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....
Great news, all things considered. I heard a lot of roofs were off, fallen trees, etc. but hopefully they didn't have to deal with the storm surge or flooding.
But the locals along the coast should damn well have known there was a threat. They got hit with one of the worst hurricanes to hit mainland U.S. in the last century: Hurricane Camille - August 1969. When I was in the area a couple years later, they were still doing serious rebuilding.
Did the Air Force evacuate the place?
Long video of destruction on Mississippi coast.
http://www.wlbt.com/global/video/popup/pop_player.asp?ClipID1=512296&h1=Mississippi%20Gulf%20Coast%20Damage%20from%20Skycopter%203&vt1=v&at1=News%20-%20Special%20Coverage&d1=1370767&LaunchPageAdTag=Homepage&activePane=info&playerVersion=9&rnd=61026921
They could do something as simple as unleash mosquitoes carrying a plague from Africa.
not many east of NO
actually, none outside of NO
I'm convinced that millions will be making such a transition in values and priorities in the coming months.
Overdue.
Going to China altered my priorities and values wholesale. Tienanmen some more.
Now, I only want what's useful for The Kingdom. The rest is chaff--wood, hay, stubble and worse.
Seems that a like response we saw from DOD for the Tsunami last year will be enroute also.... Even if it's just a few ships used for water making and helo support in the port......
Going to be a study in reality to try and evacuate the entire city... Do ya feed the people where they are or do ya make em walk out when they get hungry to dry land for pickup and transport to a FEMA refugee camp ? Just that comment , (FEMA Camp) sounds really scary IMHO.
That place is one large petri dish of biological hazards and a growing health threat every minute......
Dang that's a mess......prayers up for all involved......
Actually, I think this would be the *worst* time for them to hit (from their perspective). Media coverage of their strike would be "competing" for airtime against the Katrina disaster. Furthermore, unless their strike was *massively* huge -- greater than even 9/11 -- it would look like small-potatoes compared to the scope of the Katrina damage (in both lives lost and property destroyed).
Why would the terrorists want to strike at a time which would *lessen* the impact of their attack, and possibly even make it look paltry in comparison? Would the terrorists really want the American public to conclude, "oh well, terrorism sucks, but natural disasters are a bigger threat..."?
The Media is not the media anymore, they are the goverment information services.
Supposedly the technologies are extremely more refined and advanced.
I pray you are right. And I pray harder......
Decade? What an optimist. Just the financial ramifications dictate twenty years at least. Then factor in the 'why' factor. Why live there? Why take the chance? Why invest in a disaster waiting to happen all over again?
It doesn't surprise us either. We thought it was going to be bad, but we prayed and prayed that all those who said it wouldn't come close to the numbers from the 9/11 attacks were right. This is awful. Just awful.
Calloused cold heartedness is not overly admirable in such a situation.
REgardless of the validity of the facts, or not.
They never opened the inbound lanes to outbound traffic. Did you see the pictures. You could have driven 70mph on the inbound lanes. No one was heading into town. Major failure government failure in that one.
Are you talking about our media?
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