OK kids, heres the deal. Yes, this does connect to New Orleans, I promise ( Read more... )

Having just shipped out a backpack to the www.dosomething.org We've got your back campaign, I contacted them to see if the storm would affect them as the mail to address is in Houston.

This is their reply
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http://gracedavis.typepad.com/katrinablog/

You can always depend on the hardworking folks at Snopes to be on top of what's real and what's not in the electronic world.

They've got an entire section devoted to what are rumors and what's real concerning Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath.

crossposting to my LJ, be_bold and katrinarelief.

Emily Campbell, an engineer in Plaquemines Parish, is in the process of setting up mobile trailers to use as temporary shelters in Belle Chase, Initially these will be used to house the workers who have been there for the past 3 weeks working search and rescue and now on rebuilding the infrastructure in order for this community's residents to ( Read more... )

http://www.texaskatrinaconnection.org/

Urgent needs for the following shelters:


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( A fire department in Jackson, MS who need the following critical equipment and supplies for the folks working the front line )

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