IKE BARRELS TOWARD FLORIDA KEYS; HANNA HITS CAROLINAS
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Featured Contributors
- Paul A. Greenberg
Paul A. Greenberg teaches journalism at Tulane University in New Orleans. He also writes for a number of local, regional and national publications. Greenberg has been chronicling post-Katrina New Orleans since five days after the storm. - Maida Owens
Ad director of the Louisiana Folklife Program Owens has curated exhibits & websites, authored & edited books & articles, produced videos, & created educational materials on Louisiana’s many traditional cultures. - Matthew White
White has photographed every notable location on the La. coast. His photos and essays capture a landscape touched by and triumphing over catastrophe - Yoshio & Keiko Toyama
Japanese Jazz Musicians and Co-founders of The Wonderful World Jazz Foundation which aids musicians in New Orleans. - Rick Portier
As a TV photog in Baton Rouge Rick's been telling stories all of his life - Here are some of his! - Carol McClelland, PhD
Transition expert focused on helping people get back on their feet after their lives have been turned upside down by natural disasters.
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- Bayou Woman
Experience life on the bayou in the Louisiana wetland with Bayou Woman. Daily life from fishing, to bayou cooking, wildlife, plantlife and more.
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Hurricane Ike Online Newsroom -- American Red Cross
Hurricane Ike
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- Texas Department of Public Safety
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- Webcam: Freeport (2)
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Covering Gustav
Gustav - Louisiana
- Baton Rouge, LA |WAFB Channel 9 | 2008 Hurricane Tracking Center
- Addictomatic: All things Gustav
- EMERGENCY.louisiana.gov
- Get a Game Plan - La. Hurricane Emergency Info.
- Hurricane GUSTAV Situation Page
- La. State Police - road closures/evac maps, etc.
- Louisiana Department of Social Services
- Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development
- Louisiana Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness Home
- Louisiana: State Evacuations
- New Orleans Hurricane Center - NOLA.com
- New Orleans, Louisiana - List of Closings
- New Orleans, Louisiana - News - WWLTV.com
- Ready.gov - Homeland Security
- The Advocate and WBRZ News 2 Louisiana — Baton Rouge, LA
Louisiana's Hurricane Risk
- Hurricane preparedness for New Orleans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Excellent, comprehensive coverage of the Hurricane risk to New Orleans with great graphics & links. - New Orleans Is Sinking
Describes what might happen if a Catastrophic Hurricane hits New Orleans - Thinking Big About Hurricanes
"It's time to get serious about saving New Orlean"s - This article describes the likely aftermath of a storm surge after a Hurricane in New Orleans - Washing Away
A Special Report from The Times Picayunes about the dangers of a Hurricane Direct Hit to New Orleans - American RadioWorks : Nature's Revenge: Louisiana's Vanishing Wetlands - Hurricane Risk to New Orleans
Documentary Describing the Modeling Efforts of Dr. Joseph Suhayda of LSU
Katrina: Activism
- Pasado Animal Rescue Katrina Page
EXCELLENT! Complete Coverage of Pet Rescue & Animal Rights Activities Post-katrina. Has an adopt-a-pet program too! - ReBuild Hope NOW Campaign
- www.SurvivorsVillage.com
- Right of return: one year later
- Twelve Days of Keeping Them Honest
- Neighborhoods’ Planning Network
- People's Hurricane Relief Fund & Oversight Coalition, People's Hurricane Relief Fund & Oversight Coalition
- The National Alliance to Restore Opportunity to the Gulf Coast & Displaced Persona
- Student Hurricane Network
- Making Change For Katrina
National citizen-driven fundraising campaign to collect spare change to benefit the victims of the Gulf Coast hurricanes. The recipient is Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that builds simple, decent housing for people in need. - WOMEN OF THE STORM - NEW ORLEANS
- ACORN
- Gods Katrina Kitchen
Christian Relief Organization offering meals and volunteers - Emergency Communities
a grassroots, on-the-ground relief effort using compassion and creativity to provide for those worst effected by disasters. - Sister City Support Network
We are one city assisting one other city in its long term effort to rebuild in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina by: networking within our community, with other towns who embrace Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi as a sister city, and most importantly, with locals who live in Bay Saint Louis. - The Giving Circle, Inc
sends a team into a community in need to aid recovery - NOAH (New Orleans Area Hope)
use Southern Baptist volunteer labor to rehab more than 1,000 homes and 20 Baptist churches - Levees.org
grass roots effort to petition President Bush to build stronger levees. Excellent resource with facts related to Louisiana levees - Coast 2050: Toward a Sustainable Coastal Louisiana
The failed levees in New Orleans are just a symptom of this larger problem.While reasons for Louisiana's coastal erosion may be more complex than levees, they are part of the problem that has a solution. - Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisina
- Think Louisiana
Think Tank for a better Louisiana - Alternate ROOTS
artists, activists, and culturalworkers supporting constructive self-determination by affected communities as they begin the process of healing and rebuilding & assistance for artists & cultural workers affected by the hurricane. - Mercy Corps : Youth Recovery Program Fund
grants program to restore youth-related infrastructure in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast. - Mercy Corps > Topics > Hurricane Katrina > Overview
- Common Ground Collective
provides short term relief for victims of hurricane disasters in the gulf coast region, and long term support in rebuilding the communities affected in the New Orleans area - Rebuild New Orleans Levee System - Save Big Easy
- The New Orleans Coalition for Legal Aid and Disaster Relief
facilitates the fair distribution of federal, state, and private disaster relief to New Orleanians (wherever they may be) in the wake of Hurricane Katrina - Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation
- America's Wetland
Support La.'s push To Save Our Coastline - 12 Days of Keeping Them Honest (Helping Victims of Hurricane Katrina)
- GULF RESTORATION NETWORK
Demand a Commitment to Louisiana's Coast and Communities
Photos
- SunHerald: Before and After Flash Animations
- St. Bernard Parish Damage Videos
Brought to you by local Benjamin Chappetta. The site includes the famous video accompanied by Aaron Neville singing "Louisiana 1927". Free Previews! - Hurricane Katrina Relief -One Year Anniversary Photos New Orleans
- Photo Journal - Hurricane Katrina Damage Report in Mandeville and Slidell, LA
Photographs of Waveland, Ms too! - Sun-Herald: Aerials of Katrina damage
- Waveland MS Katrina Damage
- Before and after photos from the Gulf Coast: Sun-Herald series.
