NPR, News, and Yet More Links

Sep 21, 2005 by Loki

Yesterday I wrote the following and then had to stop:

Well, hereI sit with NY NPR playing nonstop stories of expatriated New Orleanians in the background. I hear the phrase, “the smell of corpses,” waft through the air as I type and with horrid fascination stop to listen. The man speaking is in my neighborhood, I just heard him say he was passing Tipitina’s heading up Napoleon Ave. It’s a strange feeling hearing Nick Spitzer enter his home, a scant few blocks from my own, describing the eerie deserted state of things post Katrina. Three things he says strike hugely emotional chords with my fiancee and I: the description of a housecat strving in the street wrenches my guts; as he speaks of retreiving his record collection he lists much of the same music we left behind; and the live audio as he is stopped by terse military types as he drives down a St. Charles Avenue that is, “as dark as a country road.” The complex cocktail of feelings this all elicits is hard to describe.

That was as far as I got before having to leave.

Then last night Recon One called me from my own living room uptown. The Doodler was sitting in my living room looking at a COMPLETELY UNDAMAGED APARTMENT!! Now that I have shared that with the world here are more links and resources for NO In Exile:

Center For Disease Control post Katrina Immunization Info
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/immunizations.asp

CDC KAtrina Overall Health Data
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/index.asp

Google’s Katrina Resources Page
http://www.google.com/katrina.html

Federal Govt’s Hurricane Katrina Data and Resources
http://www.firstgov.gov/Citizen/Topics/PublicSafety/Hurricane_Katrina_Recovery.shtml

Craig’s List Katrina Page
http://neworleans.craigslist.org/

FEMA’s Katrina Page
http://www.fema.gov/press/2005/resources_katrina.shtm

Clean Up Jobs Available
http://www.cleanupjobs.com/

Katrina.Com
http://www.katrina.com/

US Dept of Health and Human Services
http://www.hhs.gov/katrina/

BBC Katrina In Depth
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/americas/2005/hurricane_katrina/default.stm

Think Progress Katrina Timeline
http://www.thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline

Coffee Impact (My Proffession)
http://www.tastesoftheworld.net/gourmet-coffee-new-orleans.htm