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To: SI Dave who wrote (22864)	9/4/2005 3:05:35 PM
From: Done, gone.	Respond to of 32873

We'll be leaving it there for a few days at least Great idea -- thanks!!!

To: SI Dave who wrote (22864)	9/4/2005 3:30:24 PM
From: Done, gone.	Respond to of 32873

I'd add this one: katrina.im-ok.org

To: SI Dave who wrote (22864)	9/4/2005 7:12:33 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32873

I have in inquiry into the GulfCoastNews.com missing person database host to see if we can import their data, since we won't gain traction from our user community until trading begins again on Tuesday. I've been glued to the TV coverage almost every waking moment I'm home. With 9-11, if you didn't hear from a friend or loved in a day or two, the odds were, given that electricity and cell service was not an issue, you weren't going to. With Katrina, people are scattered all over the place or, worse, still trapped in their homes. Many people are likely still alive in their homes but dying with each passing day. Is there a way to figure out which homes to target first-- before the water recedes and likely their lives along with it? The only way I can think to do this is somehow load up a database of everyone living in the affected towns (easier said than done but possible) and start filling in check marks next to the phone numbers of people you know have been saved (odds are that if one got out of the house they'll know if the others got out as well). Then you see which numbers are left and therefore which houses or neighborhoods to target first. Sadly, odds are that by the time such a project is "completed" it will probably be too late for the vast majority still in their houses, but at least a pattern will emerge about just what we might find when we start looking. Maybe it just might save a life or two? - Jeff