Posted on 03/02/2006 3:16:16 PM PST by blam
New Orleans Renews Search for the Missing
Thursday March 2, 2006 11:01 PM
By MARY FOSTER
Associated Press Writer
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A full six months after Hurricane Katrina, officials renewed the search for bodies Thursday, moving slowly through ravaged neighborhoods with cadaver dogs in hopes of locating 300 to 400 people still unaccounted for.
The search teams targeted 160 houses and 122 debris piles at or near addresses of people still missing. The addresses were culled from a list of about 2,300 people still listed as unaccounted for with state and federal officials.
``We have between 300 and 400 people we can't find any record of since the storm,'' said Dr. Louis Cataldie, the state's medical examiner, who asked for the new searches. ``There's no record in any database we can find of them getting a prescription filled, getting the lights turned on, anything. We're trying to find out what happened to them.''
Searches after the storm in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast turned up more than 1,000 dead in Louisiana and an additional 231 in Mississippi. In New Orleans, however, after some of the most severely damaged neighborhoods were reopened to residents, several families returned to wrecked homes to find bodies inside.
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Did you hear that Mayor Nagin was asked recently about his opinion of Roe vs. Wade. He said he didn't care how his constitutents got back to New Orleans, he just wanted them back.
The Katrina story du jour.
NOPD?
These people likely do not want to be found.
I'm sure the dems are desperate and time is running out and many are not applying to vote absentee. Sux 2 B them.
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