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Astonishing Exclusive From Mississippi [hundreds if not thousands dead]
Paramedic Rescue Operation | 8-31-05 | My Favorite Headache

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....


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: 2368; armydjdumbass; baystlouis; biloxi; casaloma; catfight; disaster; eatingourown; godblessthem; godhelpthem; gulfport; hughhewitt; hurricane; hurricanekatrina; katrina; katrinaandthewaves; mississippi; passchristian; prayer; puppetmasters; waveland
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To: My Favorite Headache

There is a reason it's been so quite. FEMA modeling said over 50k could die in a situation like this.. I sure hope they are way off.


61 posted on 08/30/2005 10:26:12 PM PDT by nwctwx (Everything I need to know, I learned on the Threat Matrix)
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To: My Favorite Headache

How unspeakably horrible. I can only shake my head.


62 posted on 08/30/2005 10:26:18 PM PDT by Prince Charles
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To: My Favorite Headache

I had a feeling this was coming ... so many people made the fatal mistake of trying to ride it out. God bless the survivors and please give strength to the rescuers who have such a hard job to do. God bless America. God ... bless ... America.


63 posted on 08/30/2005 10:26:51 PM PDT by JellyJam (Headline of the year: "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists Are Muslims!")
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To: My Favorite Headache

I have lost signal with him now...now saying all circuits are busy...damn


64 posted on 08/30/2005 10:27:03 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache ("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
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To: My Favorite Headache

the picture is bleak.Thanks for bringing reality into stark picture....God Help Us All and give us the ability to help those in need right now in America.


65 posted on 08/30/2005 10:27:06 PM PDT by penelopesire
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To: My Favorite Headache

Bookmark.


Time to suspend United States foreign aid until further notice.


66 posted on 08/30/2005 10:27:15 PM PDT by Black Tooth
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To: My Favorite Headache

Oh Lord please, I humbly ask that you accept the souls of those who lost their lives into your loving arms. And I ask that you please help heal the hearts of those who are left here to morn their loss.


67 posted on 08/30/2005 10:27:58 PM PDT by GloriaJane (http://music.download.com/gloriajane "Baseball Apple Pie And Mom")
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To: My Favorite Headache
"the water came in nearly 2 miles"

Slidell looked the same. Sad.

68 posted on 08/30/2005 10:28:01 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: Danette

Tass and Pravda in the USSR also blocked bad news. Sovietization of America is ongoing, and control of the news is part of it.


69 posted on 08/30/2005 10:28:12 PM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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To: Black Tooth
Time to suspend United States foreign aid until further notice.

is there a precedent for this?

70 posted on 08/30/2005 10:28:33 PM PDT by justche (No one can go back and make a brand new start, any one can start now and make a brand new ending)
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To: dennis1x
They said gulfport and biloxi were not at all expect something of this magnitude and the sudden turn just before landfall caught many off guard

please dont propagate this myth.....gulfport and biloxi were forecast to get full ne eyewall surge at least 24 hours in advance of landfall.....the "wobble" was a few miles and landfall occured exactly where predicted.

71 posted on 08/30/2005 10:28:45 PM PDT by dennis1x
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To: My Favorite Headache; ImaGraftedBranch

No words...


72 posted on 08/30/2005 10:28:50 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (We DARE Defend Our Rights (Alabama State Motto))
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To: My Favorite Headache

If I had to guess, they don't want to scare the people outside the affected area with the damage tolls. But, like the tsunami, the numbers and images got out, and that is when the relief efforts started pouring in.


73 posted on 08/30/2005 10:29:32 PM PDT by Maigrey (1-800-PrayerWarrior - Just a ping away)
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To: Torie

On FoxNews this evening, they were showing communities that had been leveled to the cement foundations. All the pads were clean. If there were any people in those homes, they'd have to be dead. I can understand the drive to stay near your home, but when it comes to hurricanes, I'd leave the area.

One thing is for certain, this will probably alter how future hurricanes are handled, with evacuations not being up to the individual.

For safety and looting reasons, landfall areas should be evacuated completely IMO.


74 posted on 08/30/2005 10:29:34 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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To: Strategerist
MSNBC quoted the state of Mississippi as saying they estimated only 1/3rd of the permanent residents of Biloxi evacuated before the storm.

How many were left within a mile of the coastline?

75 posted on 08/30/2005 10:30:22 PM PDT by mikegi
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To: McGavin999

They probably don't know. I have heard several times a reporter say, "Nothing has been heard at all from so and so".

Someone earlier on FR mentioned a whole town had disappeared, no one heard from them. And someone looked it up and saw it was a town of over 20,000. So this may well be.


76 posted on 08/30/2005 10:30:38 PM PDT by I still care (America is not the problem - it is the solution..)
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To: nwctwx

Don't forget the reporters claimed 20 or 30 thousand would be dead in the World Trade Center attack on 9/11. That figure turned out to be way off.

If I was speculating as to why they might only give out the worst case scenario numbers, I'd guess it could be when the real numbers come out, it makes the disaster not seem so bad. They want the American people to go back to sleep and never hold anyone in government accountable.


77 posted on 08/30/2005 10:30:43 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: Irish Eyes

....and here I was thinking the death toll was pretty low BECAUSE I haven't seen bodies on the TV.


Prayers.


78 posted on 08/30/2005 10:31:04 PM PDT by Danette ("If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.")
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To: Black Tooth

agreed Russian has made ovatures of help ealier today, but that has been the only one that I have heard.

I think the reality of this will settle in over the next few days when the body count start rolling out. I think the only reason that the Government (fed and state) have not release anything yet, is that they do not want to create a rush of people to the area trying to find out about family members or create a panic in those states.

I wonder if once the #'s are out if the international wallet will come out? I doubt it unfortunatly...


79 posted on 08/30/2005 10:31:14 PM PDT by Americanwolf (To all in the States of MS, AL, and LA effect by Hurricane Katrina my heart and prayers to you all!)
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To: Maigrey

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80 posted on 08/30/2005 10:31:26 PM PDT by Kennesaw
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