Hurricane Sandy Superstorm Resources

Trying to keep up with Hurricane Sandy? Below are a variety of resources which may help.

Storm Tracking

• Google Super Storm Sandy Map
• Google Super Storm Sandy Maps: NYC Close-up
• ESRI’s Hurricane Information Map
• Weather.com Hurricane Tracker

Local TV Live Stream

• Boston: CBS
• NYC: NBC
• Philadelphia: CBS
• Washington DC: Fox
• Washington DC: NBC

Radio

• A brief post with details about how to listen live to audio streams of first responders from throughout the affected region
• Listen to live audio streams from all-news stations in Boston, DC, Philadelphia, and New York City.
• NOAA All Hazards Weather Radio (Additional Audio Including Podcasts)

Live Blogs

• NBC News
• New York Times
• Wall Street Journal
• Washington Post / Capital Weather Gang

Imagery

• Searchable database from the NOAA Satellite
• FEMA will add photos of damage and other storm activities to their searchable photo library.

Emergency News

• A list with Twitter streams from emergency management offices from many states and DC.
• Flooding will likely be an issue. NOAA provides real-time feeds of streamflow on rivers around the country. Here’s a direct link to info for the Northeast.
• Twitter’s Sandy resources page

Also see Tracking Hurricane Sandy Through Twitter, our guide to using Twitter for monitoring news and Google Has Launched A Hurricane Sandy Crisis Map, for more about Google’s special Hurricane Sandy maps mentioned above.

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About The Author

Gary Price

Gary Price is a librarian, author, and an online information analyst based in suburban Washington, DC. He is the co-founder and co-editor of INFOdocket and FullTextReports.com and prior to that was founder/editor of ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. He has worked for Blekko, Ask.com, and at Search Engine Watch where he was news editor. In 2001, Price was the co-author (with Chris Sherman) of the best-selling book The Invisible Web.