Astonishing Exclusive From Mississippi [hundreds if not thousands dead]

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

[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....

[Victoria]

Don't lose those tweezers, Bush. You might need them to pull the splinters out if you ever get off the fence.

(Or did you not notice your responses tend to cover both bases ambiguously, like, "I said X I didn't say Y, I never meant A but I meant B, maybe C, maybe not D".)

Maybe you should consider changing your name to Mayor Nagin! Or maybe not! :)

[papertyger]

At any rate, I expect neither to receive or to give apologies and never have seen much point in such things.

Color me shocked!

First, that in your wildest imagination you would even entertain the misguided notion you might merit any manner of apology by anyone on this thread. And second, that you would dismiss your debt to make apologies with such easy hauteur.

The "point" is probably something you will never understand...suffice to say it is a contributer to why My Favorite Headache will continue to enjoy credibility on this forum while you will treated with contempt.

[George W. Bush]

Color me shocked!

When the day comes that any news story can't affford to have its tires kicked it will be time for JimRob to close up shop.

Despite some of the anecdotal stories going around now, I'll be waiting for official death tolls to tell us whether the four named communities and the (still) unnamed three beach communities have a combined death toll of more than two thousand deaths.

I expect it will be at least a week before we have even an initial indication, perhaps a month before all the bodies are found and counted.

And I remain hopeful, just as I did during 9/11, that the final death toll is far lower than many people here apparently want to believe due to the initial reporting.

[George W. Bush]

I think Barbour just said on NBC that they had 12 deaths a hundred miles inland from the coast due to high winds. It doesn't sound right but I'm pretty sure that's what he said (was typing a reply when he started).

[OXENinFLA]

I was watching some press conf. yesterday with some FEMA guy and he was asked about the death toll.

He basically said their method is this, they find a body, try to identify the person, and THEN put the name on a list which then increases the death toll.

So I took that to mean if they've got 100 dead bodies and they've identified 3, the death toll only rises by 3 because they have the names of those 3.

[My Favorite Headache]

Past this weekend, there's no advantage to attempting to continue the fiction that there's only 186 or so deaths in MS. People WILL start getting in their cars to go look for their relatives. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

It is already starting to happen and it is clogging some roads up with cars because people have nowhere to stay and are sleeping in their cars as they search for relatives and friends.

[George W. Bush]

I don't doubt that he said that, given FEMA's recent performance, but it really is incredible that there is officially no dead person unless you have their name. You have to store them, maybe bury them. But they don't exist in the death toll without a name? Some of these bodies will never be identified.

Not that I doubt you, it just seems weird.

[OXENinFLA]

Well, he didn't just say that if they didn't have an ID on them FEMA wouldn't try and identify them.

He said they would do dental records, DNA, tattoos....ect.

But yeah it does seem odd that if you're standing in front of 100 dead bodies only the ones w/ names get counted.

Though the idea, I think you mentioned, of people rushing down there to find their relatives if huge numbers came out makes sense. There's no reason to have more people that will just suck up the limited resources there.

[OXENinFLA]

The FEMA guy I heard that from is on FNC right now, guy in the white shirt.

[My Favorite Headache]

Rick Leventhal was talking about how dozens of bodies were picked up yesterday and put into freezer trucks...some bodies could barely be identified as humans they were so badly mangled.

Good Christ!

[OXENinFLA]

FNC Alert: HHS Sec. Leavitt - "Death toll from Katrina in the Thousands"

And the guy on FNC just said rescuers are tying bodies to street posts so they don't float away...........uggggggg

[George W. Bush]

And the guy on FNC just said rescuers are tying bodies to street posts so they don't float away...........uggggggg

It makes sense so they don't get counted twice and they know where to go recover them when the waters recede.

It's going to be an incredible amount of work.

[floridarocks]

posted September 04, 2005 07:06 AM

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Whats happening to this country? it's like a nightmare scenario. Just like all the survivalist said would happen. Do we even deserve Gods protection anymore?


EYEWITNESS: By Toxy Morris, a surgeon in Hattiesburg, Mississippi


The conditions are extremely bad here. There are murders, looting and vandalism. Every tree in sight is down and there’s no electricity or water. The army is issuing water to us and we have to use lamps. About 80% of the state has no power and it will be a month until we get it back.

There’s four of us in the household. Me, my wife and two sons, one of whom, Ben, is still en route from Edinburgh. He has been studying there and is in Florida right now . My other son, Rob, is a newspaper reporter and is stationed with the police in Mississippi. He’s very busy right now.

We have had three killings in our neighbourhood. One of the people killed was a friend of mine, an Anglican priest. He was shot down for his car and its contents. He leaves behind a wife and six children. It’s a very sad situation. I have also heard that a lady was shot to death for a bag of ice. Can you believe that? Over a bag of ice!

These three murders haven’t been reported in the media here – I think they are trying to avoid ill feeling and panic. But we have a serious crisis on our hands. There are some bad apples, although it’s not as bad as New Orleans. Everyone is very distressed but they are pulling together, trying to be courageous.

We are cooking on charcoal. We have enough food but it is going to become a problem because there are very few stores open and all the perishables have been destroyed. You can’t get any gasoline either. On the upside, people are getting hold of generators so the 500-bed city hospital now has power again.

I don’t blame Bush – this kind of destruction is too big for one politician to fix. The storm itself was as large as the state of Florida. Everything in its path was wiped out.

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Psalms 91:7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

[Skywarner]

My wife works part-time for an answering company. One of their clients is a funeral home up here in Upstate New York has a couple of its employees down in Biloxi as volunteers. Anyways, one of the employees called in from Biloxi - via the answering service - to let their employer know of their status. She said that they were "processing 300+ bodies per day" in Biloxi alone...

[My Favorite Headache]

More silent stories....unreal

[lugsoul]

GWB - I FReepmailed this story to MFH a couple of days ago, but will now post it here. It comes to me directly from a friend. Those who know the geography of the area will recognize how surprising it is - it also tends to corroborate the original post.

They kept a boat at Dauphin Island. Prior to the storm, they took the boat up the bay north of Cochran Bridge to ride out the storm in the delta. By all reports, this was fine and was actually a pretty good place to wait it out. When they returned to Dauphin Island and entered Mississippi Sound, they saw "several" bodies in the water. They also saw bodies hanging in the trees on the Bayou La Batre side.

If it is like this so far away from the heart of the storm, the original post relating to the MS coast is certainly not farfetched.

[George Oh Well]

Clive Cussler gave $5 million for Mississippi Hurricane Katrina relief last week. He said this is too huge a catastrophe for the ego gentility of anonymous benefactions, and that by announcing our gifts, we challeng others to do the same. I had $1000 set aside for new wheels for the Jeep. That went to the Red Cross yesterday morning. Do what you can everyone. Do what you can.

[motormouth]

HEY!! Next time you sic someone to pick on me, how 'bout a ping for warning bubba!!???


MM

[George W. Bush]

More silent stories....unreal

Talk about your basic 'eerie silence'. It's like Mississippi fell off the face of the earth.

[George W. Bush]

Still waiting for in-depth reporting from Mississippi.

What, do they just hate this state that much? It is a little strange when the vultures refuse to circle..

Whatever the news is, I'd like to see more about Mississippi. And a lot less about NOLA. I still think MS looks to be the real Ground Zero.