Fansided

Sharknado: It’s a real thing…sort of (Photo)

By Phil Watson

(SyFy promotional image)
(SyFy promotional image) /
facebooktwitterreddit

One of the things that made the 2013 SyFy film Sharknado so damned much fun was the complete improbability of a cyclone picking up sharks. Oh, wait.

As Australia’s north coast was buffeted by twin cyclones late last week, a preposterous movie plot became a reality … sort of.

Cyclones Lam and Marcia ripped across the north coast and deposited the one shark (just one) on the beach near the seaside village of Lennox Head in New South Wales, just south of Brisbane.

More from Entertainment

But it is a rare, apocalyptic experience to have two tropical systems make landfall in one day.

Cyclone Marcia hit Queensland as a category 5 storm, according to the National Post, with winds gusting up to 177 mph. The storm uprooted trees, tore roofs off houses and left thousands without electricity.

There were also emergency evacuations in a couple of towns along the north coast after automatic floodgates opened at a nearby dam.

Cyclone Lam, meanwhile, crossed the coast of the Northern Territory as a category 4 storm, severing some power lines but mostly causing limited damage.

The shark photo made the rounds on social media, with no end to the references to the SyFy flick from 2013, Sharknado, which became famous for being so famously bad.

It even spawned a sequel, appropriately titled Sharknado 2: The Second One.

And, because you just can’t get too much good badness, Sharknado 3 begins filming in Orlando, Fla., this week.

The third installment starring Ian Ziering and Tara Reid—again—will be a major theatrical release this summer.

The sequel became the most-watched original movie ever on SyFy as the audiences couldn’t wait to snap it up.

More from FanSided

Home/Entertainment