Sandy Was Our Social Storm, But at What Cost?

New York City resident Lauren Abraham, 23, ventured out of her home on Oct. 29 of last year to document a historic storm with her iPhone.

Instead Abraham, who was barefoot, tripped and fell over a downed power line. The young woman was electrocuted to death in a grisly scene several onlookers witnessed

"All we heard was one last scream," neighbor Renny Bhagratti told DNAinfo. "She dropped back like a dead sack of potatoes."

Abraham may have met a tragic end, but her urge to film the extreme weather is a reaction to which many of us can relateInstagram users uploaded more than 1 million photos with Sandy-related hashtags in the days after the storm. Sandy was also a popular topic on Twitter, where it generated tens of millions of tweets, and Facebook, where it was the second most-discussed topic of 2012 at the time. Read more...