Carnival of Hurricane Relief

Stories & Videos of Recovery 

Bay St. Louis, MS

Take a tour of Bay St. Louis, MS, with its mayor, Eddie Favre; courtesy of the Wall Street Journal.

Recovery 

Specifically on Regional Recovery

Carnival of Hurricane Relief

The homepage for the Carnival of Hurricane Relief.

Katrina Networking

Dedicated to the recovery of Hancock County, Mississippi: Ground Zero for Hurricane Katrina's landfall.

Beyond Katrina

From the website: "Our mission is to inspire recovery, transformation & new vision through the deeper wisdom of crisis"

Bay St. Louis

From the website: "Hurricane Katrina Relief organizations and agencies helping Bay St Louis MS recover from Hurricane's Katrina and Rita in 2005. See local needs, volunteer agencies, municipal needs, updates, concerns, humor, pictures and links to others helping."

Blighted New Orleans

Photos, addresses and information about property in New Orleans slated for demolition due to damage caused by Hurricane Katrina or flooding following the levee failures.

Coastal Community Watch

Development and recovery for Hancock County, MS.

C-Span: Hurricane Aftermath

Resources and information collected by C-Span related to the 2005 hurricane season and subsequent Gulf Coast recovery effort, including audio, video and text.

da po' blog

From the website: "Po', like a po-boy."

Did We Survive Katrina or Not?

From the website: "On August 29th, 2005 we had the second most terrifying experience of our lives. Staying in our brick home over half a mile inland and fourteen feet above sea level - not to mention over 90 miles from where Katrina was set to make landfall - we never could have imagined we would spend the morning trapped on our second floor by a massive storm surge. But the single most terrifying experience of our lives was yet to come... What happens to us now?"

Gulf Sails

Proud member of the New Orleans PTSD since landfall.

Hurricane Katrina Forest Recovery

The Mississippi Forestry Association promotes recovery.

Hurricane Katrina Healing the Gulf Coast

From the website: "Hurricane Katrina that hit on August 29th 2006 left death and estruction all along the Gulf Coast displacing many people and ripping lives apart. Come and share your story so that we won't forget ever the national worst disaster ever. God bless each and every last one of you."

Justice for New Orleans

From the website: "a service of the Loyola Law Clinic. Our contributors are citizens of New Orleans interested in ensuring justice for all New Orleanians in this re-building period."

Mississippi Renewal

Governor's commission on recovery, rebuilding and renewal.

NorthWest Carrollton

From the website: "NorthWest Carrollton Civic Association, New Orleans, LA. NorthWest Carrollton is a Neighborhood bounded by Leonides, Earhart, Carrollton and Claiborne. We are a Post Katrina organization formed to advocate for our Historic neighborhood. We feel it is important to adress all issues of Planning and rebuilding."

Reconstruction Watch

From the website: "Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch is a project to document and investigate the rebuilding of the Southern Gulf in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Through original reporting, in-depth features, voices from community leaders, and other unique coverage, Watch aims to promote a more democratic and accountable reconstruction in the South. Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch is a project of the Institute for Southern Studies, a non-profit research and education center, and the Institute's flagship magazine, Southern Exposure."

Ride to Rebuild

A bike ride across the country to raise money for Habitat for Humanity in Jackson, MS.

Rising Tide Wiki

A wiki to organize information about rebuilding New Orleans, in conjunction with the Rising Tide Conference scheduled to be held in NOLA August 25-27, 2006.

Story of a Storm

A Mississippi Gulf Coast teacher gathered 30 kids and helped them put together a book. Proceeds from the sale will help rebuild their community.

Third Battle of New Orleans

A pitched battle to save NOLA.

A View from the Evil Center

Dangle24-7's new blog. He's located in St. Tammny Parish, Louisiana, and is a long-standing blogger who moved to a new web location.

