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To: Howlin

Biloxi fears hundreds dead after Katrina

BILOXI, Mississippi (Reuters) - Hundreds may have been killed by Hurricane Katrina in the Mississippi Gulf Coast city of Biloxi after being trapped in their homes when a 30-foot (9 meter) storm surge came ashore, a spokesman for the city said on Tuesday.

"It's going to be in the hundreds," Vincent Creel told Reuters. "Camille was 200, and we're looking at a lot more than that," he said, referring to Hurricane Camille, which hit the area in 1969 and destroyed swaths of Mississippi and Louisiana.

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1,708 posted on 08/30/2005 11:30:12 AM PDT by nwctwx (Everything I need to know, I learned on the Threat Matrix)
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To: nwctwx

I am just speechless.


1,720 posted on 08/30/2005 11:31:38 AM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: nwctwx

Prayers, prayers, and more prayers.


1,746 posted on 08/30/2005 11:35:53 AM PDT by flutters (God Bless The USA)
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