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Astonishing Exclusive From Mississippi [hundreds if not thousands dead]
Paramedic Rescue Operation | 8-31-05 | My Favorite Headache

Posted on 08/30/2005 10:10:45 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache

It is with heavy heart I write this...

I have finally reconnected with my best friend who is a paramedic who was sent from Georgia 2 days ago to Gulf Port, Mississippi before the hurricane hit.

He just reached me within the last 10 mins via emergency cell phone to tell me he was alive.

Thousands of bodies have been discovered throughout Mississippi in Gulf Port, Waveland,Hancock County,Bay of St.Louis.

They are hanging in trees and they are pulling them out 30 at a time. Entire families found drowned in their homes and washing up on shore.

The stories he could tell me were brief. National Guard is on the scene and arresting anyone seen on the streets.

The numbers are staggering and what I have been told tonight will shake people to their foundation as the numbers will be coming out in the next 24-hours of just how many people have actually perished in these and 3 other beach communities.

More to follow....


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
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To: George W. Bush
Now I'm seeing a story from a very excited man who drove into flood waters on a highway and found himself surrounded by alligators. I don't think he needs any coffee today.

*shrug* The 'gators will reduce the death count...

1,261 posted on 08/31/2005 7:51:55 AM PDT by null and void (It's all like watching a train wreck, in slow motion, from the front of the train.)
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To: null and void

"They worship Dubya at DU"

LMAO...more like they stick pins in a doll-like image of him! :D


1,262 posted on 08/31/2005 7:52:30 AM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng. K.I.A. 25 April 2005)
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To: diogenes ghost

See post #930.


1,263 posted on 08/31/2005 7:52:58 AM PDT by JennysCool (Non-Y2K-Compliant)
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To: doug from upland; My Favorite Headache
What a time this would be for terrorists to strike...

I said this to my wife as well. When the giant is reeling......

myfavoriteheadache........words fail........

Lando

1,264 posted on 08/31/2005 7:53:26 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln (The general public doesn't pay attention enough........to care enough.)
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To: George W. Bush

I saw a video of that today. The elderly couple were caught in the surge and swept off the highway into a ditch. It just happened to be where an alligator farm was located. Of course the little critters got curious and came over to investigate and even while the guy who rescued them was telling the story he was almost laughing because though the gators were back in their pools, one had one eye firmly locked on the guy and the camerman and they kept switching to it watching them. Probably annoyed they cheated him out of his snack. The couple was taken away. The guy had called for help and the paramedics came for them leaving the guy who rescued them and the tv crew...and the gators back on the farm. True story!


1,265 posted on 08/31/2005 7:53:54 AM PDT by foreign devil
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To: AliVeritas

Excellent links for information. Thanks.

I didn't see any links to George Soros contributions sites. Did I miss them? :-)


1,266 posted on 08/31/2005 7:54:05 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
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To: My Favorite Headache

I was afraid it might be like that, entire coastal communities wiped out. All those little fishing villages and towns gone. This storm was like nothing I have ever seen, short of a tsunami.


1,267 posted on 08/31/2005 7:54:10 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: L,TOWM
I believe it's been referred to as "Sean Hannity Syndrome" (SHS).
Perhaps, however the acronym I had in mind was RINO.

= )

1,268 posted on 08/31/2005 7:54:37 AM PDT by AnnaZ (><>Read Hebrews Chapter 11<><)
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To: George W. Bush
cell phone cameras

You think there would be cell phones left on the beaches?

1,269 posted on 08/31/2005 7:54:56 AM PDT by JennysCool (Non-Y2K-Compliant)
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To: mercy
Decade? What an optimist. Just the financial ramifications dictate twenty years at least. Then factor in the 'why' factor. Why live there? Why take the chance? Why invest in a disaster waiting to happen all over again?

Just curious where do you live? California near a fault line? Seattle near a submarine fault line, and active volcanoes? On some river flood plain in the Midwest? At the bottom of a mountain in flash flood or avalanche territory? In tornado alley? The South Bronx or DC or some other crime infested area?

Do you get my drift? Aren't many places you can live that isn't a disaster waiting to happen. You balance the risk with the benefits of living there. At least in Hurricane areas you DO get warning, and CAN get out ahead of storms. That makes them pretty unique in terms of disasters.
1,270 posted on 08/31/2005 7:55:00 AM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: BJungNan
"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."

Bump.

1,271 posted on 08/31/2005 7:55:10 AM PDT by Miss Behave (Beloved daughter of Miss Creant, super sister of danged Miss Ology, and proud mother of Miss Hap.)
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To: Willie Green
Has anybody heard the media mention the "C" and "T" words??? (cholera and typhoid)

Which is why they're organizing to evacuate people away from this now-Third World area as quickly as possible. Otherwise, the conditions there could kill more people than the flooding.

Few people in this country appreciate how important proper burials and modern sewage systems really are.
1,272 posted on 08/31/2005 7:55:29 AM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: George W. Bush
Isn't it strange that no pictures of these thousands of dead in the trees and on the beaches from cell phone cameras have surfaced yet?

I haven't seen pictures of ANY bodies yet. I guess that means nobody died at all?

1,273 posted on 08/31/2005 7:55:46 AM PDT by Sloth (Archaeologists test for intelligent design all the time.)
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To: foreign devil

BTW, why haven't air medivacs come in onto the bridge into the Superdome to help those people with water. They are baking out there on those concrete ramps. Surely a huey or something could load up some cases of water and drop them off to them. That's basic 1-2-3 logistics. GET OUT THERE SOMEBODY WITH A COPTOR. ONE GUY ON THE RAMP NOW SAYING IF ANYONE IS LISTENING, GET ON IT AND GET ONTO THESE RAMPS. THESE PEOPLE NEED HELP NOW.

You know, there are lots of reporters and copters flying around, one of them could drop off some water and a medical team. Criiiiipes! GET WITH IT!


1,274 posted on 08/31/2005 7:56:39 AM PDT by foreign devil
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To: Steve_Seattle
God also gave us a rainbow.

I get upset when people refer to catastrophic storms as an act of God when they are not. There's definately a "blame Bush" crowd but there's an older group......."blame God". ;)

1,275 posted on 08/31/2005 7:56:53 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: George W. Bush

I wouldn't want to mess with those p*ssed off gators. Someone said they had spotted a 3 ft shark by a strip mall. I'm wondering what happened to all the sharks from the Aquarium of the Americas. They also had pirrhanas there too.


1,276 posted on 08/31/2005 7:56:55 AM PDT by CajunConservative (Southwest Louisiana)
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To: Tom Thumbs

I agree.


1,277 posted on 08/31/2005 7:57:15 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: Mind-numbed Robot

"Hit GW in the butt. The Army Corp of Engineers is responsible for the levees.." WRONG, they are the responsibility of a local entity.


1,278 posted on 08/31/2005 7:58:02 AM PDT by diogenes ghost
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To: Lando Lincoln

Lando! Long time no see. How are you my FRiend?


1,279 posted on 08/31/2005 7:58:05 AM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng. K.I.A. 25 April 2005)
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To: George W. Bush
Admittedly, this isn't like camera-happy California but, contrary to public image, the South isn't actually backwards technologically.

A few weeks ago my California based cell phone and I went hundreds of miles without any antenna bars in southern MO/northern AR. (Incompatible local coverage)...

1,280 posted on 08/31/2005 7:58:10 AM PDT by null and void (It's all like watching a train wreck, in slow motion, from the front of the train.)
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