When the map is clicked on it returns links to newspaper, radio and television stations located around the map point clicked. When a disaster happens in the United States you can click on the map and find links to the local media covering the event. Having reported on disasters through the internet, I can tell you the number one request, by far, is for information about relatives in the disaster area. To assist the people in the disaster area and their relatives outside the area we have developed Forums so that people can post health and welfare inquiries an post messages about where they have relocated to. Animals are always effected far worse by disasters than the human population.
Human shelters make no provisions for pets, as a result they are often left behind.
The problem of lost and found animals after a disaster has motivated us to set up a lost and found animal and livestock message board, so that people can post messages about animals after a disaster. There is a great deal of information on the internet after a disaster, but no one location in which the information is being brought into. That is one of the goals of this web site, to bring that diverse post disaster information into one site, we need volunteers. Facts are not copyright able. What we would like to see is a group of people come together during disasters to work together to provide information.