Remember New Orleans 8 29 2005 Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina: 4 Years Ago 8-29-2005 Video Remembrance

Hurricane Katrina: Rain to Renaissance – YouTube Video
I couldn’t let August 29th go by without posting some remembrance for our many friends in New Orleans. Four years ago today Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast and devastated New Orleans. I went down and volunteered [...]

Project417 Online Newsletter – June 2009

StreetLife – Project417 – June 2009 Vol 6 Issue 8

Our friend Chuck – his portrait at the ROM exhibition June 2009

Dear Friends,
Thanks for reading the online version of the Project417 newsletter. This will give you the latest updates on Project417’s ongoing mission to the homeless. We’d like you to be able to read more, but [...]

CNN Rips Bush For Katrina Remarks in Farewell Speech

[Source - huffingtonpost.com & CNN] – Campbell Brown of CNN cut through George Bush’s bull Monday night, taking the President to task for his remarks about Hurricane Katrina during his farewell press conference. Brown “was taken aback” with Bush’s statements defending his administration’s Katrina response – “Don’t tell me the federal response was slow,” Bush [...]

The Old Man and the Storm – Hurricane Katrina documentary – Jan 6th on PBS

About a true hero of  Hurricane Katrina: Mr. Herbert Gettridge – airing January 6, 2009 and online. Six months after Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans, producer June Cross came across 82-year-old Herbert Gettridge working alone on his home in the lower Ninth Ward, a neighborhood devastated when the levees broke in 2005. [...]

Ontario Stages Largest Ever Emergency Exercise

Andy Heads to Thunder Bay with Emergency Disaster Services Team
Before heading back to Texas with a small Project417 team to help with the Hurricane Ike recovery in San Leon, Galveston County, I have one stop to make – Thunder Bay in Northern Ontario. It’s almost as far north from Toronto as Texas is south. I’ll [...]

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, [...]

Devastating Hurricane Ike swamps Texas and Louisiana – Worse Than Katrina

By The Associated Press GALVESTON, Texas -Howling ashore with 177 kilometre-an-hour winds, Hurricane Ike ravaged the Texas and Louisiana coasts Saturday, flooding thousands of homes and businesses, shattering windows in Houston’s skyscrapers and knocking out power to millions of people. At first light, it was unclear how many may have perished, and authorities mobilized for [...]

New Orleans Update – Hurricane Ike Headed for Texas Coast – Louisiana Watchful

Latest reports are that Hurricane Ike, which battered Cuba with high winds and a five story storm surge, will make landfall on the Southeast Texas coast – Galveston Island to Houston area late friday, early Saturday. Currently rated category 2, but expected to pick up steam to category 3 at least before striking, Ike is [...]

The MissionLog – News, Updates, Volunteering.

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Project417 is an outreach program to the homeless — more here. This Mission Log, is an update by Andy, an outreach worker with Project417 since 2001.  Andy works with the homeless in Toronto and coordinates Disaster Relief trips since Katrina in 2005 (most recently Hurricane Ike, Dec. 2008).  Stay [...]