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  1. Situation reports and power outage maps from the DOE's Office of Electricity, Delivery and Energy Reliability. Covers impacts on municipal electrical power as well as impacts on petroleum and gas industry.
  2. Multi-organizational partnership among some of the nation’s leading non-profit disaster relief organizations to maintain a joint shelter resident registration, shelter tracking module, and service site database.
  3. This is a housing services hub for Katrina victims. You can offer up housing space for victims, or hurricane survivors can search for available rooms/houses/apts/etc.
  4. Blog post outlining possibility for developing a web-based mapping system to serve as a clearinghouse for offers of housing and ridesharing for hurricane victims. Also includes some ideas for addressing trust issues.
  5. Matchning service to allow people to offer to share their homes with victims from Hurricane Katrina.
  6. Community data center hosted by Nonprofit Knowledge Works. Good maps of background data about New Orleans.
  7. Overview of completed and planned actions by US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development in response to Hurricane Katrina.
  8. A matching service provided by MoveOn.org to allow peope to offer housing for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
  9. "New Orleans had long known it was highly vulnerable to flooding and a direct hit from a hurricane. In fact, the federal government has been working with state and local officials ... since the late 1960s on major hurricane and flood relief efforts."
  10. Article about a "super-simple, brickmaking machine near Austin, Texas [that can] kick out an incredible 3,500 concrete bricks in just one hour".

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