Astonishing Exclusive From Mississippi [hundreds if not thousands dead]

Paramedic Rescue Operation | 8-31-05 | My Favorite Headache

[THEUPMAN]

But still nothing to verify the hand wringing...conspiracy hatching nuttiness that is going on in here.


could you point me to the hand wringing .. conspiracy hatching nuttiness ... I can't seem to find it. But I think I would get a kick out of it.

Facts are ... the death toll will rise.

It will be a few more days before the msm catches up.

[Tennessean4Bush]

The entire area was under a hurricane watch and warning for an extended period of time. There was no reason for anyone to be caught off guard.

I agree. My brother lives in Slidell and works for NASA. He and his wife left well in advance the day before and were safe at home with my parents in North Alabama a full day before the storm hit. I do not understand why people did not evacuate. Why tempt fate?

In any event, my God bless these poor souls who have suffered and died.

[Daus]

actually this was a HUGE storm surge. I don't think camille's was this large, and certainly not so wide.

Katrina destroys Brett Favre's family home

This thread got sidetracked about the subject of hero-worship but it actually was a good first hand account of what went on. Both with regard to this storms relative size to Camille, and the fact there was a 'tsunami' wave that did most of the damage.

[txradioguy]

No genius...the get bent comment was a response to your pompus and asinine request for me to STFU.

Nothing more...nothing less.

"Learn how to follow a thread or stfu!"

*sigh* again grellis..Get...Bent!

[George W. Bush]

On the Weather Channel, the on site reporter (wears a black baseball cap) just said," I believe that this will be the costliest and most deadly natural disaster to ever hit United States."

And after 9/11, they were saying the Twin Towers might have killed 25,000-50,000 on most any news outlet. And that wasn't true either. But at least those were sources who posted their own news under their own names. Not anonymous posters relating a hearsay account.

[thecabal]

Who's Hugh Hewitt?

[WoofDog123]

"I think you are correct, we are still in crisis mode. Still, it's strange that despite lots of footage of flooded areas there has not be one floating body shown. I'm not looking for sensational footage here, but reality is reality and news is news."

this can ONLY be intentional on the part of the media.

[Tennessean4Bush]

my = may

[js1138]

You have now gone from being an annoying psychotic to an ugly, offensive, blasphemous troll.

Begone, and don't come back.

[Petronski]

Good Morning! I don't know about this story yea or nay. I'll take it as unconfirmed and wait for further word. I don't think it's so outlandish that it can't be true, but I have no way to judge the quality of the original source (not MFH, but instead his source).

Thus, in the words of Ronaldus Magnus: "Trust but verify."

[Steve_Seattle]

"I'm watching the news right now and not seeing any of this catyclismic end of the world destruction people are talking about on here."

No one's talking about "the end of the world." We're talking about clear images of tens of thousands of homes and business destroyed, possibly thousands dead (hundreds at a minimum), a major city flooded and without power, and perhaps hundreds of thousands of people homeless. This doesn't impress you as a disaster of significant proportions?

[alancarp]

Population figures for the area towns:

Gulfport 71,810 (2nd largest city in MS)
Biloxi 48,972 (3rd largest)
Pascagoula 25,865
Pass Christian 6599
Bay St. Louis 8209
Waveland, LA 6737
Slidell, LA 26,466
Long Beach, MS 17,320
Diamondhead, MS 5912
Shoreline Park, MS 4,058
Pearlington, MS 1684
Kiln, MS 2040

Plaquemines Parish - about 26,000
- Boothville-Venice, Louisiana 2220
- Buras-Triumph, LA 3358
- Empire, LA 2211
- Port Sulphur, LA 3115
- Point a la Hache 2400

[txradioguy]

"Reasonable people realize the death toll will rise. That is different than some of the assertions stated as fact."

Well said.

[BJungNan]

I would think they would build a gate on one side first then build a wall from the other side to the open gate. When you are done, you close the gate.

You can not close a gate on that much moving water - unless it was a structure made for that purpose like a dam. They don't have time to build that kind of a dam and they can not get trucks in their if they could. There is not dry land to work on or from.

[staytrue]

I am sure My Favorite Headache has provided an honest report.

You should have said "I am sure My Favorite Headache has provided an honest SECOND HAND (HEARSAY) report.

[JennysCool]

Leni, those of us who've been on this pretty active thread for what seems like forever have seen a few posts indicating that the reason we don't have death toll estimates yet is that the accent has been on rescuing the living, not recovering the dead.

One report had it that rescuers were actually brushing aside floating bodies to get to live folks in need of rescue.

Upthread I posted an article indicating officials in just one Mississippi county expect to find "hundreds" of fatalities.

The unfortunate thing is that it appears they're not "skirting around" a body count -- they've just been too busy to get to doing one.

We seem to forget this thing is only around 48 hours old.

[OXENinFLA]

http://www.worldpicturenews.com/web/news_index.aspx

[Petronski]

Wanna tell'em what I'm like with coffee?

;OD

[chris1]

As far as 9/11. a few hours later, and yes 25,000 might have been dead.

[txradioguy]

Go back and start reading this thread from the early 200's.

People were talking about this being "God's Justice".

Yes there have been people talking about this in Biblical Proportions.