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....
God bless him and all those brave souls who put their lives at risk to help others.
I don't know what you think you interpreted from that. No one is a stronger Bush supporter than I am and I said I was afraid the left (Democrats and MSM) will jump all over that angle.
Thankfully, you are easy to ignore, which I will do after this.
It is a fool who builds his home upon the sand and remains there in the face of a Class 5 storm.
Perhaps the "It can't happen to me" syndrome took over.
Such is why Qaeda can have such a 2nd success. Now is a perfect time while we're distracted and our assets are so concentrated.
God shall have His mercy as we all pick up the pieces of broken and ended lives.
Hundreds are feared dead (Gulfport-Biloxi-Pass Christian-Long Beach, MS)
My Favorite Headache wanted his 15 minutes of fame.
News helicopters and newspaper/ news people are in the area like democrats signing onto a tax hike and are not reporting these mass deaths.
Hundreds feared dead; East Biloxi hit hardest
By ANITA LEE and GREG LACOUR
Sun Herald
Hurricane Katrina cost more lives and destroyed more property than any disaster in Coast history, the Red Cross said Tuesday.
Unprecedented destruction on the Coast and elsewhere will prompt "the largest Red Cross response in the history of the nation," national Red Cross spokesman Peter Teahen said Tuesday.
Hundreds are feared dead, said Biloxi spokesperson Vincent Creel.
"It's going to be much higher than anything we've ever seen," said Jim Pollard, spokesperson for the Harrison County Emergency Management Agency.
Public officials were skittish about relaying fatality numbers because firefighters, other emergency workers and even volunteers navigated mountains of debris Tuesday, finding bodies all along the waterfront.
The hardest hit areas appeared to be the peninsula in East Biloxi, a four-block stretch of the waterfront in Long Beach and low-lying areas of Henderson Point on the west side of Pass Christian.
Rubble was so thick and high that some areas were inaccessible.
In East Biloxi, firefighters and emergency workers pulled bodies from the debris, mostly in areas inaccessible to sightseers. The firefighters tucked the bodies into black bags, laid them on the ground and resumed their search.
Officials were still concentrating on search and rescue missions, looking for survivors that might have been trapped in debris, Tuesday afternoon. As many as 100 rescue vehicles were expected to fill the parking lot at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum, designated a command center for rescue operations.
Save your insults and learn a little before you spout off. (I learned that the hard way myself and still don't follow my own advice.) I gave Jennyscool a link. Find it.
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?
This 'plain view' stuff is part of your misrepresentation of the events. We are talking about, what, 100 miles of coastline, by however many blocks deep the surge went. A couple thousand bodies distributed over that expanse is not going to generate pictures of corpses stacked 5 high or whatever you're visualizing. Secondly, MFH's original post specifically referenced whole families killed inside their homes, i.e., still there, NOT out in plain sight.
What the guy said was that they are only marking the bodies, they are not attempting to remove them. I have heard from other sources that Pass Christian is basically gone, nothing standing. I know where the US 90 bridge is or was. If it went, God help the people near by. I know for a fact that one family that built their house about the high water mark of Camille had flooding up to the first floor of their house. They got into a small sailboat they had tied in the back yard.
I know the area there very well, I hope all of this is wrong, but every piece of information I have gotten so far matches. The surge was MUCH higher than Camille. Behind Bay St. Louis is the Jordon river and swamp extends about six or more miles behind that. Apparently the entire finger of where Bay St. Louis was covered in water. EVERYBODY AND EVERY STRUCTURE in Waveland, Bay St. Louis, and Pass Christian would be affected by a surge that high.
Guess you missed the posts about rescuers pushing aside bodies to get to the living.
Somebody has an exageration problem.
Somebody has a manners problem.
Sharing skepticism is one thing. Your "implication" is unecessary.
I don't think you read before you post. And, given the...
ahh, never mind, not worth the bandwidth. Tempers are too short for all the obvious reasons.
Yes let's put it into context...you report an unsubstantiated report based on heresay with no credible facts to back you up.
The video and reports on the MSM do nothing to back your wild claim.
You did the equivalent of shouting fire in a crowded theater.
Your alleged buddy's word may be "gold" to you...but to to myself and some others in here...his "word" and yours has a bit more of an earthy bovine aroma to it.
My rabid liberal sister now gets it. The fact is these corrupt officials took kickbacks for decades and looked the other way while crooked contractors did shoddy work on major infrastructure. I just pray that the voters here who continued to elect the crooks see it too and change their ways. It did not have to be this bad.
So, you'd prefer a universe where God did not care at all about our actions? That our actions had no impact on Him at all?
The attitude was, if you could ride out Camille, you could ride out anything. People who had property that survived Camille felt like they were safe. The surge on this one ended up being a good deal higher than Camille.
Btw, what do you have to say about what Hugh Hewittt posted on his website about this specific FR thread?
If yo haven't seen it yet.
Similarly, moderators at bulletin boards have to be careful to avoid allowing fear mongers to post junk without any sources whatsoever. There's enough dire news as it is. Rumors only add to the worry and fear of families that are out of communication.
In this case it is easy to keep people in the dark, there is little access to communication. I also believe what I've read about the death toll isn't being tallied while they rescue the living.
"My Favorite Headache wanted his 15 minutes of fame. "
I think you should retract this - regardless of the eventual extent of the losses. No one sane posts something like this for fame.
Considering he (Hewitt) is trying to push the McCainiac at us for the '08 GOP nomination, your taxinomy is probably accurate...;^)
How's Austin shaping up? Have you and Mr. Z bought a huge, beautiful house yet?Austin is fantastic, but the hunt for a home is still on. (Living in a great place temporarily, though.) We'll be in a permanent one by Thanksgiving. At least that's the plan...
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