...the great citizen journalist/feminist/mommyblogger/poet and all around excellent soul, Liz Henry, was blogging from the Houston Astrodome and assisting displaced Americans victimized by Hurricane Katrina. Liz was in the thick of it, lending Astrodome residents the full force of her geek/tech superpowers and her giant, glowing heart. She helped folks find lost family members, apply for aid, pull their lives together. And, when she couldn't help enough, she was regretful, if not mournful:
A Sincere Apology
From Badgerbag
September 7, 2005
To all the people that we spoke to today and failed to help. I am sorry that we could not find your people, that no one answered your intercom page, that you heard they were here or you saw them on cnn and then we could not find them. I am so sorry. There is no way to fix it when we fail. The next people might not drop the ball, the dice might roll your way, please keep trying and keep telling your stories.
If you didn't read Liz's accounts of in the Astrodome last year, I encourage you to peruse her archives. Liz's service inspired me to create the Hurricane Katrina Direct Relief blog, now the Hurricane Disaster Direct Relief blog. For this, I will always be deeply and humbly grateful.
And, as for me...a year later....
I'm interested in developing a network of bloggers to assist in a disaster/crisis. If you're interested in this, please come to the WoolfCamp gathering at my house the weekend of September 15th where we'll be talking about online disaster relief strategies and other heady topics. The WoolfCamp link is to the wiki where you may sign in if you'd like to participate. If you can't make this meeting, please email me at gracedb@yahoo.com and I'll put you on an information email list.
Many blessings to you, Dear Reader.
I'm so sorry to miss this WoolfCamp. Dratted other obligations. :(
Posted by: Mary Tsao | September 08, 2006 at 12:56 PM
It sounds like fun, but I can't make it across the country for next Saturday. Sign me up for the email list, though.
Posted by: landismom | September 08, 2006 at 04:45 PM
I'm sorry to miss it too. My son's birthday is on Saturday and I have another obligation on Sunday, but please sign me up for the email list.
Posted by: Thida | September 08, 2006 at 08:44 PM
This is a time when I'm glad for the kind of live blogging that takes place at Woolf-Camp (if the day after BlogHer was any indication)
I won't be able to make it up from L.A. area, but am keenly interested in knowing what's going on and participating from a distance.
Posted by: Susan Kitchens | September 10, 2006 at 12:32 PM