Louisiana and Mississippi Disaster Updates
It's going to get worse before it gets any better.
-Click Here To Learn How To Help
UPDATE: Check out this link to the home page of WLBT television - if you have a broadband connection, watch the 'Skycopter on the Gulf Coast - Second Tour' video. The devastation in Mississippi is just unbelievable
UPDATE: IF YOU ARE IN ONE OF THE AFFECTED AREAS AND NEED HELP, call the American Red Cross, 1-866-438-4636
UPDATE: The State Police road closure hotline number has been discontinued. The inability of a number of 911 centers to receive calls requires the road closure hotline number now be used for emergency 911 calls only.-- If you have a 911 emergency in a storm-affected area call 1-800-469-4828. Do not call this number for road closure information. Use of this line for road closure will prevent emergency calls from being answered. The public can still obtain road closure information from the Louisiana State Police web site at www.lsp.org.
- Hurricane Katrina Help Wiki (good compendium of information)
- A database is being developed for people who are missing and may need to be rescued from New Orleans. Call 225-925-6626 to give officials their names. They may also have information about people already rescued.
- Due to the large amounts of flooding, state police officials are requesting volunteers and/or their boats to assist in operations in the New Orleans area. Those who are interested in volunteering themselves or their boats are encouraged to call 1-225-925-7500.
- FEMA lists agencies to contact, to volunteer or send donations
- Relief agencies seek donations for hurricane victims
- American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund
- Red Cross: Volunteers needed
- Samaritan's Purse
- Salvation Army
- Feed the Children
- United Methodist Church
- Episcopal Relief and Development
- Operation Blessing International
- Catholic Charities
- New Orleans Mayor: Katrina May Have Killed Thousands
- Convoy prepares to bring Katrina refugees to Astrodome
- Refugees roam as all hotels within hundreds of miles are booked
- Americans Contribute Millions for Relief
- Mississippi: Katrina damage, town by town
- An Iconic City Can't Replace the Irreplaceable
- New Orleans' Tragic Paradox
- 'Caskets are everywhere'
- 17th Street Canal repair fails; floodwater expected to rise 15 feet in next few hours
- Massive Storm Damage Found in Alabama
- Governor says entire city needs to be evacuated
- Bayoubuzz launches Hurricane Katrina Web Page
- Caskets knocked out of mausoleum at memorial park
- Mortuary disaster teams dispatched from Texas
- More than 2.7 million without power
- Rare strokes of luck mark rescue
- Victims left with nothing
- Watch Live Video of Damage and Rescue Operations (WDSU hurricane coverage)
- More than 95 percent of Gulf oil production lost
- Biloxi fears hundreds dead
- 'I can't find my wife's body' - 30 reported dead in MS beachfront apartment complex
- N.O. residents will be asked to stay away for a month
- Body count rises, over 1 million without power
- Check BayouBuzz for local updates
- Check WWLTV for News Updates about the Situation in New Orleans
- 'Worse than our worst fears': Minute-by-minute updates here
- Long distance and cell services failing
- Anheuser-Busch donates water in hurricane relief move
- Lowe's Prepared for Hurricane Katrina Relief
