Google does before and after shots of Kansas tornado

The new Google Latlong blog (whose authors include Ed Parsons, formerly of Ordnance Survey, now at Google in the UK) has pointed out how there are now before and after shots in a Google Earth layer of the devastation wreaked by the tornada that hit Greensburg, Kansas last Friday. Ten people died. Readers of the physical Guardian (which you all are, right?) will recall the stunning photograph, used in the centre spread which shows off the talents of photographers every day, showing how 95% of the houses had been flattened.

Here then are the before and after pictures. More at the LatLong blog itself.

"After" means after the F5 - ie, strongest tornado expected by the Fujita scale. (F6 would be an "inconceivable tornado", if you can conceive that.)

Before:

And after:

(If you want to donate to relief for the citizens there, you can use the US Red Cross website.)