Squall06's List: 3.6 digital citizenship hurricane sandy

• October 29
  
• October 29
  
• Hurricane Sandy will be remembered as a raging freak of nature that became one of the most destructive storms in U.S. history.
• October 22
• A tropical depression forms in the southern Caribbean Sea off the coast of Nicaragua. The depression strengthens and becomes Tropical Storm Sandy, with maximum winds of about 40 mph.
• October 24
  
• Sandy has become a Category 1 hurricane as it moves northward across the Caribbean and crosses Jamaica with winds of 80 mph. Although Sandy’s eye does not cross the Dominican Republic and Haiti to its east, the storm dumps more than 20 inches of rain on Hispaniola. More than 50 people die in flooding and mudslides in Haiti.
• October 26
  
• Sandy strengthens as it moves from Jamaica to Cuba and strikes the historic city of Santiago de Cuba with winds of about 110 mph, only 1 mph below the status of a major Category 3 hurricane.
• October 27
  
• Sandy moves away from the Bahamas and makes a turn to the northeast off the coast of Florida. News services estimate the death toll in the Caribbean at 70 or more. The storm briefly weakens to a tropical depression, but quickly re-intensifies into a Category 1 hurricane.
• October 28
  
• Sandy continues moving northeast on a track that takes it parallel to the coasts of Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.
• he storm is still a Category 1 hurricane with peak winds of about 80 mph. But an unusual configuration of weather factors is converging, and meteorologists warn that the storm likely wil morph into a powerful, hybrid super-storm as it churns northward.
• A high-pressure cold front to Sandy’s north will force the storm to start turning to the northwest toward major cities such as Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia and New York. And the full moon will make Sandy’s storm surge – expected to be 11 to 12 feet in some places – a little higher as it makes landfall. Sandy has expanded into a huge storm with winds covering about 1,000 miles.
• October 29
• 12:30 p.m.:  Sandy has made its expected sharp turn toward the northwest on a path for the coast of New Jersey. The storm also has started interacting with other weather systems, gaining energy in the process.
• Sandy will have a run of about 300 miles over open water as it heads for landfall, giving it time to build up a huge storm surge that will be a little bigger because of the influence of the full moon.
• a replica of the tall ship HMS Bounty, en route from New London, Connecticut to Saint Petersburg, Florida with 16 people on board, is caught in Sandy’s raging seas
• Passengers and crew abandon the ship, but only 14 of the 16 people on board make it to the relative safety of the lifeboats.
• The surge is worsened because the full moon has added about a foot to the surge and because Sandy arrives at high tide.
• 14 feet — is a new record for a storm surge in the harbor. The previous record of just over 10 feet was set in 1960 when Hurricane Donna passed just offshore.
• The surge tops the seawall at The Battery in Lower Manhattan and floods parts of the city’s subway system. The surge also floods the Hugh Carey Tunnel, which links Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn.
• October 31
  
• The storm that began as Hurricane Sandy dissipates over western Pennsylvania
• NOAA reports that Sandy killed more than 70 people in the Caribbean
• death toll in the U.S. is now 109
• damages from Hurricane Sandy likely will exceed $50 billion.

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• The second-costliest storm in America’s history
• The elongated trough, formed Oct. 11
• Tropical Storm Sandy, as it had been officially named, became a Category 1 hurricane just in time for its Oct. 24 touchdown in Jamaica.
• across Haiti. Floods and mudslides there killed 50.
• What his scientists were seeing on their computer screens was a worst-case scenario of bad weather collisions — a hot, heavy, thunderstorm-filled hurricane on a path to careen into a series of cold fronts coming down the U.S. east coast.
• andy bashed Santiago de Cuba — a historic city on Cuba’s southeast coast — with 110 mph winds Oct. 26.
• Sandy had already absorbed one cold weather front. Instead of losing its hot, humid tropical center, the storm gained a tough outer shell of freezing cold rain, wind and rain.
• Sandy was now a snowstorm wrapped around a hurricane.
• It was already roiling New York waters. On Saturday, Oct. 27, Sandy got hold of one of its earliest U.S. victims. Kayaker Jet Krumwiede, 21, drowned after rough waters tossed him into the Long Island Sound near his Milford, Conn., home.
• As morning dawned Oct. 29, Sandy hit the robust, high-pressure front blocking its path out to sea. With nowhere else to go, the vast storm turned northwest — taking a rare curve as it expanded into a massive tempest covering an estimated 820 miles.

• N.J. Gov. Chris Christie had already ordered Jersey Shore and barrier island residents to evacuate, and even the casinos in Atlantic City had to shutter by 4 p.m. Sunday, about 24 hours before the worst of the storm was scheduled to hit.

