The [USGS Landsat Project] has some impressive satellite pictures of the damage from the Hurricane Katrina flooding. [New Orleans], [Biloxi] have before and after pictures. The up close and personal pictures of devastation are one thing, but these pictures really give a sense of scale.
Other items of interest in the [Main Gallery] currently features some wildfires in Nevada and the Black Hills of South Dakota, icebergs and glaciers in the Antarctic, the Grand Canyon and Mount St. Helens in Washington State.
If that doesn’t knock your socks off, the [Change Over Time] gallery is amazing. Big geography changes in the Aral Sea, The big Tsunami of 2004, Mississippi Delta over a 30 year span and more.
This stuff is awesome. I could look at pictures like this all day. I can’t explain why.
I want to go down to New Orleans or maybe just Biloxi and check it out. The disease warnings are enough to keep me away for now, but give it a few weeks and I might see if there’s some kind of Habitat for Humanity thing going on where I could take a weekend and do at least a tiny bit to help rebuild. I’m not denying there’s some train-wreck mentality here on my part too, because I am curious to see the destruction first-hand.