You could be forgiven for thinking this was a problem in a developing country. The IEEE spectrum magazine talks to Bruce Kushnick, a consumer advocate, about a peculiar problem in the lower Manhattan area in the US: In several communities, Verizon has not restored landline phone service since Hurricane Sandy hit last October, and may never do so.
Tag: Hurricane Sandy
Disaster preparedness
A hurricane survivors musings – New York City gets a small dose of reality that a large portion of the rest of the world lives with every day (lack of water, electricity, cabs, transportation, gridlock, & lots of human interaction!)
Insta-pictures of Sandy
The story of hurricane sandy told through Instacane. Over 400,000 photographs posted. Instagram is quickly proving to be a very powerful tool to publish stories as they happen. I have my reservations about whether discovering news without context (provided by journalism) is such a good idea, but this site is, as Andrew Sullivan referred to in his blog, Instant Ruin Porn.
Downtown Manhattan
This is what a concerned resident of Manhattan discovered, despite Bloomberg’s comment that “we’ve come to the end of the downside” of Hurricane Sandy.