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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: grellis
It's old age. The flame wars were considerably hotter -- hot ebough to melt hardened steel -- in the "old days". That's one reason JimRob began applying some light moderation and then moderators on FR.

Threads were regularly hijacked by scrolling text, fancy fonts and colors, tables, backgrounds, music, etc, in the days before JohnRob starting filtering out HTML.

FRiend, disrespect and abuse was worse then -- these threads of the last two years or so are SEDATE almost to boredom compared to the Jungle Wars of old.

2,421 posted on 08/31/2005 7:37:52 PM PDT by bvw
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To: SandyInSeattle

you've = you're. Sheesh.


2,422 posted on 08/31/2005 7:38:29 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: SandyInSeattle

I know.


2,423 posted on 08/31/2005 7:40:04 PM PDT by Darksheare (There is a Possum in the works.)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

Exactly...flatboats were tagging bodies and they would come back and pick them up with a larger boat later...hundreds of bodies along the shore.


2,424 posted on 08/31/2005 7:40:19 PM 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: krambrain2

Well, contribute to the discussion, then.

Your ONLY "contribution" was trying to tell us how to post to each other.


2,425 posted on 08/31/2005 7:40:52 PM PDT by KJC1
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To: krambrain2

If you were using a public computer, it is possible that we got trolled from that machine a few times.
Happens.

But, welcome to FR.


2,426 posted on 08/31/2005 7:41:19 PM PDT by Darksheare (There is a Possum in the works.)
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To: My Favorite Headache
Orlando also said the officials are "deputizing" regulars to help with the recovery process.
MFH, I never doubted you. I've spent the last few days at a house with no cable, so my laptop (thanks Apple!)FR and my cell phone have kept me up to date (remember connecting at 14.4 kps? It's ssssllllllooooowwwww, but free on my cell). Thanks for your reporting (and thank God that I can come to my home, with cable and electricity and food and.... every night)
2,427 posted on 08/31/2005 7:42:00 PM PDT by blu (only insiders knew about the AK-monkey-pumpers smack-down.)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775; Admin Moderator

I don't know why they are covering it up...FREE REPUBLIC NEEDS TO LET THIS OUT.

Orlando Salinas in Gulf Port,Mississippi adding to what I reported here last night...18-wheelers are being stocked with dead bodies, the call is being made for help pulling bodies out of homes along the coast. Entire families are dead from drowning in their homes and under rubble.


2,428 posted on 08/31/2005 7:42:51 PM 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: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL
The electorate has become too complacent, to unconcerned, with the poor choices we make for our representatives and administrators. We believe that we will survive most boobs wielding office for a few years, and give over suffrage to the random selections made by the uninformed, the emotionally swayed, the ignorant and unconcerned, and even the criminals among us.

Catastrophes will always integrate those poor choices into massive death and destruction, and demonstrate past poor choices to the survivors. If any wit survives in a society, they will amend their ways, and the systems that select their destiny. It will always remain a dangerous world, even though, mercifully, day to day, we are insulated from this harsh reality.

We see this ignorance displayed in many human systems. It is compellingly obvious in the conflict between science and engineering versus raw political will. NASA "command and control" ignores or minimizes engineering facts to "attain" goals in order to aggrandize political hacks. Leads to predictable conclusions.

Societal spending priorities are partially set by arrogant, self-centered (POS) morons like Senator Byrd, apparently based on obtaining his personal name recognition on a bridge, statue, or rock monument, rather than on any lasting or even current value to the electorate. And the disinterested, or overwhelmingly ignorant electorate keeps returning this moronic POS to office.

Without any substantiation, I'll bet that more was spent annually on NO Mardi-Gras celebration than was ever spent on insuring this under sea-level city was assured to be safe from flooding from the sure-to-happen, "50 year" cat 5 event.

2,429 posted on 08/31/2005 7:43:05 PM PDT by GregoryFul
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To: krambrain2

Generally it's not ferocious at all, unless you're unlucky enough to wander onto an immigration thread.

This is a stressful topic and we have strong opinions.


2,431 posted on 08/31/2005 7:46:23 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: Admin Moderator

I understand the need to control speculation and wild-eyed theories, but reporting what Orlando Salinas is saying is not that.


2,432 posted on 08/31/2005 7:47:31 PM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: My Favorite Headache

THEY'LL NEVER REPORT THE REAL NUMBERS OF THE DEAD....THEY DIDN'T WITH ANDREW...1000'S DIED THERE...THEY'LL NOT IN MISS. OR LOUISIANA...THEY'RE ALREADY SIDE STEPPING IT!!!


2,433 posted on 08/31/2005 7:47:52 PM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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To: shield

I think they will report the real numbers. The mayor has freely admitted the NO toll may be in teh thousands.


2,434 posted on 08/31/2005 7:49:21 PM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: krambrain2

Geesh. What are your thoughts on the hurricane, the destruction and loss of life in New Orleans and Gulf areas?

All you've done is whine about FR since you've been here. Jump in and participate in the actual topic if that is why you are here!


2,435 posted on 08/31/2005 7:52:30 PM PDT by KJC1
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To: rwfromkansas

OMG...I hope so...if people know the real deal...next time they'll leave when a hurricane is coming their way. It's stupid not to report the real numbers...we're adults, we can deal with it!!!


2,436 posted on 08/31/2005 7:52:35 PM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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To: My Favorite Headache
...I don't know why they are covering it up...FREE REPUBLIC NEEDS TO LET THIS OUT...

Looks like the mods don't agree. They suspended "My Favorite Headache"'s account.

The guy's been here for 5 years.

2,437 posted on 08/31/2005 7:52:50 PM PDT by FReepaholic
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

all of the folks calling on God's Name now should understand this type of calamity has been foretold in every Bible ever printed---there will be more disasters in our nation and the world as mankind refuses to stop living their lives as a lie and refusing to ask their Maker for forgivness for allowing drugs, perverted sexual practices and the rest of a sinful life to continue in this previously God Blessed country--we were brought up as a God loved Nation and have allowed the filth and degradation that is America today to happen on our watch--now, we pay the price for the lack of courage to protect the beauty that was given to us by our ancestors who knew that there was a God in Heaven who ruled over the affairs of men--the good will suffer with the bad until the Lord comes and destroys the evil in this world


2,438 posted on 08/31/2005 7:57:39 PM PDT by cmotormac44
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To: shield
By not reporting any numbers at all yet, yes -- they are sidestepping it. Deaths are an important matter of public record, like births and marriages. This information should be public and contemporaneous. We are adults.

By holding back this information -- for whatever reason -- they encourage the kind of nanny-state dynamic that gives rise to cultures that produce the irresponsible looters, thugs and rapists we are seeing in NO this horrible days. Such "official" action is misguided, like all "official" actions that treat the public like children, or like helplessly irresponsible people who need to be strictly directed and spoon-fed.

Treat the public like responsible adults, and it will be so.

2,440 posted on 08/31/2005 8:00:08 PM PDT by bvw
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