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(Hosting-NewsWire.com, November 15, 2012 ) San Francisco, CA- Hurricane Sandy is without a doubt the most-covered storm in social media ever. When Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on Aug. 30, 2005, Facebook was just over a year old, YouTube was six month old, and Twitter was nonexistent.
Tweets, posts, and videos tried to help people, both those in the storm's path and people wanting to know more information such as: Where are nearest shelters? Which roads are closed? Why was Sandy now considered a "post-tropical cyclone"?
On Youtube, the world watched as the ocean breached sea walls and flooded Atlantic City, Seaside Heights, as well as other surrounding areas. On Twitter, the world followed as the intensive-care wards of NYU Hospital's Langone Medical Center were evacuated down nine flights of steps after a loss of power.
YouTube was a particularly important source, providing immediate, real-time videos of the horrifying power-plant explosion in Manhattan, the collapse of a building facade in Chelsea, and a raging fire in Queens.
YouTube showed a stretch of Atlantic City's Boardwalk reduced to a shambles in a two minute video that was voiced over by a man known as "Jitney Guy": "Now the Boardwalk's in front of my house. I used to have it behind my house; now it's in front of my house on the street."
Strangers got e-mail, tweets, and Facebook posts from other strangers all over the world. Actor Silvana Gargione even tweeted a stranger for news surrounding how badly Lawrenceville, N.J. had been hit, showing concern for the area in which his parents live. That same stranger answered his cell phone a little later to a woman in Oaxaca, Mexico, who had gotten his phone number from relatives in Mexico City. She had called him to find out about her own relatives who lived in nearby Lawrenceville. As the stranger revealed that there had been no deaths there, the woman cried, "Thank God!" Many people such as Ben Siegel, used social media to learn whether or not school was open. Lea Pearson, a Facebook user, said she used it to “share experiences with people in other parts [of] the country and my experiences on the northeast coast of Massachusetts. I felt like we were creating community and that felt great."
According to Lynn Rapoport Thames, "After power went out, Twitter was my main source of news. On Facebook all day. It's like hanging out with people you know while you are in your house."
Social media were informing people again on Tuesday morning with headlines like: “President Obama to tour storm damage in New Jersey with Gov. Christie; deadlines extended for absentee ballots in Pennsylvania; much of SEPTA running, but with lags in Regional Rail.”
TV news stations such as 6ABC ran Twitter posts from viewers like Paul Parham, who relayed images of storm damage in Trenton, N.J. The tweet by by NBC News read: @nbcnightlynews: "#Sandy's aftermath: How to help."
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