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The storm surge and rainfall from the category 4 hurricane inundated parts of the Louisiana coast, while winds wiped out electric power to many.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey, road data from OpenStreetMap, and VIIRS day-night band data from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership. Story by Michael Carlowicz.

Published August 31, 2020
Data acquired August 13 - 29, 2020

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
NOAA-20 > VIIRS
Suomi NPP > VIIRS