More New Orleans local links.

Two more:

nola.com checkout the news forums, particularly Reaching Out.

an amazing blog from someone who's still there today. Here's a snip of his Monday, August 27 post

For those of you who haven't been reading this, I'm on the 10th/11th floors of a 27 floor high rise at 650 Poydras in downtown New Orleans. If you go to Google Earth or some other map program, we're the big brown building between Poydras ave and Lafayette Square and between Camp Street and St. Charles Ave. We're about 6 blocks from the river. We have a view (in the daytime) of the river, the twin spans over the river, the interstate, the Entergy building, the landmark building, the federal court of appeals building, a bunch of hotels, etc. Welcome to ground zero.

Think global, act local

Here are some links to Baton Rouge TV coverage about Katrina:



Channel 4 WWLTV.com is broadcasting from the studios of Louisiana Public Broadcasting.

2theadvocate.com is a collaboration between Channel 2 and Baton Rouge newspaper, The Advocate. There is an amazing day by day archive of video documenting this event.

Getting local information from local folks makes more sense to me. Seeing it through the eyes of someone from somewhere else, filtered through a big city producer, it looks like a whole different story. I'd like to hear your take on this.

Please join the call tomorrow, Sunday Sept. 4 at 3 pm eastern. Details in the Katrina Conference post on this blog.

Be well.

Katrina Conference Call

My heart goes out to the thousands of people who are spending another night lost in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas.

More than once today, I have found myself overcome by the images and voices of these people. The ripples have already started to move outward. The impact of this event is evident today at gas stations and grocery stores all through the U.S.

It's time to rally the troops, and I don't mean the ones in uniforms. Times are going to get tough real soon and the more prepared we can be, the better.

I'm scheduling a conference call for Sunday afternoon, September 4 at 3:00 eastern. My intention with this call is to give you, and any one you'd like to invite, an opportunity to focus on this catastrophe and how it has impacted you and what we can do to help each other.


Like 9/11, and the tsunami last December, this event has long threads that connect us in unexpected ways. I hope that with this first call, we'll get a glimpse into how far reaching, deep and complex these connections are. Maybe we'll come up with a way to find the silver lining. That would be good, wouldn't you agree?

What are your thoughts about this?

Please post your comments. Go ahead, venting is good.

Please read and consider the comments of others and come to the call ready to contribute, to listen, learn and grow.

More info about how the whole call thing works. Click here

Sunday, September 4. 2005

3 pm eastern.

Call number: 712 580 7700

Access code: 27001 # (press the # key after the access code)

Hope to talk with you on Sunday,

D