How to Help During Hurricane Gustav

Over at La Chola, a listing of ways to help women of low income with evacuation costs.

Ways to donate can also be found here.

MORE INFORMATION TO PASS ALONG

Also: travel advisories for those trying to get out of New Orleans and/or relatives on the phone trying to help them.

For Evacuees who reach Alabama:

The Alabama Emergency Management Agency has opened a hotline to provide information on shelter locations for those fleeing from Hurricane Gustav. The call center number is 1-800-206-0816.

Also, evacuees can dial 211 to reach a hotline set up by the United Way to help people find shelter locations.

Comprehensive MULTISTATE LISTINGS OF SHELTER INFORMATION FOR EVACUEES, storm updates - check this site for listings in TX, AL, MS, FL, etc. from this site information for cancer patients:
Cancer Patients: As Hurricane Storm Gustav nears the Gulf Coast, the American Cancer Society wants to remind cancer patients that: It's important to contact your treatment facility to know whether it's open or closed, Know your health information in case you are displaced by the storm, And take your medication with you if you are displaced. The American Cancer Society is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by calling 1-800-ACS-2345 or visiting www.cancer.org.

Gustav Information Center

Gustav Wiki page containing aid agencies, helpline numbers, animal rescue resources, relocation advisories, shelters, ham radio resources, ways to post offers of help or help needed and more

Angels in Action - Katrina's Angel's page - information about ways to find housing and other resources

Register with the Red Cross as safe and well if displaced by storm

If you have medical equipment you can donate for evacuees who lose theirs in transit, please contact an organization such as UCP. Here's a link to UCP in Middle Tennessee, where they set up ways to donate equipment during Hurricane Katrina. Similar needs will arise now in states from Florida to Texas to Tennesse to Arkansas, basically wherever evacuees go for walkers, wheelchairs, crutches,etc.