Katrina “I’m OK” Registry & More
Brandon Stone, who is well known for creating Photoblogs.org has just released the Katrina “I’m OK” registry so that the victims of the hurricane, their friends and relatives can find each other simply by using their primary phone number.
For more details, or to add suggestions, head on to blogs.photoblogs.org
(Thanks Andre!)
Also check out http://firstgov.gov/ to register a missing loved one to be rescued. The phone numbers are busy but the web form works.
Listening to the online feed of the police scanner(?) in New Orleans, it’s clear that they still don’t have what they need but are making due with what they have concerning the evacuation logistics. The rescuers are obviously fatigued and frustrated but being as nice as possible about it.
Just heard over the feed: “Sorry. You know things just don’t happen instantaneously.”
Great. He joins the dozen or so “I’m OK” registries already out there.
See also: Ernie the Attorney’s suggestion and my rant on this subject. Summary: too many registries is as bad as none. There needs to be just one well-recognised registry. My complaint: this is just another example of poor planning and lack of leadership by FEMA.
Good call. Someone needs to endorse a few registries where there is some IT support standing by.
Please tell me the Maple Leaf Bar on Oak Street found a way to stay open. I wrote a story for the Dallas Morning News about the owner’s preparations, including reinforced walls and a generator.
Please e-mail or call. No time to keep checking back for comments.
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There’s a new message board/support group for Katrina. http://www.katrinatalk.org Come over and give some support and get some, too. Blog authors–would you mind adding a link? It will be helpful to people.–Thanks
I have been writing stories of my ordeal if anyone wants to read http://hurricanekatrinablog.blogspot.com
I recommend that the people of each city in which Katrina refugees arrive act as a whole community to take on and ensure that those refugees are well-fed daily.
Whatever other aspects of their situation they are prepared to provide would be extra.
I recommend that everyone realize that this is a common disaster and must be met commonly.
I recommend that any considerations above and beyond the rescue, maintenance, and recovery of the Katrina refugees be put aside and that America use this as an occasion to come together and resolve this serious and ongoing problem.
Let it be an occasion for Americans and their neighbours to put everything that stands between them behind them and respond.
Let everyone realize that the survivors of Hurricane Katrina are so stressed that they must be seen to and forgiven what they say at this time. It is not a time for them to be worrying about how they sound or look. They are at the utter edge of their capabilities.
Our response could transform America. Let us not miss this opportunity.
Rebuild NewOrleans, maybe upriver.seems present day NO would be a good spot for a national memorial park, could still hold the MardiGras and new annual AquaGras and tributes to old NO, but to continue a stubborn act of perseverence of stupidity by pouring billions into a sinkhole does not make sense
http://pluswars.com/katrina
this is also another place to gp to post the names of
lost loved ones, and let family and friends know that you are safe.
Jim Thompson is correct. Pretty soon we will need a registry for the registries. I entered and found info about lost people at a well organized site: http://wx.gulfcoastnews.com/katrina/status.aspx
Although the dbase seems small, at least they have a good format and is laid out in coherent fashion.
I would suggest that the Red Cross is another good place to find people because of the sheer size of the db. I haven’t used the site yet but will list people there.
As far as these blogs go, the great stories, personal dramas and finger pointing can wait until some minimum survival basics are met, the many stranded living are found, the sick attended to. The worst is yet to come.
My name is Larry L Brown from Bogalusa, La. right now I’m working on an offshore rig off the west coast of Africa, can some one give me some Info. on my family in Bogalusa, wife Gretchen, kids Justin and Sara Brown (3 Sep. 2005)
Red Cross is a good one to contact as they are setting up shelters all over. There are shelters being operated in North Carolina, some for days now for people able to get out on their own, and now some with flights arriving tonight in Greensboro with NOLA people. Charlotte and Raleigh also expecting people.
God Bless you all and thank God progress is finally being made.
There are many good people in this country that want to help everyone in all the affected areas.
Don’t give up!!!
A phone number database doesn’t seem to be a good way to tell if someone is okay. Some people that had the number may be okay, others not; and in this cell phone era, others may not even have a “primary” phone number.
Hey Larry,
I have nothing about your family, but I was in Bogalusa over the weekend. Power is being restored in town to the main lines, some phone service,but just in town from house to house. Cell service is up in Parts of Franklinton. No serious injuries, most of the damage is trees and power lines. Most of the homes are in fine shape, only a few have trees on them. FEMA and the RED CROSS have finally arrived, with water, ice and food. They have running water in town during the day, but a boil order is on. The first shipments of gas have also arrived, the lines are very long. Out side of town in the heavely wooded areas power will be out for 3-4 more weeks. But everyone is going door to door checking on their neighbors. The local police are constantly on the streets. There has been some minor looting, but very little. The National Guard is also there. Line men from all over the US, and BellSouth workers. I hope this helps releave some of your worries. Food, water and ice are being handed out in several parts of town.
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