Hurricane Katrina Aftermath

And to the rest of the Sun Herald for winning a 2006 Pulitzer Prize. Awarded to the Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss., for its valorous and comprehensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina, providing a lifeline for devastated readers, in print and online, during their time of greatest need. You might remember these guys from Dancing with Katrina, and from Mike’s mooning of Katrina. I guess I can say I knew them (or at least Mike, whom I know a little better) from…

I know this is a bit late, but every time I come across these songs in iTunes I can’t help but think of the Katrina victims. Blondie – The Tide is High The Be Good Tanyas – Lakes of Pontchartain Dave Cuomo – When The Ship Comes In (Written by Bob Dylan)

WashPost: Mayor Ray Nagin called [Lt. Gen. Russell] Honoré (pronounced ah-NOR-ay) “one John Wayne dude” when the general arrived here after the storm and started taking charge. It seemed the city had spiraled out of anyone’s control when the 6-foot-2 general with the pencil mustache and caramel skin appeared from obscurity and threw his weight against the mayhem. “He’s got the power to make things happen,” Firestone says. Nearby, Honoré is pledging to a volunteer that the Army will find…

From Channing Joseph, a New Orleans native, and classmate of mine from the Class of 2005: I’m in New York, and most of my immediate family was able to evacuate before the storm hit. They are now scattered across the country but physically unharmed. Not all of our homes fared as well, though. The house I grew up in is beyond repair, and my uncle lost one of his dogs (whom he had left behind, thinking it would just be…

Wired News: By Cyrus Farivar 02:00 AM Sep. 08, 2005 PT On the morning of Sept. 3, Rich Kyanka set up a PayPal account to raise money for Hurricane Katrina victims, with the intention of donating the money to the American Red Cross. Kyanka runs the popular Something Awful web community, which is based in New Orleans, and donations came in quickly. Within nine hours, Something Awful readers had donated $27,695.41. Kyanka donated an additional $3,000 from his own pocket.…

AmericaBlog has two gems this morning: HED: Bush says today he will investigate himself That’s nice. Bush is going to investigate his OWN bungling of Hurricane Katrina. That’s nice. Will he be investigating why he remained on vacation until the 3d day AFTER the hurricane destroyed New Orleans? Will he be investigating why Condi Rice went on vacation to NYC for most of the week? Why Dick Cheney and Andy Card STAYED on vacation even after the hurricane struck? Why…

LA Times So many refugees now live in the Astrodome that the U.S. Postal Service has issued the 77320 ZIP Code to the former professional stadium. The move makes it easier for refugees to receive letters and care packages.

Dave Winer points to four times in the last four years that major media outlets have predicted a major disaster if a major hurricane hit New Orleans. Time Magazine, July 10, 2000: If a flood of Biblical proportions were to lay waste to New Orleans, Joe Suhayda has a good idea how it would happen. A Category 5 hurricane would come barreling out of the Gulf of Mexico. It would cause Lake Pontchartrain, north of New Orleans, to overflow, pouring…

The more I read about the fallout from Hurricane Katrina, the more riled up I get. I want to help, but there’s not much that I can do from the other side of the country. I’m sending $140 to relief efforts (the money that I will be paid from the piece that I filed yesterday to Wired News). Half of it is going to my journalistic bretheren down at The Sun Herald, where my Columbia classmates Michael Keller and Josh…

Josh Norman on “Eye of the Storm” : I have now been told several times that this must have been “cool” or “fun.” It is not. The anticipation was fun. The reality was terrifying. The aftermath is nothing short of a nightmare. Let’s start with my personal problems, which are nothing relative to the greater problem. 1) There is nowhere to poop. I went in a plastic bag the other day and haven’t gone since. 2) My apartment stinks because…