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Eerie Photos Show Empty DIA Parking Lots

DENVER (CBS4) - If a picture is worth a 1,000 words, these two might require an infinite number.

The first shows the parking lots at Denver International Airport on March 7, before the true scope of the coronavirus outbreak hit.

DIA Parking March 7 Copyright 2020 Maxar Technologies
(credit: Maxar Technologies)

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The second is from March 24. You can see just how empty those lots are now.

DIA Parking March 24 Copyright 2020 Maxar Technologies
(credit: Maxar Technologies)

Maxar Technologies using the took the satellite pictures. When it sent them to the CBS4 newsroom, it commented that the rental parking lots are the opposite, with large increases of cars in the main rental lots as well as in new parking auxiliary areas.

Copter4 also recorded video of the large numbers of planes parked at DIA as airlines ground planes because of the huge drop in the number of fliers.

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