PICTURES AND VIDEO,
Note: When internet searching for anything related to Ottawa, make sure to use the search terms "Ottawa," and "Ohio" or "OH" otherwise you will be bogged down by all things related to Ottawa, Canada, (probably not what you are looking for.) It can be useful to try the search with using "Ohio" or "OH" or a combination, they all reveal different results in your search for information.
Projected Flood Area Aerial Maps of Ottawa, source is www.PCOPS.org:
Online Pictures:
There are hundreds of pictures during/after flood of Ottawa at Flickr.com (if you have a batch of pics to share of town, please set up a free www.flickr.com account and use the tags "Ottawa" "Ohio" "OH" "flood" on every picture so that they can be searched for, it would be helpful to everyone. Please do so, many people need these pics for insurance claims. It is very easy to do and can be done in just a few minutes.
Click on these links for hundreds of amazing photos
During and Post Flood pictures at Flickr.com (Hundreds of pictures updated often)
Putnam County Library during and after the flood (Ottawa Branch)
Our local library was flooded upto 2 feet deep on the first floor and completely filled in the basement. The loss was 1/2 of the contents, books and will not be back in the building for quite some time. At this time the library has been completely stripped to bare walls and waiting for a complete rebuild inside, new heating, electric, phones, etc.
National Photo Journalist, Jeff Haller (very artistic impressions of the flood)
AccessOttawa.com Access Ottawa .com some pics online.
Another Picture site Link:
Local Professional Photographer has 400+ local pictures of the flood online
Needed!!! Please e-mail (through Contact Page on website) any links to online pictures so that we can post it here.
Videos of flood:
Click on these links for hundreds of amazing videos:
Ottawa Flood related YouTube Videos:
Saints Peter and Paul School (SPPS) and Church video of flooding and aftermath: both of the two school buildings were completely flooded and all of the children are now going to school in a different location in town
MSNBC in Ottawa Ohio during flood talking about how few had flood insurance (it takes a while until you wade through all of their commercials but it shows the flood pretty well)
Putnam Sentinel (you can purchase video from Sentinel and Proceeds goto American Red Cross)
Google Video:
Blinkx.com (Mostly archived newscasts, local and national) Video:
"...Accepting his 2006 TED Prize, Cameron Sinclair demonstrates how passionate designers and architects can respond to world housing crises. The motto of his group, Architecture for Humanity, is "Design like you give a damn." Using a litany of striking examples, he shows how AFH has helped find creative solutions to humanitarian crises all over the globe. Sinclair then outlines his TED Prize wish: to create a global open-source network that will let architects and communities share and build designs to house the world. Click this link to see his overview idea." Also speaks to helping in the Katrina effort http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/54
Click this link to get to the video of him on WIRED on PBS 10/10/07 also speaks about the within North America, helping, not just internationally