Astonishing Exclusive From Mississippi [hundreds if not thousands dead]

Paramedic Rescue Operation | 8-31-05 | My Favorite Headache

[AppyPappy]

It was a metaphor. An Astonishing exclusive BREAKING NEWS article about a rumor of lots of bodies is obviously not intended to be a literal snapshot of reality

[JennysCool]

Thank you.

[Willie Green]

Which is why they're organizing to evacuate people away from this now-Third World area as quickly as possible. Otherwise, the conditions there could kill more people than the flooding.

Yes, the media is describing the devastating conditions quite well: widespread flooding and destruction; no power, communications, running water, air-conditioning; raw sewage and chemical contamination; dead bodies (human, animal and fish)...
Absolutely horrific conditions...
That's why it's surprising to me that they aren't mentioning the specific plagues that usually accompany these conditions.
Perhaps some news outlets have, but I haven't heard it yet.

[Miss Behave]

Prayers to you and your family, Toll. You all have each other. Things will get better. This is very hard on your parents, I'm sure; as the older we get, the tougher it is....

[My Favorite Headache]

Morning Jenny...Just took me 30 mins to read through this entire thread for what has been said...they have set up a few morgues just reported on CNN and it appears they are getting streams of bodies in.

It takes time and patience during a recovery operation. I have yet to hear from him this morning, slept til 9:45...no voicemail back yet...but last we spoke he said nobody would be able to understand what he and his fellow medics have seen and are seeing unless they were there.

Still using spray cans,markers on homes and bodies to keep track...that was around 3:45 this morning...my bet is he went to rest for 6 hrs or so and will try again. The signal went out and was going to voicemail. For those wondering...he was keeping his work/emergency cell phone charged in their ambulance and the teams from around the country are arriving.

[George W. Bush]

I personally think 3,000 or more deaths is quite likely.

You may be right and it wouldn't surprise me. But that is entirely different than thousands of bodies in plain view right now and being gathered by crews in groups of thirty to be transported or stored at official locations.

We're not talking about what will be found in buildings or under rubble. This thread is about thousands of dead out in plain view and their removal to some unknown location. Those are the kinds of facts that the MSM is pretty good at finding since these are part of their regular news beats. Beyond that, they always have cash to buy pictures or bribe info out of people in a position to have new facts.

[DJ MacWoW]

Would someone PLEASE explain to me why the gubmint would want to hide the number of dead due to a hurricane or other natural disaster?

To avoid panic? Because they want survivors out first? Because they are rescuing people and not counting bodies yet?

[Miss Behave]

Bump. :-(

[Mind-numbed Robot]

"Hit GW in the butt. The Army Corp of Engineers is responsible for the levees.." WRONG, they are the responsibility of a local entity.

In this case I hope I am wrong. I know there are levee boards all over Louisiana, having lived there off and on for about 10 years. However, I also know that the Corp of Engineers has a lot of responsibility also and especially for the spillways.

I was referring to an article in a Phildephia paper, which I linked to, and that is what they said. I prefer you to be right but I am not optimistic.

[CajunConservative]

The history of incompetence and corruption is bearing much fruit in all this mess.

[rwfromkansas]

Considering MFH has journalism training, I think he knows how to be careful with wording.

[Dems_R_Losers]

There's a very good reason why the government would be hiding huge body counts right now. They do not want thousands of people to start trying to get in to these areas to confirm whether their relatives are alive or dead. At this point most relatives are being patient and optimistic. A release of a body count in the hundreds would cause them to panic ands try to get in there. This would complicate search and rescue efforts immensely. They do not want to have to take law enforcement people and put them on every road to keep people out, or have to deal with riots and anger from people who cannot get in. The media would certainly be sympathetic to this and stop releasing numbers until told to do so by government officials.

[spunkets]

"We have a winner. “They” is referring to "Thousands of bodies.""

Your logic sucks.

[petitfour]

I knew what you meant to say.

I'm off to put together boxes of clothes to send to the now homeless folks of my home state. Hopefully, there will be local charities organizing the shipment of supplies from here to there.

[George W. Bush]

It was a metaphor. An Astonishing exclusive BREAKING NEWS article about a rumor of lots of bodies is obviously not intended to be a literal snapshot of reality

Okay. Then you're saying that any exaggeration or manufacture of facts is acceptable?

But it is Astonishing, as you say...

[Steve_Seattle]

Here's a few sentence: "Fifty thousand people came to the game. They came in cars, four or five at a time. They came in buses. They rode on bicycles. They walked."

These sentence are roughly similar in form to the report from the original poster on this thread. It is not correct to say that the implication is that all fifty thousand came in cars just beccause that is the first form of transport mentioned. Nor was the poster saying that thousands of bodies were found hanging from trees; some were found in trees, others were found in houses, others were washed up on the beach, etc. There was nothing confusing or illogical about the original post. It may have been unpolished and written in haste, but it was not incoherent or wild, as you suggest.

[js1138]

My guess is the the Corps of Engineers maintains the levees on navigable waters, the the one causing all the trouble is not on the river.

At any rate, it is scores of local governments over many decades that have made really bad decisions about the the Mississippi. they have built a house of cards.

[Lando Lincoln]

Thanks for asking.......but, sadly, I fear the worst for so many. But, I have much to be grateful for. I hope you are well. I've tried to pick up my thread posting lately, but gosh, I've been busy. Prayers for the afflicted.......

Lando

[ARealMothersSonForever]

"The history of incompetence and corruption is bearing much fruit in all this mess".

THAT is the news. The infighting on this thread overshadows this fact.

[U S Army EOD]

If you check most of the footage from reporters, you will notice they haven't gone much over a few 100 yards from where they were reporting from two days ago.