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....
Holy Toledo!
The Governor of Louisiana said that the Mississippi had "reclaimed" several counties and she weren't kiddin'!
That kind of damage would not occur without massive loss of life. I fear that this report from the phone conversation that My_Favorite_Headache had with an EMS worker in Gulfport is all too horribly accurate.
The surge this time was much higher this time at Waveland, Bay St. Louis, and Pass Christian. Much higher.
What is sad ..is that now with the looters..more people will stay home when warned because they do not want their belongings stolen..and more will die....the police and NG have to get control soon..or all hell will break out...not that it hasn't...but instead of rebuilding and repairing taking place...recapture will have to happen first....
The 30 dead in one apartment building was striking to me as well. I immediately thought to myself that the death toll must be well up in the hundreds. That being said, I will be quite shocked if there are indeed "thousands" dead in Mississippi. In fact, I'll be surprised if there are over 1000 dead in MS. Hurricane Camille killed some 21 people in just one building (the Richelieu Apts), but there were still 'merely' 143 deaths on the Gulf Coast. Granted, the region is much more densely populated these days and Katrina tore a wider swath of destruction, but still..
It's not at all unusual in a hurricane for one neighborhood to be totally devastated by surge or wind and the next one over to be more or less fine. A lot of this has to do with all the tornados that touch down. So, for what it's worth, my guess is that the person reporting these figures is in a particularly hard-struck area and is incorrectly extrapolating his experience to the region as a whole. Maybe I'm in denial, but that's just my hunch!
I do expect over 1000 dead in New Orleans.
Do they have cellphones? Any way to contact them?
Sure they will, after they read it HERE! FR always has the news first!
I can't imagine, too, the number of people who will expire from lack of access to medication, dehydration, infections, etc., not to mention snakebite.
Please don't ruin the perfectly good self righteousness permeating this site with facts.
From the tv coverage I've been able to watch (which has been limited), I think quite a few of the media who have been on location have had their eyes opened about how widespread the devastation can be. Hopefully, this will reflect in their coverage of future storms. The talking heads back in the studios don't seem to catch on, though, so probably nothing will change ... :-(
Everyone needs to realize that a hurricane is not like a tornado that covers only a few square blocks or, perhaps at most, a swath a mile or two wide. Hurricanes can do extensive damage for hundreds of miles ... without even counting the deadly flooding and tornadoes as the remnants head far inland.
not driven up wall (yet) but after 10 minutes only about an inch of one pix is open.
sigh
I'd suggest avoiding the traitorous globalist high overhead cost Red Cross and go with
Salvation ARmy
CBN's Operation Blessing and
SAMARITAN'S PURSE.
The MSM is content to show re-runs of tonight's earlier programming, both versions edited for our sensitive sensabilities.
Every so often though, a reporter inadvertently spills the beans.........
CNN hack on a Miss. beach during what was supposed to be a casual report: The number of dead I came across was overwhelming......
Moving....God bless both of y'all.
Thank you...
About three months ago, perhaps less, a little girl (I believe it was) was killed by a shark. The family had been warned. The kid paid the ultimate price.
Once again, we have people who were warned. There's some gene that some people have, that says something to the effect that they shouldn't do what they are told. They consider this to be maverick or cool behavior.
Not so cool today is it. It's really sad.
"Scooping the press once again ain't we?"
Yes, ma'am...we surely are!
But, this is one damn story that I wish didn't happen. ;o(
me too :sigh:
Why oh why didn't they leave when the government told them to?
I'm serious. At a certain point you just feel sorry for the kids that were forced to die because the parents don't like to be told what to do.
Maps of LA might need to be redrawn... once the GOM takes it, it might not come back. Especially if they are stubborn enough to rebuild NO.
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