Memphis flood, before and after – Pictures from space
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The Mississippi River reached nearly 48 feet in Memphis, Tenn., on May 10, according to the U.S. National Weather Service. It was the highest water level for Memphis since 1937.
Several of NASA’s fleet of Earth-observing satellites have been gathering data on the current Mississippi flooding as well as floods worldwide. The progress of the floodwaters can be tracked in a series of satellite images posted on the NASA Earth Observatory website.
The Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper captured an image on May 10 showing in natural color the area around Memphis as it would look to the human eye. This month muddy water has pushed over the Mississippi’s banks both east and west of the normal river channel. Flood waters span the distance between Memphis and West Memphis. Another Landsat 5 image from April 21, 2010 (bottom), shows non-flooded conditions.
Memphis on April 21, taken from Landsat 5 satellite
Memphis on May 10
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Perhaps they could donate some of the water to Utah?…Just a thought…a daft one perhaps but I don’t have many so treat it gently…
I feel sorry for the poor folks who can’t afford to live anywhere but flood plain. Even a 10 year flood catches those people.
I had no idea as to the extent of the flooding before I saw these. Memphis itself was almost underwater.