Google-Greensburg Before and After

Greensburg is fast approaching the one year anniversary of the devasting event that destroyed almost all of the town's infrastructure. They need Green Helping Hands from across America to help them rebuild, regreen their town as they become America's Greenest City. Shortly after the event, Google put together a set of satelite photos that truly puts the disaster, its devastation in proper perspective, and we share those photographs here, and ask you to become involved in the Greensburg Project.

Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at 5:10 PM

Posted by Brian McClendon, Engineering DirectorRecently the town of Greensburg, Kansas was devastated by an F5 tornado and most of the town was destroyed. On May 7th one of our satellite providers, DigitalGlobe, jumped into action and gathered imagery of the region for search-and-rescue teams. Today we are making this before-and-after imagery available as a Google Earth overlay. We think you'll agree that the imagery is quite powerful, and we hope it is a valuable resource for rescue teams, residents, and all of those touched by this natural disaster.