The Asylum, the group who brought you amazing films like Mega Shark and Mega Piranha, is back with a movie ripped right from viral hoax headlines after Frankenstorm. A tornado in Los Angeles brings sharks into the city! Because … yeah!
Hurricane Sandy has caused untold billions of dollars in damage and insane casualties. And we saw the "Frankenstorm" coming, for days in advance. We can send people into space and put vehicles on Mars - why can't we stop a hurricane in its tracks, before it comes to our major population centers and starts rolling for…
Humans weren't alone in being displaced earlier this week by the effects of Hurricane Sandy. Video images of flooded subway stations in Lower Manhattan revealed the extent of damage inflicted by the storm surge - flooding that would have surely forced thousands of rats out of the subways and into more populated areas.…
It appears that the Space Shuttle Enterprise was damaged during the Superstorm. The shuttle, which is NASA's original prototype orbiter, was on display inside an inflatable covering aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum. CollectSpace reports: "Photos show the 180-foot-long (55 meters) by 60-foot-high (18…
Mesmerizing map shows wind currents in the U.S. in real time [hint.fm]
A facehugger washed ashore during the surge. [via essssraaa on Instagram]
Now that the damage inflicted by Sandy is becoming apparent, the blame game has begun - and the finger is being pointed directly at climate change. And in fact, as Mark Fischetti writes in SciAm today, the disaster is finally emboldening scientists to standup and call it like it is.
Some of the most striking footage to come out of Frankenstorm Sandy's merciless pounding of New York City began rolling in last night, shortly after 8:30 pm, when a massive explosion at a Consolidated Edison substation plunged tens of thousands of Manhattan residents into darkness.
Well, that was intense; Superstorm Sandy cut a swath through the North East last night and is now making its way through the interior states and up into Canada. Twitter was absolutely abuzz last night with news coming in from the various networks, first-hand accounts, and the FDNY first-response scanner.
FEMA: Text or use social networks instead of calling to keep phone lines clear of congestion during Sandy. [TechCrunch]
Hurricane Sandy is coming quick, and you want to be ready. You've got all your gear, and now it's time to batten down the hatches. But before you do that, there are five common hurricane myths you should know about.
Hurricane Sandy is only a few hours away from making landfall along the East coast. This unprecedented weather system is not just intensely powerful — it's also massive; satellite photos show that the so-called Frankenstorm is over 625 miles (1,000 km) wide. So, if you live anywhere along the upper East coast and…
Even though this summer's Hurricane Irene left dozens dead and caused billions of dollars of damage, there was an inescapable consensus that it didn't quite live up to the hype. As you can see above, meeting expectations appears to be the one thing we don't have to worry about with Sandy.
While the eastern seaboard of the U.S. and Canada hunker down and wait for the fury of Frankenstorm to abate, you can rest assured that we've survived worse. In this footage of some of the most terrifying storms ever to hit New England, you can find out what it looks like when major American cities are slammed by…
So you want to watch the vicious Hurricane Sandy do her thing, but you don't actually want to be out there in the thick of it. Maybe you aren't even anywhere near the East Coast. Well in this Internet age, there's still a chance for you to get your voyeuristic jollies. Here are five live-streaming webcams you can use…
If you want to track potential damage from Frankenstorm in real time, or find the nearest shelters, Google has put together a fantastic crisis map for the New York City area. It's a constantly-updating record not of where the storm has gone, but of where it's likely to go based on the data that's coming in from…
"Frankenstorm" is the most popular name for the upcoming super-storm due to hit the eastern seaboard with floods tomorrow. As Dot Earth's Andrew Revkin points out, this nickname makes it sound like the storm was created by humans and our climate-changing ways. It's also a reference to the fact that this storm is…
There's a storm a-brewing, and as always, that makes for a great photo-op. Whether it's the barren store shelves, lines of people waiting patiently to get inside a store full of barren shelves, or a shot of the foreboding sky, looming down over us, there are plenty of great pictures to be had. What's the best you've…
Unless you've been living under a rock, you know there's an epically huge storm about to crash against the East Coast. If you have been living under a rock, you might be about to drown under it.
