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....
The original poster is back on the thread. You might want to ask him.
I haven't heard about Slidell in particular. I'll keep an eye out for that area.
Thanks, I just think people shuld realize that holding the number of dead out of the news right now might not be that bad of an idea. Thousands are frantic trying to get news of loved ones and that kind of information is not helpful at this time.
I am saying you can't expect a second hand account to come with video.
I can'r possibly understand the reasoning behind this. The only thing that makes sense is panic at the potential documentation of incompetence by those presumably in charge.
On the other side of the coin, haven't news helicopters in the past actually helped to save lives?
A "not in their job description" activity I admire and endorse.
What good will those instructions do for people who do not have electricity, gas, or running water.
They do not even have TV to hear/see them!
So wher is the "more to follow" you so breathlessly promised?
And if there is this immense devistation that your "friend" described...why have there been no pictures...home video...ceel phone pics of this alleged carnage?
Surely the media can get in there if EMS and rescue vehicles can access the area.
Germany has already rang in. It's our fault, I believe they siad ...this should teach us a lesson about koyoto. Something like that.
the number of dead from the storm will be somewhere between 200 to 500.
these horrific "i heard it from a friend who works with a firefighters brother thousands of dead bodies" stories always happen with hurricanes and never come to pass (since 1900 anyway)....in then turns into a conspiracy.
a couple hundred people in miss will have died because they didnt evacuate from the coast, although this number will stay in the hundreds because the vast majority of people right at the coast did evacuate.
the new orleans total will be in the hundred range because the flood there was a slow-rise event giving people time to move up floors and finally to the roof..of course some got trapped but majority have been rescued.
i may be wrong, i hope not.
So what's good for the goose isn't good for the idiot - you keep coming back to precise language of the original post but when your own punctuation is flawed we should be able to parse it correctly . You're a real piece of work.
By the bye, cell phones don't work without towers - in the areas in question the towers are gone. The news reports from the impact area are from video phones (read satellite).
The original post didn't say the bodies were "in plain view." "Hanging in trees" can mean many things. Lots of trees were uprooted; there are huge piles of rubble containing trees, demolished houses, etc. Bodies in trees wouldn't necessarily be "in plain view."
Not to make light of it, but this illustrates the interdependence of pretty much everything. Particularly that other item in the news, gasoline and other fuels.
Yes, I can expect a higher price for bananas for the foreseeable future.
I guess that means there have been no deaths in Biloxi, at least officially, anyway...
I am VERY skeptical of this report. Newspeople have been in those areas in mass and driving about. They are not reporting of thousands of bodies.
Somebody has an exageration problem.
Listen you and a few others have some issues with how I wrote the original post out.
Put it into context, would you?
He said "We have been pulling bodies out of trees, people have drowned in their homes, there are thousands dead dude...thousands" we spoke about for about 5 minutes about where he was when the storm made landfall...he said 1.5 miles from the coast...we talked about his family what he had passed along to them how long he had cell service...if he was injured...how was he handling it..he then began to relay info to me in pieces.
He said the operation had been going on for 24-hours at that point, a lot of rescue operations but they were just seeing and pulling bodies out. Refrigeration trucks were going to be coming in...etc.
You have to keep mind that his phone signal was dropping in and out and he knows what I do for a living hence why he said not to use his name or he would lose his job. The rights of patients and the laws he has to abide by I assume...HIPPA I believe he reffered to.
I would in no way come onto this website and post some ficticious phone call in the middle of this chaotic situation. I would hope that you would think better and let the story unfold. I posted the story to give info to people on this site who were in the dark about these areas. Is it grim? Yes. Do I wish I could have written that everything was great? Absolutely.
If he had called me and said,"Man...I don't know how people survived here...we are not finding bodies or anything", I would have posted the same exact thing and left it at that.
But that is simply not the case. This is a paramedic and a former Army soldier...his word is gold to me.
The original poster was correct and his report accurate. His writing neither stated outright, or implied that there were thousands hanging in trees.
Correct! You don't try to change nature. It would be a waste of taxpayer money to rebuild a city below sea level with a lake higher than the city at your backdoor. Same goes for all these beachfront communities in any state. Wonder why the native indians never had territories along the coasts. To this day, the coasts are still being filled in and declared 'land', and zillion dollar homes are being built on stilts on known earthquake fault zones and in known fire zones. None of these communities should be receiving Fed assistance.
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