Nam Vet
OMG... prayers for the dead and their families.
......and not one single peep from the media. How remote is this area where the bodies are being found?
BTW, I hope that you and others can help your friend cope with what he'll be seeing over the upcoming days and weeks. It's got to be pretty tough dealing with that.
How quickly we can be reminded of how much we take for granted.
Dear God..........
WOW, it looks like the Tsumami disaster. How terrible.
This is just getting worst by the minute...
Oh, my God, how horrific. Much of the time we focused on NOLA only to find this utter loss of life a short distance away. Prayers on the way. How devastating.
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.
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.
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.
:-(
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.