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Hundreds are feared dead (Gulfport-Biloxi-Pass Christian-Long Beach, MS)
Biloxi Sun Herald ^ | 08/30/05 | ANITA LEE and GREG LACOUR

Posted on 08/30/2005 11:53:09 PM PDT by conservative in nyc

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Not good. This partially confirms the information passed on by My Favorite Headache.

There's some actual news about conditions in Pass Christian and Long Beach - areas about which we haven't heard much.

1 posted on 08/30/2005 11:53:13 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
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To: My Favorite Headache

PING


2 posted on 08/30/2005 11:53:39 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
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To: Cannonette

ping


3 posted on 08/31/2005 12:00:37 AM PDT by Cannoneer No. 4 (Kandahar Airfield -- “We’re not on the edge of the world, but we can see it from here")
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see the video on last post of gulfport. you would not believe the scene. Biloxi is just about gone.


4 posted on 08/31/2005 12:04:18 AM PDT by rineaux (hardcore)
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Crosss-reference: Astonishing Exclusive From Mississippi BREAKING NEWS
5 posted on 08/31/2005 12:06:42 AM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Liberals...they're so quixotic...)
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6 posted on 08/31/2005 12:11:00 AM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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That post from My Favorite Headache sounds as though it is really true. This w/b the news for tomorrow.


7 posted on 08/31/2005 12:11:59 AM PDT by Tarheel ( Murphy's law #21--Internet flame wars are started by two cats who did not like their supper.)
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..and they wonder why they were KILLED!

8 posted on 08/31/2005 12:14:47 AM PDT by Critical Bill ("Iraq is fighting for all the Arabs. Where are the Arab armies?" ... George Galloway MP)
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>>>That post from My Favorite Headache sounds as though it is really true. This w/b the news for tomorrow.

Frightening, indeed.


9 posted on 08/31/2005 12:14:53 AM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Liberals...they're so quixotic...)
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I heard Skip Pickering talk tonight on Greta about MS - he said, almost as an aside, "We have hundreds dead". So I thought, hundreds dead just in MS? And he probably is underestimating, as most of them do.

When this is all said and done, the figure will be in the thousands.


10 posted on 08/31/2005 12:18:11 AM PDT by I still care (America is not the problem - it is the solution..)
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Three young surfers head for the ocean and high wave action as Hurricane Katrina approaches Boca Raton, Florida on August 25, 2005. Despite a hurricane warning issued by the National Hurricane Center, many Floridians remained outdoors for the Category 1 tropical cyclone. A voluntary evacuation was in effect.

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11 posted on 08/31/2005 12:18:32 AM PDT by Critical Bill ("Iraq is fighting for all the Arabs. Where are the Arab armies?" ... George Galloway MP)
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Almost apocalyptic. Stunning.


12 posted on 08/31/2005 12:19:47 AM PDT by rdb3 ("That which has happened is a warning. To forget it is guilt..." --Karl Jaspers)
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Armed Forces Retirement Home Opens Doors to Displaced Brethren

10 feet of water surged into the ground floor of the Gulfport home, ruining the kitchen, dining room, bowling alley and long-term care facility and submerging the emergency generator. The hurricane also blew down the home's water tower.

a ranch house on the complex used for visitors was blown away, as was the eight-foot-high brick and steel fence around the 49-acre complex's perimeter.

13 posted on 08/31/2005 12:24:05 AM PDT by Cannoneer No. 4 (Kandahar Airfield -- “We’re not on the edge of the world, but we can see it from here")
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Gulfport Fire Chief Pat Sullivan said most of those who died in Gulfport perished in the zone of the storm surge, which pushed up to a set of railroad tracks about six blocks from the beach.
14 posted on 08/31/2005 12:33:01 AM PDT by Cannoneer No. 4 (Kandahar Airfield -- “We’re not on the edge of the world, but we can see it from here")
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"People ought to know not to stay here for something like this," Waldrop said. "I knew better. They gave them plenty of warning to get out of here."

While the MSM had it's sites on New Orleans, the people of Gulfport/Biloxi knew it was coming. I guess they thought it couldn't be that bad...

15 posted on 08/31/2005 12:34:20 AM PDT by Ronzo
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Warning this image is of a graphic nature showing a victim of Katrina.
16 posted on 08/31/2005 12:38:43 AM PDT by Critical Bill ("Iraq is fighting for all the Arabs. Where are the Arab armies?" ... George Galloway MP)
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Fun Time USA in Gulfport. The bumper boats, pool and go-cart track were the only things left.
17 posted on 08/31/2005 12:50:37 AM PDT by Cannoneer No. 4 (Kandahar Airfield -- “We’re not on the edge of the world, but we can see it from here")
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"People ought to know not to stay here for something like this," Waldrop said. "I knew better. They gave them plenty of warning to get out of here."

This is why the comparisons with the Tsunami or 9/11 are not helpful. There will be another disaster of this nature, so it is OK to be a bit preachy about the lessons of this one. That said, it is still very, very sad. Many could not leave, at least not reasonably easily, so something can be done about that. Watching the Super Dome, I kept wondering about busing the people to safe areas using city buses.

18 posted on 08/31/2005 12:53:39 AM PDT by JimSEA
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Mississippi search crews pulling bodies from rubble - railroad tracks about six blocks from beach***..."We understand the military trying to reach us was bogged down on U.S. 49," Warr said, referring to the main north-south highway into Gulfport. "I was told there were more than 100 big pines across the road in a two-mile stretch in the DeSoto (National) Forest."

City officials said they could not immediately re-establish water or sewer services. All land phone lines and most cell phone communications were out of service, they said, and crews were trying to repair a major gas leak downtown.

Tons of chicken parts, which had been stored for shipping in the port area, ended up scattered across dozens of blocks west of the city.

"That's going to become a biohazard in no time," said Sullivan, the fire chief. "We'll need fast help with that, too." ...***

19 posted on 08/31/2005 2:18:13 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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"Hurricane Katrina cost more lives ... than any disaster in Coast history, the Red Cross said Tuesday.




Hmmm, me thinks the Red Cross spokesperson wasn't around for the "coastal" hurricane hit on Galveston Island that took over 6000 lives.


20 posted on 08/31/2005 3:49:26 AM PDT by TexasRedeye
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