Posted on 08/30/2005 10:10:45 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Her husband is still there trying to salvage what little they have left, but he has no gas to get out of town. incredible.
Well considering you are a new member color me skeptical because news has been all over the place and Freepers e-mail me about discoveries all the time along the Miss.coast.
Try again Peter. Saddened Deeply is a troll....
Sorry they had to witness that...scarred for life no less. Just horrible.
I just got a freepmail along with another one from people who were trying to meet up with family and all they could see were bodies in the water. Incredible.
"I wanted to let you know that I just talked to a woman here outside of Houston who's father picked her and her two children up from Gulfport, MS, after the hurricane. She told me that they had to keep their kids from looking outside because they didn't want them to see all of the dead bodies floating around in the water..."
correction--post #2621--just above yours. =^0
correction--post #2621--just above yours. =^0
Inept is a good word for it
Survivors outside New Orleans feel they're forgotten
[snip] The nation has largely focused on the death, destruction, lawlessness and overwhelming loss in New Orleans, leaving the Gulf Coast – where the vicious storm scored a direct hit – feeling somewhat forgotten. But misery has company.As President Bush saw yesterday when he toured Biloxi, the town that once boomed with floating casinos and gleaming hotels and a proud fishing fleet is now a massive pile of rubble. Scores of people have died in Mississippi, and the newly homeless choke emergency shelters.
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"We waded 30 feet through the wind and the storm surge to a concrete section that looked like it would hold," he said. "Thank God it did."
From the time the storm passed Monday until yesterday morning, the couple and construction laborers David and Wilma Magee said they saw many curious things at the motel, including helicopters passing low overhead and bodies in the parking lot and on the beach.
"We kept waiting for some rescue person to come by and check on us. Nobody did," Jake Edwards said. "Finally, we flagged down a cop, and they found a truck and brought us here (yesterday afternoon)."
How many have died in Louisiana and Mississippi? The number in hard-hit New Orleans is unknown. City officials say the figure could run into the thousands. In Mississippi, at least 147 people have died, mostly in greater Biloxi. Bodies also are being found in Gulfport and Hattiesburg. Emergency workers say Mississippi’s death toll could reach 1,000.Now that it's a long weekend, the real numbers will start coming out
Look at it from the reporter's point of view. The name of the game is "sources"/ Your career thrives or perishes based on the number of fruitful sources you accumulate. If you piss off your sources enough, they won't be sources any more
That's what gives me a feeling of foreboding. Independent witness reports are coming in from survivors (see post 2621 above from GOP_Thug_Mom) that paint an ugly composite picture:
I wanted to let you know that I just talked to a woman here outside of Houston who's father picked her and her two children up from Gulfport, MS, after the hurricane. She told me that they had to keep their kids from looking outside because they didn't want them to see all of the dead bodies floating around in the water...There's no effort to try to minimize the death toll in NOLA, because it would be futile in the face of thousands of people getting out with stories of bodies in the water.
Also, NOLA is a bowl -- the drowned bodies are going to still be there when the waters subside. We will never know how many were washed out to sea in southern LA and MS on the storm surge.
Take a look at my post 2632. Those people only survived by wading thru the storm surge to some stable concrete. How many people in the houses around them didn't have the courage to try that and got washed out to sea?
Thanks for the updates. Keep 'em coming and flag me.
Paramedic Patrick Keathley of Benicia happened to be in New Orleans with seven colleagues for an industry convention as a small storm called Katrina, off the coast of Florida, changed course and picked up steam.Looks like the article that started this thread was accurate"We didn't realize the storm was going to be as big as it was, or that it would turn and hit Louisiana," Keathley said.
"By the time we did, we couldn't get a rental car, even though we had one reserved, because everyone was fleeing," he said by rapidly dying cell phone as he made his way back to California.
The eight paramedics were forced to ride out the storm in their hotel on the Louisiana coast.
"It was like hell," Keathley said. "Completely black. We heard structural-sounding noises, and we went out to take a look and we saw debris flying. Palm trees."
Keathley said the men barricaded themselves with about 40 others inside the hotel for 12 hours as the storm raged around them.
"We thought we were going to die. And that was before the water started rising. We got out before the flooding, just as the city started to flood," Keathley said. "We met this little old lady with a car who wanted to go to Lafayette. So we piled into her VW and drove her there."
The men rented a car in Lafayette and drove to their firm's location in Baton Rouge where they volunteered to stay and help.
"We wanted to assist. It was Ground Zero in a place called Hancock, Mississippi. Half the town was wiped out. They had a 50-foot wave destroy the hospital. Cars were piled on top of each other. There were bodies in the trees. There were bodies littering the beach.
"This is catastrophic," he added. "We were just as much in shock as anyone. We set up like a M.A.S.H. station. People came in carrying dead people. They came in with broken bones, and we didn't have the equipment to help them. We could only give them something for the pain.
"People were fighting for food. It was just a mess. There are still 1,000 people missing from there."
Keathley told of a young boy, about 13, arriving at the makeshift hospital asking for a tetanus shot.
"We told him he needed parental consent, but he told us he didn't have parents. They floated off, he said. I worked in Oakland after the Loma Prieta quake, and that was terrible, but it was nothing like this. This is such a huge scale. It's just hard to explain," Keathley said.
Keathley and his colleagues have had little water, food or sleep for several days, and now that he's home, Keathley said he plans to rest.
"First, I'll see my wife. Then I'll take a nap and some time off," he said. "I can't go back there right now. It's just too much."
The reporters are all hanging out together in dry sections of New Orleans hoping to get more pictures of looters or shots of black people yelling "racism".
It's amazing. This is the biggest natural disaster to ever hit the U.S. Many thousands are likely dead. The death toll is probably at least triple that of 9/11. It's a huge national tragedy. The devastated region covers an area the size of the U.K. All we see are pictures of looters in the French Quarter and people holed up in the Superdome. That's certainly part of the story but there's a huge story out there that the news media is just glossing over.
saddened deeply
Since Sep 2, 2005
"God is watching us all, and how we behave in this tragedy"
That includes you!
Here's the confirmation. Quit depending on CNN for news. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476483/posts
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