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....
As soon as the first pics trickled in, I knew this was terrible. Even before landfall I was telling people we were going to see things we only saw from the tsunami zone last year.
I am going to pray that number is off, it just doesn't make sense to me that we would have had that many people still in the city. The water also did come up pretty slowly in most of NO proper. That said, those who were left behind were probably mostly elderly/sick/poor. They might not have had a chance to get out alive.
I think numbers that high are too speculative at this point, but I do not rule them out. 10-20k seems highly possible, and even more is certainly not out of the question. 100k+... I don't even want to think about that, I can't really comprehend how bad it already is.
I'm not questioning that He's working in you, it's not my job. You just seem to get off on poking your self righteous stick in ant mounds.
When words are many, sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise.
If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless.
No man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing.
Quit swinging around that plank in your eye.
AMEN BRO. THANKS.
i WOULDN'T mind seeing both parties bite the dust. They've been manipulated by the puppet masters for decades.
Certainly the Senate is under wholesale control.
Not at all interested in even starting to think about tracking down sources. Have studied such since 1965. Have a number of friends and relatives etc. who've had various positions sufficient to know interesting things.
But, hey, even the crazy web has some solid info on it. Those who are good at screening chaff from wheat can find plenty startling valid facts relatively easily.
Thanks, it's "amen, sis," but I'll happily take it anyway. 8~)
Those numbers. OMG
Update: President's meeting with officials is still ongoing and he may be a few minutes late according to Neil Cavuto.
How about an armed band of looters taking over a children's hospital?
It was reported right here on this thread. And the cops can't get to it.
Criminal negligence by the local leadership.
Actually my interpretation from all ya'll's postings is that anyone who disagrees with you 1/10,000,000,000th in the direction of my perspective is deemed by you to be due the utmost hostility, rejection, assault, insult, etc.
If you disagree with my perspective so intensely, feel free to ignore all my posts.
It appears to me that I have as much right to post out of my perspective as you do to post out of yours as long as I'm reasonably civil etc.
You are the ones who have refused from the start to be any shade of civil toward me.
Interesting.
Yet, somehow, I'm the bad one beyond the pale.
OOOOPS. FORGOT. SORRY.
AMEN, SIS.
THANKS TONS.
Well said.
bkmark
wow
So, you believe the media only lies about political events?
How kind of you.
Yeah but I've noted one scary thing. Unlike physical models which aren't even close, behavioral and population trend models tend to be eerily accurate.
He's on now!
I read that but hoped it was an isolated incident. Apparently not.
And I, specifically, have been uncivil to you how?
Oh, it must be by highlighting your judgmental pharisaical attitude towards those who are suffering ... you implying that they got it because New Orleans is an evil city.
OK, I can own that. I did point it out.
Would you like some cheese with your whine?
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