🧵 Saga file #36
Hurricane Isaias impact
Oct 6, 6 PM ET to Oct 13, 11 AM ET
- 3parts so far
- 48outlets carried a part
- 🫏19 · 13 · 16🐘left · center · right
- 6.7 daysrunning so far
- 321 minof TV captions
- 74radio newscasts
🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
- Oct 12, 10 AM ET · on the front pages 7 hoursHurricane Isaias leaves 400,000 without power in Florida and Alabama
- Oct 12, 5 PM ET · on the front pages 1 hourHurricane Isaias makes landfall in Florida
- Oct 6, 6 PM ET · on the front pages 6.7 daysHurricane Isaias kills 4, leaves 500,000 without power
📰 Spread
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🧩 The parts
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1. Hurricane Isaias leaves 400,000 without power in Florida and Alabama
Oct 12, 10 AM ET · 6 outlets · on the front pages 7 hours
“Thousands still without power in Florida and Alabama as Isaias moves north” first: CBS News, Tampa Bay Times, The Guardian
2. Hurricane Isaias makes landfall in Florida
Oct 12, 5 PM ET · 4 outlets · on the front pages 1 hour
“Isaias Makes Landfall Along The U.S. Gulf Coast As A Dangerous Category 2 Hurricane” first: HuffPost
3. Hurricane Isaias kills 4, leaves 500,000 without power
Oct 6, 6 PM ET · 48 outlets · on the front pages 6.7 days
“Hurricane center ups odds again Gulf system will develop into tropical depression or storm” first: Chicago Tribune
📺 CNN 184 min, Fox News 107 min, BBC News 29 min, MSNOW 9 s · 📻 74 newscasts
🧩 How it's been told
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- 2026-10-12 ✨ Act of God ×1
🧶 Retelling
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🦗 Nobody's retelling any part of it online yet, as far as the daily report can tell.