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....
There was looting in Galveston, it was quite famous at the time, and looters were shot on sight. Looters were caught cutting fingers off of dead women to steal their wedding rings. I am quite astonished at this thread. The lack of historical data and the amount of hysteria, are both notable.
People got out of the area very hard. In St. Tammany, by Slidell, there were no passable roads for over a day.
Today and tomorrow we will begin to find real news as roads have been detreed. This area, once you get off the coastline, is mostly piney woods. Tons of trees down.
Very few people have gotten out. Today begins the flood of news and people as the roads become usable.
Do you think we don't know that?
The problem is people like you trying to kill the story before ANYBODY can confirm it.
As far as relief efforts are concerned, allow me to put a plug in for this organization. These are some of the most wonderful folks on the face of the earth and their organization is out of this world. During Floyd, not only did they provide immediate relief with homecooked food flown in by NG choppers, they established long term rebuilding efforts.
Southern Baptist Convention Disaster Relief
http://www.namb.net/site/c.9qKILUOzEpH/b.224451/k.7BDB/Disaster_Relief_Homepage.htm
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Donations
If you would like to make a financial contribution to the Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Fund, make checks payable to the North American Mission Board (NAMB) and mail to: NAMB, P.O. Box 116543, Atlanta, GA 30368-6543. To make a donation online go to the website.
The following feeding units and locations have been confirmed (although the situation is changing by the minute). The roads are still a major issue and the situation in tremendous flux.
Louisiana
Boutee - Rolling Hills unit (Louisiana)
Alexandria - Top of Texas unit
New Orleans - Tennessee state unit
Baton Rouge - Oklahoma state unit
Lafayette - Texas state unit
Mississippi
Biloxi — Mississippi state unit
Pascagoula — Georgia 11F unit
Hattiesburg — Florida state unit
McComb — Missouri state unit
Meridian — North Carolina state unit
Clinton (Jackson) —Kentucky state unit
Vicksburg — Virginia Baptist Mission Board state unit
Laurel — Arkansas state unit
Alabama
Mobile — Alabama state unit
Georgia (tornado damage)
Carrollton — Georgia associational unit
"thousands of bodies hanging in trees"???
See, again I think that's reading too much into the post. I think probably several hundred in trees and another thousand elsewhere on the ground or in houses for many miles of coastline.
The hanging in trees thing is a powerful image that sticks with a person just like it did after the lesser Camille, so it's natural to be overly focused on that. But by all means I don't think that's the only place people ended up. But where the water pushed back to the woods and then began to recede, the trees do make sense.
Don't forget that all the cemeteries will have bodies floating out of them, too. The sealed caskets literally float right up through the earth, because they're so much more buoyant than the soaked earth they lie in. Once they pop to the surface (and they literally pop up, it's the freakiest thing you've ever seen), they get knocked around, hit by debris, etc., and before long, the caskets come open.
When Albany, GA, got flooded in '94, they had dozens and dozens of bodies found in the trees. Most of them had been dead long before the floods, though.
That would be just Biloxi. US90 runs the coast from Pass Christian to Biloxi and it is almost all one beachfront community after another. Everybody lives within a mile or so of the beach, it was the point of living there on the coast. Ocean Springs is just arcoss the bridge east of Biloxi, I lived there in the early eighties.
Now who's spreading hyperbole? If you can't handle disagreement, then why are you even on a forum? I guess you want everyone to have the same opinion on everything (yours) and pat ourselves on the back.
Sigh.
Well, here are your original posts:
Right off the top, you imply the information is suspect because the mainstream media isn't reporting it:
Funny...nothing on the MSM and they have reporters crawling all over ther area you say your friend is at. Color me skeptical.
Then, you goofily and erroneously infer that MFH has claimed there are "thousands of bodies hanging from the trees":
Nothing anywhere else but this guy is claiming "thousands of bodies handing from the trees". Think about it.
That about do it for ya?
Caskets are sealed so the bodies wouldn't come out.
The only thing I know FOR CERTAIN is the surge was a good deal higher than the one that hit that area during Camille. I saw one mass casualty incident during Vietnam. At first it looked like everybody in the world had died. Then it didn't look so bad. I hope that the guy who called in the report over reacted. The problem is if you put five ants in a bucket and pour water in, all five will drown, if you put fifty in the bucket, all fifty will drown. The water was there in those areas. I lived on a boat there for two and half years and know the area and have seen what Camille did. This will be much worse.
I am afraid that one is going to hit GW in the butt. The Army Corp of Engineers is responsible for the levees and spillways and some of that money was shorted to fund the war in Iraq. It seems that the very levee that was first breeched, the 17th street levee, was top priority at the time. You know the left will be all over that.
Thank you for the information.
"Do you think we don't know that?"
No it doesn't seem that way.
"The problem is people like you trying to kill the story before ANYBODY can confirm it."
No what IS happening is there are people trying to equate this to the Biblical Flood before we even can find a verifiable source for the original story.
Dolly's announcement is probably the most accurate of anything we have heard. I suspect the TV people have been told to downplay the precise death situation to avoid a sort of national panic. As I write this the news on in the background is talking around the "death situation" but sort of setting us up for it.
Must not be sealed well because I know that is not true. Remember the last flooding in New Orleans - it was a big problem.
Also I think if they are battered by water, hitting houses, gravestones, etc they do break open.
I came here because Hugh Hewett has MFH's crazy post up as a negative example of what the internet and blogosphere should be doing right now. I don't know MFH, and I am sure he/she is a great guy, but this kind of posting is irresponsible. I ahve family in the region, and have had family in the region for three and four generations. I am in touch with people in NO, and the coast. There are not piles of bodies, there are no coverups of the death count, and everyone needs to sack up and get a grip. Hysterical confabuilation does not help. This is a serious situation. We have ahd a major storm hit what is now a heavily populated region. This is not the end of the world, it is not a tsunami,a nd we are not a third world country with incompetent and corrupt leaders who don't care and won't do what is needed to help. We are Americans. And MFH, and allthe other end-of -the-worlders need to snap out of it and get on with life and helping those who need it.
Hunter, settle down.
I didn't start this thread, just replied to a post re: the Galveston hurricane. Thank you for the information about the looting. I've always been fascinated by the horror of that day.
As for the idea that deaths are being covered up in the present disaster, I agree completely with you that it the suggestion outrageous. If you want to make that point, chewing on me won't do you much good.
Goose chillies.
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