   

    Trains and planes along the Northeast were grounded. Tunnels in and out of New York City were closed by Sunday evening and the subway system suspended as Mayor Bloomberg ordered evacuations of low-lying areas around the city. Broadway shows were canceled.
• As many as 3,000 people whose homes were too damaged to return to needed semi-permanent housing from the city, and federal emergency agencies rushed to bring food, water and clothes to storm-torn neighborhoods. Lack of electricty partially paralyzed the city, leaving some 80,000 tenants in New York City Housing Authority projects in Lower Manhattan, Coney Island and Far Rockaway without basic services.
• Twelve days after the surge, 35,000 NYCHA residents still had no heat or hot water and 13,000 remained in the dark, unable to leave their apartments because of blacked-out elevators. NYCHA Chairman John Rhea was blasted by tenants and elected officials for having no plan and moving at a snail’s pace to accept generators and temporary boilers from the feds.
• In its wake, Sandy left a $65 billion price tag, and ultimately affected about 60 million people.
• Over the past 12 months, NYC Transit employees have logged 2,300,000 hours on Sandy Recovery & Resiliency projects, installed 100 miles of new cable, moved 32,000 tons of debris and repaired 46,000 miles of track.

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• The American Red Cross and NBCUniversal announced today that “Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together,” a live, one-hour benefit telethon, generated nearly $23 million in support of victims impacted by Hurricane Sandy. A record number of individual donations by phone, text and online were accepted by the American Red Cross during the 8:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m. time period beginning on Friday, November 2, 2012. The volume of website and phone traffic exceeded previous benefit telethons in support of the American Red Cross over the last five years.

• While many big businesses have donated money to charity, some have taken a more active role and are going into evacuated zones to get their hands dirty.
• From Duracell driving trucks into Battery park with phone chargers and internet accessible lap tops to gyms opening their doors (and showers) to non members to banks waving ATM withdrawal fees for people with competitors' cards, these acts of good will inspire you to believe in corporate kindness.

• Duracell is giving power.

     

   

• Duracell deployed Rapid Responder four-by-four trucks to one of the worst hit areas in NYC: Battery Park.

   

  Each truck came with phone charging stations and computers with internet access so New Yorkers could reach out to friends and family via email and social media sites. The Rapid Responders have since roamed the streets of New York and New Jersey to help people power up.
• New York Sports Club and other gyms ... other than Equinox, that is ... are offering showers.
• In an effort to offer the comforts of home to all those who have been affected, the New York Sports Clubs will be opening its doors to all victims for full use of its facilities, whether it's the need for a hot shower, to charge a cell phone battery, or simply to recharge their batteries with a stress-relieving workout."

• Goldman Sachs gave out water and charging stations.

     

   
• On Halloween, Goldman Sachs opened its doors to Battery Park residents, providing them with water and charging stations at the Conrad Hotel.

• Target is giving goods to local communities in need.

     

   
• donated pillows, cribs and other basic items to local communities."

• GM donates trucks and money.

     

   

• Chevrolet donated 50 Silverados to the American Red Cross to use as it wishes during relief and recovery efforts.

   

  GM also donated $250,000 to the Red Cross Disaster Responder Program.

• New York Times, Newsday, and Wall Street Journal drop pay walls.

     

   
• Major publications dropped their paywalls prior to when Sandy hit and during its aftermath so that people could stay safe and informed with real time coverage on their tablets, computers, and smart phones.

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• Government agencies and others turned to online technologies to communicate with the public like never before

• We have watched the fall of governments, water rescues, train crashes, wildfires, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes and school shootings from our computers and mobile phones. Throughout these events, social media emerged as a popular and powerful tool used by the public to engage and share information.
   
• Hurricane Sandy marked a shift in the use of social media in disasters. More than ever before, government agencies turned to mobile and online technologies. Before, during and after Sandy made landfall, government agencies throughout the Northeast used social media to communicate with the public and response partners, share information, maintain awareness of community actions and needs, and more.

