High-rez satellite pics of Irene's damage to Outer Banks; video of I-680 turned into jigsaw puzzle by summer-long Missouri river flooding

The scene below is what is left of Interstate 680 between Omaha, Nebraska and Crescent, Iowa, (proud home of the Pink Poodle restaurant!) now that the summer-long Missouri River flooding has receded.
     To see what I-680 looked like earlier this summer, simply look up at the AKSARBENT banner, which looks west from Iowa at the intersection of I-680 and I-29 and which was taken back in June, hours before I-680 was closed. Normally, the lake of the water seen in the AKSARBENT banner is a small pond.



On the East Coast, Wired reports that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is using aerial photographs like the one below to assess Irene’s destruction.
     Depicted is Hatteras Island in North Carolina taken Aug. 28; the largest breach of Highway 12, which runs along the Outer Banks, can be seen. Water is flowing between Pamlico Sound and the Atlantic Ocean, stranding at least 2,500 residents of the island.
     Wired says the local Island Free Press reported an estimate that the breach shown above is more than 100 feet wide and 8 feet deep.

(Check out a really stunning high resolution version here and NOAA's interactive index map of Irene's path here.