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2005 Hurricane Road to Recovery

 

This page is an archived page from EDEN's Hurricane Katrina/Rita response effort.  It remain posted though some links, due to the passage of time and deletion of resources, may no longer work.

Your Cooperative Extension Service conducts programs that touch almost every aspect of everyday life, so the County Extension office is a good place to turn for the specific know-how of restoring homes, gardens, furnishings and businesses - and perhaps making improvements as you rebuild and restore. 

Many State Extension Services have disaster Web sites and many of those states provide links to their disaster web sites through EDEN.  Extension disaster Web sites listed by state.

EDEN member states catalog their disaster resources in a searchable database so they can be more easily retrieved for a specific state, disaster type, aspect, keyword and other parameter. Some basic searches that may be useful during hurricane recovery are produced by clicking on these links :

The additional resources listed in the next section were offered by EDEN members in response to an e-mail request after a recent event.  Some may be in the EDEN catalog or in the list of Extension disaster education websites (paragraph 1, above).  These resources have NOT been reviewed by the EDEN Web group prior to posting; however, only Extension, Land Grant College, state or federal agency, or national association websites have been included. 



Resources on Specific Recovery Topics 

Getting important messages out to an affected audience is critical. Talking About Disaster: Guide for Standard Messages is a resource that can be helpful under such circumstances.  

For some specific topics, the resources are included on separate pages of this collection.  The subpages available at this time are:

Health and Safety

Extension Forestry Storm Damage Information and Safety Tips (NC State Extension)
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/nreos/forest/disaster.html

Generator Safety - Consumer Product Safety Commission
http://www.cpsc.gov/CPSCPUB/PUBS/portgen.pdf 

Chain Saw Safety (PDF, Florida 1998 Disaster handbook Section 5.37)
http://disaster.ifas.ufl.edu/PDFS/CHAP05/D05-37.PDF

Locating Safe Drinking Water (PDF, Florida 1998 Disaster handbook Section 4.11)
http://disaster.ifas.ufl.edu/PDFS/CHAP04/D04-11.PDF

Emergency Sanitation (PDF, Florida 1998 Disaster handbook Section 4.14)
http://disaster.ifas.ufl.edu/PDFS/CHAP04/D04-14.PDF

Home Repair and Restoration

Michigan Home Maintenance and Repair Database
http://www.msue.msu.edu/msue/imp/mod02/master02.html

LouisianaFloods.org-Recovery
http://www.louisianafloods.org/ (Choose Recovery and Assistance)

Landscape Restoration and Debris Removal

Michigan Home Maintenance and Repair Database
http://www.msue.msu.edu/msue/imp/mod02/master02.html

Repairing Storm Damage to Trees
http://www.kbs.msu.edu/extension/storm/

Salvaging Partially Uprooted Trees (PDF, Florida 1998 Disaster handbook Section 5.38)
http://disaster.ifas.ufl.edu/PDFS/CHAP05/D05-38.PDF

Caring for Hurricane-Damaged Palms (PDF, Florida 1998 Disaster handbook Section 5.42)
http://disaster.ifas.ufl.edu/PDFS/CHAP05/D05-42.PDF


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Resources in Spanish 

Helping the Spanish-Speaking Population Deal with Natural Disasters in North Carolina
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/disaster/factsheets/spanish/


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Last Updated:10/4/2009 10:50 AM
 

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