According to N.Z.Bear, the Blogosphere has raised over $572,000!!!!!! Think about it: that is known contributions. That doesn’t count the folks that may have clicked through to a charity/relief agency and not recorded it. Awesome! Keep it coming.
I know my company is still missing folks in the affected areas, particularly from New Orleans, as well as one of the parent companies.
Locally, some Katrina refugees have arrived in Wake Forest.
And the Raleigh N&O has an interesting report from their Katrina blog:
The ripple effect of Hurricane Katrina extends farther inland than anyone who lived through one of North Carolina’s bad hurricanes might believe.
On Friday morning, the Holiday Inn Express in Trussville, Ala., near Birmingham, was full of evacuated families from the Gulf Coast, many sipping coffee from the continental breakfast and watching the endless hurricane coverage on CNN in a lounge area.
Behind the counter, a clerk said that it distressed her to think about what would happen to all her guests. Many are living on their credit cards, and when they hit their credit limit, that will be it, they’ll have nowhere to live, and of course no job to make the payments on the card.
Trussville is more than 300 miles inland from New Orleans.
While those people certainly aren’t in real danger, it is interesting to note this kind of effect. Even for those who got out late, there was nowhere to go. I remember being in Florida during the summer of 1994. We were driving back to Greenville, NC, from St. Petersburg. Long hall. We couldn’t find a hotel room till we got to just beyond the NC border, due to Hurricane Opal.
I will be out all day again, painting and moving stuff into my new house. Please visit all the wonder folks on the sidebar.
