Environment
A Devastating Before/After Comparison of the Colorado Floods, Captured by Satellite
Following recent downpours, the South Platte River swelled so big that it consumed part of a city.
Greeley is a medium-sized city located about 50 miles north of Denver on the banks of the South Platte River. That's during a normal week. In recent days, Greeley has actually been located partly within the South Platte River, thanks to record-setting rains that fattened the waterway into obscene proportions.
The transformation of Greeley from bucolic meat-packing burg into Splashtown Water Park was captured, as so many things are nowadays, by the mechanical eye of a U.S. satellite. Here's what the Landsat 8 probe observed on June 29 (larger version):