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It's partly the constuction of this sentence that has everyone in a tizzy: "They are hanging in trees and they are pulling them out 30 at a time." It doesn't mean there are 30 bodies in each tree. There are just bodies hanging in trees and scores of bodies are being gathered up from many many trees.

No, I didn't assume a 30-bodies-per-tree notion though I noticed at least one person did.

However, you grasped plainly, the actual reporting in this 'scoop': thousands of bodies hanging in trees being recovered in batches of 30 but unknown anywhere in the world except in this second-hand report from an anonymous poster on an Internet forum.

"thousands of bodies hanging in trees"???

See, again I think that's reading too much into the post. I think probably several hundred in trees and another thousand elsewhere on the ground or in houses for many miles of coastline.

The hanging in trees thing is a powerful image that sticks with a person just like it did after the lesser Camille, so it's natural to be overly focused on that. But by all means I don't think that's the only place people ended up. But where the water pushed back to the woods and then began to recede, the trees do make sense.