20. SlowMonkey - May 9, 2008 7:32 AM
These print up tres sweet @5X7 on photographic paper. They are going in the family album so my son can say "Look! I was only 11 when the cyborgs descended through the lightning into Chile and set up their base of operations"
21. Leeroy - May 9, 2008 10:12 AM
Anyone know where to find these images in Hi-Res? They are awesome!
22. Erik - May 9, 2008 10:14 AM
Wow. Badass. Good to see real old-fashioned, well composed photography, and not HDR like the freaks all over Flickr.
23. Chase - May 9, 2008 11:06 AM
fuckin sweet
24. Scott - May 9, 2008 11:20 AM
Really! Aren't we being a bit too profane with our comments?
on to another subject:
Mr. Fuck fucked the fuck in the fucking fuck. News at 11:00!
25. ilovejb - May 9, 2008 11:20 AM
When is Al Gore going to denounce these volcanoes for spewing thousands of tons of green house gases into our fragile atmosphere? Perhaps the Kyoto P could be redrafted to address/regulate them as well.
26. Karl - May 9, 2008 1:49 PM
"These are pictures of the Chaitén volcano erupting in Chile (the country, not the delicious mixture of beans, meat and spices)"
I believe that is actually Chili. Chile would be more like a pepper.
Technically...
27. Scott - May 9, 2008 2:02 PM
I like my Chile very spicy!
28. Karl - May 9, 2008 2:15 PM
I like my Chile very spicy too!
I also like my Chili spicy.
29. HUTCH - May 9, 2008 5:13 PM
Don't taze me, bro!
30. Cyberwulf - May 10, 2008 5:37 AM
I want to lick it...
31. fedmich - May 10, 2008 10:31 AM
Cool. Anymore pics like this?
32. Fred - May 10, 2008 4:38 PM
Fake!
33. Rossella - May 11, 2008 9:13 PM
fake?!??! dude you are so wrong, i am from Chile and my people are living that, ingnorant.
34. genghis khunt - May 11, 2008 9:56 PM
I knew you were the new fish!