Ed Batista

Katrina Online Resources

NOLA.com, the Times-Picayune's outstanding website.

NOLA Post-Katrina Wiki.

Network for Good's Hurricane Relief page.

Instapundit's ongoing list of Katrina-related charities.

The Truth Laid Bear's Blog for Relief Page, where you can log your contributions and recommend charities.

Blogs

The Interdictor, a guy who's been keeping his Internet company up and running in downtown New Orleans throughout the entire storm and post-flooding madness.  He's also running a streaming webcam, with a view of what appears to be St. Charles Avenue in the CBD.

Auryn, a nurse who lives in LaPlace and rode out Katrina at her hospital in New Orleans.

CobaltGreen, a TV producer and filmmaker who's lived in New Orleans for the past five years.

Brendan Loy, a second-year law student at Notre Dame.

New Orleans MetroBlog, a group blog.

Eyes on Katrina, by the Biloxi Sun-Herald.

Kaye Trammel's Hurricane Update, by an LSU professor.

Josh Britton, a student at LSU.

GulfSails, by a guy in the River Ridge area just west of New Orleans (ZIP code 70123).

Ernie the Attorney, by a New Orleans lawyer.

Katrinacane, a Live Journal group blog.

Polimom Says..., a blogger who's also launched a  Katrina resources site at Polimom.com.

WWLTV's blog and home page.

Other Resources

Interactive Katrina Information Map that allows users to add informative updates to a Google map of the Gulf Coast.

PRNewswire's Roundup of Katrina blogs, articles and related sites (which tipped me off to most of the blogs above.)

Alex Hessler's New Orleans flood damage map, which he created from a range of sources.

NY Times' interactive map of New Orleans.

Cultural South Update, from the American Association of Museums.a

Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, with extensive maps and demographic information on Orleans and surrounding parishes.

Aerial Photos

NOAA's entire post-Katrina Gulf Coast photo index, including the New Orleans photo index.  Most detailed shots I've seen, but it's a little tough getting oriented, because the photos haven't been rotated to correspond with the map.

Here's the eastern half of the French Quarter, and part of Faubourg Marigny.  (The circular-patterned park at the top is Jackson Square.)

Here's the Convention Center (top right) and Harrah's (top left).

Here's the Superdome.

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Hurricane Katrina Update

Things have gotten much worse in New Orleans since my post below.  There's nothing we can do from San Francisco to ease the suffering in Lousiana, but giving what we can will speed the recovery.  My wife and I have given $400 to the American National Red Cross, $300 to Second Harvest of Greater New Orleans, $200 to the Touro Infirmary, and $100 to the Charity Hospital of Lousiana at New Orleans.  We've also contributed $40 to Network for Good, the fantastic nonprofit online donation service we're using, to help keep their own systems up and running.

We hope you'll join us in doing what you can to help.  Click on the links above, or go to Network for Good's Hurricane Relief page to find more organizations that are helping Katrina's victims get back on their feet.