Katrina Disaster Relief

If you know anyone in or near the disaster area, or if you want to offer temporary housing, the following website has a well organized system of free housing offers for evacuees. It can be printed out for a wall poster to be put near pay phones, or for relief workers to bring in. I plan to see if the Red Cross knows about this effort.
http://www.katrinahome.com/
Another similar site:http://www.nola.com/forums/homesavailable/
I agree with this post at Daily Kos, that the government should get more buses in theres RIGHT AWAY by any means possible:
"You know what else I was thinking? Why didn't the government send every available bus to New Orleans to take everyone away who was stranded their. Surely a national emergency would allow the President to comandeer all the local Greyhound buses for this purpose."
Is it Wrong to Politicize a Disaster?
http://central-scrutinizer.dailykos.com/
"A lot of people are going to huff and bluster about making this disaster a political issue. Put bluntly, however, what government does and does not choose to spend money on for the essential safety of its citizens is a political issue, and a very basic one at that. The administration willfully reduced the budget for the protective levees around New Orleans to a level where even maintaining the current levee height was impossible, in order to shift that Corps money into Iraq. I'd say that's a political big deal."
Check out this article of Feb 16, 2004, in New Orleans CityBusiness:
Did New Orleans Catastrophe Have to Happen?

On June 8, 2004, Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; told the Times-Picayune: "It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can't be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us."

This Salon article expands on how Bush policies also failed to protect the wetlands which would have mitigated this disaster.