The northern Namibian city of Ondangwa seems to be built on a sponge in these images, which show flooding around the city on March 28, 2009.
Land Floods Human Presence
This pair of images from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’ Terra satellite shows wide-spread flooding in Oshakati, Namibia, on March 28, 2009.
Wide channels brimming with water transform the Cuvelai basin in this image of flooding, taken on March 28, 2009.
Rivers throughout the western portion of southern Africa were visibly flooded on March 25, 2009, when this image was captured.
Land Floods
Channels of water flowed through normally dry northern Namibia on March 23, 2009, when this image was captured.