Hurricane Katrina Raw Streaming Video from HurricaneTrack.com
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Channel: HurricaneTrack · 2015 · News & Politics
During hurricane Katrina, HurricaneTrack.com broadcast a live video feed from our specially equipped Chevy Tahoe. This is the raw video from the actual dashcam stream that went out to around 60 people that night. Streaming video was in its beginning stages and was very expensive to produce, especially from a mobile platform. HurricaneTrack.com broke new ground during the 2005 hurricane season with pioneering live video from the Tahoe plus three unmanned live video units that were to be deployed in the worst conditions of hurricanes as they made landfall. Watch as the hours unfold in Gulfport, Mississippi as Mark Sudduth and colleague Mike Watkins work against the clock to set out equipment that would attempt to monitor powerful Katrina as it closed in. The video is low quality - back in 2005 we could reliably stream at 30Kbps using Sprint's new 3G network. The video was as good as the technology allowed back in the day and streamed using Windows Media Encoder. We know it is not high quality by today's standards but in 2005, allowing a virtual audience to watch and hear our every move was groundbreaking. The video covers almost 6 hours beginning late in the evening of August 28 extending in to the early morning hours of Monday, August 29 - a date that will forever be etched in to the minds of those who lived through historic hurricane Katrina.
