During Katrina and for several weeks afterward, I worked with a small group on democraticunderground.com to compile info about the disaster and various efforts in response to it, effectual and not.\r\n\r\nWe compiled personal stories from survivors and rescuers as well as news reports and information from governmental or other websites that may subsequently have been subsequently altered or removed.\r\n\r\nThe info was compiled in a democraticunderground.com forum thread which can be found at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=106x22805 . \r\n\r\nThe post initiating the thread describes the method used to organize the info. It\'s followed by a (lengthy) list of topic/post headings, which is followed in turn by the actual posts containing the info.\r\n\r\nTo minimize possible copyright violations, the posts usually contain four paragraphs or less, plus a link to the source quoted. Even including just these truncated versions of the reports we compiled, the total thread contains nearly 155,000 words.\r\n\r\nThe organization is only partial -- sorry, it was a crisis-driven group effort in a not-so-well adapted medium. So there may be info relating to the same topic in more than one section. To find info on a particular topic, I recommend you search this page for key words, and be sure to search through the whole page.\r\n\r\nThe dates in the post headings generally refer to the date on which the info was found, rather than the date of the source. I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the information, which was compiled from a wide array of sources and which some posters augmented with their own editorial comments. \r\n\r\nBut I do believe that we managed to compile some information that may not have been preserved elsewhere.