Better than a bird’s-eye view of the flood
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This article was published 11/07/2014 (4100 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The full extent of the river’s wrath is hard to grasp from a dike, a sandbagging line or the altitude of a helicopter.
But in this close-up, eye-in-the-sky video from a camera-carrying drone, the flood comes into focus in a way we’ve never before seen.
This drone’s-eye view of jetskis blasting across what should be fields of canola, farmsteads becoming islands and the murky churn of the Assiniboine River as it swallows all that’s in reach provides a new and startling perspective of Manitoba’s surprise summer flood.
Three things a drone reveals about the flood: