On the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we watch as Hurricane Gustav once again batters the Gulf Shore. Today, many of us are glued to both the TV and the web to keep track of the ongoing coverage of the storm. Beyond just traditional media outlets, there are also a number of other resources on the social web that you can use to keep up-to-date with Gustav news. Social networks, blogs, live news video, and, of course, Twitter, are all being used for up-the-minute coverage. In fact, Twitter even had a breakthrough moment on CNN as reporter Rick Sanchez referred to it on air and used it to gather news.
Here on RWW, we’ve pulled together a huge list of Hurricane Gustav links for your reference. Below you’ll find links to weather sites, mobile web sites, links to various news and governmental sites, links to social web sites, and links to those using Twitter to report the storm.
Weather Web Sites
- BehindtheWeather.com – a huge collection of links put together by Charlie Anzman of SEO and Tech Daily
- Accuweather.com
- Wunderground – Weather Underground
- Stormpulse.com
- MSNBC site for Gustav
- National Weather Service page (NOAA)
Mobile
- Mobile Resource Guide which links to an iPhone version, a mobile version, and a Gustav Widget for your blog
- National Hurricane Center Mobile Website
Other Links
- LiveNewsCameras.com – a lot of Live News broadcasts
- Maroonspoon.com/wx/gustav.html – Several media players showing coverage from four Louisiana news stations
- http://www.dotd.la.gov/press/traffic_cameras/no_cameras.asp – Louisiana DOT Webcams
- http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Breaking+News/Tropical+Storm+Gustav – UK based NewsNow with over 30,000 global sources. Page auto-refreshes every five minutes.
- Texas’s Division of Emergency Mgmt links
- FEMA: Hurricane Gustav
- NOAAWatch Hurricane Gustav
- Red Cross Online Newsroom for Gustav
- Earthcam’s New Orleans cam
- MSNBC Hurricane Tracker
- Gustav Pets (animal rescue resources)
- Tracking Hurricane Gustav in Google Earth
- The Hurricane Watch Net (amateur radio)
- HAMweather Hurricane Gustav Track/Projected Path
Social Web
- FriendFeed Hurricane Room – http://friendfeed.com/rooms/hurricane
- With Sweetcron, Sean Percival quickly deployed the Hurricane Gustav aggregator. It pulls in data via Twitter, Google, Flickr, YouTube and a few others.
- Mahalo has a Gustav page
- Gustav Information Center (GIC) – Ning social network for Gustav coverage
- Wikipedia page for Hurricane Gustav
- A gustavwiki page
- IRC channel – #interdictor to coordinate volunteer efforts
- A blogger using Utterz to share news
- Twogadgets for iGoogle
- USA Today Weather Guys who blog and post their tweets on their site
- Hurricane Gustav Digital Support Brigade (Facebook)
- New Orleans Metblogs
- Voices of Gustav (displaced evacuees) – WordPress blogs
- Hurricane Gustav on NowPublic
- Socialmedian’s page
- Boing Boing Gustav Online Resources
- NewsCred topic page
- Ustream.tv – Hurricane Gustav From Luling, Gustav from Slidell, Crosby Tubs Gustav
- CNN reporter named Rick Sanchez has been making heavy use of Twitter, even asking on air for Twitter users to send him information from the hurricane zone. His reporting is extremely good and the Twitter convos have even made an appearance on the Twitter homepage
- Tweets from NOLA.com – the New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Tweets from the Red Cross
- Tweets from Lafayette, LA
- Chicago Tribune reporters – http://twitter.com/GustavReporter
- USA Today Weather Guys’ tweets
- Twitter stream from the Beaumont (TX) Enterprise-Journal
- Millsaps College in Jackson MS is in the path of the storm
- A government Gustav Twitter feed
- Ernie the Attorney’s tweets from New Orleans
- Mark Mayhew, in New Orleans
- Twitter-based info via search results for hurricane + gustav
- Twitter-based info via search results for just gustav
