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....
LOL!!
Well, the cool thing about FR is one can assess, by how others reveal themselves, how discerning, prudent, shrewd, accurate, levelheaded, informed, intelligent, and and all around freeper-wise posters are in the span of a day. After that, one can reasonbly lend credence to a poster, or dismiss him. You've been quite above reproach here nic.
And we all learned breaking news early on: the kind of news and information we can only get from FR, thanks to citizen reporting from the likes of MFH. This helps a lot in disastors and emergencies, such as this or 9/11.
FreeRegards,
V's wife.
Slightly off topic (but the whole thread has gone anyway)
When the news aircrafts are taking images of these people waving tshirts, pleading for help, do they let them know they've been seen? Are they letting the 'authorities' know where people need help?
I can't imagine the helplessness of seeing someone taking photo's/video and flying off.
The point is, GWB, you were rejecting out of hand, MFH's post, simply because the lame stream media wasn't reporting what he posted.
That you would even rely upon the lame stream media to print the truth is also laughable.
Does Dan Rather/cBS come to mind? How about "Bias"
They don't report the truth anymore....unless it serves a purpose...the press are presstitutes....I don't rely upon them for news...I only "use" them as confirmation to what is reported now, mostly through other means, i.e., FR/Bloggers, etc.
I understand what you are saying, nicmario.
I am trying to stick within the confines of the original story:
An eyewitness account of Gulfport and other communities posted by a good longtime FReeper AND from a good source,
then the attacks on the messenger,
then our eventual internecine posts,
and then assuming that the current NOLA mayor account is proof of the original source.
It is not. And never can be.
"you have more positions than an epileptic hooker."
I don't care who you are, that there is FUNNY!
If I were you, I would check my 'net muscles at the door before you call somebody a liar, Boy-o.
Bingo. This is no different than hearing 100 times a day from the MSM that "Sources say".
It depends on the credibility of the reporter. What Brit Hume's sources say carries a lot more weight with me than Dan Rather's.
I don't want Hugh Hewitt or anyone else as the "gatekeeper" what is fit to be news. We come here to get away from that. And we debate the story and look for corroboration, and the story stands or not on its merits.
This is what we are doing today, and what we will continue to do. I don't mind the detractors, they have valid points. I do mind people who think we shouldn't be allowed to discuss it, which was Hewitt's original point, namely the thread should be pulled.
And,nicmarlo, for our friends in Loma Vista or where ever Rushbo picks on:
internecine \in-tur-NES-een; -NEE-syn; -NEE-sin\, adjective:
1. Of, or relating to, conflict within a nation, an organization, or a group.
2. Mutually destructive; involving, or accompanied by, mutual slaughter.
3. Deadly; destructive; marked by slaughter.
Overhead Pics of Mississippi Coast, From NOAA
http://alt.ngs.noaa.gov/katrina/KATRINA0000.HTM
Nonono. I pinged you because they were now trying to claim they never said the numbers would be lower. And you were the poster that pinned them down. ;)
Published August 31. 2005 2:28PM
Mayor: hundreds, maybe thousands, dead in New Orleans.The Associated Press
"We know there is a significant number of dead bodies in the water," Nagin said.
He said there are others dead in attics.
Asked for a number, he said, "Minimum hundreds, most likely thousands."
http://www.gadsdentimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050831/APN/508310857&cachetime=5
I don't think that the Mayor's account is from the original source...in my mind, it's another independent source...based on others' observations throughout the area.
Long-time FReepers of no ill repute, who are trying to be helpful...providing information that the media will not or isn't reporting, shouldn't be attacked or called liars, outright or otherwise.
In any event, this a horrible tragedy....one my eyes have never witnessed in this Country...
Oh gee, now that I have reached the end of the thread I see how right I was. LOL!
I told my wife the night of Katrina that hundreds would be found dead.
I know after four hurricanes here in FL last year that folks would neglect to evacuate.
After viewing what pics are coming from the "big" towns of NO and Biloxi, I'm more convinced than ever that casualties will be much higher.
It's not the wind, it's the water.
Has anybody mentioned the groundswell of volunteers and financial aid from other countries who are showing up to assist us in our catastrophe? You know... from the countries we help after earthquakes, tsunamis, etc. (Just kidding.)
And we're just supposed to take this guy's word for it? Please.
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