One meme that surfaced compared a map of the paths of Hurricane Irma and her pals Katia and Jose with a shot from The Day After Tomorrow. Related: Rick And Morty's 'To Be Fair You Have To Have A Very High IQ' Meme Explained
It had a lot of people speculating real life was imitating disaster porn movies like Deep Impact, 2012 and The Day After Tomorrow.Īs Hurricane Irma wreaked havoc across the Caribbean and Florida, some reacted sensitively to the situation like Warner Bros which requested theaters pull promotional posters for its forthcoming disaster flick Geostorm which had the unfortunate tagline “Brave The Storm.” Others reacted with humor, like the guy who created a Facebook event inviting everybody in Florida to point their fans at Hurricane Irma in an effort to blow it in the other direction. In the wake of Hurricane Harvey in August there came not one, not two but three more hurricanes – Irma, Katia, and Jose – which were followed by earthquakes in Mexico and wildfires in California. Back in 2017, it was a pretty scary time to be living in the U.S., Central America and the Caribbean.
When Hurricane Irma hit land in 2017 a meme made the rounds implying Roland Emmerich’s 2004 disaster flick The Day After Tomorrow had predicted the horrendous weather situation – it didn’t, and here’s why.
