INFO: Relief for Katrina Victims with Special Needs

A clearinghouse with Katrina disaster relief information for people with
disabilities http://www.katrinadisability.info/
A colleague of mine, Penny Richards, offers her summary of blog discussion
and outreach to people with disabilities affected by Katrina,
http://disstud.blogspot.com/
UCP Greater New Orleans maintains a message board that is being used "to
share information with others on needs, whereabouts, etc."

Not that email or blogging are terribly efficient ways of offering
assistance. But they may provide us with some new ideas on how to
contribute.

Hurricane Katrina response

See my comments to a post on the current state of disaster relief in New Orleans. Atmospheric scientist have noted that we now in an active hurricane cycle. So why wasn't our Homeland Security apparatus drilling for the South Coast's long-anticipated 'Big One' scenario? Scholars in the earth sciences and environmental engineers have long insisted that New Orleans was living on borrowed time. FEMA had already listed a major hurricane striking New Orleans as one of the top three most "likeliest, most catastrophic disasters facing this country."

The Survival of New Orleans blog

Instructive Background Reading
"Washing Away," special section in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, 2002.
Craig Colton, Unnatural Metropolis (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005). See as well the interview with Colton in Wednesday's New York Times article "After Centuries of 'Controlling' Land, Gulf Learns Who's the Boss."
Mark Fischetti, "Drowning New Orleans," Scientific American, Oct 2001.
Todd Shallat, "In the Wake of Hurricane Betsy," in Craig Colton, ed., Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000).