Katrina puts personal Web site to good use
- From: indigoace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Indigo Ace)
- Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 00:28:56 GMT
>From the [Bloomington IL] Pantagraph--
Katrina puts personal Web site to good use
By Michael Felberbaum
Associated Press
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RICHMOND, Va. -- When Katrina Blankenship started getting phone calls
about the projected path of Hurricane Katrina, she wasn't quite sure
why.
But it was her Web site, Katrina.com, that got people's attention.
So Blankenship converted her personal Web design and computer
consulting site into a one-stop shop for all things related to helping
out the hurricane-ravaged South.
"I was really shocked. I had no idea it would turn into this," said
Blankenship, who lives in Powhatan, 30 miles southwest of Richmond.
"The e-mails are pouring in. I had about 1,500 come through today."
Since Sunday, the Web site has received about 350,000 hits from places
all over the world. And Blankenship, who is working on a dial-up
Internet connection, has expanded her bandwidth to accommodate all the
traffic.
Blankenship, 37, has compiled links to other sites that provide
shelter information and victim assistance and developed a forum for
people to offer help and to search for missing people. The forum is
filled with hundreds of posts: some from people looking for relatives,
others from people offering shelter, supplies and even a man from
Kabul, Afghanistan, offering to translate documents and information
into Middle Eastern languages.
The site even has garnered the attention of people want-ing to buy it
-- one man offered $500,000 for the domain.
She declined. "It's not for sale, it's not a monetary-type thing."
Blankenship said she will keep the Web site focused on the aftermath
of the hurricane for as long as it's needed before going back to its
original purpose.
For Blankenship, converting the site to help with hurricane-related
relief was second to actually getting in the car and driving south.
"I would give anything in the world if my husband and I can go down
there and help," she said. "I feel guilty laying down in my bed while
people are sitting on rooftops trying to stay alive."
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On the Net:
http://www.katrina.com
AP-CS-09-01-05 2027EDT
http://www.pantagraph.com/stories/090205/new_20050902028.shtml
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