Hurricane Katrina Aftermath

Wired News: By Cyrus Farivar 12:58 PM Sep. 01, 2005 PT With most of New Orleans underwater, certain online resources have emerged as crucial access points for news, housing information and live community updates. Wired News has compiled a list of some of the best. Sites of note: Michael Barnett’s LiveJournal: Barnett, (previously covered on Wired News), the de facto crisis manager of DirectNIC, a New Orleans-based hosting company, is blogging from inside the city. Updated very frequently. Lousiana State…

NYT: Several residents said they had heard of children being raped [in the Superdome], though it was not clear whether anyone reported such incidents to the authorities, and no officials could be found who could confirm the accounts. Darcel Monroe, 21, a bakery cashier, stammered hysterically as she recounted seeing two young girls being raped in one of the women’s bathrooms. “A lot of people saw it but they were afraid to do anything,” she said. “He ran out past…