Much higher.
The media focuses on the thugs rapes and murders in N.O.
but the rest of the disaster area is in every bit as much
in need ...and they aint killing their neighbors...and stealing their supplies...
Which makes them far more worthy of our help
Whole 'small towns' were wiped out...
imo
MFH had this three days ago, much to the consternation of many people.
You know...there are going to be alot of children in need of adoptive homes. :(
ping
bttt
Little of the national TV is showing the small MS towns wiped out by this.
As of Thursday, a friend of mine STILL hadn't heard from her family in south MS --- who lived at least 1 1/2 hours drive inland from the coast!
I think 80 MPH winds came through that section. No phone service, no electricity, etc.
It's a small rural area, so neighbors are most likely helping each other. But she was hoping to hear something soon!
Kudo's to My Favorite Headache for putting out a "first person" account! Must be the total pitts when you know what you were told was true (the cell phone call), and no other way to back-up was available - except time itself.
Senator Vitter said 10,000 in NO would be a place to start with number of dead. I suspect this will far surpass the worst hurricane loss in the USA which was the 1900 Galveston hurricane that killed 8,000.
I expect it will go higher. It's going to take time to scour the woods and go through the rubble. It's so sad that it hard to take it all in.