Five stories that have North Texas talking: doing our part amid the storm, updates with a week 鈥榯il Election Day, and more.
Fleets of volunteers and have joined forces to help communities in states affected by Sandy. 四虎影院-90.1 is preempting Fresh Air and the first hour of Think to make way for an NPR News call-in special that runs until 1 p.m.
Here are some survival tips and storm-tracking links:
- , weather advisories, and links to additional resources.
- Google has launched a. It gives you access to shelter lists, webcam feeds, public alerts, and evacuation routes.
- The American Red Cross has a; it has several useful tools with updated weather / survival information, including a single-press button that notifies friends & family members of your whereabouts.
- It also probably wouldn鈥檛 hurt on this occasion to take a gander at the six helpful guidelines from NPR's Salt blog on 鈥�.鈥�
Stay and we鈥檒l have the latest information as it arrives.
-- Justin Martin
Storming In
Not even a devastating hurricane can keep students from Dallas鈥� Bishop Lynch High School off the grid. The group is in New York for a mock debate tournament -- and was stuck last night on the 60th floor of the Doubletree Hotel above Timees Square. The kids have been doing homework via Skype, and . So how are they coping?
鈥淲ell, we read a lot,鈥� one student said.
On the ground, the drenched-but-not-out New York public radio warriors at WNYC are getting props all over for storm coverage and a . Further, though, the station has this going with photos of staggering water marks and video of the Con Ed explosion and other effects of the storm.
-- Lyndsay Knecht
Flooding The Zone: Dallas Will Weigh In
With all the water inundating the Northeast, a few bottom-of-the-ballot issues for Dallas voters next week seem a bit more pressing. BJ Austin, which includes big bucks for flood control and road repairs. The super-useful makes it easwhich projects are planned for your area.
-- Lyndsay Knecht
NPR Poll: Presidential Race A Nail-Biter
NPR鈥檚 last Battleground Poll finds the race between President Obama and Mitt Romney . Romney has a 1-point lead overall, but Obama is up by 4 in a dozen crucial "battleground" states. Ron Elving and Mara Liasson , which only serves to make any informed bets on who鈥檒l win harder to make.
And locally, the DMN鈥檚 update on in Dallas County quotes elections administrator Toni Pippins-Poole as estimating that 60 percent of registered voters could turn out for the election -- and that guess is up, she says.
-- Lyndsay Knecht
Better Late Than Never? Sadler Ad Airs
A week before the election, Democrat Paul Sadler launched the first TV ad in his longshot bid for the U.S. Senate. Sadler christens his opponent Ted Cruz 鈥渢he most extreme Senate candidate in Texas history.鈥�
The Dallas Morning News鈥� Robert T. Garrett reminds for his campaign. Cruz鈥檚 ad, dubbed "American Dream," began airing a week ago.
The in the Sadler-Cruz race, released yesterday by the Texas Tribune and UT-Austin, shows the Republican with a comfortable 15-point lead.
-- Lyndsay Knecht
