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 While we're sitting cool and comfortable at Nancy White's house in Seattle, Hurricane Katrina is blasting Louisiana and Mississippi – I'm watching insane reporters on television reporting from within the blast, and feeling a little relieved that the storm surge hasn't breached the levees. Last night I posted about the oncoming storm at WorldChanging.com, wondering how we can mitigate the impact of an ongoing series of cat 4 and 5 hurricanes driven by global climate change... I often wonder how many more major storms will strike Florida before the residents head for the hills... but I digress. The focus now is on New Orleans; Xeni's got a great summary post at boingboing, with updates. She points to the New Orleans Metroblog, where updates are posted from the scene. Word at the moment is that New Orleans has seen the worst of Katrina, but Mississippi's still slammed.
jon posted this at 10:10 AM
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My heart goes out to people living in Mississippi, New Orleans, southern Alabama, Gulf Coast, etc...
Your help is needed, I encourage everyone to volunteer (search & rescue workers, fire fighters, debris clearing, medical staff, engineers, etc) for or donate to a hurricane relief fund (the damage is tremendous and many homeless or missing) like UNICEF, American Red Cross (many wounded need blood donations, even volunteer nurses and doctors are needed) or the Salvation Army (find links on http://www.sparesomechange.com for homeless organizations near disaster areas), (make sure it is reputable organization)!
Posted by: Search Engine | August 31, 2005 9:18 PM
It amazes me that Congress came back from Christmas break to push through the Terri Schiavo bull and yet with the horrendous disaster of Katrina...not a word. They should all suffer like those poor people. And where is the great Trent Lott, Senator from Mississippi
?
Posted by: Mike | August 31, 2005 9:29 PM
One of the saddest things about all of this attention on the looting and such is that it deflects away from what should be the main focus----the need for relief! You've got folks down there who desparetely need medication , water, food.....a waste of media attention to focus on blacks looting. That air time could be spent pleading to corporations, organizations who are in a position to do something about the immediate needs of these people! Not to say that safety isn't an issue, and I am not condoning what is going on, but dang, no need to spend an hr showing viewers..... OKay, Ima stop now, 'cause I feel my blood pressure rising!
Posted by: angela | September 1, 2005 1:09 AM
It's really sad to hear how people lost their home and famalies. I guess USA knows how it feelt for the countries who were effected by tsunami on december,26,2005
Posted by: john | September 1, 2005 4:05 PM