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....
Wrong. Read lugsouls posts. They disagreed with the numbers named by an eyewitness.
Food,ICE,Medicine,Socks,Clothes,shoes,baby formula ALL BEING REQUESTED VIA EMS in Mississippi...people have lost everything.
Red Cross is all over the place...donate to Salvation Army.
I was roasted when I pointed out Monday that New Orleans got the big one and did not "dodge the bullet". Sadly I was right. Some are calling New Orleans the American Atlantis, Pompi might be more accurate.
There was no "article." It was heresay, remember?
If anyone had told me yesterday the name George W. Bush would make my skin crawl today I would never have believed it.
FWIW, Michael Medved just opened his program and said, among other things, that the death count *COULD* be in the tens of thousands, that nobody really knows yet.
Good catch. Yes, maybe it was seven after all. I guess I'm still wondering how one person visited all those areas in such a short time in the middle of a massive natural disaster.
Depending on what he does besides just being a nurse and taking into accout he is former military his services may have been needed in multiple areas. If one community was completely desimated & there were no signs of life he may have been moved to another and then another.
Given what little we know at this point this person that MFH talked to could have been trucked or flown to many spots, there is really no way to know. So again as I have said before we all need to just settle down & wait to see what comes out. If the numbers are not as this person said then that's great but if they are then some have been arguing for no reason here when we all need to be pulling together to give each other as much information as we can.
Theres no sense in the arguing/fighting/bickering around here today. There are a lot of bodies down there in the water, in the rubble, just everywhere... Time would be better spent praying for for all those affected & giving what info you have.
I didn't dodge anything. You've been calling MFH and his friend liars. YOU and your "friends" are now trying to backpedal.
Military money is always moved from pot to pot. War always has priority.
you have more positions than an epileptic hooker.
Amen.
Local weather and city officials told residents in Miss along the coastal communities to go into the closet and put a mattress over their bodies if the wind took off the roof of their house.
The surge rushed in and they drowned in large numbers.
LOLOL!!!! Thank you for the laugh!
It gets worse when you go west. Wait until you see Bay St. Louis, Waveland, Pass Christian, and Picayune.
At this point even if you're right I have no objection to moving money to the war effort from the Corps of Engineers.
The locals should have their priorities straight and it appears that NO was living on borrowed time.
Speaking of professors, a grad student could make quite a qualitative dissertation study about a thread like this analyzing comments/changes, you name it, of a living organism, a microcosm. Like being inside the SuperDome now....
I don't think George W Bush can have the Mayor's link posted enough. He's been repudiating MFH and many other's posts all day, not to mention mine, as well.
The attacks on MFH were unwarranted. He brought us information when most people have none.
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