This just came in via Stephanie Diamond's List:
Hi List,
Here are updated links to organizations who are taking volunteers, donations and providing support toward Hurricane Sandy Relief efforts. Thanks to all of you who are sharing your information, support and resources during this critical time. Many of the most impacted neighborhoods are those with the fewest resources already.
Warmly,
Stephanie
listingsproject.com
Art in American: Chelsea Galleries Hit Hard by Storm Sandy
Free Showers and Exercise at New York Sports Clubs
Also, here's another way to donate to Red Cross relief efforts (HT @josephholmes):
The all-seeing NASA’s GOES-13 satellite captured this visible image of the Northern Hemisphere on Sunday, October 28 at 1302 UTC—that’s 9:02 a.m, approximately ten hours before NYC’s MTA shut all transport service down throughout the tri-state area and less than a day before Tropical Storm Sandy gathered full force in the Atlantic Ocean and hit land somewhere in New Jersey. The line of clouds from the Gulf of Mexico north are associated with the cold front that Sandy is merging with. Sandy’s western cloud edge is already over the Mid-Atlantic and northeastern U.S.
Credit: NASA GOES Project
Hurricane Edition: NASA’s Blue Marble (Sandy)
[...] As I’m sure you’ve heard, the storm hit the East Coast hard, and while I agree with Mayor Mike that NYers will get this city back on its feet, it’s most certainly going to need some help doing so. Today’s edition—Blue Marble (Sandy)—is a [insert string of hyperbolic superlatives that still can’t do it justice here] visual record of Sandy’s enormity; the use of proceeds from its sale will be our small way of giving back + supporting the city we all love so very much. All net revenue from sales of this edition will benefit the American Red Cross’s efforts to help NYers affected by the storm.
The image comes to us courtesy of our friends at NASA. The space agency’s GOES project has been doing an amazing job of documenting Sandy from above. You can see more images and video in their Hurricane Sandy Flickr set. This is a very particular perspective of course, a photograph taken from great distance and highlighting the meteorological spectacle of the storm. It’s a whole lot different from the countless images flooding the internet and our TV screens that depict the mess that’s happening here on terra firma.
None of the images I’ve seen convey what it was actually like to be here yesterday and today. I can’t lie—it was kinda scary. But throughout it all, I was also very proud to be a NYer and full of gratitude to all the city workers who went out into the fray to help people in need. As I said on Twitter last night, props to all of them for braving the storm.
{via Jen Bekman, 20x200}