- 55 Defining Images of Disaster & Hope
- Where do we go from here?
documents the challenges of Katrina survivors who remain exiled in Denton, Texas. - Hurricane Digital Memory Bank: Preserving the Stories of Katrina, Rita, and Wilma
- The Invisible Coast: Mississippi's Struggle in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
This moving documentary created by students at Dartmouth College is NOT to be missed. - MSN Visual Tour of New Orleans
- photosfromkatrina.com
- Hurricane Video Footage - Katrina Coming Ashore in Gulfport, Miss.
- Katrina's Wrath - Chalmette, La. Video
- Mississippi Gulf Coast Photos
- Hurricane Katrina Photos, Images and Information
Over 2000 images! - New Orleans 2005-2006 - Varleypix.com
- Slidell, La. Damage Pics
- Gulfport, Mississippi Damage Photos
- Slideshow - Slidell, La. Katrina Damage
- KATRINA'S AFTERMATH
Katrina: Reports
- Study of the Communities Damaged by the 2005 Hurricanes
- Climate Change, Insurability of Large-scale Disasters and the Emerging Liability Challenge
- A Continuing Storm: The Ongoing Struggles of Hurricane Katrina Evacuees
Appleseed, a coalition of law firms, compiled a report detailing the experiences of five cities hosting large populations of persons displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The cities include Atlanta, Baton Rouge, Birmingham, Houston and San Antonio. - American Civil Liberties Union : ACLU Report Details Horrors Suffered by Orleans Parish Prisoners in Wake of Hurricane Katrina
- The Imminent Storm 2006: Vulnerable Emergency Communications in 8 Hurricane Prone States
- The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned
- A Failure of Initiative
Final Report of the Committiee to Investigate the Preparation for and Disaster Response to Hurricane Katrina
Katrina - One Year Later
- Anniversary Photos - New Orleans
- RememberRebirth Virtual Media Center
the official resource for Katrina's Anniversary - Katrina Information Network
Reporter Resources - Beyond Katrina Blog Posts: One Year Anniversary
- One Year after Hurricane Katrina | New Orleans Network
Listing of events that are planned to commemorate the anniversary
Katrina - the Storm
- Storm 2005: The season when the gruesome warnings came true
Satellite Blog
The comprehensive Satellite web directory. The online Satellite directory designed to help its users find the Satellite information.- Hurricane Katrina Impact Studies
- Comparisons of Katrina, Rita & Wilma
- NASA - 21 Named Storms From the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season
- Hurricane tracker - Weather News - MSNBC.com
Dynamic Hurricane Tracker - shows Katrina's path as it moves through the Gulf, makes landfall & continues northeastern track. Tracks this seasons hurricanes as well - Hurricane Katrina NOAA Images
Satellite Imagery of the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on an interactive map - excellent!
Indie Media
- THE DEAD PELICAN - La. News Underground
- Gulf Coast News - Your Mississippi Coast News Source
- YES! Online: Post Katrina
- Top 10 Katrina Sources
- Snap - News Search - Hurricane Katrina
- Free Republic - Keyword katrina
- Hurricane Katrina News by City, County, and Parish
- The New Standard: Special Hurricane Katrina Coverage
The NewStandard's ongoing investigation into the disaster behind the disaster.
News Features
- Interactive Graphic of Katrina's Inundation of New Orleans
- Katrina: The Storm We Always Feared
nola.com with the Times-Picayune. EXCELLENT! - C-K Associates Interactive N.O. Flood Map
- New Orleans Flood Map
- Katrina Flyover: Aerial images of Katrinas devastation - Hurricane Katrina - MSNBC.com
- CNN.com - Interactive Repopulation Map (Six Months Later)
- Hurricane Katrina: Graphic - What Went Wrong
The Washington Post produced a timeline tracking Hurricane Katrina's path and listing the federal, state and local responses to the storm before and after it hit the Gulf Coast (updated thru 10/05) - Katrina's Aftermath -- Accountability
This collection showcases Washington Post reporting on the debate over the government's response to the Gulf Coast Hurricanes and pre-storm planning. (updated thru 10/05) - Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Rising from ruin - MSNBC.com
EXCELLENT feature coverage of the aftermath
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