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Before And After: Satellite Images Show Irma's Caribbean Destruction

The images tell a tale of widespread and deadly hurricane damage that's nearly impossible to comprehend fully from the ground level.
Satellite imagery of Road Town, Tortola

With communications still sketchy on many Caribbean islands smashed by Hurricane Irma, it requires a view from space to take in the magnitude of the destruction from one of the most powerful storms to form in the Atlantic.

Image after image, stretching from Barbuda in the east to Turks and Caicos in the west, shows

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