Wikipedia sets up Gustav Central....

[Joanne98]

This is the wiki for information relating to Hurricane Gustav and its approach to the northern Gulf coast. It's intended to be centralized site for links to information everywhere else on the web; please publicize it far and wee. Information will be moved here as time progresses from the similar wiki built during and after Hurricane Katrina's landfall 3 years ago. Please be polite and patient in working with the wiki and the community it attracts, to the extent that you can, and hopefully, everyone will get through this one in one piece.

As usual, the main page of the wiki is protected against general editing. If you have a link you think belongs here, please put it on the Discussion page, and we'll triage it up here as soon as possible. If you want to help out on the wiki or the transcription project, please at least scan over the entire front page; there's lots of good meta here.

Please do not start adding new pages yet. We are still implementing structure and establishing best practices.

How can I help?

These pages were copied over from the KatrinaHelp.info wiki. They need to be edited for relevancy.
Sign up to be responsible for editing a page by leaving a note on its Talk page
Need help/advice? Use the Talk pages, or post a note in the Ning forum.
See Related Projects below for where to get and place dynamic information. This wiki is for static information only.


Resources
Traffic Maps: Large Contraflow Map courtesy WWL
Aid Agencies & Donations: Where to donate, by phone or online.
Government Resources for persons & businesses: FEMA registration, postal services, insurance information, tax relief, loans
Helpline Numbers: National and local phone numbers for emergency & disaster relief information
Animal Rescue Resources: Comprehensive pet information
Health and Safety Info: Water purification, diseases prevention, safety
Recovery: Relocation Advice: Checklist of actions that can be taken by people who lost their homes and businesses
Shelters - List of Locations
Ham Radio Resources
College Students
Time Off: Activities for Children in the affected areas
Fundraising events: Add your event
Help
Life & Death? Get Help Now!
Missing & Found: Post about missing & found persons; find more information
Help Needed: Post a request for help; find who needs your help.
Help Offered: Hundreds of people are offering to shelter refugees, make phone calls, and help in any way they can. Please choose from one of the following seven areas you are interested in helping with:
Essential Goods & Services Offered
Manpower & Volunteers Offered
Housing Offered
Counseling/Healing/Emotional Recovery Services Offered
Communications Offered
Jobs Offered
Transportation
Other Help



News & Blogs
Gustav on Wikipedia| News Resources
Google News on Gustav
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
Interactive Maps | Image Galleries



Media Coverage
Archives Projects and Support
Related Projects
This wiki for static content;
Gustav '08 Ning Group for dynamic content and discussion
Twitter for alerts: NHC official alerts; Twitter: Gustav
Mobile resource guide for iPhone, cell
Utterz for voice/mobile
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
Main page for the Scanner Transcription Project
Weather Links
Gustav from CFHC | Graphics from NOAA/NHC | Graphics from BoatUS Marine | Raw Model Plots from Colorado State

Official Links
Louisiana:

LA EOC | LA State | LA Evac List

The Louisiana EOC website is excellent; if you need on-the-ground information; it is likely there, and you should have no trouble finding it.

Texas

TX Dept of Emerg Mgt | TX State | Texas Evac

Important
About this wiki
About | Content Contributors
Thank you to Network Solutions for hosting.
Disclaimer
For Contributors
Community Portal - Interact and improve
RSS feeds page Image:Rss.gif
New Editing Guidelines
Personal Experiences (add your story)
Team Schedule - add yours

Current News
--needs editing

MSNBC
from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26451955/ as at 0900 GMT

NEW ORLEANS - About a million people evacuated as Gustav roared into the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday after destroying homes and roads
in Cuba, prompting authorities to declare a hurricane warning from far western Louisiana to the Alabama-Florida border.

Residents were ordered to flee an only partially rebuilt New Orleans on Saturday evening as the storm bore down on Louisiana
nearly three years to the day after Hurricane Katrina wiped out entire swaths of the city and killed about 1,600 people.

Many residents didn't need to be ordered, with an estimated 1 million people fleeing the Gulf Coast on Saturday by bus, train,
plane and car. They clogged roadways, emptied gas stations of fuel and jammed phone circuits. New Orleans officials began putting
an estimated 30,000 elderly, disabled and poor residents on buses and trains for evacuation on Saturday.

http://www.gustavwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page