hurricane katrina: links update
Katrina People Finder is now live.
Have a look at these two Flickr photo sets of Hurricane survivors in Houston.
"Two trade unionists and paramedics from California who found themselves trapped in New Orleans have written an account of their experiences" (via CT and BPhD).
The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities is offering an immediate residential fellowship for a scholar impacted by Katrina.
A project called the Sloan Semester will "bring free online courses to students displaced from colleges shut down due to damage from Hurricane Katrina."
What about region's cultural heritage archived in its libraries and museums? The American Library Association has a page on Hurricane Katrina News and a web page "devoted to library-specific relief funds, available housing for library workers, and resources for coping with the disaster." The American Association of Museums is also maintaining a Katrina-specific webpage. Bonus Link: "In Mississippi, History Is Now a Salvage Job," by Florence Williams (NYT).
The Washington Post has a "special report" section on Katrina. (As many have pointed out, the Department of Homeland Security had primary responsibility for responding to Hurricane Katrina, so while you're on the Post site, check out the series of articles on "Homeland Security Contracting.")
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At WaPo, see also
- "Few Islands in a Sea of Troubles: From Above, a View Of What Once Was," by Linton Weeks
- "'Going to Take Years -- Years': A Place of Life and Livelihood Turns Into a Wasteland," by Allison Klein
- "Planning for a New, Improved Orleans," by Benjamin Forgey
- "Once More, a Neighborhood Sees the Worst," by Manuel Roig-Franzia
- "Rethinking Defenses Against Sea's Power: Flood Experts See Lessons in New Orleans, by Molly Moore
New York Times
- "New Orleans Musicians Ask if Their Scene Will Survive," by Ben Ratliff
- "Can Design Prepare for Disaster?"
- "Water Returned to Lake Contains Toxic Material," by Sewell Chan and Andrew C. Revkin (NYT)
- "Level of Bacteria Is Found Unsafe," by Michael Janofsky
- "In Europe, High-Tech Flood Control, With Nature's Help," by William J. Broad
- "Behind the First Roar of Machinery to Drain the City, a Tale of Pluck and Luck," by John Schwartz
Wired
- "Building a Better Levee, by John Gartner
- "Getting the Gulf Back on the Grid," by Xeni Jardin