GULFPORT, MISS. - Stunned residents emerged from shelters and homes Tuesday to start assessing the massive damage left by Hurricane Katrina as rescuers pulled bodies from crushed homes and apartments near the coast.
The death toll in this hard-hit county rose to more than 100, but officials believe that number will rise. "There's so much rubble, we won't know for a while. But I fully expect the number to be in the hundreds," said Jason Green, assistant to the Harrison County coroner.
In an auxiliary morgue downtown, hearses unloaded bodies uncovered by search-and-rescue teams.
"Several families have brought in their dead," Green said.
County Supervisor Connie Rockco said it appears the heaviest loss of life was in east Biloxi, where an apartment building collapsed and killed 30 people.
"But there are fatalities from one end of the county to the other," Rockco said. - Houston Chronicle
We know from other sources there are bodies strewn and floating in various hard-hit regions, but you'd never know it from TV.
This is strange to me as the MSM glories in the daily body count from Iraq, but is skirting around the issue in the hurricane zones.
I'm trying to figure this one out, but then, the media never is consistent in its methods, running on emotions mainly.
My Favorite Headache is a reliable freeper, folks. Don't discount the bad news that is yet to be reported.
Leni