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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
KEYWORDS: 2368; armydjdumbass; baystlouis; biloxi; casaloma; catfight; disaster; eatingourown; godblessthem; godhelpthem; gulfport; hughhewitt; hurricane; hurricanekatrina; katrina; katrinaandthewaves; mississippi; passchristian; prayer; puppetmasters; waveland
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To: cyncooper
Another legend in his own mind.
Do me a favor DQ? Go pick on someone else? I am busy trying to get news on a disaster here.
Thank you.

I suggest Dashing Dasher or Motormouth...

best regards
Nothing personal, but I am now ignoring you.

1,761 posted on 08/31/2005 10:38:47 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
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To: rwfromkansas

rw he says the national guard has moved into a lot of the sections already...and they were just trying to get out of there before the camps and refugees came flooding in...as far as the media...he said he saw them coming out of the area, so it sounds like in a lot of the spots they had been working in, and please keep that fact in mind...where they were working in...had not been to yet.


1,762 posted on 08/31/2005 10:39:12 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache ("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
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To: KJC1
I don't understand what Hugh Hewitt's problem is with this.

Actually, he expresses his rationale very well. Maybe he picked a lousy example to make his point. That sort of mistake happens all the time.

But EveningStar made a good point - if the posting is unreliable gossip, then it's better to not provide a link to it. A more direct route to remove the post would be to contact Admin Mods here; and failing that, to pretend FR doesn't exist.

1,763 posted on 08/31/2005 10:41:16 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: RichardS
Hi RichardS,

'It's a terrible shame that so many people have to perish in a natural disaster like this.There were a bunch of people that couldn't leave New Orleans because of the traffic, wasn't there?'

I'm not sure about that but I did hear that somewhere between 20% and 30% of people in these areas live below the poverty level. I also remember hearing that about that same percentage didn't own cars. Apparently they have (had) a rather well organized public transportation system. I'm sure that many who owned a car could not afford the gas to go, had no place to go to and/or could not afford to pay for a place to stay. It appears these people were poor before the hurricane hit, now they are destitute and homeless. My heart and prayers are with them.

1,764 posted on 08/31/2005 10:42:48 AM PDT by Is2C (http://www.persecution.com)
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To: Cboldt; All

Cherthoff on NOW!


1,765 posted on 08/31/2005 10:43:57 AM PDT by conservativebabe (God Bless Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida)
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To: diogenes ghost

Right, a heavy duty pickup. Or a heavy van, small straight bed. Still, I've hauled a ton in an old subaru station wagon in a pinch. You can haul higher than rated in emergencies.


1,766 posted on 08/31/2005 10:44:01 AM PDT by bvw
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To: cyncooper
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.

And what would have happened if MFH's friend had signed up here to post, not that he could have being in the position he was in? MFH relaying his friend's observations was the next best thing.

Honestly, are you also dismissing the many, many other FReepers who have relayed info on all of these threads, in particular the ones who have posted things like "I just talked to my parents/in-laws/friends in Slidell/Biloxi/wherever"?

1,767 posted on 08/31/2005 10:44:47 AM PDT by KJC1
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To: Cboldt
if the posting is unreliable gossip, then it's better to not provide a link to it. A more direct route to remove the post would be to contact Admin Mods here; and failing that, to pretend FR doesn't exist.

What Hewitt doesn't get is having it come from MFH MAKES it plausible for those of us with some FR-milage.

1,768 posted on 08/31/2005 10:45:29 AM PDT by papertyger
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To: nwctwx

The before and after high resolution shots of the area show extreme physical changes to the landscape. This wall of water meant business, and no one who came in contact with it in a regular frame structure had much chance of living.


Is there a link you can share with us so we can see the comparrisons?

Thanks
Yellow Roses


1,769 posted on 08/31/2005 10:46:52 AM PDT by yellowroses (a Yankee in Texas)
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To: freemama

I will look to see if I can find the interview.


1,770 posted on 08/31/2005 10:47:23 AM PDT by petitfour
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To: cyncooper
'Destruction here is worse than the tsunami' (S. Mississippi)
1,771 posted on 08/31/2005 10:48:10 AM PDT by spycatcher
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To: papertyger

If the same posting had been made by someone that had only been on FR for a week, the mods would have pulled it in about .000000000000000001 nanoseconds.

However I share the uncomfortability with it being second-hand information rather than a direct eyewitness report.


1,772 posted on 08/31/2005 10:48:40 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: yellowroses

Mark.


1,773 posted on 08/31/2005 10:48:44 AM PDT by Jaded (Hell sometimes has fluorescent lighting and a trumpet.)
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To: My Favorite Headache
(Hugh vey series vanity post!)
I just heard from my daughter in Waveland, Miss.
They had evacuated sunday, and just returned home today.
Her family is alive and well, but they lost everything.
Thanks to God for his mercy.
1,774 posted on 08/31/2005 10:50:52 AM PDT by evets (God bless president Bush!)
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To: cyncooper
From Katrina thread post 5212:
Here is a sister's report from her brother who was dispatched to Gulfport 2 days ago.

Just an update. We finally heard from Steve. He's tired & hungry. He didn't get to eat yesterday and hadn't eaten as of 6:00 this evening. He said there's no time as there's just so much to do. They were going to stop & eat within the hour. There are no hotels for them there, they're sleeping on the sidewalk. He said that he had tagged 40 bodies today. He seemed to think that the media was holding back on the death toll big time. I truly hope they have some sort of counseling for these search & rescue guys after this is all over with.

Tomorrow's mission for them is to go from basement to attic in every standing home, business, shed, etc. and pull out bodies

5,212 posted on 08/31/2005 10:35:52 AM PDT by freebird5850 ("Tell the truth, there's less to remember!")


1,775 posted on 08/31/2005 10:51:35 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor
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To: yellowroses

http://ianlivingston.com/weather/images/2005/highres_before_small.jpg
http://ianlivingston.com/weather/images/2005/highres_after_small.jpg


1,776 posted on 08/31/2005 10:52:20 AM PDT by nwctwx (Everything I need to know, I learned on the Threat Matrix)
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To: CommandoFrank

"They never did find him..." But, did they find the guy who was holding his beer?


1,777 posted on 08/31/2005 10:53:22 AM PDT by diogenes ghost
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To: spunkets
Lets exaggerate to the point of an outright lie now. You know damn well this post refers to a coastal area ~125 mi wide.

This thread refers to four towns, supposedly with thousands of dead in trees and on beaches and in homes, all supposedly seen by one EMT/paramedic/nurse. Hard to imagine how one person could see so much in such a short time.
1,778 posted on 08/31/2005 10:54:27 AM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: My Favorite Headache

Sadly, what your friend told you is no surprise, reason why I have limited my tv viewing, not easy for the mind to take in.

Prayers for all involved.


1,779 posted on 08/31/2005 10:54:32 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Diddle E. Squat

People were warned to get out of Dodge. I'm talking about the able bodied MEN who needed to be rescued because they stayed. It was embarrassing to see able bodied men being hoisted off of roof tops. I'm sorry. I do not feel sorry for them. I'll save my sympathy for those who are frail, elderly or who have an excuse to need rescuing.


1,780 posted on 08/31/2005 10:55:12 AM PDT by Saundra Duffy (Never forget Terri Schindler)
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