Katrina victim Net resources
p2p news / p2pnet:- Children separated from families by Hurricane Katrina are being helped by online resources such as a Katrina Missing Persons Hotline on the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and Craiglist.
"The response has been enormous," Craiglist founder Craig Newmark told p2pnet.
On the NCNEC hotline, photos, names and descriptions of adults as well as children are being posted.
The NCMEC is also using the Push to Talk system so people whose systems have mics and speakers can report sightings.
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September 7th, 2005 at 12:24 am
Having just gotten power again and contact with the outside world, I realize just how lucky we are. There are those far less fortunate than we.
Hopefully because I never sign my posts here, no one missed me. However, I can give some insight to those unlucky enough to have lost loved ones. Communications are not there for the average citizen. No phone, no cell phone, no radio (stations are down without power), no electricity, no gasoline, no food, no water, no sewage. Luckily, we saved our food for the most part.
There are many families trying to get in contact with those they have lost contact with. The government has been most slow to get into motion. FEMA showed in our area 4 days after the hurricane left. National guard and police relief are only showing up now. 8 days after the event. Literally people are starving in places like New Orleans, with additional problems of contaminated water and bodies still in the waters there.
Many could not afford to leave. Others had no vehicles. Some sent their children with others in hopes that at least they would be safer than in the city. I have heard eye witness account of a husband losing his wife, fighting to hold her against the flood waters; attempting to drag her to safety. She told him she loved him and knew he could not hold her for long against the flood current. There are these types of stories everywhere here.
I do not live in New Orleans but have close ties there. The City of New Orleans, the state of Lousiana, and the state of Mississippi got hit hard. I feel luckly we got power back in only 9 days and it is no longer a 4 hour wait to get 10 gallons of gas. I truely hope those that are less fortunate than we do get some sort of semblance of order back in their lives soon.
To those that are missing loved ones; while it is hard to do so, please be patient. Many of those spots that no one has heard of has yet to see help or any help in numbers. The infrastructure no longer exists to support vehicles, food supply, gas, communications, even businesses to go buy food and the like. It will be restored but it will take a while. They are working on it as we read.
God bless all that affected by this huge storm. It will be a while before we see life as we know it return.
These three photos were taken by me in our area. They are not the worse, they are not bad. They only explain why there is no power and is only now coming back. This is no cry for pity for us, we are fine. But think of others not so fortunate.
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