Let me repost portion I think pertinent:
What was originally about Gulf Port, Mississippi and 3 other beach communities DID NOT not extend to MFH declaring that the mayor of Orleans (would) say there were hundreds of deaths in New Orleans...maybe thousands."
Perhaps a lot of us (me included) extrapolated and thought MFH's source implied that thousands perhaps perished on the Mississippi coast. And that is NOT the case.
Now, NOLA may well be another issue but was not the original topic of the thread.
The post by MFH has degenerated into shooting the messenger rather than the messenger. And then in turn, has deteriorated into us "shooting" each other.
That may well be true....be when long time FReepers publicly attest to another long-time Freeper's known veracity to speaking truthfully....well, it's one thing to say they'll wait and see....it's quite another to repudiate their post, and every other person who speaks to the veracity of the original poster.