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....
As a fellow "RUSH" fan I've always rembered your name and run into your posts. If you say it's so - I believe it.
God Bless your friend and his co-heros as they spend long, hot, thirsty, gusome hours rescuing the living and recovering the dead.
God Bless the living.
2Ch 20:9 If, [when] evil cometh upon us, [as] the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name [is] in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
Looks like a human tragedy of epic preportions.
They should have left. Nature is unforgiving in her dispatch.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
I advise all FReepers to keep stocks of food, water, and ammo at home.
Sad to say, we're seeing what many of our fellow citizens are capable of.
Take this as an object lesson.
Prayers for the innocent... Swift justice to those who are not.
Any word from the Picayune area? I lived there for a few years in my youth, and I am worried sick.
I feared but totally expected this. The death toll will reach many thousands, maybe tens of thousands. I feared this, when it was announced that 30 died in one building on the Mississippi coast. One would have to be detached from reality not to extrapolate. If the gulf coast is ever rebuilt, there will need to be a more effective evacuation plan, with free public transportation, that is mandatory. Those that were not destroyed, need to do it too. Otherwise, it needs to become just a tourist resort, with few permanent residents. The Atlantic is so hot now, that for the next many years, until the climatic cycle abates, this will happen, again, and again, and again.
He got very quiet with me when I told him the numbers that have been public so far. He asked what have they said? I told him 50-80...he said "dude..we are picking up 30 at a time...thousands are dead...why aren't they saying...I guess I better shut up then...don't give my name" word for word in the call...
Just trying to be specific for everyone here....
:-(
I told a coworker today while watching the damage on TV that there were thousands of people dead. Just the numbers that you know didn't leave and all the destruction has to mean there are thousands dead?
Lord God have mercy...
Help them, help them Father. We lift our hands to You - Father of all, Father who knows what it is like to lose a Son -
Father who holds those who weep, and weeps with us. Have mercy Lord we pray...
You could tell by the look on Haley Barbour's face, and his manner, the first night that he was afraid of something like this.
My prayers for your friend for this horrible task laying before him. May he have peace for his mind, soul, and heart for his task.
There is no possible way I can believe this... no possible way.
A reporter from CNN was with a rescue crew during the night, trying to rescue people trapped in their homes. You could hear people screaming for help or moaning. Dogs in the neighborhood were barking and howling. The sounds were hideous. They found one elderly woman, alive, washed up in some tall shrub or tree, with a badly damaged leg.
The rescue boat is next to a house, and the water is so high that the rescuers are looking DOWN at the roof. The water is almost up to the apex of the roof, and inside is someone still hanging on, with only a few inches of breathing space left.
The reporter was weeping throughout her report.
Yet in the media, all we hear about is New Orleans. It's like the rest of the states don't matter, at least to the media.
Prayer Warriors needed here ping!
May they rest in peace with GOD.
I don't even have anything to post.
sorry guess I am not the metorologist I thought I wasn't...
any other semantics points of mine you would like to correct?
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