Wet Bank Guide

Blogger Markus, location NOLA: "Remembering Katrina, Envisioning New Orleans"

50 in 50 in 50

A runner's effort to keep the Gulf Coast recovery effort in the news.

Emergency Services on the Gulf

From the website: "For all Gulf Coast Emergency Services Personnel to refer to for Grants, Funding, Ideas, Venting, etc. The ES Sector has long been ignored and needs to be shown for what it is - a vital link in the chain of municipal success."

Rebuilding a City

From the website: "New Orleans is on the road to recovery. Many residents have returned to their homes, businesses are opening their doors, and music can be heard in the streets again. This journal chronicles the latest in the ongoing effort."

AIGA NOLA Relief

The relief page of New Orleans chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts.

The Geology of the Katrina Disaster in New Orleans

Stephen A. Nelson of the Departnebt of Earth & Environmental Sciences at Tulane University leads field trips to explain the science of disaster.

Thanks, Katrina

From the website: "Observations from Slidell, Louisiana, where - along with the rest of the Gulf Coast - we are coming back from Katrina's wrath. Trying to keep the world aware that we are still not okay 1+ year past Katrina."

Artisan Hurricane Relief

From the website: "Relief information for artists on the Gulf Coast affected by hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma. Links for showing your art, information on grants, funding, loans, relief efforts."

FEMA: Hurricane Katrina

Official information on Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana.

FEMA: Hurricane Rita

Official information on Hurricane Rita in Louisiana.

Katrina Environmental Research and Restoration Network

From the website: "KERRN is a network of researchers sharing data and ideas, crossing disciplinary, geographical and institutional boundaries, providing models for how to respond to major environmental disasters"

Louisiana Speaks

From the website: "
The names Katrina and Rita will live on in the hearts and minds of Louisianans long after the wounds they inflicted on our state have healed. While many of our homes and businesses still lie in ruins, our spirit remains unbroken. With each passing day, the heart-break of our loss gives way to an unwavering resolve to return and rebuild the state that we call home.

The destruction created by these storms has brought an unprecedented opportunity to not only rebuild Louisiana, but to rebuild it safer, stronger, and smarter. And it's with an eye towards a brighter tomorrow that the Louisiana Recovery Authority (LRA) is spearheading Louisiana Speaks - a multifaceted planning process to help South Louisiana recover and heal."

Squandered Heritage

Lamenting thoughtless demolition in New Orleans.

Wayward Episcopalian

A native of Texas, graduate of Dartmouth, and resident of Coeur d'Alene spent Fall 2006 working with the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana's Office of Disaster Response. Though no longer in New Orleans, the blooger has many memories and observations left to blog, and recovery news continues to pour in, particularly about volunteer work, government incompetence, and local spirit.

Gulf Coast in Need 

Folks You Can Help

Locusts and Wild Honey

Lakeshore Baptist Church: "When the storm hit one year ago, we trusted that God was working thousands of purposes for His glory. I know now, that part of the plan of providence included thousands of people flooding into the Lakeshore area."

Ohr O'Keefe Museum of Art

In the midst of rebuilding when Katrina hit. Site has photos, and information on how to help.

Recovery Illustrated 

Photos & Video of Recovery

Clayton James Cubitt Katrina Portfolio

Stunning portraits of Katrina survivors by a NOLA native.

Pearlington Love

Photographs taken on a trip to help out in Pearlington, Mississippi.

Aquarium of the Americas

The New Orleans aquarium lost most of its exhibits following Hurricane Katrina. This website describes a 2006 visit and how the aquarium is recovering.

Southern Louisiana

"Pictures here are from the results of the Hurricanes that ravaged through South Louisiana and the relief effort since."

Mississippi Thanks You

Blogger Seawitch sends a big video thank-you to the rest of the country.

B&A Biloxi & Gulfport

Blogger Seawitch has put together a video with before&after views of Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi.

Welcome to Biloxi

Blogger SaintSeester provides photos of Gulf Coast Mississippi.

