2011 have been a pretty destructive year for some people. Here is a collection of the most powerful images of 2011.
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Here’s some examples of the strongest ones in my opinion.
A monstrous dust storm (Haboob) roared through Phoenix, Arizona in July.
A man sits in front of a destroyed apartment building following the Joplin, Missouri tornado. (Reuters)
84-year-old Dorli Rainey was pepper sprayed during a peaceful march in Seattle, Washington. She would have been thrown to the ground and trampled, but luckily a fellow protester and Iraq vet was there to save her. (Joshua Trujillo / seattlepi.com)
Australian Scott Jones kisses his Canadian girlfriend Alex Thomas after she was knocked to the ground by a police officer’s riot shield in Vancouver, British Columbia. Canadians rioted after the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup to the Boston Bruins.
Mihag Gedi Farah, a seven-month-old child, is held by his mother in a field hospital of the International Rescue Committee in the town of Dadaab, Kenya. The baby has since made a full recovery.
A demonstrator shows his bottom to riot police during a protest by European workers and trade union representatives to demand better job protection in the European Union countries in Brussels on March 24.
A student is punched in the face by a police officer in Chile. Students in Chile are demanding a new framework for education.
A woman hangs onto a street sign in chest deep water along the flooded streets in Rangsit on the outskirts of Bangkok on October 24.
Chile’s Puyehue volcano erupts, causing air traffic cancellations across South America, New Zealand, Australia and forcing over 3,000 people to evacuate. (Reuters)
A girl in isolation for radiation screening looks at her dog through a window in Nihonmatsu, Japan on March 14.
Friends and loved ones gather at the Oslo cathedral to mourn 93 victims killed in twin terror attacks from a bombing in downtown Oslo and a mass shooting on Utoya island on July 24.
A before and after shot of Joplin, Missouri after a massive tornado on May 22.
