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 felt the exact same way.
Yup.
ping
ditto and amen.
Each of us need to get our house in order. Our "time" could be in the next moment. THis tragedy is but a reminder of how fragile life is.
God has his own plan and I sure don't pretend to know what it is!
And I assume they had no or very little advanced warning so probably not many evacuated.
They're in camped in the dome now and it's scarey.
All I can do is weep and pray.
There are a lot of people on the Gulf Coast and in Florida who either had never been through a hurricane or had lived through the mild ones and believed the worst could never happen to them.
I can't fathem, though, people in communitites like Bay St. Louis and Waveland would not know what a terrible storm was headed their way even if all the talk was about New Orleans. These two Mississippi towns are almost due north of New Orleans and would surely get the worst of it even if Katrina had stayed due north. You would think people would have the sense to get out.
I suppose one factor I hadn't figured on is how many elderly and retirees live in these areas and they don't leave no matter what because, in their minds, their home is all they have. So sad they felt compelled to die with their homes rather than flee.
I bet you will find a large amount of the dead will be elderly who even couldn't or wouldn't move out of the storm's path.
I think that is absolutely right.
There are some who claim that after the SF quake, there was an active program to suppress the death toll.
People who disappeared were listed as "missing", not deceased, because no body was ever found, and IIRC, there were about 15-20 thousand of those.
Speculation is that the local Better Business Bureau types didn't want to scare people from migrating there.
That your cheekiness seems to be.
Re: the American Red Cross
This is a quote from www.littlegreenfootballs.com:
And another note: some readers have expressed anger with the Red Cross. But please remember—there is no connection between the International Committee of the Red Cross (a Europe-based organization with an anti-American, anti-Israel agenda) and the American Red Cross, who support the United States whole-heartedly, and have even withheld dues from the ICRC, out of disgust at their agenda. Don’t target the wrong group, just because they have a similar name.
This was news to me. I automatically donated to The Salvation Army earlier today.
There were signs it was coming, but the local meteorologist chose to ignore them because he believe Galveston could not be hit by a hurricane. The stories that day were similar, in many regards. Water rise well in advance of the center, then massive rises as the eye got there. The whole city was underwater, and looked like splinters when the storm passed. The wooden buildings near the shoreline of LA/MS look quite like that tonight.
That's an understatement.
Some of us happen to believe that God cares about our behaviors and relates to us accordingly.
No, you turn God into an instrument of vengeance against both the subjects of your moral disapproval, and innocent bystanders.
Quit giving God the finger and doing our own thing our own way or it's only going to get worse.
Someone predicts disaster often enough, and eventually he'll be right, through sheer dumb luck. I won't hold my breath waiting for false prophets to admit all the times they are wrong.
I hope thats the case, that they got out, best wishes.
BTW, Thankfully I don't have any relatives there, but I did the same thing, went to bed, couldn't sleep...
Rush or someone on talk radio will pick this up from FR, then it forces MSM to start reporting it. FR has so much more power than people realize!
The storm watch flags were raised over the harbor that morning, but no one had the slightest idea of the magnitude of what was coming.
There was some nutball on Coast-to-Coast tonight in the first hour, saying that weather is being manipulated by the Russians-- citing names of the most severe storm last year IVAN and now KATRINA are 'Russian'. I kid you NOT! He also had a very snide comment about President Bush not doing anything to fix this manipulation or tell us the truth about it because he was too busy reading stories to third graders. I was only half listening at best but both these things caught my attention. (Well it USED to be sort of entertaining late-night radio, and I'm still in the habit.)
I don't know about any prophecy re: natural disasters. But today I realized that my little 6 yo dd has lived through the world's worst terrorist attack (9/11), possibly the world's worst tsunami, and now (possibly) the worst hurricane to ever hit the U.S. Probably coincidental, but definitely enough to make a mom say, "hmmm...". I have been Tivo-ing everything I can about the tsunami, 9/11, and will do so with Katrina so my kids will have "real time", recorded history of some pretty major world events. I pray there won't be too many more. :O)
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