If you need help/assistance:

• Shelters: Where to go when you must evacuate (shortcut: Texas Shelters)
• Helpline Numbers: for emergency & disaster relief information (shortcut: Helpline Numbers: Texas or dial 211)
• Aid agencies (shortcut: Texas aid)
• Missing & Found Persons: Use the Red Cross's Safe & Well Registry
• Federal government resources: (shortcut: Texas)
• Government resources: state and local: links to statewide, counties, local DHS, police, emergency management (shortcut: Texas)
• Animal Rescue Resources: Comprehensive pet information
• Health and Safety Info: Water purification, diseases prevention, safety
• Counseling and healing
• Ham Radio Resources
• College Students: Special information for students
• Time Off: Activities for children in the affected areas
• Recovery: relocation advice: Checklist of actions that can be taken by people who lost their homes and businesses

If you have help to give

• Donations: Where and how to donate cash and goods
• Volunteering: If you have time to give
• Related projects that you can participate in online:
  • If you are working on a project, please let us know here Who Is Doing What
  • Hurricane Information Center: Coordination hub for this project + dynamic content resources
  • Twitter Resources
  • Mobile resource guide for iPhone, cell
  • Scanner Transcription Project
    • If you just came aboard, head to the irc.freenode.net IRC Server and join the #interdictor channel.: irc://chat.freenode.net/interdictor

• Fundraising events: Add your event

News, blogs, maps and other resources

• News Resources - full list
  • Ike 2008 News
• 2008 Hurricane season on Wikipedia
• Gustav:
  • Red Cross - Official Red Cross Gustav news
  • Google News on Gustav
  • Gustav Radio Network
• WDSU-TV - Video/Stream | WWL-TV -
• Page with WGNO, WWL, WDSU, and WVUE TV feeds - Windows only (uses Windows Media Player)
• Live Stream via Limelight
• List of Hurricane Blogs & Blog Aggregators
• Image Galleries
• Interactive Maps
  • Hurricane Ike GIS Resources

Media coverage

• Gustav Wiki: rapid-response social media for natural disasters (Center for Social Media)
• The Power of Social Media, Volunteers & Hurricane Gustav (Connie Bensen)
• Forget the government — regular folks create major Gustav resources (Andrew Kantor)
• Der Sturm tobt auch im Netz (Der Spiegel) (tr.: "The storm also rages online")
• NPR's Andy Carvin on the Role of Social Media in Gustav Coverage (Poynter Online)
• On the Blogs: Gustav Approaches, and a Virtual Community Comes to the Rescue (NY Times' The Lede)
• Online Community Rallies Around Crises (NPR)
• TechGrrl Deanna Zandt on the Tweets and Wiki organizing (GRITtv)
• Web 2.0 Community Responds to Hurricane Season (FastCompany)

Weather links

• National Hurricane Center
• Interactive Maps
• Hurricane Kyle
  • wikipedia:Hurricane Kyle (2008)
• Hurricane Ike
  • Hurricane Ike GIS Resources
  • wikipedia:Hurricane Ike
• Gustav from CFHC | * Graphics from NOAA/NHC | * Graphics from BoatUS Marine | Raw Model Plots from Colorado State

Traffic links

• Hurricane Ike:
  • Evacuation routes and other maps
  • Current event info: Hurricane Ike

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