Satellite imagery has revealed how deadly flooding in the last two weeks wreaked havoc across Southeast Asia as record rainfall upended life for millions throughout Indonesia , Sri Lanka and Thailand .
Before and after imagery from the San Francisco-based imaging company Planet Labs PBC and the Colorado-based U.S. defense contractor Vantar, show how rising waters in Sri Lanka transformed parts of the previously verdant capital of some 650,000 people.
Along the Kelani River in Colombo, fields, open spaces and roads around the windy waterway turned into muddy ponds after Cyclone Ditwah made landfall Friday.
On Monday, media photographs showed children paddling in makeshift rafts around the capital and displaced residents taking shelter in tents. More than 1.1 million people were a

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