As Hurricane Irene nears the East coast, there’s been talk of evacuating below-sea-level areas from Florida all the way to New England. If you’ve got a fear of flooding, it’ll only be bolstered by this horrifying photo out of water-logged Puerto Rico. In the shot taken from a car, a shark can be clearly seen swimming down the highway, like something out of a terrible Samuel L. Jackson movie.

Check it out, preferably from high land:

UPDATE: The Washington Post is reporting that this shark picture was actually a fake. The discerning Reddit community spotted the same shark in a picture from Africa Geographic. So the only thing you need to worry about during Hurricane Irene is … Hurricane Irene.

[via BuzzFeed]

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