It has been eleven weeks since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans
and the Gulf coast on August 29th, 2005. There are still hundreds of thousands of people living far away from their homes. Some will probably never return. There are stories of ruined lives, toxic pollutants, rent-gouging, mold and 100 square miles of
lost wetlands. The Nola.com blog has a Times-Picayuneeditorial that says Katrina is already being forgotten: "Ours is an uneasy place to be. Help is easy to come by when people are suffering on camera. But the needs exist long after those images recede, and it is a frightening prospect to fear being forgotten."
Here are some links to blog posts from bloggers that have not forgotten.
The Daily Nightly blog had a week of coverage on Katrina from 10/31/05 to 11/4/05. The blog also has archives now so you can get directly to their earlier coverage.
ePodunk has a map
of the massive Katrina migration: "Katrina caused the
biggest mass migration in U.S. history, surpassing the 1927 flood of the
Mississippi River. In terms of numbers permanently displaced, the only event
that might have been bigger than Katrina is the Civil War."
(Via KidneyNotes)
The Hammer of Truth blogs about Katrina's 521,000 pink slips.
The Gambit Weekly, a New Orleans alternative newsweekly
started publishing again earlier this month.
My Likes and Dislikes says NIN's Trent Reznor was allowed into the 9th Ward where he took these pictures.
A Blog for All has a good
wrap-up of news including fired police officers, a
criminal
investigation into levee failures, aid efforts and environmental
problems.
Polimom blogs about the post-Katrina drop in crime rate in New Orleans.
In the Agora reports that some Katrina survivors have filed a class action suit against FEMA. (also see USA Today)
Wombat Naton discusses the Slow recovery in Biloxi and posts photos of a McDonald's restaurant that has not been repaired since it was damaged by Katrina.
Michael Brown was busy declaring himself a "Fashion God" during the height of the problems in New Orleans. More about Brown's emails here,
here,
here and
here. There are even Michael Brown paper dolls at Flickrdoodle.
It is certainly not as important as some of the more serious issues but
Wizbang blogs
that Katrina ruined thousands of Armani suits.
