Posted on 09/05/2005 10:45:35 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor
The U.S. Public Health Service said a prison morgue near New Orleans was expecting 1,000 to 2,000 bodies. And more than 125 were known dead in Mississippi.
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And the secretary of homeland security, Michael Chertoff, warned that there will be gruesome sights in the days ahead.
"We need to prepare the country for what's coming," Chertoff told Fox News . "We are going to uncover people who died hiding in the houses, maybe got caught in the floods. It is going to be as ugly a scene as you can imagine."
Meanwhile, help for the living was an uphill battle in some places.
A convoy of 100 surgeons and paramedics in a state-of-the-art mobile hospital was marooned in rural Mississippi as of Sunday, AP reported, because Louisiana officials would not let them into the New Orleans area.
"We have tried so hard to do the right thing. It took us 30 hours to get here," said one of the frustrated surgeons, Dr. Preston "Chip" Rich of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. That government officials can't straighten out the mess and get them assigned to a relief effort now that they're just a few miles away "is just mind-boggling," he told AP.
Other doctors also complained that their offers of help were turned away. A primary care physician from Ohio said he had called and e-mailed the HHS after seeing a notice on the American Medical Association's Web site about volunteer doctors being needed. An e-mail reply told him to watch CNN Sunday night where Leavitt was to announce a Web address for doctors to enter their names in a database.
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May God bless and protect your friend. This is so horrible, words fail me.
..The incompetence of NO and LA officials in mind-boggling...
I would argue you are not only wrong but completely misunderstand the situation. The same is true for the misguided docs from NC.
NO is an evacuated city and no aid is being given to people there. To get aid you must evacuate to a shelter or other protected area. The doctors went to the wrong place. Had they gone elsewhere in the disaster area they would have been welcomed.
The message is that NO is being purposely emptied of people to insure that the needed services can and will be delivered. That is not possible within NO.
The correct reponse would have been to say "You need to set up at XXX (where XXX is the place where evacuees are processed and triaged prior to being sent on), and Officer Smith here will guide you to where you can set up"
Pissing away a 100-man MASH unit is NOT my idea of good resource utilization
There is no evidence that didn't happen. The good doc didn't want to hear it. He wanted to go to NOLA. He is a Chapel Hill blue zoner....he wanted the press for being turned away.
He wanted to tell the tale till his dying day about how the he was rebuffed.
ROFLOL -- that is one of the best laughs I've had since Sean Penn's boat tried to sink!
My prayers are sent for those who have been left to hold the front lines. May God give them the strength to overcome all that they have witnessed and the courage to tell the whole truth no matter how ugly it is.
60,000 is mind boggling.
bttt
You won't believe this one ping
First a question. Is that an email addressed to YOU, from your friend? Please understand I'm asking because of the rumors of rumors going around.
Thank you for sharing the information, it's quite amazing that written messages can be sent around the world from inside a city in such staights. PLease tell your friend the country is proud of his service to the people of NO. I hope the best for you too TennTuxedo.
No, the email is addressed to my friend from his friend who is a police officer in New Orleans.
Maybe they will try and use them for survivors.
They could float them out of the city!
Sean Penn was a perfect exsample of what happens when liberals try to take charge. Left the plug out of the bat. What goof.
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