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Air America Public Voicemail
1-866-217-6255
Air America Radio's Public Voicemail is a way for disconnected people to communicate in the wake of Katrina.
Here's how it works:
Call the toll-free number above, enter your everyday phone number, and then record a message. Other people who know your everyday phone number (even if it doesn't work anymore) can call Emergency Voicemail, enter the phone number they associate with you, and hear your message.
You can also search for messages left by people whose phone numbers you know. Air America Radio will leave Public Voicemail in service for as long as this crisis continues. You can call it whenever you are trying to locate someone, or if you are trying to be found.
Obviously, for this to work, people need to know about it so please forward the number to as many people as you can. You can find out more about Katrina and the affected areas at Air America Radio's main page.
Air America Radio brings you Emergency VoiceMail in conjunction with VoodooVox.
Also, MoveOn.org launched a new website yesterday, Hurricane Housing, asking all MoveOn.org members and the public at large to post any available housing for the thousands of folks left homeless by Katrina. This could really help evacuees.
interdictor gets another distressing report. Why am I not surprised...And fortysevenbteg tipped me to this timely little rant as well. And every single word of it true, you neocon hypocritical fucktards. My sweet gods...three monkeys with a stick of chewing gum could've handled Katrina's aftermath better. This is exactly why I say I hate Bush.
And bet me there are right-wing bloggers out there, right now, trying to find just the right spin so the President-in-Thief doesn't get any more meltdown on his feet of clay. Fraaaaaack.
This is interesting--Craigslist set up a search site specifically for people looking to find a safe place to sleep, or find others in N'Awlins, or donate to the cause. Neat.
Worried about folks in the area? See if they're OK.
To that end...y'all knew I was going there eventually, right? Here's the Google satellite image of where my once-brother's house was.
You'll notice the big huge black patch of nothingness surrounding that little red virtual pushpin. Y'know why that's there? Because that's the patch that Katrina hit, according to Google. All of that black patch. And more.
Crap.
And no, still can't verify that he's up and functional in any wise. Crap crap crap.
Y'know, I always tell people, when I'm borrowing their links, that it's going in tomorrow's entry. You know. The next entry's the one I mean. But usually, I've already posted something when I start wading through the LJ posts of the day, so it's tomorrow's entry I mean. Tomorrow. The one after I finish reading and go to bed and wake up and post entry. That one.
Screw tomorrow. These next pics are all from Local 10, out of Miami. Apparently, they're all of Florida damage...the NOLA damage is worse.
This was a large, glass-covered porch or pool area on Hardie Road, in Coconut Grove.
Image from Rafael Enciso.
Three, maybe more, sailboats submerged at the base of the Venetian Causeway.
Image from David Prince/Lynore Reiseck.
Looks like a sailboat was trying to escape into someone's house.
Image from Ken Theisen.
This was a downed tree that is pretty much ensuring that car is never moving again. On Broadview.
Image from Barbara Carr.
One of those tall, mobile staircases-to-airplanes that got toppled by the high winds.
Unknown airport employee took this, the morning after the worst of it.
A lot of trees decided, what with the wind and all, to relocate. Across cars, across houses, across roads, across highways...
Image from Shannon M.
Is this an underground parking garage or an aboveground parking garage? Either way, it was holding a lot of excess floodwater.
Image from Carolina Ortega.
Caption on this read, Westwood @ Cypress Run Coral Springs. A whole row of trees just went...right...over.
Image from Gilly Spracklen.
There'll be more. I've been depressing the hell out of myself going over disaster photos. So, yeah--there will be more.