Looks like the FR Admin is trying to kill off these Katrina Live topics as the link to them on the forum page was deleted.
Not true. I just (as in about 30 seconds ago) got these two links from the top of the FR page i was viewing......
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473520/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=katrina