A high school football team takes in a bullied girl as one of their own. Make sure you stay for her money quote. Kids these days.
Some Hurricane Sandy things? Sure, I ran across plenty of those today.
The real picture today from the Tomb of the Unknown. That was the first of many photos that tricked readers. There’s a local boy on this duty assignment, by the way. Makes us all proud.
Livestream offers a crowdsourced approach to Sandy. Lots of great videos and photographs there.
Google’s crisis map is just hinting at things to come. Via Digital Journal:
Its crisis map is pooling Hurricane Sandy data to inform visitors about the hurricane’s path, emergency shelters and crowdsourced YouTube videos.
If you want to track where Sandy is heading in the next 48 hours, Google’s new layered map is a good place to start. It collects info from the National Hurricane Center, the American Red Cross and its own YouTube videos to let us know the latest details on this powerful storm.
Want to hack a hurricane? Huffington Post has details on who’s doing what.
Insurers estimate $10 billion in damages. Here’s to hoping premature estimates are … premature.
Check out Andrew Kaczynski’s
Sandy Tumblr, where you’ll find plenty of valuable information.
The Wind Map is especially popular on breezy days, as you might imagine.
Big storm or not, there is always the media. And the hype didn’t start with cable television. E.B. White, whom I studied and still reference in classes, was complaining about radio weather hype in 1954. (Here’s a modern equivalent, by the way.)
New York has had big storms before. Here’s the 11-foot surge in 1960.
And now to a night of watching cable news and learning more from Twitter.
Update: All of our folks made it through with little trouble. The in-laws lost their cable and Internet connection. The Yankee’s godparents lost their power. All very fortunate, really.
