Tag Archives: Relief

Adding the Red Cross

By Dougal | Published: September 9, 2005

If you’re visiting this site directly (not just reading a feed), and have javascript enabled, then you should be seeing the nifty Red Cross donation banner in the upper-right corner of the page. Brian Alvey explains how to add it to your own site. . [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Charity, Hurricane, Java, JavaScript, Katrina, PHP, RedCross | 4 Comments

Katrina aftermath

By Dougal | Published: September 6, 2005

I talked to my mom this morning, and she said that all of our Mississippi relatives are accounted for. One family lost their house and is staying with other relatives, and one of my great aunts fell and broke her hip, and is in the hospital. Other than that, everyone is fine.

Posted in Family, News, The South | Also tagged Hurricanes, Katrina, Mississippi, Storms, Weather | 4 Comments

Katrina

By Dougal | Published: September 2, 2005

I have a lot of family in the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. Fortunately, my closest relatives — my mother, father, step-father, grandmother, plus some aunts, uncles, and first cousins — were not in the most heavily affected areas. Granny was visiting one of my aunts in New York. Her flight home was canceled twice, so she returned on Wednesday instead of Monday, but at least she has a home to return to. My mom rode things out at her house in Fairhope, with not much worse than power outages and downed tree limbs. [...]