CoHR 2007
Humberto Surprises
Tropical Storm Humberto surprised all the experts by not remaining a modest tropical storm.
Instead, in a Texas two-step that left jaws dropped to the floor, Humberto strengthened into a class one hurricane overnight before slamming into the Texas Gulf Coast. Residents had gone to sleep expecting a lot of rain — they almost got tragedy instead.
Speculation is that if Humberto had had just a wee more time over water, it would have grown much stronger.
None of the meteorological models predicted such swift growth.
Click through for more stories from the Gulf Coast, where surprises and frustration abound.
CoHR Homepage Redesign
After almost seventy editions of the Carnival of Hurricane Relief, a redesign of the homepage was called for, and here is at least a first swipe. Prior editions of the Carnival are reachable through the links at the top of the navigation sidebar to the left. Links to editions of CoHR for 2007 can be found at the bottom of the navigation sidebar.
If you would like to host a future edition of CoHR, please let us know. If you would like to submit a post, we recommend submission through the Blog Carnival. We are most in need of up-to-date photos from the Gulf Coast to feature at the top of each week's homepage.
2006 Round-Up
Two projects in addition to the Carnival itself provided some spark in 2006.
First, the CoHR Squidoo Lens provides a quick introduction and portal to Gulf Coast hurricane relief and recover efforts. We're quite proud of it, with the only regret being that we have so far been unable to identify a specific Gulf Coast charity to designate as the recipient of the revenue generated by the Lens. The charity must register with Squidoo to receive the admittedly small amount of money, but the registration allows that charity to receive money from any of the more than 60,000 Squidoo Lenses, not just the CoHR Lens. Right now, the revenue from the CoHR Squidoo Lens continues to go to the Grameen Fund USA.
Second, the special shopping edition of CoHR — CoHR Xmas — was fun to put together and saw over 21,000 visitors since it was first posted on November 9, 2006. We have plans to check in with the vendor pariticipants to find out how their doing, now that the holiday rush is over. If a majority decide that the effort was worthwhile, then CoHR may set up a more-or-less permanent "Shop the Gulf Coast" area.
CoHR Squidoo Lens 
