Work in progress.: Storm of the Century.
Thus, in honor Isabel, who may be more of a media starlet than an actual weather event, here are some storm readiness links to peruse: --Julie Young
Julie's post is a good example of how to integrate one's own reflections with links to outside sources. Note how she doesn't just list links -- she comments on each one. The purpose of her post is to amuse and perhaps deconstruct the media hype surrounding Isabel. But the same structure would work very well if you are collecting links that you might consider using in an academic paper, or you are sorting through multiple conflicting opinions on a topic you want to explore.
While the storm was a bust in our neck of the woods, I could track the progress of the storm fairly well by noting when various weblogs (hosted on the East coust) went out. My parents, brother, and sister -- in different houses in the Washington area -- suffered outages of power, water, or both. In fact, my parents were going to visit us this weekend, but they called trip off because they didn't want to travel in the aftermath of the storm.
Of course, at the time Julie wrote the above post, there was no way to know for sure how bad the storm would be.