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'm going to have to lie down if that is true.
What a wholesale distortion of reality.
NO FREEPER WANTS the results to be thousands dead! What kind of . . . . something to even imagine that.
Sheesh.
Some of us don't mind respecting a first hand report for what it is--one person's first hand report. We shall see what other reports say.
You are one hundred percent right! (And I apologize for jumping the gun earlier...no excuses for doing so but I am surrounded by too many Lieberals where I work)
For sure.
Lots of folks hereon seem instantly hostile toward anything they didn't start; anything not confined by their narrow, limited biases and world view etc. etc. etc.
Talk about disgusting.
"I still haven't seen it."
See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473894/posts?page=2080#2080
According to the guy's computer models...
Remember, "global warming" and "nuclear winter" were "proven" by computer models...and subsequently "disproven" by other computer models.
Computer models are subject to "garbage in, garbage out."
"Could it get any worse?"
Well - I am going to have to pay more at the pump.
And yes - that does concern me. But when I think of the devastation and heatache and loss down south, the extra 5 cents a mile I have to spend to pick up my healthy kids from their first day at school and then to the park for soccer practice pales in comparison. And I think today will be a good day for an extra-special trip to the DQ for a treat with the whole family.
"Maybe...thats their way of letting it be known they are dealing only with the hard facts they know to be true and will not take any wild guesses that cause panic in the people like some are doing on here."
Note that the MSM is now quoting 'off-record' fema and rescue people as describing the biloxi back bay/ocean springs recovery ops as no longer rescue, but rather 'bag and tag.'
Goodness.
Seems like your emotions sort of slid all that into my account for some mysterious reason.
Interesting.
Didn't read much that applied to me by the remotest stretches of imagination.
Perhaps you could find another hobby besides bashing Quix and others of his perspective. Our perspective is AT LEAST as reasonable, sound, logical, thoroughly proven as yours is to you.
Ping to #2080
Those pics are stunning.
I agree with you.
There are plenty of dead people ~ those arguing about the number are just wasting their time ~ when the water recedes, we'll know.
Last I heard, there was also a need for a FREEPER ran computer data base of FREEPERS with housing available to match up with housing needs.
Yes but we expected that. I don't think anyone expected the looting and shootings. Those people have enough misery.
LOL. Hadn't heard that one before.
epipeptic hooker.
The pics are so huge.. but in each one... everythign is obliterated.
1.3 megs each I think. Each coastal pic that has structures looks like these :
http://mfproducts.nos.noaa.gov/storms/katrina/24331012.jpg
http://mfproducts.nos.noaa.gov/storms/katrina/24334558.jpg
The main site :
http://alt.ngs.noaa.gov/katrina/KATRINA0000.HTM
Amen.
And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God. When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple. They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD." -- Jonah 2:1-9"Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,
I haven't seen any credible research on this matter. I'm open minded, if you have sources.
I already call for the impeachment of the both political parties for gross and criminal violation of the Constitution (regarding social programs), but by and large our current military guys are the greatest generation of men in America since WWII.
In 1794, when Congress appropriated $15,000 for relief of French refugees who fled from insurrection in San Domingo to Baltimore and Philadelphia, James Madison stood on the floor of the House to object saying, "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." -- James Madison, 4 Annals of congress 179 (1794)
Complete destruction. I cannot imagine anythone within any of the photos I opened surviving the storm alone, let alone the flooding.
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