Another brilliant NASA image from the Earth Observatory.
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Quick "Cut & Paste" Highlights:
" .... This photo-like image of the Texas and Louisiana coasts shows the impact of Hurricane Ike’s powerful storm surge on coastal wetlands. Hurricane Ike came ashore over southeast Texas on September 13, 2008, bringing with it a wall of water that stretched from Galveston, Texas, across all of coastal Louisiana. The storm’s surge covered hundreds of kilometers of the Gulf Coast because Ike was a large storm, with tropical-storm-strength winds stretching more than four hundred kilometers from the center of the storm. The strongest storm surge devastated Galveston and the Bolivar Peninsula. Though it was not as hard hit, coastal Louisiana—still trying to dry out from Hurricane Gustav—suffered as well.... "
References:
National Hurricane Center. (2008, September 13). Hurricane Ike. NOAA National Weather Service. Accessed October 1, 2008.
NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Holli Riebeek.
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