Quantcast
Channel: Katrina Aftermath
Browsing all 25 articles
Browse latest View live

Gulf Oil Production at a Stand Still, yet Prices Drop

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Essentially all Gulf of Mexico crude oil production and 30 percent of U.S. oil refinery production was shut as Hurricane Rita approached the Texas and Louisiana coasts.Oil prices...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

New Orleans' Ninth Ward under water again (Nola.com)

9/23/2005, 2:06 p.m. CT By MICHELLE ROBERTS and BRETT MARTEL The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Rita's steady rains sent water pouring through breaches in a patched levee Friday,...

View Article

URGENT Help needed for a Mom & her 4 Kids

Janet Posey who's a mom of 4 kids, needs urgent assistance for her andher kids such as clothes and furniture. She has a 12 year old, a 9year old, a baby of 13 months and a 9 week old infant. Janet...

View Article

Hurricane Rita Stormwatchers Blog (Houston Chronicle)

Citizen journalists covering Hurricane RitaEditor's note: Welcome to our experiment in citizen journalism. The bloggers who are posting here live in various parts of the city, and they will be posting...

View Article

Storms Stretch Safety Net for Black Colleges (New York Times)

By PETER APPLEBOMENEW ORLEANS, Sept. 24 - After Hurricane Katrina hit, there was six feet of water in the library at Xavier University. There is a beached boat on a campus made that much soggier by the...

View Article


NOLA College Student Desperately Needs Help

Currently Katrina has left Lisa with just the clothes on her back andshe's found a place to stay, college is starting very soon and shedesperately is in need of help.Lisa urgently needs the following...

View Article

A Webinar on Hurricane Katrina: Innovative Information and Communications...

(This item was originally posted to<http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog/_archives/2005/9/28/1266385.html>.)On Tuesday afternoon, I participated in a webinar on innovative ICTresponses to...

View Article

March the Music Back: A Valley Benefit for Gulf Musicians

Date: Friday, September 30, 2005Time: 7:00 p.m.Location: John M. Greene Hall at Smith College in Northampton, MA.Admission is free but donations are requested.100% of proceeds will go to the Gulf Coast...

View Article


Common Ground is Seeking Medics and Licensed Health Professionals

Common Ground is a community-run organization offering temporaryassistance and mutual aid to the citizens of New Orleans and thesurrounding areas. Common Ground's team includes doctors, lawyers,...

View Article


Volunteers URGENTLY Needed in Kirbyville, Beaumont, TX

Those who can do hard physical work, carpenters and people who knowhow to string a fence, operate machinery, etc. are urgently needed tohelp out at the Exotic Wildlife Refuge & Orphanage in...

View Article

Animal Rescue Efforts at Fever Pitch - National Guard to Assist

Senator John Ensign (R-Nevada), a licensed veterinarian, announced today that the National Guard will begin escorting animal rescue crews in Louisiana. This report was greeted with relief by internet...

View Article

St B Middle School / Mansion 2 eyewitness accounts

These 2 people have no internet access to send these accounts and asked to do it for them-but these are their words with nothing omitted or added-and i am just replaying their accounts- please do not...

View Article

Operation Eden blog

A personal chronicle of what hurricane Katrina has done to my poor proud people. Scroll all the way to the bottom, and travel with me through this.Katrina HeroForgotten PeopleSoldier and BoatKatrina...

View Article


Shelter/Housing Needed for Evacuee in Minden, LA

Evacuee from Baton Rouge, currently at a shelter in Minden, LA whichwill be shutting down needs a place to stay in Miden. 1st preferenceof permanent or temporary shelter/housing is Minden. Evacuee and...

View Article

Roundup of Immigrants in Shelter Reveals Rising Tensions (Wall Street Journal)

By CHAD TERHUNE and EVAN PÉREZStaff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNALOctober 3, 2005; Page B1 LONG BEACH, Miss. -- Last Wednesday, police and the U.S. Marshals Service swept into a Red Cross shelter...

View Article


Photos of Damage in Mississippi (LISNews)

The Council of State Historical Records Coordinators has posted Photos of Damage in Mississippi from Hurricane Katrina . These photos were taken September 18-20, 2005, during a visit by a team from the...

View Article

American Diaspora - Katrina

Fleeing Katrina To map the mass exodus from the Gulf Coast, ePodunk analyzed more than 40,000 messages posted on the Internet by survivors of the storm."Family is safe! House is lost! Kids are in...

View Article


Site helps bring legal aid to Katrina victims

from Robert Ambrogi's LawSites: Working to facilitate the fair distribution of disaster benefits to New Orleans victims of Hurricane Katrina is the goal of The New Orleans Coalition for Legal Aid and...

View Article

Katrina spawned plague of misinformation (USA Today)

By Mark Memmott, USA TODAYOne thing can be said for certain about what it was like in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina roared through:Much of what was reported as fact by government officials and...

View Article

Hurricane Katrina Relief Resources: LawHelp

This page provides links to both general relief resources as well as legal resources and information on nonprofit legal services providers in states affected by Hurricane Katrina. You may also wish to...

View Article
Browsing all 25 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images