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A number of useful sites are now available to help people donate, volunteer, research charities, find housing, connect with loved ones and even shelter pets.

Washington Post columnist Leslie Walker has collected a bunch of sites. Another useful roundup was published by TidBITS this week.

The Wikipedia Hurricane Katrina page contains a jaw-dropping amount of information on the storm and its aftermath.

Interestingly, despite all of the efforts over the years to create high-concept, high-profit city portal sites over the years, the stripped-down largely non-commercial Craig’s List does seems to be among the most cited and most trafficked community sites during this crisis. Since the first day of the flooding last week, I’ve seen it regularly cited on the cable news channels and elsewhere.

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