[George W. Bush]

And the guy on FNC just said rescuers are tying bodies to street posts so they don't float away...........uggggggg

It makes sense so they don't get counted twice and they know where to go recover them when the waters recede.

It's going to be an incredible amount of work.

[lugsoul]

GWB - I FReepmailed this story to MFH a couple of days ago, but will now post it here. It comes to me directly from a friend. Those who know the geography of the area will recognize how surprising it is - it also tends to corroborate the original post.

They kept a boat at Dauphin Island. Prior to the storm, they took the boat up the bay north of Cochran Bridge to ride out the storm in the delta. By all reports, this was fine and was actually a pretty good place to wait it out. When they returned to Dauphin Island and entered Mississippi Sound, they saw "several" bodies in the water. They also saw bodies hanging in the trees on the Bayou La Batre side.

If it is like this so far away from the heart of the storm, the original post relating to the MS coast is certainly not farfetched.