The Shelter Library, which ran for almost three weeks near the Baton Rouge River Center when its convention center became an emergency shelter, has been moved to Renaissance Village. It awaits Cox Communication's installation of Internet service to get up and running. "They're moving heaven and Earth to get this open," said Curtis, who works for ProQuest, a publisher that specializes in library services. Mary Stein, assistant director of administrative services for the East Baton Rouge Parish Library System, said the Shelter Library will open Dec. 1. The EBR Library will be in charge of its day-to-day operation.

There’s an interesting BBC World News report (brought to my attention by my friend Darrell) in which NorthCom Lt. Commander Sean Kelly explained the military’s efforts which, in addition to military support, include distribution of medical supplies, search and rescue operations, distributing food and water, and meeting transportation needs. (Note: the server hosting the video seems to be overwhelmed. This is a direct .mpg link, which is also slow right now, but keep trying.)

More than 828,000 Entergy customers were without power following Gustav, placing it among the most-damaging weather events as measured by power outages in the utility’s 95-year history, second only to Katrina, which left 1.1 million Entergy customers in the dark.

Note: Bart Everson and Christy Paxson recently made it to the end of their Hurricane Katrina-induced renovation and celebrated with an Endymion parade party. This week, we recap their journey and its conclusion. Look for the coda to the story in March, af

Jeff and Gary along with students from West Bloomfield HS set up "Warren Easton in Exile" a temporary home on the web for the students and faculty of my school. In addition to giving my students and I daily doses of hope, the site eventually helped us to

Maybe that's why the young owners of Dick and Jenny's restaurant -- a former corner grocery and po'boy shop, in a bargeboard cottage on Tchoupitoulas Street -- have tried to replicate the past.

Whatever the answer, New Orleans was not defined by its spirit of innovation in the decades preceding Hurricane Katrina. But the flood that changed everything two years ago has changed that too: Today, by accident and by necessity, this city is awash in i

After Hurricane Katrina destroyed homes and communities along America's Gulf Coast, architects and designers developed cheerful, inexpensive, energy-efficient emergency housing known as "Katrina Cottages." These photos show a version of the Katrina Cottag

alan on rebuilding new orleans

time magazine special on new orleans

Tunnell joined thousands of people in the U.S. who already knew a secret about the insurance industry: When there's a disaster, the companies homeowners count on to protect them from financial ruin routinely pay less than what policies promise.

The destruction of New Orleans and many of its neighboring parishes is very much on Burke's mind in the new Robicheaux novel, "The Tin Roof Blowdown." That destruction and the reluctance of our government to rush to the area's aid emerge as crimes so nigh

family displaced to Ann Arbor by Katrina supported for 18mo by a church, still needs ongoing help

The unit of Entergy Corp. that provides electricity and natural gas service to New Orleans said Wednesday that it will quit maintaining the city's street lights at the end of the month.

NEW ORLEANS -- State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. engaged in a "pattern of racketeering" by manipulating engineering reports on Hurricane Katrina damage so the company could deny policyholder claims, lawyers for a group of Mississippi homeowners allege in a

Quikscan hurricane map of Katrina

packing list for a bug-out bag, so that you can escape to wherever you need to escape to with a minimum of planning.

Robbie Prepas, a certified nurse-midwife, helped deliver five babies in the New Orleans airport during Hurricane Katrina. Hoping never to experience anything similar in Orange County, Prepas is teaming up with another local nurse-midwife to educate the p

commencement speech to Xavier post-Katrina. "I could talk at length about perseverance, but this is a class that was forced to scatter to schools across the country at the beginning of your senior year, leaving everything you knew behind while you waited

Google's popular map portal has replaced post-Hurricane Katrina satellite imagery with pictures taken before the storm, leaving locals feeling like they're in a time loop and even fueling suspicions of a conspiracy.

Sixty volunteers from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, the Baptist Campus Ministry at Louisiana State University, Arkansas Baptist Builders and the Times-Picayune newspaper displayed both flexibility and cooperation Feb. 17 as they helped homeown

a rousing discussion of the failures of the recovery process in New Orleans

re the blog 'Squandered Heritage'

on the new york times coverage of new orleans blogger-led marches on city hall

neighborhood group in New Orleans, includes plans for cottages and houses in the local style. well illustrated.

photo weblog documenting demolition of houses and buildings in New Orleans after Katrina & working for architectural preservation

watch the want ads to figure out what's going to happen next

#1 story is widespread loss of paper medical records in Katrina, via Enoch Choi

The Northern Michigan University special education students voted to "adopt" a school for the entire academic year. After an online search of impacted facilities and some phone calls, they settled on Bayou Woods Elementary. It has an enrollment of 500 stu

bellsouth decides to rescind donation of a police hq to new orleans because n.o. sets up free muni wifi.

on building a virtual New Orleans

locating and connecting all of the Katrina shelters

Aggregated housing offers for Katrina evacuees with Google maps interface, U Michigan project

back online on the Internet only via WFMU

post-Katrina neighborhood by neighborhood information on ThinkNOLA

very high volume local newspaper bbs turned into feeds

organizing efforts at relief via wiki - as seen successfully done for Xavier U

note the black Houston to Atlanta link 8/31/05

group blog on NO - now covering Katrina