New Orleans Death Toll 10,000? I don't think so.

Self | September 6, 2005 | Vanity

[AlbertWang]

The last numbers of confirmed dead was on thew AP sunday and it was about 350 total.

Albert Wang puts the total combined count at 750. This is still a tragedy, as everyone of those 750 people will be mourned and missed by their loved ones, however, it is a far cry from the 10,000 to 50,000 numbers now in play.

[Gondring]

For comparison, note that the flood created in 1938 in China to stop the invading Japanese army killed 600,000-900,000 people.

[OldFriend]

Vitter also rushed out on Day 1 and gave the President an 'F' for his response to the disaster.

[hershey]

Blanco on Fox right now, fogging. Doesn't answer direct questions, but oh, she went to NO on Sat. am, the first gov. ever to go to NO, stood by Nagin and they begged people to leave. Blah, blah, blah.

[swmobuffalo]

Have you missed the articles where folks talk about the bodies being tied to trees or light poles to keep them from floating away? Or the eyewitness statements of "bodies everywhere"? A woman I work with has a nephew in the Coast Guard and that has been his statement since he got there, bodies everywhere.

[BillCompton]

I just seems that the press would say "where?" and then go shoot them. I am not saying the pictures don't exist, but I just haven't seen them.

[Axlrose]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4218160.stm

It seems they are reporting in now, the number missing is now 96, down from 131 earlier today.

So perhaps there is hope after all :)

[dirtboy]

Hours later, it is apparent the water is going to keep rising. Who in the world is going to climb into the attic unless you know that you can get out should the water rise higher?

People dumb enough to stay in their homes below sea level with a Cat 5 approaching?

[AliVeritas]

Oh... MSM?

[JLS]

I wonder if 100,000 stayed in Orleans Parish if 10% of them died? I doubt it and that is what it would take to get to 10,000 dead.

[deport]

Your assessments maybe correct, but based on some of the articles I've read I have my doubts. I certainly hope so and I initially thought it would be minimal the but I'm slowly changing my mind.

... The official death count from Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana was 71 as of Monday evening, but that included only those bodies that had been brought to a make-shift morgue in St. Gabriel.

....Brooks and several other Guardsmen said they had seen between 30 and 40 more bodies in the Convention Center's freezer. "It's not on, but at least you can shut the door," said fellow Guardsman Phillip Thompson.....

.....In just one subdivision, Sherwood Forest, survivors who showed up to the Convention Center on Monday said police told them roughly 90 people in the subdivision had died......

.... In St. Bernard, 22 bodies were found lashed together. Officials surmised the drowning victims had tried to stay together to keep themselves from being washed away in the storm......

...The highest concentration of casualties from Hurricane Katrina likely will come in the Lower 9th Ward, St. Bernard Parish, areas first inundated on Aug. 29 with floodwaters that engulfed second story homes in minutes. New Orleans also will likely see mass casualties, New Orleans Police Capt. Timothy Bayard said.

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[Artemis Webb]

This is the scenario. And I do admit this is just a hypothesis.

Mom and Pop decide they are going to ride Katrina out in their house. They make it through the hurricane itself then the next day water starts rising. It's in the living room and Pop says, "Come on Mom...lets go upstairs and wait for the water to go down."

Well...soon the water is upstairs...it's to the roof. Mom and Pop are floating with Jesus.

Having said that I hope I'm wrong and you are right.

[dfwgator]

I'll bet you anyone in NOLA with a lot of debt will be listed as "dead."

[swmobuffalo]

That's just it. We haven't seen the photos, would you want to? They stopped showing the bodies/people falling out of the trade center, just maybe they have the decency to not show the bodies floating in the water.

[doberville]

Because of the difficulties finding and identifying bodies, I strongly the body count will be significantly UNDER reported. Flood waters, dehydration, lack of meds account for the initial victims. Murder, disease and toxins are still working on the population; and, this toll will still be under way for a long time.

Nope. I don't think 10,000 will be too high at all. Nagins has information that we don't, as well.

[DallasMike]

Fellow Freepers:

At the suggestion of writer Michelle Malkin last Friday, I have cobbled together a blogsite called Texas Clearinghouse for Katrina Aid to serve as a clearinghouse for refugee efforts in Texas.

Texas is getting more refugees than any other state -- that's fine, we'll take them all -- but we need help providing them with food, clothing, and shelter.

If you are a refugee, you can information that will help you find relief. If you want to donate or volunteer, you can find someone who needs you.

Right now the site mostly covers Houston and Dallas but I will add various churches, schools, and other charities in San Antonio and Ft. Worth tonight. My wife is down at Reunion Arena in Dallas as we speak handing out care packages and otherwise ministering to the refugees as a representative of her employer.

There are a lot of churches and other organizations in Texas that need help in dealing with the problem and I would be most appreciative if you would get the word out.

Many thanks,

Michael McCullough

Stingray blogsite

[BurbankKarl]

71 dead.

then the 100s killed by looters, and looters shot.

[bitt]

'If they use the voter registration rolls to determine the missing persons, there were 100,000 people missing from NO before the storm...'

hehheh............!