Images of Hurricane Irene Aftermath

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Tornado Infographic

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Another Incredible Japan Tsunami Video

Probably the best one yet. In this one the detail is astonishing, and it really touches home. You can see people running, and looking back, and running.. fleeing for their lives. Nothing I saw is remotely disturbing. I didn't see any floating bodies in other words. You will, however, see an entire town - buildings, cars, everything - destroyed.


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On The Way

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Amazing Japan Tsunami Footage

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Plus some stunning before & after images here (hover over images to change between before and after).

Incredible Earthquake/Tsunami Images From Japan

As always the great people over at The Big Picture at Boston Dot Com have provided us with a huge collection of amazing photos - this time they have captured the essence of Friday morning's disastrous earthquake and tsunami in Japan.


Houses swallowed by tsunami waves burn in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture (state) after Japan was struck by a strong earthquake off its northeastern coast Friday, March 11. (Kyodo News/Associated Press)


Sendai Airport is surrounded by waters in Miyagi prefecture (state), Japan, after a ferocious tsunami spawned by one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded slammed Japan's eastern coast Friday, March 11, 2011. (Kyodo News/Associated Press)


Light planes and vehicles sit among the debris after they were swept by a tsumani that struck Sendai airport in northern Japan. (Kyodo News/Associated Press)


Workers inspect a caved-in section of a prefectural road in Satte, Saitama Prefecture, after one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in Japan slammed its eastern coast March 11. (Saitama Shimbun/Associated Press/Kyodo News)

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Toxic Sludge In Hungary

On Monday, October 4th, a large reservoir filled with toxic red sludge in western Hungary ruptured, releasing approximately 700,000 cubic meters (185 million gallons) of stinking caustic mud, which killed many animals, at least four people, and injured over 120 - many with chemical burns. [Above: A Greenpeace activist takes a sample of the toxic sludge in a town near Ajkai on October 5, 2010. (REUTERS/Waltraud Holzfeind/Greenpeace)]

The 12-foot-high flood of sludge inundated several towns, sweeping cars off the road as it flowed into the nearby Marcal River. Emergency workers rushed to pour 1,000 tons of plaster into the Marcal River in an attempt to bind the sludge and keep it from flowing on to the Danube some 45 miles away.

The red sludge in the reservoir is a byproduct of refining bauxite into alumina, which took place at an alumina plant run by the Hungarian Alumina Production and Trading Company. A criminal probe has just been opened by Hungarian authorities.

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An aerial view of the red mud covering streets and neighborhood of Kolontar, Hungary, taken on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/MTI, Gyoergy Varga)






An animal lies dead in the toxic mud, which flooded the village of Kolontar, Hungary on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)







A dead fish and a corn cob lie stuck to the windshield of a car damaged by the toxic red mud from the damaged reservoir of a nearby Ajka alumina factory in Devecser, Hungary, on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. (AP Photos/MTI, Lajos Nagy)



An aerial view of the red mud covered streets and debris scattered in Devecser, Hungary, taken on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/MTI, Gyoergy Varga)




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Gulf Oil Leak

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BP: Changes Coming

Obviously they've started with their logo.

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Beautiful Disaster

Why can't they just "plug it up", or turn it off?? Maybe I'm ignorant to oil drilling, but hey if some type of machine is running out of control, don't you just turn it off? Or if there's a faucet leak, don't you improvise in the meantime by collecting the water in a big bowl? Find a damn temporary solution already!

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Images Of The Recent Gulf Oil Spill

As they always do, The Big Picture at Boston Dot Com has provided us with a super array of pictures from the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico south of Louisiana. Click the pics to enlarge, and please follow the link at the end to see the rest.









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I'm still wondering if Padre Island here off the Texas coast will be affected, and if so, how soon? We had tentative plans to go next weekend.

Amateur Video: Huge Wave Crashes Into Cruise Ship

An Italian passenger of the Louis Majesty, Ervino Curtis shot the wave hitting and breaking the glass of portholes, killing two people and wounding many others.

A Haitian Woman Pondering Life Post-Disaster

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