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In January 2016, social media users began sharing a photograph alongside claims that it depicted recent flooding at Six Flags Over Georgia, or, alternately, Six Flags Over St. Louis: The photograph was real, but the ascribed context of time and place was inaccurate. It was taken from a set of images published on 23 September 2009 in a Daily Mail article titled Six Flags over Georgia theme park submerged in Atlanta floods, in which the photograph caption and article text reported the picture as showing: Versions of this photograph circulated in January 2016 (and again in May 2017) hinged on contemporaneous flooding events in several states; among those affected were Georgia, Missouri, and Illinois: While the regions cited in various versions of the rumor were affected by flooding, Six Flags Over Georgia reported no adverse events on their Twitter feed (but invited followers to visit for holiday events): Had the park been underwater, potential visitors likely would have been informed via the same means, but instead Six Flags Over St. Louis repudiated the rumor via their Twitter feed: The same photograph, with the same (inaccurate) context, was circulated in May 2017 when more flooding hit St. Louis.
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