Posted on 09/16/2005 5:43:59 PM PDT by floridarocks
Harrison County Missing Persons List GCN Filed: 9/14/05
The Harrison County Coroner's Offices has released a large list of people that are unaccounted for, missing or had inquiries made about them. The list was issued by workers with the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team.
If you have information on the whereabouts of these people, please call 1-800-958-9519. If you do see someone on this list, or wish to expand the number of people looking for these people, you can use the GCN Survivor/Connector Database. The GCN Survivor/Connector Database has over 70,000 entries and is one of the largest Katrina survivor databases available on the World Wide Web.
There are more than 450 missing persons on the list and this is just for ONE Mississippi county. Where are these people? What about all the other counties in Mississippi and Lousiana?
Hopefully a good number of them got out and haven't come back home yet.
First, I'll make your link clicable:
http://gulfcoastnews.com/GCNKatrinaMissingList.htm
You said, There are more than 450 missing persons on the list
When in fact, as the article says, the list includes anyone in the county who has been asked about. "or had inquiries made about them."
Say on day one you call seeing if you can get info on a relative who lived in the storm area. On day three, when phone service is restored in Jackson, they call you to say they are ok. Are you going to know to call back and get their name off the list? That's why they are trying to do a cleanup now.
I hate to disappoint you, but the death toll is going to be a lot less than some of the garbage that has been posted on FR would have suggested. I figure a final tally of around 1000 for all 3 states.
This is the County that is implanting RFID tags into the cadavers. Sad, so sad.
RFID chips used to track dead after Katrina
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1486058/posts
this is just for ONE Mississippi county.
is flat out false. If you looked at the list, you would see that some of the listings are for Harrison county, but Hancock is represented as well, as are (at least) Jackson, St. Tammany (Louisiana), Forrest, Lauderdale, and Jones.
I know someone in Stone County that personally lost 11 friends.
...The official death toll from Hurricane Katrina was 812 in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida...
Still climbing, sounds like it's going to top out at over 1000 at least, as the teams are finally getting into the hardest hit areas of N.O.
My guess is that 1000 is going to be about the right tally. There are probably some areas in Plaquemines and St. Bernard Parishes that haven't been looked at yet, and they'll probably turn up a few more bodies in Mississippi.
I personally don't think that the hurricane should be blamed for the gunshot and cutting fatailies from the gang violence in New Orleans. (Or at least subtract out the normal background murder rate). I also question if the tally should include every terminal patient who happened to die that week.
But even with those numbers added in, there is nothing like the 'inside info' stuff that was posted on FR and swallowed by many.
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