The following is a special guest post from former reddit admin raldi (nobody ever really leaves reddit)
As Hurricane Irene travels up the U.S. East Coast, I've been trying to follow along from California. It's frustrating, because the "person on the street" information I'm looking for just isn't showing up on mainstream news sites. We've got a lightspeed global information network with YouTube and Flickr and imgur and blogs, but we're not harnessing it when we really need it.
I realized this is exactly the sort of problem that reddit is great at solving, so I wrote to the team about an hour ago and they enthusiastically supported the idea of creating a reddit to cover the Hurricane Irene story as it happens. There are probably ten million of you in the path of the storm, and a good number are going to have tales to tell, warnings to share, and possibly even critical information (e.g., "Get the hell off the beach!").
Here's the link: /r/irene
Note: Please don't ignore evacuation warnings just to score reddit karma.
Image credit: NASA
