Irma repaints earthly hues

For our occasional series — The Beauty of Disasters — we give you this before-and-after shot from space of the water surrounding Florida.

Before/after #Irma shot of S Florida. Note all the sediment stirred up in the shallow waters! MODIS imagery from https://t.co/vaXfaCS4UV pic.twitter.com/yTCw58blka

— NWS Caribou (@NWSCaribou) September 11, 2017

The extent to which nature remakes the colors of earth is more impressive the farther you zoom out.

About the blogger

Bob Collins

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Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.