(Mark Mulligan/Houston Chronicle/AP)The desperate messages and horrifying photos washed across social media like so much deadly floodwater this weekend. Using social media, flood victims who still had power were able to communicate with public officials directly or to bypass them entirely and coordinate their own rescues with private citizens. The miracles of social media. Social media users typically keep their addresses, phone numbers and intimate family details hidden from public view, but the brutality of the storm suspended those rules. "“The difference with social media this time around is that it allows someone to pinpoint where the victims are,” Lomax added.

Source: Washington Post August 28, 2017 13:06 UTC