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....

[biblewonk]

They want the American people to go back to sleep and never hold anyone in government accountable.

WHAT?

[George W. Bush]

You owe some one an apology, georgio...

Really?

I see a report on your "proof thread" of possibly 30 people caught in a single building collapse.

Look at the original post: "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."

This thread is reporting thousands of dead people hanging from the trees, obviously above the flood where they can be seen and removed. These bodies would be easily visible to any media crew in helicopter or plane.

Beyond that, removing bodies "30 at a time" would require large numbers of trucks and a place to take the bodies, a natural gathering point for media. Still, no reports.

More from this "scoop": "Entire families found drowned in their homes and washing up on shore."

Perhaps you can explain how they know so quickly that these are entire families? What, they're laying on the beach in neat family groups? If they drowned in their homes, why are they floating around in family groups like a church picnic? It's just a ridiculous story.

I'm watching the various television reporting and they keep mentioning that bodies are being left floating in the water. But nowhere a mention of bodies in trees.

If there were such views of massive death, the media would swarm like flies on a corpse. Or vultures.

This thread still does not provide a credible or a reasonable "scoop".

[olde north church]

An excellent source may be leaks from those volunteers with boats who went to rescue folks.

[Rightly Biased]

Place holder

[Issaquahking]

"What I'm authorized to say now is we expect the death toll to be higher than anything we've ever seen before," said Jim Pollard, civil defense spokesman for Mississippi's Harrison County, which includes Biloxi and Gulfport.


New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said hundreds, if not thousands, of people may still be stuck on roofs and in attics, and so rescue boats were bypassing the dead. "We're not even dealing with dead bodies," Nagin said. "They're just pushing them on the side."


From Drudge hard to read between the lines, but leaves me wondering how much is going to be released, and when...

[BCrago66]

I have a new tin-foil hat I can sell you, for only $100,000. Let me know if you're interested.

[BluH2o]

Another possibility is that this paramedic, assuming he exists, is just a fool with no sense of judgement.

True ... anything can be posted on the Internet ... so I'm somewhat skeptical about the sourcing for this story. If the underlying facts of the story are true ... paramedic on scene estimates thousands died ... might be based on his experience in one small area and he multiplied the number, assuming other areas were equally effected.

[LikeLight]

16 to 18 weeks at least before ANYONE is let back in N.O. (per WDSU just now).

[TrebleRebel]

I think you are correct, we are still in crisis mode. Still, it's strange that despite lots of footage of flooded areas there has not be one floating body shown. I'm not looking for sensational footage here, but reality is reality and news is news.

Concerning reporting people missing, if whole families are dead who is going to report them missing? This is different than, say, then WTC which was localized and likely only one family member was there and could be reported missing within hours. It may take days or weeks to compile lists of those missing in this event.

[DB]

Dig, baby dig...

[MarMema]

Thank you for posting. May God bless the souls of those who have left this world for the next.

[conservativecorner]

The saddest part is that loss of life could of been avoided. Modern technology allows us the luxury of plenty of time to get out of the way, but people ultimately are responsible for their own actions.

[WoofDog123]

most coastal residents understand that being in the NE quadrant of a storm is BAD, so a hit on NO would be clearly very bad for the MS gulf coast, regardless of what CNN says.

as for why thousands 'didn't make it out on time,' many of them willingly stayed, and those living any distance from the beach would, based on experience, have expected wind damage to be the primary threat.

as noted elsewhere on this thread, if you live on the coast for any period of time, you develop a certain numbness to the ongoing hurricane watches/warnings. It is not in human nature to evacuate once or twice a year with nearly all being false alarms, aside from issues such as employment conflicts, etc. This is not helped by the fact that once you DO evacuate, you can expect to not be allowed back for a week or more even if your house is fine if there is a hurricane strike anywhere near.

I also imagine that some who planned to stay for the above reasons were simply unprepared to leave when and if they realized what kindof storm surge they were looking at...but think - would you expect to flood 2 miles from the beach?

[DB]

There's virtually no communications. There isn't any way for people to report missing people. People outside the area don't even know if people in the affected area are missing or not...

[vetvetdoug]

Some of the LE are mentioning this here in North Ms via the grapevine. I pray your friend is overestimating but I fear it is true. One of my employees' father is a MHP and we heard this yesterday.

[janetjanet998]

its going to be in the 1000's ....only 1/3 of the population of biloxi/gulfport evacuated..over 66,000 people still left..plus more in other smaller towns down the coast

[JennysCool]

Please reread what you just posted:

"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."

That paragraph continues: "Entire families found drowned in their homes and washing up on shore." The poster doesn't mean there are thousands of bodies in trees, he means thousands of bodies have been discovered "throughout Mississippi in Gulf Port, Waveland,Hancock County,Bay of St.Louis."

Among them, some hanging in trees. Others found drowned in their homes, others washing up on the beach.

Does any of that seem far-fetched after one of the most massive hurricanes in U.S. history?

[George W. Bush]

It is like impossible to get into some of these areas. There are NO cell towers working in some of those areas. No landlines, no power and impossible roads, bridges out and the authorities are trying their best to keep people out. And people expect accurate news this early?

A lot of folks here are saying the same thing so I thought I'd respond to this line of thinking, though I'm not trying to pick on you personally.

If this is true, then exactly how did the person who called our poster and relate the facts on this thread manage to call him? Even if he has "an emergency cell phone" then it can't work without a tower, can it? And if any local cell towers were still working, then why don't we have a lot of these reports instead of this one lonely report of thousands of dead bodies in trees? Given the numbers of people who evacuated from the areas, any working cell towers would have plenty of traffic capacity for anyone who remains or for rescue workers.

And if these areas are so hard to reach, how are they bringing out the bodies (from the trees) "30 at a time". For that matter, why this magical number of 30? Is that how many fit in an Army truck? Or a shrimp boat?

[keats5]

A complete mandatory evacuation would have accomplished two tasks:

1) no looters; and

2) people not feeling the need to stay in their homes to protect against looters.

[GodBlessUSA]

I was praying for that miracle, but it doesn't look good. they say Biloxi is destroyed. They can't even get into some neighborhoods yet. 100 deaths in Harrison County alone. :(

They say on Fox the numbers are predicted to soar. They are concentrating on search and rescue not the recovery yet. I pray it is not into the 1000+.

My prayers. This is horrifying.