browngirl

So, a few links and addresses. "Helping Hands Across Texas" can't take any more donations of clothes, so some other places to send them are:

Plus size clothing: "Helping Hands Across Texas" is swamped, but other places to send to are:
Curvy Chicks Care
http://curvychick.com/index.php?do=subscription&action=mailout&mailout=131

Two other places:
http://www.plusstuff.com/blog/2005/09/calls-for-plus-sized-clothing-for.html

and

St. Vincent de Paul Society
FOR KATRINA EVACUEES
Ozanam Outlet
610 MemoryLane
Houston, TX 77037

If you like knitting and want to knit blankets to help, look here (if you haven't already seen it):
http://www.livejournal.com/community/knitting/5359357.html

The Louisiana Library Association -- taking donations to get books to evacuees
http://www.llaonline.org/

An entry of links of places to send books, or better yet, money for books:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/stakebait/319077.html

In the Computers area, from

cellio

"See http://www.mixolydian.org/katrina/ for more volunteer opportunities. One of the things she's trying to do is write programs that will search all the databases so that people don't have to manually compile one big DB -- which, in addition to being massively labor-intensive, is also never going to stay up to date." Also, see

siderea

And a Katrina Help Wiki
http://katrinahelp.info/wiki/index.php/Main_Page