Onsite with Hurricane Ike – Emergency Disaster Services Houston – Project417

Update:Hurricane Ike Disaster Relief

As of 4AM today (Sept. 26th) Andy Coats of Project417 is flying down to Houston as a member of the first Canadian Emergency Disaster Services team of the Salvation Army. There is a team of 10 in total for the first responders, and the assignment will last until October 9th, 2008. At [...]

Appeal from Houston Charity – CSM Center for Student Missions – Hurricane Ike Damages Housing Site

I received an urgent email update from our friends at CSM in Houston today:
Houston Hurricane Alert CSM Center for Student Missions
CSM Houston’s housing site lost it’s roof during Hurricane Ike. Many of you know that Houston was directly hit by Hurricane Ike. Many homes, businesses and churches were devastated by the double devastation of wind [...]

Relief arrives to hurricane-ravaged Haiti

Volunteers with OBI post eyewitness accounts from hurricane slammed Haiti after Ike Gustav …
OBI – Operation Blessings International is one of the organizations Project417 partnered with in New Orleans during Katrina. Our friend Jessica served with them this summer when they visited with Mr. Herbert Gettridge in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. We [...]

Four New Hurricane Ike Updates – Volunteer – Donate

Sept. 20, 2008 – Four new articles posted on Digg.com today that really illustrate the scope of the disaster relief efforts spawned by recent hurricanes Ike and Gustav across the Gulf Coast region and into the Midwest. Follow the read more links to visit the original news articles for photos and updated relief information. Some [...]

Hurricane Ike Victims Toll Rises – FEMA Chertoff Criticized

Hurricane Ike’s death toll in the U.S. climbed past 50 today – search teams pulled out of Galveston having searched the entire island for survivors. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff returned to Texas for a second time to check on recovery efforts amid growing criticism about the FEMA response
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Ike Death Toll Rises As Does Victims’ Pain

Hurricane’s Aftermath Leaves Millions Still Without Power Throughout Texas And Midwest – (CBS/ AP) Hurricane Ike’s death toll in the U.S. is up to 50 as authorities on the Texas coast provided more details on fatalities from the storm. Most people in the fourth-largest U.S. city of Houston remained without power, making it tough to [...]

Louisiana: Ike – Gustav Relief Effort Updates and News Releases

Latest Updates — Estimated Homes Flooded During Ike Update; Strain and Landrieu optimistic for disaster relief; FEMA Expands Public Assistance Program Assistance to 20 More Parishes, at Request of Governor Jindal; Multiple Sites In Calcasieu, Cameron and Vermilion Parishes Providing Food, Supplies Thursday – join the volunteer efforts to help evacuees and victims. This [...]

Hurricane Ike – Photo-Essay – Disaster Underrated

Many people have been mislead by the media that Hurricanes Ike and Gustav were not that bad with the worst of the storms bypassing the gulf region, but as this picture essay attests, Hurricane Ike and it’s aftermath is a disaster of gargantuan portions. Hurricane Ike was almost 1,000 kms wide and cut a swath [...]

After Powerful Hurricane, Rescuers Scour Ravaged Areas

Emergency officials struggled to carry out rescue efforts on Sunday after Hurricane Ike roared across a wide swath of Texas, deluging the city of Galveston and other coastal areas with a surge of water, leaving extensive damage across metropolitan Houston, and killing at least three people. Ike ravaged much of the Gulf coats including Louisiana, [...]

Battered U.S. Gulf Coast Deserves Our Help

 
Project417 is trying to reach New Orleans to continue the relief and construction efforts started after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The media and public opinion though seem to have forgotten the magnitude of the work still left from Katrina’s devastation. 
 
August and September, 2008 serve to remind us that damaging hurricanes still threaten the region – [...]