Operation Eden Video

Video documentary on Katrina survivors. Must see.

Katrina: A Man-Made Disaster

You Tube video.

Richard Smith's Biloxi Pix

Richard Smith volunteered on the Gulf Coast through Hands On USA. He posted a slew of photographs.

Images from a Field Guide to Disaster

Dr. Stephen A. Nelson's illustrations for his guided field trips explaining the science of disaster.

NOLA Flooding

New Orleans' own newspaper, the Times-Picayune, provides an animation of the flooding.

Gulf Coast Video Blog

Students visited the Gulf Coast, shot video, and edited the footage.

JustCamps on the Gulf Coast

A slideshow about the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee's JustCamps on the Gulf Coast.

Southern Creations on Katrina

A photographer living in the Back Bay area of Biloxi documented the destruction.

Southern Creations on Biloxi

A photographer living in the Back Bay area of Biloxi tells all y'all what's left and what's left to do.

Recovery Charities 

Places Directly Helping

Barnard Helping Hands

A local aid organization in Vermont helps build an outdoor facility for a destroyed school on the Gulf Coast. Found through Community News of The Herald of Randoph, Vt.

Camp Second Helpin'

Found through The Ongoing Adventures....

Citizen Action Team

From the website: "We are an unaffiliated group of volunteers that have come together to provide supplies to the areas of the hurricane ravaged coastline. We are serving the least served areas affected by the hurricane. We are working directly with the shelter relief teams in areas such as Lafayette, Baton Rouge, Gulfport and now Hattiesburg. We are working directly with warehouse operations in Lafayette and Gulfport."

East St. Tammany Habitat for Humanity

Rebuilding Slidell, LA. Found through John at MySpace.

God's Katrina Kitchen

Found through The Ongoing Adventures....

Hickory Hammock Baptist Church

Hickory Hammock Baptist Church (HHBC) is a growing church located in Milton,FL (Panhandle near Pensacola), with a heart for Missions. Our church's current Local Mission is supporting Pearlington, MS in the rebuilding of three churches.

Katrina Foundation for Recovery

Your $5.00 donation will go directly to supplying food, clothing, shelter, medicines, education and transportation into the communities assisting in relief. A "Blue Band" (available in Adult or Youth sizes) is a tangible statement of your support and a reminder to pray for the individuals affected by Katrina.

Making Change for Katrina

A blog supporting a fundraising effort by Coinstar in conjunction with Habitat for Humanity, to help rebuild the Gulf Coast.

Musicians' Village

From the website: "Harry Connick, Jr., Branford and Ellis Marsalis Partner with Habitat to Build a Musicians' Village in New Orleans' Upper 9th Ward

"Hurricanes Katrina and Rita forced many musicians to flee New Orleans. Jazz, blues, and other genres that are the city's musical score, cannot return until the musicians return, and many have lost their homes.Habitat for Humanity International and New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity, working with Harry Connick Jr., and Branford Marsalis, honorary chairs of Operation Home Delivery, seek to change this. Plans were announced Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2005 for a "Musicians' Village." Operation Home Delivery is Habitat for Humanity International's hurricane rebuilding program and this Musicians' Village is one of the many projects along the Gulf Coast.

"The Musicians' Village, conceived by Connick and Marsalis, will consist of 81 Habitat-constructed homes for displaced New Orleans musicians. Its centerpiece will be the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music, dedicated to the education and development of homeowners and others who will live nearby. On January 9, 2006 we acquired eight acres of land in the Upper 9th Ward where the Musicians' Village will be located. In addition to the homes in the tract, plans call for building at least 150 other homes in the surrounding neighborhood. Construction may begin as early as March, marking the first large scale rebuilding plans in New Orleans."

Pave the Wave

The Giving Circle sponsors a fundraising effort to sell bricks to aid in the rebuilding of Waveland, MS.

