Nerd News: More on Hurricane Sandy's effect on Data Centers

Ars link http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/hurricane-sandy-takes-data-centers-offline-with-flooding-power-outages/

For a similar post see http://cliffsesportcorner.blogspot.com/2012/10/nerd-news-internet-hubs-hurricane-sandy.html

PSA: NYC Hurricane Sandy & Delieveries of Food, Medicine, or Water

 Via Twitter:
Anyone who needs food, water or medical supplies delivered via bike please message us 
~https://twitter.com/OWSBC/status/263395580238249984

 Their webpage is http://owsbc.org/

Their Twitter homepage is https://twitter.com/OWSBC

Email: OWSBC@OWSBC.ORG
Twitter: @OWSBC
Facebook: OWSBC

Nerd News: Internet Hubs & Hurricane Sandy

For those wondering why problems in New York affect Teamliquid and other net based services, this is interesting http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9233080/Storm_forces_Internet_hubs_to_run_on_generator_power

The article linked above is about what they call "carrier hotels," more formally known as Colocation Center (coloc for short), see Wikipedia for more information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colocation_centre

Short version is those two Colocation Centers are a major node from Transatlantic internet traffic, right now both of them are running on their generators.

Nerd News: Teamliquid is down, because of power loss Hurricane Sandy

Just a heads up for everyone"


teamliquid.net  is down from power loss caused by Hurricane Sandy. No ETA for when service will be restored
~https://twitter.com/R1CH_TL/status/263121801574494209






You can use http://sc2casts.com/ I think, not sure if they just mirrored TL or not.

PSA: Live Radio (EMS) feed from NYC

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?action=cwp&ctid=1855

Hurricane Sandy: Map with Gauge Flooding in Real Time

http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2012/oct/29/map-real-time-flood-gauge/

A real time map showing flooding, based on remote sensors if I understand correctly.

PSA: Hurricane Sandy Reference Page

Edited to add:  online broadcast of EMS radio from NYC area http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?action=cwp&ctid=1855 

Flood Map based on sensors if I understand correctly http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2012/oct/29/map-real-time-flood-gauge/

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http://researchbuzz.me/sandynyc/

Research Buzz is a blog by a very good researcher, that I have been following for some time, today they have resource page up for Hurricane Sandy, focusing on New York City (NYC), but is relevant to surrounding areas and for general info on Hurricane Sandy.

One handy tip quoted from link above:

"Remember, if you want to follow a single Twitter account via SMS, you can send a text message to 40404 reading follow username (substituting the Twitter account name for the user name you want) — depending on your phone it might be easier for you to get updates from emergency service Twitter accounts via SMS than via a Twitter application."

Just a handful of the more general resources, from Research Buzz:

• NYT state-by-state report page http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/29/state-by-state-guide-to-hurricane-sandy/
• Google's Crisis Map (I tweeted this earlier) http://google.org/crisismap/sandy-2012
• Power Outage Map http://apps.coned.com/stormcenter_external/default.html

Nerd News: Google Android event canceled due to Hurricane Sandy

Story at Verge http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/27/3563274/google-event-canceled-due-to-hurricane


Also for those in the path of the Hurricane, here is a link with some tips for prep and etc http://lifehacker.com/5955487/how-to-prepare-for-hurricane-sandy