6 September 2005

  • New York's currently: still horrified
  • The U.S. failed colossally to protect its citizens from a disaster frequently foretold--a chain of preceding events.
  • Pumps start emptying the big easy after the 17th Street Canal floodwall is plugged, but the city is a water world.
  • Houston businesses jump to find gold in the mud, seeing a boom while New Orleans recovers.
  • 10,000 estimated to be sticking it out in New Orleans; 10,000 estimated dead.
  • 10,000 emergency cosmetics kits prepared for Katrina survivors, "to get people back on track."
  • One million people, homeless for months to come.
  • Health officials find benign cousin of cholera in some Katrina evacuees.
  • Power restored to some parts of Jefferson Parish; 50,000 return to find much less destruction than nearby New Orleans.
  • Many reasons to fire FEMA Director "Brownie."
  • What Rehnquist accomplished, what he didn't, and what he taught nominated successor Roberts.
  • Oral history of New Orleans bartenders.
  • Op: Natural disasters test Presidents' mettle, and Bush has failed.
  • Locking gas caps, the hot new accessory in New York, are selling out in Pittsburgh too.
  • Photos blogged from the Houston Astrodome.
  • New Orleans musicians who have survived.
  • Mp3: Fanastic old Billy Delle broadcast of New Orleans music.
  • Interview with Rob Walker, author of Letters From New Orleans.
  • Terrifying 2004 predictions of what would have happened if New Orleans had been struck by Hurricane Ivan.
  • Eulogy for New Orleans architecture.
  • Op: The best monument to this catastrophe would be a serious effort to address American poverty.
  • Kids across America raised thousands for Katrina survivors by selling lemonade.
  • Whatever you can give--it's much worse than you think.