Posted on 11/03/2005 10:48:40 AM PST by caryatid
Part of the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is measured in the number of people killed by the storm. Thousands of people are still missing, and the agencies searching for them are not sure how high the death count will go.
The red dots on this map [above] represents a missing person in the Greater New Orleans area.
Two months ago, Sally Hoy, a hurricane evacuee from Kenner, began working for FEMA.
Hoy is one of dozens of people working at the Find Family National Call Center, the group that's trying to locate all of Hurricane Katrina's missing persons. Hoy is surprised that two months after the storm, she's still getting numerous first-time callers.
“They're a little more frantic. They feel like they've exhausted every avenue and they just don't know what else to do,” Hoy said.
There are the good calls, about relatives that have been found safe. However, Hoy cannot forget the other calls; like the father looking for his son.
"The first call, Troy, the little 9-year-old boy. He drowned," she said.
There is a big map of New Orleans posted at the Call Center. Each red dot on that map represents a person who has been reported missing to the national call center. The database here has more than 9,000 names in it. So far, almost 4,000 people, about 40%, have been found alive.
4,783 people are still missing, though.
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The inflated hype of Hurricane Katrina continues...
People have to call and request that certian people who have been found have their name removed. I'm betting most people haven't called even if their people have been found.
This number includes a countless number of individuals that used the cover of Katrina to bail out of debt or evade a criminal record and possibly disappear. They could claim to be an immigrant (illegal or course) from Mexico and use a different name.
I'd like to see what percentage of this list ARE IN DEBT or ARE CRIMINALS.
Yes it's sad but I doubt very much that there are thousands dead and we just haven't discovered their bodys yet. More likely people didn't recontact missing persons after they found their loved ones. I hope at least.
For the most part, bodies don't just disappear.
I wonder how many were only known by their city employment records?
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I, myself, know of one person who has "just disappeared". He is, or was, the sexton at our church for many, many years. He was last seen alive at the Convention Center by relatives and has just disappeared without a trace. This is far more than just a government paperwork problem and is a matter of grave concern to our church family.
On the other hand, it is entirely possible that some living people have chosen to disappear for reasons known only to them.
Exactly.
BINGO !!!
I realize that there are some names on that list that represent people who were really killed and will not be found. But I suspect they would represent quite a small proportion of the 5,000 on the list.
That's a terribly sad thing about your church sexton. My condolences.
and that's just the sex offenders
A lot of them were probably blown into Tennessee. Look there.
And of course, it's all Bush's fault.
5. Little children who were taken illegally by pedophiles, child rapist and molesters, for their own use, or sold into child slavery.
Same thing happened after the tsunami in Asia.
I have several friends and coworkers who are still missing. One is a doctor with a federal research grant and his wife is a lawyer, plus they have a 7 year old and another on the way. Not the type of people who simply decide to not return home.
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