Posted on 09/12/2017 9:44:45 AM PDT by cll
Hurricane Irma churned across the Atlantic Ocean in September 2017, battering several Caribbean islands before moving on to the Florida Keys and the U.S. mainland. As the clouds cleared over places like the Virgin Islands, the destruction became obvious even from space.
These natural-color images, captured by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite, show some of Irma’s effect on the British and U.S. Virgin Islands. The views were acquired on August 25 and September 10, 2017, before and after the storm passed. They are among the few relatively cloud-free satellite images of the area so far.
The most obvious change is the widespread browning of the landscape. There are a number of possible reasons for this. Lush green tropical vegetation can be ripped away by a storm’s strong winds, leaving the satellite with a view of more bare ground. Also, salt spray whipped up by the hurricane can coat and desiccate leaves while they are still on the trees.
Irma passed the northernmost Virgin Islands on the afternoon of September 6. At the time, Irma was a category 5 storm with maximum sustained winds of 185 miles (295 kilometers) per hour. According to news reports, the islands saw “significant devastation.”
St Martin was always Third World, outside of the ports and resorts.
Yep, its a given.
It was stripped, but the good news is it’ll come back fairly rapidly outside of those areas that were submerged due to overwash and storm surge. All the native coastal plants tend to be very salt and wind-hardy, but they don’t survive submersion in salt water. In a year, you’ll see the wrack line from overwash as dead vegetation, and won’t see much difference at all further inland.
Perhaps thief slut hillary will donate to the peoples down there some funds for food relief. I'm just positive she can donate the same about that -she donated to ……....Haiti!!!
[...filthy conniving animal she is!!]
My estimation of such weather catastrophes is that people and the environment is resilient and usually come back stronger. Hurricanes are a very natural cycle of our climate.
It’s not like they’ve never had hurricanes or that nothing will ever grow back.
I agree cannot imagine living in a tropic paradise that looks like west Texas with not a tree in site; lets see pictures in 6 months, bet it is green and lush as can be. Mother earth heals quickly.
These are terrible images for comparrison!
The scale and crop is the same, but the light levels and shadow angles are way too far off to compare.
Guess what else looks different. OMG, the water is bluer after Hurricane Irma! How’d it do that???
“How do you prepare for brown”
America endured 8 years of a brown mood.
If the filthy bitch weren’t too damned stupid, she would show up in devastated areas spending Clinton Foundation money like water for disaster relief and rebuilding.
That might help her in a 2010 run.
But her blind ambition always bangs its head against the iron wall of her boundless greed.
You're not kidding! Our cruise ship had a stop there and after we got off and walked around a bit, I looked around and saw that just a block and a half or so away from the main tourist areas, it looked like a raging violent ghetto. Very sad! So strange to get back to that ship and think about all those poor souls who haven't much food or even happy days and good times. :(
Of course this is true of the Caribbean in general, I really have no desire to go back there anytime soon.
“How do you prepare for brown”
America endured 8 years of a brown mood.
“Hurricanes are a fact of life in the Caribbean.
Learn to deal with it and prepare”
I wonder if one could be steered to Chicago?
Wow.
And just sad pictures.
Glad it didn’t hit florida at this strength.
Wow—that is incredible before and after images.
It will be back to green again soon ,it always does ,unless they sink
Or tip over.
Snicker.
yes - and un-naturally!
My wife and her two sisters are flying to Spain on Oct. 3rd and getting on a cruise ship for two weeks. I've been trying to tell her that in these times it isn't safe for anyone, let alone an American woman to be in Spain, Italy or France. Just this past week two women at one of the beaches in Spain were beaten and raped right there on the beach...in the day time. Same thing happened to a women visiting a beach in Italy last week. Beat and raped her right there on the beach in broad daylight. Most likely by slippery, slimy nasty arabs. My wife said she and her two sisters would be back on board their ship at each port -by nightfall. [I ask - - -what is she not hearing- - - when I stipulated "…..in broad daylight!"] Whatever…she and her two sisters won't hear a word of it. :( !!!
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