Katrina on the Web

The Washington Post's Leslie Walker does a great around the room of Katrina-centric sites (free registration required) on the web and suggests that this Yahoo site might be the best Katrina portal. She also mentions

• 20050905 Update: Helpful Washington Post Interactive Map - ht to flip medley
  

• Official List of Missing Persons - US Coast Guard
  
  
• The National Next of Kin Directory
  
  
• "Thousands of people also turned to Craigslist, a classified-ads site that quickly created special Katrina bulletin boards for missing people, housing assistance and volunteer opportunities"
  
  
• Hurricanehousing.org - where those needing housing and those offering housing can meet.
  
  
• Charitynavigator - where potential donors can check out the legitimacy of online donation sites.
  
  
• Networkforgood - which lists most of the major relief agencies collecting money for Katrina relief.
  
  
• hurricane.meetup.com - "Anyone wanting to organize a volunteer effort locally can use the popular Web meeting service Meetup, which waived all of its regular fees for those providing hurricane relief"
  
  

I'll also list some other sites that have been mentioned in previous emergesque posts:

• Stories of Survival - Michelle Malkin
  
  
• Katrina Survivors Blog - DJ Chuang
  
  
• Church Networks Engage the Katrina Situation
  
  
• Katrina predictions
  

the graphic is from the yahoo site mentioned