True-color satellite image of the Connecticut River was spewing muddy sediment into <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Long_Island_Sound" title="Category:Long Island Sound">Long Island Sound</a> and wrecking the region's farmland just before <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Harvest" title="Harvest">harvest</a> nearly a week after <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Hurricane_Irene&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:Hurricane Irene (page does not exist)">Hurricane Irene</a> drenched <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:New_England" title="Category:New England">New England</a> with <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rainfall" class="mw-redirect" title="Rainfall">rainfall</a>.
Robert Simmon
2011-09-02
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