Category: Technology Author : JR Posted: September 1, 2008
Tags : Hurricane Gustav
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Tracking Gustav: The Citizen Videos

Citizen journalists are jumping on the chance to share their Hurricane Gustav experiences with the world. Videos from inside the storm are slowly popping up on sites like YouTube as well as on CNN’s iReport and other news network submission services.

The reports are increasingly intense, such as this one capturing flooding in Waveland, Mississippi:

Other videos show the power of the hurricane’s approach and the deteriorating conditions of the morning hours. Many also tell stories of hope from within the many shelters throughout the region, such as this girl’s short submission:

Similar clips seem to serve as diaries of sorts, even messages to family members:

There are numerous online services set up to help locate loved ones displaced by the storm. Visit our Gustav resource center for that information as well as cameras, maps, and other ways to interact online. We’ve also set up a list of places where you can watch the storm live and have compiled some information about Gustav-related scams making their way around the Internet.

digitalshaman

see kite surfers/ kite boarders for hurricane gustav @ mad8in8china ... citizen journalism of a different sort - http://www.youtube.com/mad8in8china

not important

this might be a true lesson for you people , it could be as punishment sent from God for you , just to show you and to punish , or to show you that God is completly able to punish you when ever he wants by what ever he sends , to show you that you have hurt alot of people in the world , that you have killed alot on land , that you have torture alot on land , may be in Iraq , or Afganistan , and now it is time for you to be killed , to be homeless , to be tortured on the same land on which you have killed people . made them homeless , God is saying to you : this is just a drop of my vast Ocean , it is juat one tool of my numerous tools by which I can hit you . so be wise after this lesson , so stop being madbrained . I will bring your dirty noses to the ground , I will make monkeys , pigs , owls , dogs , what ever dirty animal I call , this is the massage of God to you , So recieve it , read it carfully , take its lessons .

digitalshaman

not important ... i see G*d in sunrises & sunsets ... I "see" G*d in the laughter of people & the sounds of nature ... Your fire & brimstone "lesson" is sad that you live by fear & doubt not faith & love ... G*d Bless you!

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Tracking Gustav: The Citizen Videos

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