Gulf Coast Housing Relocation

So everything I've tried writing about Katrina and my memories of New Orleans just seems trite and saccrine and bullshit. So I'll donate my money and I'll post a relocating related email my friend from Baton Rouge sent me and like the rest of us who are fortunate enough not to have had to endure this I'll continue to discuss Katrina with my friends and family because that's what we do. But I'm not writing jokes about it, and not going to post self-indulgent memories of one of my favorite cities, not tonight anyway. But I will be posting something non-related, because I'm lucky enough to have the luxury to sit in my apartment and write something silly.

Katrina Housing Help

Message:

Please forward this list to anyone in the Southeast (or anywhere else in the country---I'm sure some people will be relocating farther out than just the South) who you think may be willing and able to provide shelter, for any length of time, to those displaced by the hurricane on the Gulf Coast. If you are able to provide housing AT ALL, for ANY length of time, please create a listing on these sites. I know it seems like a big commitment to make, and it is, but really, most of these people are absolutely devastated---no house, no job, nothing to go back to at all, even if they ever do get to go back---and they need all the help they can get. http://www.hurricanehousing.org http://www.rc-katrina.com/ http://katrinahelp.info/wiki/index.php/Help_Offered http://katrinahomes.billhennessy.com/ http://www.katrinahome.com/ http://www.shareyourhome.org/ or 888-827-2525 Check the http://katrinahelp.info wiki for updates to this list, as well as http://www.boingboing.net in general and this thread in particular: http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/31/tech_pros_ask_how_ca.html