Google Mapping the snowstorm
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008The Spokesman Review is a paper that I’ve been watching closely because of it’s radical shift toward online media. They didn’t disappoint when a recent snowstorm hit the state. (Interstate 90, the main east-west drag, has been closed on and off for almost a week due to avalanche danger.) Among other things, they made a map for residents to post if they needed help or wanted to offer help.
I know from living in a few snowbound areas that communities really pull together to help their immediate neighbors. Even Loveland, Colo., where I used to live and report, had a volunteer snow shoveling squad who would get up in the wee hours and help people on a predetermined list to shovel out. The map brings this to new heights.