25,000 body bags readied in Louisiana

http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=54248 ^

[Budgie]

Washington, September 8: To cope with the possibility of a huge death toll from Hurricane Katrina, some 25,000 body bags have been readied in New Orleans of Louisiana in United States, a health official said.

Advertisement "It is my understanding that FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) has about 25,000 body bags on hand," Bob Johanssen of the state Department of Health and Hospitals said on Wednesday.

Asked if authorities expected as many as 25,000 bodies, he said: we don't know what to expect. It means we're prepared."

[TomGuy]

An article from earier:

Funeral director deploys to hurricane region (DMORT says "expect up to 40,000 bodies"

Posted by Brian Mosely On News/Activism 09/06/2005 11:06:25 AM CDT · 42 replies · 1,031+ views Shelbyville Time-Gazette ^ | 9/06/05 | Clint Confehr A co-owner of Shelbyville-based Gowen-Smith Chapel has been deployed to Gulfport, Miss., to help with recovery since Hurricane Katrina, and his business partner here has described the grim task there. "DMort is telling us to expect up to 40,000 bodies," Dan Buckner said, quoting officials with the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, a volunteer arm of Homeland Security. His partner, Dan Hicks, of Paducah, Ky., was deployed Monday. Buckner, of Dickson, is on standby. Their funeral home is one of several collection sites for donations to be taken to the Red Cross in Fayetteville on Wednesday for transfer to places...

[truthandlife]

I am sure this is what is being provided and then they can say it was only 10,000 that were needed and not 25,000.

[festus]

25,000 dead people ?! Oh goodie goodie goodie this is great news, finally we have the tool we need to stop Bush !!!! [/end the logic of the left]

[Airborne1986]

"The Red Cross has established a Family Network at http://www.familylinks.icrc.org/katrina/people ....
There are a lot of names on the list. I stopped looking when I paged through the first 1000 names, and I wasn't even half-way through the letter A listings."

Thanks for the information. That is troubling.

[TheSpaceCoyote]

If I recall correctly, the city of NO was prepared with 10,000 bodybags. We now know how well prepared the city of NO was, so I expect the number to be between 20,000 and 50,000. However, I expected the 9/11 toll be ten times higher than it was.

I hope we get lucky. I hope they're grossly over-estimating.

[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, medicine, and shelter. We need help taking care of their pets, too.

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. Believe me, there are a lot of organizations who need your help.

Right now the site mostly covers Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas but I'm adding more every night. My wife was down at Reunion Arena in Dallas Tuesday handing out care packages and spiritually ministering to the refugees as a representative of her employer. She says that the situation is tragic and that there's a lot of work to be done. There are so many children who don't know where their parents are or even if their parents are still alive.

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

Many thanks,

Michael McCullough

Stingray blogsite

[jeffers]

I estimate a population in areas of the New Orleans metro area that flooded immediately during the storm, east Orleans Parish, St. Bernards Parish, and Plaquemines Parish, to be approximately 120,000 people. This figure includes a zero figure for Plaquemines Parish because they recieved a mandatory evacuation notice 48 hours or more before the storm and because anecdotal reports do not indicate significant mortality there.

From the 120,000 figure, I will leave individuals to estimate how many might have ignored New Orleans' evac order, and how many of those who stayed behind might have expired in a rapid storm surge flood.