Lando 
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....
You know what? I am simply not going to spend my day posting to you. I did my "more to follow" when he had CELL PHONE SIGNAL you idiot.
You must have missed this one.
I have no ghoulish desire to see pictures of any deceased victims of this tragedy. I merely think that the MSM is sheltering the public as much as possible from these scenes of death, when more good might be accomplished by letting society at large see what occurs when you ignore the power of nature.
They may have to do what they did after Galveston, burn the bodies.
From:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1474167/posts?page=6#6
"Pay close attention to the plight of these folks.
Use this as an opportunity to learn, and to avoid, if possible, being caught in this condition."
Have you seen the reports of fuel shortages in all those places? I have heard reporters say that they are as without gas as Joe Blow on the street.
LOL. I sure hope you're right.
I've been thinking about that since Monday. Not many can hack through if the decking is 3/4" plywood, or swim down and get out through an openning. Too bad all those able bodied looters couldn't do some search and rescue.
With regards to the low death toll currently being reported, I've heard in several news stories how officials are so overwhelmed with trying to get to and take care of survivors that they can not even think about the dead right now. They can't use reources to transport them or count them.
Thanks for any information on getting supplies into these areas.
Jaw dropping coverage of damage on MSNBC. NOW!!
Call up a map of Bay Saint Louis and Pass Christian and look where they sit, they look at Saint Louis Bay. This is where they would all end up. Plenty of water.
But, it sounds like they are doing body count in an orderly enough fashion that they will not be double-counting to a big degree.
Now, in NO, they have been told not to worry about the bodies at this point. They are only to be evacuating people.
We will not have any sort of reliable estimates for dead in NO for at least a week probably.
All of which has zero to do with this Vanity.
I actually haven't made up my mind about this whole thread. I personally beleive the death toll is EXCEEDINGLY high, shockingly high, but I'm still suspicious of the story and some of the details, as I usually am suspicious of things; I'd totally write it off if MFH wasn't a long time, well known poster.
But in Galveston basically all the bodies were found in the debris; very few were washed into the ocean (though when they first tried to dispose of them offshore without burning they started washing back up on the beach.)
Plus, you said they have been numbering the dead, so my presumption is that they have pretty solid numbers already.....he isn't just pulling numbers based on guessing like some on here seem to think.
I don't understand what Hugh Hewitt's problem is with this. How is what My Favorite Headache posted any different than people blogging the hurricane? Hugh links to blogs of eyewitness accounts. The very nature of eyewitness accounts is one person's impression and observations, subject to human error as is generally understood.
There is no reason for him to suggest that MFH is any less credible than a bunch of bloggers.
No doubt. Just a voice from another perspective.
Looking at the photos, I would also not be too surprised if this hurricane gets "upgraded" after the fact to a 5, like Andrew was. I can understand the wooden houses going down, but some of the other structures that went down looked much hardier.
Lando
The Andrew story is that of common knowledge to those in south Florida which is where I was living at the time when it happened.
You could see video of the local networks bringing in the trucks to Homestead AF Base and there were locals who said bodies were all over the place in Naranja. I am not saying major thousands died in Andrew, but a hell of a lot more did die and were cremated and or buried in places where homeless are buried.
I remember interning at a local television station a few years later where we got to discussing what was seen firsthand and it was a political decision on 2 counts
1. To keep people coming to Miami in the future and to build there. Because giving a high death toll in one particular region means that more than likely people will not move back to that spot because of fear of a repeat.
2. Illegals were and are huge down in that area especially hundreds and thousands of migrant workers who live in small 2-bedroom homes that they put like 12 people in each. Also labor camps as well which were known about but looked past for the sake of supplying local jobs.
I am the last person to jump on the tin-foil bandwagon. Believe me...I am all about the source. My only thinking is families coming down to Miss and LA who have not heard from loved ones will find out for themselves after the rescue operation is over. This will take a lot of time to get organized. But the state wants to use this land again for building homes and businesses along the gulf coast. Not put the fear of God into people from moving away and not rebuilding.
The only problem with that is...we live in 2005 and communications and sources such as blogs and cell phones plus computers all over...just makes it different than when Andrew had hit. It will be much harder today to contain info.
Grim dittoes to that.
Actually scratch my last post....Found this in another post here:
They don't bury the dead in New Orleans. The highest point in the city is only 6 ft. above sea level, which makes for watery graves. Fearful that rotting corpses caused epidemics, the city limited ground burials in 1830. Mausoleums built on soggy cemetery grounds became the final resting place for generations. Beyond providing a macabre tourist attraction, these "cities of the dead" serve as a reminder of the Big Easy's vulnerability to flooding. The reason water rushes into graves is because New Orleans sits atop a delta made of unconsolidated material that has washed down the Mississippi River.
Eternal Rest, Grant unto them, O, Lord. May they rest in Peace. Amen.
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