Sister City Support Network

From the website: "We are one city assisting one other city in its long term effort to rebuild in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina by: networking within our community, with other towns who embrace Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi as a sister city, and most importantly, with locals who live in Bay Saint Louis."

Tipitina's Foundation

From the website: "The Tipitina's Foundation a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, has worked diligently to uplift the music community of New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, the Foundation responded by rebuilding New Orleans' music culture. Initially, the Foundation addressed the immediate needs of our exiled musicians and allowed them to carry on with their lives. Now the foundation is using the legendary music club, Tipitina's Uptown, as the center of its relief efforts by hosting a newly-opened Music Co-op Office that allows musicians to conduct their business activities during the daytime, free legal and accounting seminars, free music lessons for music students, regular Master Seminars, and help with housing information. An important aspect of the rebuilding process has involved finding replacement instruments for both professionals and music students alike. So far the foundation has given away over $500,000 of new instruments. Through these efforts, the Tipitina's Foundation is saving the musical traditions of New Orleans."

Katrina Grace

From the website: "The Katrina Recovery efforts of Grace Community Church in Columbia, MD"

Hands On Gulf Coast

From the website: "Hands On Gulf Coast is a disaster response project of Hands On Network. We work along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, mostly in East Biloxi, Bay St. Louis, Gulfport, and Moss Point. Come volunteer to help the Gulf Coast rebuild."

Katrina Home Drive

Connecting survivors with homes, so uprooted people can plant new roots.

Shop the Gulf Coast 

Help the Gulf Coast Jumpstart its Economy

Dirty Coast Press

How do you answer the questions raised by Katrina? With funny funny funny T-shirts, not all of which pass the "clean filter" but all with a sense of humor.

Farrington Smith Gallery

A new art gallery opens in NOLA.

From Woodstoves to Microwaves

A traditional New Orleans cookbook, sold by the United Way of Greater New Orleans.

k8company

From the website: "Gifts, garb and gear for liberal thinkers -- 100% of profits benefit the post-Katrina rebuilding efforts of Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi." From private communication: "specifically the Employee Salary Fund."

k8company for Hancock County

Fundraising for Hancock County, MS.

Katrina Artists

Features about two dozen Gulf Coast artists. From the website: "This is a free space for Gulf Coast artists in the tri-state area affected by Hurricane Katrina to post information about their work, to let customers know where they are now and to sell their work online. Though much attention is focused on rebuilding efforts after the hurricane, many don't realize the full extent to which local artists depended on a thriving local economy to survive. Art vendors often sold work to tourists who flocked to the areas for wonderful food, beach getaways, quaint shopping areas and gambling."

Natalie Wells

A native of New Orleans sings her heart out over Katrina and Rita. Buy her single CD, "Waiting for an Angel"!

New Orleans Craft Mafia

From the website: "The New Orleans Craft Mafia formed in June 2005
and consists of several independent artists
in a variety of media: jewelry, clothing,
accessories, home decor, journals, and more."

Song for New Orleans

A DVD of a documentary on the return of musicians to New Orleans a year after the devastating 2005 hurricane season. Proceeds benefit the Musicians' Village and Tipitina's Foundation.

The Art of the Storm

A DVD documentary about "several coast artists as we struggle to rebuild our lives and careers in the wake of Hurricane Katrina."

Friends of the Gulf Coast 

Not Dedicated Specifically to Gulf Coast Recovery

America's North Shore Journal

An online magazine supporting the Ninth Amendment. Lots of good posts on the military, government (over)spending, and a multiple host of the Carnival of Hurricane Relief.

Facing South

The blog of progressive Institute for Southern Studies.

Inkblots

Mississippi Press Association & Services blog.

The Irish Trojan's Blog

Brendan Loy covers storms with brio. Check his blog frequently during hurricane season.

The Ongoing Adventures...

The ongoing adventures of Regan, Braeden, Tammi and John -- a homeschooling family.

