Old reports...I've been hearing that all day. I also already knew about the 30 people in the apartment complex.
They've been reporting it all night.
But it is still not what MFH is describing.
Nice to see you up and about again.
Welcome to Hysteria 101.
You know, considering the lack of information, I don't know why you insist on digging the hole deeper.
There's a lot of rubble. It is going to take weeks with cadaver dogs to find all the bodies under it all (that didn't wash out to sea).
The number of dead was still unclear, a day after Katrina slammed the Gulf Coast with 145-mph winds. But one Mississippi county alone was believed to have lost as many as 80 people — 30 of them from a beachfront apartment house that collapsed under a 25-foot wall of water. And Louisiana said many were feared dead there, too, making Katrina one of the most punishing storms to hit America in decades.
New Orleans's mayor, Ray Nagin, said hundreds, if not thousands, of people may still be stuck on roofs and in attics, and so rescue boats were bypassing the dead.
"We're not even dealing with dead bodies," Mr. Nagin said. "They're just pushing them on the side."
OK, this is NO, which, according to the media hype, dodged the bullet. Extrapolating to MS and AL, both of which got hit almost head-on, it doesn't look good.
I hope MFH is wrong, but only time will tell.
the 30 folks in the apartment complex were reported from the start....you have seen pics of the scouring the MS gulf coast got, it isn't like only that apartment building was lost. Multiple media reporters are commenting on seeing bodies and just leaving them. Are all the media passing the same few dozen bodies and reporting on them?
From a point of logical extrapolation, will you please post what ballpark number of MS gulf coast casualties YOU expect?
Do you feel a thousand is too many? Twenty-five hundred? Please consider how many people in the back parts of gulfport/biloxi would have stayed in their home since that area has not been hit by hurricane surge in recorded history, and consider how many of said houses no longer exist.