Astonishing Exclusive From Mississippi [hundreds if not thousands dead]

Paramedic Rescue Operation | 8-31-05 | My Favorite Headache

[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....

[plewis1250]

I agree, or at least make a STRONG effort to "re-engineer" the city... block by block with fill dirt and get it ABOVE sea level...
- plewis1250

[clee1]

I hope so too, but I doubt it.

Nature's fury has to be experienced to be believed. Modern Americans just refuse to believe that they are poweless in the face of a Cat 5 hurricane.

Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Betcha that 99.9% of the people that lived through Betsy, Cammile, or Andrew got the Hell out.

[soloNYer]

Unfortunately I had the same thought. Hopefully with their focus on Iraq they won't be prepared to compound the tragedy.

[BurbankKarl]

The 1971 "Ocean Warwick" - a Diamond Offshore jackup rig - sits 100 yards from the beach with remnants of beach houses on Dauphin Island, Ala., seen in this aerial view.

Remnants of beach houses on Dauphin Island, Ala., seen in this aerial view. Dauphin Island, a vacation and weekend retreat off the Mobile County coast, has a population of about 1,200 and was mostly deserted during the hurricane.

The Biloxi-Ocean Springs bridge damage along U.S. Highway 90 in Biloxi, Mississippi

Rooftops and bare foundations sit surrounded by the debris of damaged and destroyed homes and businesses in Biloxi, Mississippi.

[foreign devil]

...as you say...this was the news we were waiting NOT to hear. But we knew there was going to be a tally...we hoped it wouldn't be as high as we knew it could be...now we know it's what we feared.

Our job now...our no. 1 priority HAS TO BE GETTING THOSE ALIVE OUT! By boat seems to be the only way. Another storm is coming and EVERYBODY should be gone. It would just be like M.N. to laugh and throw another one at us just like last year. In any case, most of the survivors still out there can't last beyond a week without food and water...particularly water. At the outside we have seven days so we have to hurry! The bodies will have to wait.

[rolling_stone]

Slidell...There was one report from a freeper earlier that their relative survived..another report of 15-20 feet of water..there is a thread just for Slidell..I have someone there that stayed and haven't heard from I am concerned..best wishes...rs

[cyborg]

Looting a Children's Hospital too :( It really is no man's land down there.

[kristinn]

My brother rode out Camille down there. He told me similar stories of bodies found in trees. Very sad.

[Bush gal in LA]

I am writing to a friend out of the country about this terribly tragic situation. Do you or anybody know if Mississippi got the same warnings to leave that Louisiana did? Thanks anyone for any information.

[AgThorn]

Thousands of bodies have been discovered throughout Mississippi in Gulf Port, Waveland,Hancock County,Bay of St.Louis.

THOUSANDS!!!! Oh my God, we beseech thee .. make this not so...

[rwfromkansas]

THOUSANDS?

Thousands?

Thousands?

Oh my word.

I am in complete disbelief.

I thought hundreds.....but THOUSANDS?

I am shaking.

[lastchance]

Thanks for the info. I read Isaac's Storm. Great book.
I wonder if it is a cowinkydink that there was no looting in the days before gun control? umm.

[Quix]

tHERE'S AN expert of some sort on Coast to Coast talking about the technology to turn hurricanes, stall them speed them up etc. Didn't listen long.

[HAL9000]

It is similar to the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 that struck Florida. Mississippi may be recovering bodies for years.

The news from Plaquemines Parish, the end-of-the-road in Louisiana where the hurricane made landfall - is sparse and grim.

On a historical note, Beauvoir - the home of Jefferson Davis in Biloxi - was destroyed.

[PLMerite]

"Tass and Pravda in the USSR also blocked bad news."

I'd like to think our media had some shred of decency left and was holding back on speculation until there was some official announcement. I have heard them quoting rescue workers as saying they were "pushing the dead aside to get to the living," but as of yet I haven't seen *one* body on the news or heard any speculation on total casualties.

[Lijahsbubbe]

if you were able to get this information from your friend, I can't understand why the MSM isn't reporting this. What are they waiting for ... official confirmation? Surely, they can get someone to talk - anyone.

I have heard the media reporting that rescuers are just passing by bodies, concentrating on rescuing those alive.

That did give me some pause. If they had to pass the bodies by, there must be a significant number to deal with.

I also saw a report from Miss. where two men described how they jumped out the window of a house when a wall of water hit. Sounds very ominous.

Alot of times our cable and TV media is outscooped. (as we well know)

[Diddle E. Squat]

They said gulfport and biloxi were not at all expect something of this magnitude and the sudden turn just before landfall caught many off guard.

Total BS. The shift eastward affected landfall by less than 30 miles. There were repeated stern warnings from the Natl Hurricane Ctr on all the news and weather channels stating that the storm surge would be over 20' all the way east to past Mobile. Also warnings that landfall could move either east or west.

[Lancey Howard]

......and not one single peep from the media.

If they don't have videos, they don't report. On TV, it's all about the videos.

[BulletBobCo]

This is mind numbing. What makes this worse is that few countries are going to offer assistance and that al qaeda will soon be laughing....saying that it was alla's will. What nature has wrought they could only have dreamed of.

[My2Cents]

......and not one single peep from the media.

And this is just the kind of thing they've been wanting to report (excuse my cynicism). Frankly, I'm willing to wait for the confirmation of this on Fox or one of the other majors, rather than take the word of an anonymous report.