Hurricane Sandy coverage cliches in GIF form

By: Andrew Beaujon

October 29, 2012

Are you ready for Sandy, East Coasters? Are you stocked up with water, toilet paper, batteries and trail mix? There’s one more necessity no one in Sandy’s path should be without, and Poynter has made a few for you.

Grocery shelves emptying of water as people stock up (AP)

An angry sea beginning to snack on North Carolina (Outer Beaches Realty)

Sandy, viewed swirling from space (from NASA Earth Observatory)

Janice Dean making air quotes around the term “perfect storm” (Fox News)

Matt Gutman getting battered by sea foam (ABC News)

Matt Gutman getting battered by sea foam, again! (ABC News)

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Andrew Beaujon

Andrew Beaujon reported on the media for Poynter from 2012 to 2015. He was previously arts editor at TBD.com and managing editor of Washington City…

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