Photojournalism

Dedicated to explaining the discipline of photojournalism, with outstanding examples and interviews by a professional photojournalist.

Louisiana Black Publishers Association

A new service of the Louisiana Black Publishers Association.

Mike the Actuary's Musings

From the website: "My thoughts on political and business subjects". His thoughts frequently turn to the consequences of property damage, as after a hurricane.

Mississippi Fish and Wildlife Foundation

From the website: "...A low-overhead, no frills organization which was founded to conserve, restore and enhance our fisheries and wildlife resources for the enjoyment and enrichment of all residents of Mississippi, their progeny and visitors to our state."

There's N.O. pLA.ce like Home

"Gina in N'Awlins" on life in the Big Easy after the Big Blow.

New Orleans Voices for Peace

From the website: "Our intent: To seek relief and justice for those harmed by wars & natural disasters."

Traveling Mermaid

Passionately curious, located in New Orleans.

Under the News

The blogger is "a managing editor at the Beaumont (TX) Enterprise, a 60,000-circulation daily newspaper. [He is] also the author of two novels, "Angel Fire" and "The Deadline," and an occasional commentator at National Public Radio."

Notes in the Key of Life

From the website: "Observations about faith, fiction, family and entertainment from radio personality and aspiring writer Cindy Swanson"

A DC Birding Blog

From the website: "Bird walks, profiles of bird species in the Mid-Atlantic region, news stories about birds, occasional book reviews, and opinions on other issues."

Gulf Coast Sci-Tech Digest

From the website:"

Along a stretch of the Gulf Coast between Baton Rouge, LA, and Fort Walton Beach, FL, there are six contiguous metropolitan areas that have a research infrastructure that's been largely unheralded. About 150 federal and university research units and hundreds of "innovation" companies conduct research in a range of fields. This site is designed as a source for news about the science-technology corridor and its industry clusters."

Mississippi Gulf Coast Vacation Planner

With information about the recovery of the hospitality industry.

Weather Illustrated 

Photos of Gulf Coast Hurricanes

27 Storms: From Arlene to Zeta

The storms of the 2005 hurricane season, courtesy of NASA.

AP Hurricane Animation

Via the Associated Press, an animation showing damage to be expected at each of the five designated levels of strength for hurricanes.

NOAA Environmental Visualization Program

Enhanced satellite photos, graphics, and animations related to weather.

nowCOAST

Realtime satellite observation, mapping, and weather forecasts.

Hurricane Image Gallery

Space.com's gallery of historical images.

Weather in Words 

When Pictures Aren't Enough

Eye on the Storm

The Palm Beach Post covers hurricanes, written by Bob King.

Hurricane Central

Weather.com's central site for current hurricane conditions and helpful preparedness information.

Caribbean Storm Network

Local island correspondents keep a weather-eye on current conditions.

Jeff Master's Wunderblog

The senior meterologist at The Weather Underground explains all.

Margie Kieper's Wunderblog

Check out her series on Katrina's storm surge, beginning with Grand Isle, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.

National Hurricane Center

The place to go for official government information on hurricanes at the federal (United States national) level; covers both Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Tropical Storm Risk

From the webiste: "a leading resource for forecasting the risk from tropical storms worldwide."

Gulf Coast Art 

Beauty from the Rubble

The Katrina Collection

From the website: "The Katrina Collection is evolving. In the beginning, all of the pieces were about the storm itself, and my reaction to the event. As I began working through the healing process, I discovered that I was able to focus on creating works from the debris that were more about the joy of creating than about the event. Now, another level has been reached. I am still using debris in all of the pieces, but I am beginning to incorporate elements which I am finding in my travels, and which were not necessarily dug out of rubbish piles. I see this as another step forward in the struggle to incorporate the storm into my life, and make it my own."

Artisan Hurricane Relief

From the website: "Relief information for artists on the Gulf Coast affected by hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma. Links for showing your art, information on grants, funding, loans, relief efforts."