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Contents 1 Hurricane resources 1.1 2009 1.2 2008 2 News Outlets 2.1 2009 2.1.1 Anywhere 2.1.2 Alabama 2.1.3 Florida 2.1.4 Louisiana 2.1.5 Mississippi 2.1.6 Texas 2.2 2008 3 Organization sponsored accounts 3.1 Anywhere 3.2 Alabama 3.3 Florida 3.4 Louisiana 3.5 Mississippi 3.6 Texas 4 Individual accounts 4.1 2009 4.1.1 Anywhere 4.1.2 Alabama 4.1.3 Florida 4.1.4 Louisiana 4.1.5 Mississippi 4.1.6 Texas 4.2 2008 5 Twitter lists 6 See also

Hurricane resources

2009

@iMap - [1] Weather forecasts, satellite images, current weather conditions. IMap allows you to track hurricane related weather forecasts by zip code. It also gives tornado risks, lightning strike information, thunderstorm risk, hail and wind risks.

@AtlanticWatch - [2] Real time information on hurricanes and tropical cyclones. Shows hurricane maps. Site is under some construction.

@GSWx - [3] Current weather conditions at Gulf Shores, Alabama

@Flweatherupdate - [4] Florida Hurricane Tracker

@bepreparedhtown - [5]

@HurricaneHarnes - [6] Hurricane Season 2009

@fbcoem - [7] The Fort Bend County Office of Emergency Management (OEM)

@trackhurricanes - [8] Weather Pictures and Video - Live up to minute hurricane tracking radar

@HurricaneWiki admin is user:jwalling

@HurricaneTrack - HurricaneTrack

@NASAHurricane - NOAAWatch Hurricane Ida

@StormPulse - StormPulse

2008

@HurricaneIke: Notifications from Natl Hurricane Center, evacuations, and advisories.

All Gustav tweets on a map maps, top links, recommended tweets

All tweets referencing Gustav

Gustav Twitter Tracker: Filter tweets by News, Links, Hashtags, etc

Send and view help requests via SMS (Twitter shortcode)

@GustavAlerts: Notifications from Natl Hurricane Center and other official sources

@GustavNews: Current news stories

@GustavBlogs: Blog entries about Gustav

@GustavFeed: Latest Blogs (Technorati), Video (Youtube, Vimeo, Blip.tv), Photos (Flickr), Audio (Utterz), and Tweets (Twitter)

News Outlets

2009

organized by state, then by name

Anywhere

Alabama

Florida

Louisiana

@LFT411: Lafayette news

@NOLAnews: NOLA.com, New Orleans

@WSDU: Newschannel 6, New Orleans

Mississippi

@mpbonline: Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Jackson

@sunherald: Sun Herald, Gulfport/Biloxi

@wlox: WLOX-TV13, Gulfport/Biloxi

Texas

@bmtenterprise: Beaumont, Texas Enterprise-Journal

2008

NowPublic Gustav Coverage

@followgustav: Sun Herald, Mississippi Gulf Coast

Organization sponsored accounts

Anywhere

@RedCross

@SafeAndWell - Red Cross Safe and Well.

Send "d safeandwell FIRSTNAME LASTNAME #### STREET CITY STATE ZIP CELLPHONE" and a brief note about how you are.

@NASAHurricane - NOAAWatch Hurricane Ida

@uscoastguard - @USCGD8 District 8

Alabama

@alabamapower: Alabama Power Company

Florida

@createthegoodfl

Louisiana

Mississippi

@millsapscollege - Accounts from the university, Jackson, Mississippi

Texas

Individual accounts

2009

Anywhere

@HeraldDeParis

@StormPrediction

Alabama

Florida

@SafeinPensacola

@createthegoodfl

Louisiana

Mississippi

@dancmos: Dan Mosqueda, Biloxi, MS

Texas

2008

@GustavReporter - Reporter from the Chicago Tribune

@YATpundit

@NOLAnotes

@pontchartrain

@MarkMayhew

Twitter lists

Twitter lists are new in 2009; they offer aggregated feeds curated by an individual.

hurricane-ida from @nprNews

Ida from @vielmetti

pensacola from @chrisbaskind

See also