Jim Cantore, famed American meteorologist for The Weather Channel and pariah of bad weather events, has been spotted outside of Battery Park. Seek shelter, New Yorkers. And every other person living on the East Coast.
Don’t let the kind name fool you. Hurricane Sandy is a hell of a storm, and it’s one that most people on the East Coast aren’t prepared for. This storm may lack the wind strength of a hurricane like Hurricane Katrina, but that won’t limit the amount of devastation it can cause as many in that part of the country haven’t experienced this level of a threat from a hurricane before. As of this point, the hurricane is said to have a reach of almost 900 miles. To see if you’re in the project path of the storm, check out Google’s Crisis Map for Hurricane Sandy. Severe weather warnings for flooding, wind, and offshoot-created tornadoes have been given to the cities of Chicago and New York, along with the states of Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. New York’s MTA has shut down public transportation and even posted eerie pictures of empty train stations on its Flickr page.
The most obvious place that people head to during a weather event like this is The Weather Channel, whose website is kept up to date with meteorological news from all angles and has new information as it comes in from federal and state agencies. If The Weather Channel isn’t current enough for you, try Livestream for coverage of Hurricane Sandy as it happens. We’ve included the live stream here for your convenience.
Also, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have dropped their paywalls, according to Poynter.
New York Times spokesperson Eileen Murphy confirmed by email that the news organization is suspending its paywall starting this afternoon, so that readers can get information about Hurricane Sandy.
‘The gateway has been removed from the entire site and all apps. The plan is to keep it that way until the weather emergency is over,’ Murphy said.
For a more personal, and sometimes wildly unconnected, view of Hurricane Sandy, check out Instacane. This site serves to keep people updated on the storm by displaying Instagram photos related to it. Although, while pictures of a flood encroaching on someone’s home do show how the storm can come quickly, I doubt the Photoshopped picture of a giant storm cloud behind the Statue of Liberty will do much good.
Be safe, everyone.
(Image via bosstweed.)
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