Want better info about Katrina

September 2, 2005 7:23 AM

Is there a blog collecting updates about the Katrina Disaster? Where are you getting your info? Not just news agency stories and pics, but first hand accounts.

An earlier post led me to that interview with the mayor of New Orleans.... is there a blog collecting stuff like that - real, first-hand information like this?

posted by mudhouse to computers & internet (10 comments total)

http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/
posted by snowgoon at 7:26 AM on September 2, 2005

I haven't found any perfect source, but Making Light has had some great info over the past few days.
posted by jdroth at 7:45 AM on September 2, 2005

This LJ group is mainly comprised of the Interdictor blog, but there are accounts from others.
posted by zsazsa at 7:49 AM on September 2, 2005

CyberJournalist.net has a a list of bloggers who've been posting from/near/about New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
posted by lola at 8:56 AM on September 2, 2005

GulfSails is a guy posting from River Ridge. River Ridge is situated between NO and the airport in Kenner.
posted by Carbolic at 9:42 AM on September 2, 2005

Although you have to wade through a lot of BS, I have to give credit to Fark for having some of the best information during this whole thing. They have burned through about ten 1000+ post threads by now. There are a few people posting with first-hand account, and yesterday there were a bunch of people posting police scanner dialogue from the rescue operations.
posted by Who_Am_I at 9:47 AM on September 2, 2005

Brendan Loy is doing a pretty good job, too.
posted by bshort at 9:49 AM on September 2, 2005

WWL-TV has the best blog I've found. They update at least twice an hour as things happen.
posted by Mach5 at 10:04 AM on September 2, 2005

I've just posted an interview with a cameraman who was in New Orleans when Katrina hit. You can read it here.
posted by baggers at 10:07 AM on September 2, 2005

The New Orleans Times-Picayune has some good stuff including an emotional missing persons forum.
posted by Packy_1962 at 12:11 PM on September 2, 2005