Hurricane Katrina Information

Finding People

• TTU Responds to Hurricane Katrina
• National Hotline to Locate Missing Hurricane Victims Established
  (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children)
• Hurricane Katrina Resources (Yahoo) 
• Hurricane Katrina
  (Family News Network of the International Committee of the Red Cross)
• Help Identify People who are Missing as a Result of Hurricane Katrina
  (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children)

Finding Assistance and Resources

• Katrina's Angels
• Hurricane Katrina Recovery
  (FirstGov.gov: The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal)
• Emergencies and Disasters: Hurricane Katrina: What Government is Doing (U.S. Department of Homeland Security)
• Hurricane Katrina Federal Web Information (FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Agency)
• Hurricane Katrina Relief and Recovery (USA Freedom Corps)
• Hurricane Katrina Information (FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Agency)
• Alabama News (Alabama.gov)
• FloridaDisaster.org (Florida Division of Emergency Management)
• Louisiana Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness
• Mississippi Emergency Management Agency
• Hurricane Katrina Resources (Yahoo)

Hurricane Weather Information and Images

• National Hurricane Center (National Weather Service)
• The Gulf Coast in Katrina's Wake
  [interactive map with satellite images] (Washington Post)
• Hurricane Katrina Images
  (National Geodetic Survey (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

News Coverage of Hurricane Katrina and Aftermath

• The Times-Picayune [New Orleans. LA]
• MAYDAY Mississippi Delta (truthout.org)
• Complete Coverage: Hurricane Katrina (New York Times)
• Special Report: In Katrina's Wake (Washington Post)
• Hurricane Katrina Complete Coverage (National Geographic News)
• Hurricane Katrina (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Recovery and Reconstruction

• New Orleans (Books for Understanding)
• Louisiana Recovery Authority (official state site)
• Mississippi Renewal Forum: Governor's Commission on Recovery, Renewal and Rebuilding (official state site)
• [Mississippi] Governor's Commission: Recovery, Rebuilding, Renewal (official state site)

Government Investigations Regarding Hurricane Katrina

• Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina, U.S. House of Representatives
• A Failure of Initiative: The Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina, U.S. House of Representatives (February 15, 2006)
• The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned (The White House), February [23,] 2006
• Hurricane Katrina: A Nation Still Unprepared, U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs report, April 27, 2006

Understanding Hurricane Katrina in Historical Perspective

• "Through the Eye of Katrina The Past as Prologue," Journal of American History, Special Issue, December 2007
• Breaking News: [Hurricane] Katrina (History News Network)
• Hurricane Digital Memory Bank: Preserving the Stories of Katrina, Rita, and Wilma
  Center for History and New Media, George Mason University; University of New Orleans; and the Smithsonian Institution's National Musuem of American History)
• Hurricane History (National Hurricane Center, National Weather Service)

Last updated on February 6, 2008

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