[BillCompton]

"What I'm authorized to say now is we expect the death toll to be higher than anything we've ever seen before," said Jim Pollard, civil defense spokesman for Mississippi's Harrison County, which includes Biloxi and Gulfport.

Greater than the black death in the middle ages? Clearly the context was the official reports of 60 dead and such. No one seriously can doubt there lots of dead people in the wreckage. 30 bodies in a tree is sounds like the ellaberations of someone trying to make a point strongly, but wrecklessly. I just don't believe it. And he could not possibly know about thousands of dead without it being clearly visible by helicopters. I have yet to see a dead body at all (I not saying they haven't been shown.)

[Victoria]

It would not surprise me to know there are bodies in trees, because we've already heard stories of people being rescued out of them. The article cited at Drudge, quotes a lady who was washed out of an apartment building, who says they were pushing cars away from them as they floated by. It's a fact that the water surge was at least 20 feet high in Biloxi-Gulfport area, so it's likely that some bodies are going to be found exactly as described. I doubt it will be thousands.

More likely, they will be found buried under all the debris, or farther inland, or worse, never found (as so many were not found after the great tsunami).

We're being given time to mentally prepare for what is to come.