Mar. 13, 2016

Days of heavy rainfall in the southern United States have caused record levels of flooding, stretching from Tennessee to Texas. Thousands of people have been affected by the disaster and the rain is expected to continue for several more days. It is the result of a slow-moving storm that is passing over the region, bringing heavy rain, wind and hail.
As part of its participation in the International Charter "Space and Major Disasters," the Canadian Space Agency provided RADARSAT-2 satellite imagery to mitigate the effects of this natural disaster.