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Hurricane Hackers organize online projects to tackle Sandy

By Gus G. Sentementes
Baltimore Sun
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Part of a home rests upside-down in Seaside Heights, N.J. on Oct. 31 after superstorm Sandy made lan

Part of a home rests upside-down in Seaside Heights, N.J. on Oct. 31 after superstorm Sandy made landfall in New Jersey. The rest of the home sat away from its original spot and in the middle of a street. (Julio Cortez / Associated Press)

Here come the #HurricaneHackers.

Take a peek at this online Google document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SGcfQz13ce4FfB-QHKF3WLwxHoCRGBouuvZn-3aoX0k/preview?sle=true

Here you'll find the collaborative brainstorming of people -- hundreds? thousands? -- working to come up with ways to use the Internet to track, analyze, inform, as Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast.

For as long as we all have power.

Already, you see the work of the crowd bearing fruit: Check out the Sandy Timeline (which is still in test mode.)

Another project features a map of all the video live streams along the East Coast.

This document also serves as a great resource, with links to official resources and data, such as forecasts and weather models.

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