Bloggers have been describing the chaos in New Orleans and the southern states affected by Hurricane Katrina. They have also been reporting the situation in areas, such as Houston, Texas, to which evacuees are being taken.
We've listed some of the best blogs and links – please feel free to post links to any other good blogs and sites in the comment field.
Nola View, from the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper, includes urgent appeals for help for vulnerable survivors still trapped at specific addresses.
Daily Kos: the political commentary blog includes plenty of analysis and debate on the hurricane. One blogger highlights an "extraordinary" New York Times guest editorial by the Interview with a Vampire novelist Anne Rice, who lives in Louisiana.
A certain slant of light is a blog containing comments on Katrina. A recent post highlights a "sobering" video from MSNBC, which appears to show uniformed police officers taking shoes from a Wal-Mart store.
Blogs of War is a Houston-based blog which highlights a website enabling residents who want to help accommodate evacuees to register to do so.
Humid City is a network for hurricane survivors: one recent post reacts to one of the damaged levees in New Orleans being repaired.
Ernie the attorney is a blog by a New Orleans lawyer who mentions the post-storm aerial images of the city on Google Maps.
Katrinacane's friends is a live journal site featuring posts from people who did not leave New Orleans before the hurricane struck.
New Orleans Metblogs seeks respondents to a poll about issues the writer says residents have been speaking about, such as house prices in the aftermath of the disaster.
Flickr has grouped the "most interesting" hurricane photographs.
Baton Rouge Advocate blog: the writer reports today that more emergency supplies are reaching the area.
Sci guy salutes the National Hurricane Centre, which he says predicted the scale of the hurricane "right on the money" three days before it hit.
WWLTV blog comes from a New Orleans TV station and features lots of input from readers, local information vital to people caught up in the disaster, and pictures.
Technorati has a page updating with Katrina-related links.
