interdictor is still active and updating from downtown NOLA (a fabulous video feed out their window in downtown NOLA)
Updates: They have generator and fuel but their ISP may run out tomorrow AM. The fuel truck made it to their ISP!!
Flash: The folk in "Outpost Crystal" make it into news.netcraft.com
They recommend this story: "Rescues needed immediately / ASAP"

*"Intel Dissemination" Wiki (10K+ hits in 2 days) - We are rebuilding as we can ... being pounded hard. [/.ed into oblivion] We're back up!! We made the news!

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IRC is on irc.freenode.net in #interdictor | #interdictor-scanner is radio transcript, -digest is factored news, then there's -chat (JavaApplet)*

A newly discovered NOLA/Katrina survivor blog: "GulfSails"

"Located in New Orleans - I will be riding out Hurricane Katrina with a generator, some beer and the ability to post via cell phone after we lose hardlines. I will attempt at least hourly posts. Pictures will be available until land lines are lost."

Missing Persons | Reach Out
Homes Available | Hurricane Chat

* "Please give me news on", the list from Family News Network (Red Cross)
* "Found!", a list from CNN

• WLOX / Biloxi "Citizen Journalists - Hurricane Katrina" bulletin board
• "Survivors DataBase"
• Coast Guard - "Missing/Stranded input form"
• Red Cross "Family Linkin" - phone 1-877 LOVED-1S (''yes, that's the numeral "1", ''not the letter'' "l")
• "Katrina Check-In"
• "National Next of Kin Registry"
• CraigsList - NOLA Resources | Lost / Looking for
• NOLO Pundit areas board
• WWLTV with forums by parish | "Searching for - Alphabetical"
• Katrina Help; Wiki Portal and WikiPedia


• Red Cross donation form
• Catholic Response Center
• Salvation Army ''Hurricane Katrina Relief''
• Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network - to send a health and welfare request (SATERN active on 14.265 MHz)
• Licenced radio operator? "Hurricane Katrina Volunteer Signup Database Now Open"
• 7.290MHz Texas Gulf Health & Welfare [MP3]

* US Coast Guard
* Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
* First.Gov - Hurricane Katrina Recovery Information


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* Do you have a spare room, bed or couch to offer a family fleeing hurricane Katrina?

* Craiglist housing offers
* Hurricane Housing
*katrinashelter.com - Forums and a Wiki for Developers and Coordination (this website in progress could use technical and PR assistance)

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Air America Radio's Public Voicemail is a way for disconnected people to communicate in the wake of Katrina.

1-866-217-6255

Here's how it works:
Call the toll-free number above, enter your everyday phone number, and then record a message. Other people who know your everyday phone number (even if it doesn't work anymore) can call Emergency Voicemail, enter the phone number they associate with you, and hear your message.
You can also search for messages left by people whose phone numbers you know.

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(Approximately 100,000 stranded / at risk in New Orleans alone. From a CNN reporter in the French Quarter: "I've seen thousands of people ... women, children, babies ... nowhere to go ... they don't have food, they don't have water ... and it's not clean.")

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Katrina "Damage Information" Map - "If you have information about the status of an area that is not yet on the map, please contribute by following the instructions so that others may get that much needed information."

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My reply to a post by gillen about New Orleans:

"'near 20 years ago, when I was doing MIL-SPEC R&D tech_docs, I had a banner poster over my desk: "When you look to see how the system works you'll see that it doesn't."

Folk think I'm just nasty with my talk of "feckless yuppies" and "opportunistic careerists". But I've seen a culture of 80/20: folk learn how to get 80% of the profit from doing 20% of the work. (So the real work, like emergency preparedness or getting water into disaster scenes ... it doesn't get done properly or even at all.)

' is why I got out of IT.

BTW at a conference on emergency preparedness in 2004 it was acknowledged that a hurricane in NOLA would be as grave as a west coast earthquake. Ayup.

*Now, what's this about climate change and environmental degredation?*"