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Hurricane Sandy is already one of the Twitter-era's most destructive American tragedies.

During galvanizing catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina and the September 11th attacks, the United States relied on cable news reporting and tommorrow's newspaper for coverage those calamitous events. The world is a different place now.

Millions and millions of people continue to be affected by Hurricane Sandy, but, for the first time, the internet allows their voices to be heard and their hardships to be viewed immediately.

We scoured the web for some of the most compelling images we've seen thus far of the unbelievable events, take a look at what we found (below).

[Image via Twitter.]

Tags: atlantic, devastation, hurricane katrina, hurricane sandy, natural disaster, new jersey, new york, photos, pics, september 11th, social media, twitpic, twitter

When we were teenagers we spent most afternoons eating Oreos in front of the TV!

Laura Dekker, a Dutch 15-year-old, is setting off to cross the Atlantic Ocean in her yacht, which is another step in her goal to sail around the world one ocean at a time.

Dekker hopes to make the 2,532-mile trek from the Cape Verde Islands to the Caribbean Island of St. Maarten in three weeks.

We’re sort of scared for her!

Stay safe, bb! Don’t cut any corners!!

[Image via AP Images.]

Tags: atlantic, dutch, sail, teenager