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Icy Floodwaters Grind Through Iowa

Ice chunks can exacerbate spring floods by blocking rivers and plowing into homes and infrastructure.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published March 19, 2019
Data acquired March 18, 2019

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI