Shawn Honnick points to http://www.missingkatrina.com/ a site for helping people find missing friends and relatives from hurricane Katrina.

[Thank you Shawn!!]

On Monday September 9 Shawn writes Smartmobs: “We now have people at most of the shelters and are looking for more to help post images of the folks who have been bussed in and are safe from Katrina to http://www.safekatrina.com/”

People listed on this site are safe, and want you to know that they are ok. Some pictures will have names and locations of where they are, some will not, please just know that if they are here they were safe as of the time the picture was posted.

Of all of the websites tracking the Katrina disaster, surely one of the most remarkable is Scipionus.com

Visitors swoop down over a map of the Gulf Coast that’s awash in hundreds of red teardrops, each denoting information about specific geographical points in the area. That’s pretty amazing in itself, but there’s more: All of the information on the map has been provided by ordinary citizens, most of whom presumably have come to the site in search of information on the flood themselves. (via Wired)

Ryan Singel comments: This simple web tool has given hurricane victims and their families a way to see what’s happening in the flood zone, house by house.