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....
ping
Is it possible that we wont hear the numbers of the dead on the news until they get all the living people out?
Robert Kennedy Jr. penned an Op Ed yesterday blaiming the Hurricane and those that have died on the fact that W didn't sign the Kyoto treaty.
I don't doubt the report for a second. They did NOT order an evacuation, because the storm was going to NO. I guess memories fade after 36 years, you would think that they all remembered Camile
I would be glad to hear an estimate for any geographic area you would like to postulate on.....i am not sure public numbers will ever break this down but I would exclude the secondary deaths you refer to.
I will go on record with the following:
My personal guess is that there is an absolute minimum of 2500 confirmed dead in LA MS AL, and if numbers for missing people whose residences were destroyed/completely flooded/damaged are released, I would say at least 1500 there too. I assume in NOLA they will find most if not all corpses, but in MS this is far from certain. I would not be surprised to see a number of cofirmed dead in the high 4 digits.
Oh, ok. Typical LOL
Voodoo, infanticide, the extreme excesses of Mardi Gras etc. are not ways to win God's favor.
I'm glad I don't know your "god". Mine gave me a rainbow.
Enough of the fire and brimstone sermons.
Good morning and have at it!
It is horrific, but as they begin to reach all the areas that so far have gone unsearched, I fear we will find more and more.
You're nuts...
Someone needs to tell him his uncle killed more with his car than Kyoto would have saved.
I like Hugh, but it seems like he began losing respect for this forum about the time this forum started losing respect for him.Amen, sister.
And may God bless our MANY fellow countrymen who have lost loved ones. I pray for them and for the MANY still in harm's way. My heart is just sick.
I got them from here http://www.worldpicturenews.com/web/news_index.aspx
It is by far one of the better places to get pics.
"Oh, ok. Typical LOL"
Yuppers...rescue efforts were less than 12 hours old and already the Libs were making it a politcal "gotcha" on W.
The DUmp is saying President Bush pulled a LIHOP on New Orleans where the Hurricane is concerned.
They are also calling for the comandeering of Cruise ships to put the homeless folks in.
And defending the looting.
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage
Here's the Clarion Ledger's front page: "Worse Than Feared".
We all looked at that animated graph from nooa and feared the worst. What is worse than that?
No words. God help them all.
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