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....
I am thinking that the majority of the dead will be found in the rubble, but there will be some who were washed out. Although thinking about it, the waters didnt rush in then out like the Tsunami did.
Are you watching this coverage of Mississippi coverage on MSNBC. Simply amazing.
Brett Favre (Packers QB) was on FoxNews last hour taling about contact he had with his wife in Hattisburg MS. A family member went out yesterday looking for diesel fuel for the generator at the Favre home where 50 people are staying. He went for 3 hours and found NONE!
Listening to him really told how thousands are currently living. They have no food or water, no power and very, very few ways to get in touch with the outside world. He said it doesn't matter how much money or noteriety he has, he can't get to his family with anything they need. He said something like this levels the playing field.
If any FReeper smarter than I can search out a link for this news/sports conference, post it. His words are so heartfelt.
Unknown Number Dead at Miss. Apartments By HOLBROOK MOHR, Associated Press Writer
18 minutes ago
BILOXI, Miss. - Joy Schovest swam for her life, fighting Hurricane Katrina's storm surge and its angry winds, brushing aside debris and floating cars to reach higher ground.
Behind her, some of her neighbors in the Quiet Water Beach apartments were dying, trapped in their crumbling two-story building as it was swept away with much of this Mississippi coast community Monday. The exact number of deaths in the building was still unclear, with estimates ranging from three to dozens; early reports said 30 died.
"We grabbed a lady and pulled her out the window and then we swam with the current," said Schovest, 55, breaking into tears. "It was terrifying. You should have seen the cars floating around us. We had to push them away when we were trying to swim."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050831/ap_on_re_us/katrina_apartment_deaths_hk2
You could take all of the people alive today, dump them in a 2 mile-long stretch of the Grand Canyon, cover it with dirt, and you would have a hell of a time finding evidence of human life on Earth. Our artifacts are much much larger than we are, and nature is much much larger than that.
The death toll could easily run into the thousands, maybe even low tens of thousands, if hundreds are dead in one town and the storm surge was several tens of miles wide and half a mile to 2 miles inland.
Have you let any media friends know the general area where he was so we can get some journalists there?
We need reporters on scene. I believe him, and we can't let this be ignored.
Thank you for your report...I understand fully when you said...with heavy heart....
90 % of all those houses are gone.
Tell it to Jesus
Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. Jesus answered, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish."
Tell it to Paul ...
We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.
There is none righteous, not one ... not even you.
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast
Your works stink, as do mine. I count mine loss ... do you? Somehow, Caiaphas, I don't think you do.
I must say I am perplexed by this story a bit as well, but it fits the general idea of what I expected to hear. Until it is proven wrong, there is no reason to believe it is. I believe the toll will be in the thousands, easily.
At Galveston they first tried to bury the bodies at sea, but they washed back in and had to be burned on the beaches.
Perhaps you should go down there yourself if your station would possibly let you......not very likely....we need people down there relaying what is happening back if there are not reporters there like your friend said was the case.
I sure hope that the estimates of thousands dead are way off base. However, when I consider the large geographic size of the area hit, I get a sickening feeling. This may well be the worst US natural disaster in my lifetime, or even my parents' lifetimes.
I have no idea. The sign's gone too.
Just kidding. Water front pics from commercial and municipal advertisements on the net could be used.
If the government can keep a lid on the fact there are millions more illegals in the U.S. than officially "estimated," what's a few thousand nameless paupers' graves in a mass-casualty event?
News in the U.S. is managed. Most serious truths are well-massaged before the mass media is allowed to tell the story.
Neither I or anyone else critical of this thread denied that the dead could number in the thousands.
I don't know. From what others have posted, Hugh seems to think highly of FR overall. I myself have heard him say good things about FR.
Common knowledge, but not believed by all or most of the South Florida inhabitants. I was there too, I heard the talk. I don't believe it. A local paper did a story on it, the author was a conspiracist too, but he was unable to find a single first person eye witness. Nor any family members of the supposed deceased. Sorry, I am not bashing you MFH, you are a freeper and poster in good standing, and I don't doubt that you are relaying the truth, in as much as what you have heard. I just disagree with the Andrew story.
There is no reason for him to suggest that MFH is any less credible than a bunch of bloggers.
For starters, MFH is not an "eyewitness". I believe the point was Hewitt wants to deal with the real news, not just "you won't believe it" second-hand based stories.
Clearly there are more direct sources on which to base rational discussion.
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