Posted on 08/30/2005 10:10:45 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
It is with heavy heart I write this...
I have finally reconnected with my best friend who is a paramedic who was sent from Georgia 2 days ago to Gulf Port, Mississippi before the hurricane hit.
He just reached me within the last 10 mins via emergency cell phone to tell me he was alive.
Thousands of bodies have been discovered throughout Mississippi in Gulf Port, Waveland,Hancock County,Bay of St.Louis.
They are hanging in trees and they are pulling them out 30 at a time. Entire families found drowned in their homes and washing up on shore.
The stories he could tell me were brief. National Guard is on the scene and arresting anyone seen on the streets.
The numbers are staggering and what I have been told tonight will shake people to their foundation as the numbers will be coming out in the next 24-hours of just how many people have actually perished in these and 3 other beach communities.
More to follow....
But still nothing to verify the hand wringing...conspiracy hatching nuttiness that is going on in here.
could you point me to the hand wringing .. conspiracy hatching nuttiness ... I can't seem to find it. But I think I would get a kick out of it.
Facts are ... the death toll will rise.
It will be a few more days before the msm catches up.
I agree. My brother lives in Slidell and works for NASA. He and his wife left well in advance the day before and were safe at home with my parents in North Alabama a full day before the storm hit. I do not understand why people did not evacuate. Why tempt fate?
In any event, my God bless these poor souls who have suffered and died.
No genius...the get bent comment was a response to your pompus and asinine request for me to STFU.
Nothing more...nothing less.
"Learn how to follow a thread or stfu!"
*sigh* again grellis..Get...Bent!
Who's Hugh Hewitt?
"I think you are correct, we are still in crisis mode. Still, it's strange that despite lots of footage of flooded areas there has not be one floating body shown. I'm not looking for sensational footage here, but reality is reality and news is news."
this can ONLY be intentional on the part of the media.
You have now gone from being an annoying psychotic to an ugly, offensive, blasphemous troll.
Begone, and don't come back.
Thus, in the words of Ronaldus Magnus: "Trust but verify."
Gulfport 71,810 (2nd largest city in MS)
Biloxi 48,972 (3rd largest)
Pascagoula 25,865
Pass Christian 6599
Bay St. Louis 8209
Waveland, LA 6737
Slidell, LA 26,466
Long Beach, MS 17,320
Diamondhead, MS 5912
Shoreline Park, MS 4,058
Pearlington, MS 1684
Kiln, MS 2040
Plaquemines Parish - about 26,000
- Boothville-Venice, Louisiana 2220
- Buras-Triumph, LA 3358
- Empire, LA 2211
- Port Sulphur, LA 3115
- Point a la Hache 2400
"Reasonable people realize the death toll will rise. That is different than some of the assertions stated as fact."
Well said.
You can not close a gate on that much moving water - unless it was a structure made for that purpose like a dam. They don't have time to build that kind of a dam and they can not get trucks in their if they could. There is not dry land to work on or from.
You should have said "I am sure My Favorite Headache has provided an honest SECOND HAND (HEARSAY) report.
Leni, those of us who've been on this pretty active thread for what seems like forever have seen a few posts indicating that the reason we don't have death toll estimates yet is that the accent has been on rescuing the living, not recovering the dead.
One report had it that rescuers were actually brushing aside floating bodies to get to live folks in need of rescue.
Upthread I posted an article indicating officials in just one Mississippi county expect to find "hundreds" of fatalities.
The unfortunate thing is that it appears they're not "skirting around" a body count -- they've just been too busy to get to doing one.
We seem to forget this thing is only around 48 hours old.
;OD
As far as 9/11. a few hours later, and yes 25,000 might have been dead.
Go back and start reading this thread from the early 200's.
People were talking about this being "God's Justice".
Yes there have been people talking about this in Biblical Proportions.
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