   

• Public Awareness

   
• Throughout Hurricane Sandy, the public turned to social media for updates and assistance, and more than ever before, response agencies, organizations and community groups used social media to organize and direct resources where needed. Twitter and Facebook were used extensively by individuals, first responder agencies and utility companies to relay messages and information, share evacuation orders and provide updates on the storm
• New York Office of Emergency Management provided hourly updates and evacuation orders via Twitter, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie relayed updates about the storm, aid and evacuation orders via his personal Twitter account.
• Even before Hurricane Sandy, the city’s social media presence attracted 3 million followers across more than 300 city accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and more. In addition to managing NYC.gov, the city maintains numerous channels, including Facebook pages, Flickr, Google+, Tumblr, Twitter
• Throughout response and recovery to the storm, these channels provided the city with the means to share information in various formats, enabling people to find and consume information as they preferred. 
• Questions asked on Twitter were responded to directly, and the city’s Tumblr account and Facebook page published information from each press conference. The public could sign up to receive text alerts from the Mayor’s Office Twitter account, @nycmayorsoffice, which served as a great alternative digital resource to the city’s website, once people lost power and Internet access.
• FEMA also used social media heavily in addition to traditional means, sharing information and engaging the public across multiple channels both on and offline, including face to face, television, radio, print and digital (Web, social and mobile) for preparedness prior to landfall, and to provide actionable, practical, relevant and current information to those in the affected areas and others outside of the storm’s path. FEMA published a Sandy-specific page on FEMA.gov as a one-stop-shop for all Sandy-related information, and stood up Sandy-specific Facebook and Twitter profiles as well.

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• The sharing of information and pictures during hurricanes and other disasters helps to inform the public faster than ever before that there may be a weather danger. However, the quickness of information sharing can also lead to the spread of false information and fake photos.
• "Social media offers unbeatable immediacy,"
• "Citizens worldwide can obtain critical, breaking weather information through mobile devices and transmit photos or videos of severe weather events on the Internet in real-time to platforms like Facebook."
• Crucial warnings were sent out utilizing social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, while the East Coast was inundated at the height of Sandy on Monday, Oct. 29, 2013. Even as Sandy's powerful winds knocked out power to more than 2.4 million customers in New Jersey, Sandy victims were able to view important information on mobile devices and tablets.
• "Companies are learning that Social Media can be used for crisis management and communication with their customers during weather disasters,"

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• poignant photo of soldiers standing guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns, a picture of a giant wave slamming into the Statue of Liberty and a TV report that 3 feet of water flooded the New York Stock Exchange.

  None of it was true.
• urricane Sandy exposed a dangerous underbelly of social media: False information can go viral.
• ere is much misinformation being spread about #Sandy's impact on #NYC," and pointed people to official city Twitter feeds for accurate information.
• A post that the 109-year-old building that is home to the stock exchange was flooded with water became the subject of debate Tuesday after CNN reported it.
• a National Weather Service report that turned out to be incorrect. We quickly made an on-air correction. We regret the error."
• merican Apparel sent out an e-mail blast for a 20% off sale for people living in the affected states, with a tagline that read, "In case you're bored during the storm."
• more good came out of using social media despite the bad information that circulated. At one point, she said, a rumor spread that the Fire Department headquarters was evacuated. So she set the record straight, sending messages directly to people who had posted the erroneous information.

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• FEMA had a team watching the nearly 20 million Twitter messages posted about Sandy to better identify what was happening on the ground and put out timely safety information. On Oct. 29, the day Sandy made landfall, FEMA reached more than 300,000 people on Facebook (up from an average of 12,000 per day), reached 6 million Twitter users with one message (through retweets by individuals and partners), saw 5,800 mentions on Twitter per hour (of the term “FEMA”) and had more than 500,000 visitors to Ready.gov that day alone.
• Agencies, volunteers and ad-hoc groups used various social media tools to assist in response and then recovery, such as SMS for donations and Facebook support groups
• New York citizens’ group, called BK Girls Give Back, helped to provide assistance to families displaced by Sandy. Additionally, Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker offered his home as a charging station to neighbors.
• The American Red Cross used a variety of social media tools to carry out the organization’s mission online to help its community become more informed and prepared and to provide the public with a seat at the operational table, using information gleaned from the public to help in decision-making during a disaster
• Throughout the storm, the Red Cross pulled more than 2 million posts for review, choosing specific keyword searches relevant to Red Cross services, such as shelter and emotional support

• Rumor Control

   
• Social media vehicles became primary sources of information for many. Information was verified and rumors were disseminated and dispelled via a variety of tools, including Twitter, Facebook and photo sharing as the event unfolded, and when false reports and images began circulating on the Internet, including a photo of the New York Stock Exchange under three feet of water, first responder agencies such as the New York City Fire Department posted messages on Twitter and other social media sites to correct misinformation.
• FEMA launched a Hurricane Sandy: Rumor Control page, which helped to distinguish the truth from false information about contractors, cash cards, food stamps and shelters.
• FEMA posted popular rumors alongside accurate information in an attempt to dispel inaccuracies and encourage reposting of correct content. A green check mark placed next to a post, indicated that the information was correct. A red “x” indicated that the information was incorrect.

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