Archive for August, 2008

PRC Compassion LA Relief Centers during Hurricane Gustav

August 31, 2008

2 Life 18 Help and Rescue has provided 7 power generators to help in relief efforts and invites those interested in helping with Hurricane Gustav’s damage to send water and donations to PRC Compassion – http://www.prccompassion.net.
As of Sept 6, Kelly Cook (contact tel: 225 236 683five) relates that hundreds of people wait in line for [...]

Storm Gustav

August 30, 2008

Tense New Orleans Marks Katrina Anniversary as Storm Gustav Approaches
Friday 29 August 2008
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by: Tom Leonard, The Telegraph UK

Grafitti by the elusive artist Banksy adorns an abandoned home in New Orleans, Louisiana. Friday, August 28, marks the third anniversary since Hurricane Katrina. Events marking the anniversary and memorializing those who died were held across the city. [...]

New Orleans Three Years Later

August 30, 2008

from:http://www.truthout.org/article/katrina-pain-index-new-orleans-three-years-later

Katrina Pain Index: New Orleans Three Years Later
Tuesday 26 August 2008
by: Bill Quigley, t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Trumpeter Marlin Jordan (left) leads a memorial procession up the Claiborne Bridge in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana in 2007. As the three-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches this week, [...]

ICE – ‘In Case of Emergency’ Campaign – Add to Cell Phones

August 1, 2008

ICE – ‘In Case of Emergency’ Campaign
This is a standard procedure all paramedics follow at the scene of an accident when they come across your cell phone. We all carry our mobile phones with names & numbers stored in its memory but nobody, other than ourselves, knows which of these numbers belong to our closest family [...]