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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
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To: tob2
The ones who stayed were those who could not get tranpsortation out of the area, the sick and the elderly.
And the ones who thought they could 'handle it'. Insurance will take care of looters for the average person.
981
posted on
08/31/2005 6:25:00 AM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(The New World Odor is UN-American)
To: Terabitten; AppyPappy
I wish it were true that sealed caskets didn't come open.
Probably the high-end steel vaults would not, but your average funeral home casket can and does break open through deterioration in the ground, running into things, etc. The pine boxes are not really a problem because everything rots pretty quickly and they don't pop up to the surface because there's no air pocket inside.
982
posted on
08/31/2005 6:25:26 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
To: edcoil
If you have ever sealed a casket, you'd know it is pretty well-sealed.
983
posted on
08/31/2005 6:25:46 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: My Favorite Headache
Thousands???? You sure this isn't an exaggeration?
ff
To: Wheelbarrow
I remember the death toll reporting on the tsunami... seemed like it was several days or a week before the high numbers started to come out.
985
posted on
08/31/2005 6:25:51 AM PDT
by
Rennes Templar
("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
To: Victoria
Whether the dead are suspended in trees or buried under debris is irrelevant. It only matters that people have died, a number which we don't yet know. There are a few sources hinting at a large death toll today. This was posted by Rod Dreher on National Review Online last evening:
BODIES, LOOTERS [Rod Dreher]
I finally got through to my family down in south Louisiana today. They live just north of Baton Rouge, on high ground, and had no damage, other than fallen trees. But they have no power, and don't know when they'll get it back, so they're boiling in the late August heat and humidity.
Still, my sister said they would never complain, given what people are suffering not too far away. She had little idea of what's happening, because their TVs don't work. It's probably just as well. I heard from a Louisiana National Guard source that there are bodies everywhere in the far south, but the authorities aren't publicizing this.
I don't know if that means "thousands" dead, but, given Gov. Barbour's remarks last evening and this morning, it would be no surprise.
986
posted on
08/31/2005 6:26:18 AM PDT
by
TonyInOhio
(Would I lie to you?)
To: B4Ranch; tob2
I'm guessing half the looters are now alligator and fireant food. Stay safe everyone. I'm out for the day.
987
posted on
08/31/2005 6:26:21 AM PDT
by
cyborg
(I'm having the best day ever.)
To: JennysCool
Don't worry about txradioguy...lost cause for now.
Time will tell the truth of this event, unfortunately.
I hope you and yours are all safe. I've got a good friend in Slidell that I haven't been able to contact yet.
To: petitfour
Oops. That second paragraph should also be in Italians. Those pesky Italians .... your mistake is series and could become hugh.
989
posted on
08/31/2005 6:26:39 AM PDT
by
tx_eggman
(Does it hurt when they shear your wool off?)
To: RichardS
"...I guess the good Lord finally decided we were getting a little too smug in the US... Religious kook alert! Pat Robertson, is that you???
990
posted on
08/31/2005 6:26:44 AM PDT
by
Matchett-PI
(Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind'. Albert Einstein)
To: George W. Bush; My Favorite Headache
Hmmm... I wonder why we haven't had any follow-ups from our original poster anyway? Because he lost contact with his friend, who is on the scene.
991
posted on
08/31/2005 6:28:09 AM PDT
by
grellis
(Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' ihn)
To: Guenevere
Please let us know if you hear anything.
Is there a thread for missing FReepers?
992
posted on
08/31/2005 6:29:02 AM PDT
by
WestCoastGal
(Thank you JR for pulling this limping team across the finish in 9th place)
To: olde north church
Consider the storm surge was estimated to be 26' people would have to run up three flights of stairs to get away, fighting a current.
I don't think this was really like that. On the worse side, there was howling wind outside that would make anything difficult. But the storm surge does not come in like a tsunami. It gradually comes in over several hours. The video makes the movement barely discernable, but there are waves that crash about. People have a way of surviving. Call me Polly Anna, but I think you will find the death toll in NO will be pretty low. But I do think the death toll in MS will be pretty bad (several hundred.) But, what the heck do I know. That is my current prediction.
To: hunter_23
994
posted on
08/31/2005 6:29:19 AM PDT
by
bwteim
(Begin With The End In Mind)
To: papertyger; My Favorite Headache
GWB: Let's assume that MFH is completely sincere. This report still relies upon a hearsay report. MFH, an anonymous poster here, is not reporting this himself. He's reporting hearsay.
papertyger: Do you think we don't know that? The problem is people like you trying to kill the story before ANYBODY can confirm it.
Many posters seem to read this as though it was a personal report, not a hearsay account. I'm just reminding people of that.
I'm not trying to kill it. But after 12 hours, I'm looking for confirming sources. And where is MFH anyway? Given the number of questions about the report, why no follow-ups even if only to clarify the wording of the report?
To: hunter_23
I came here because Hugh Hewett has MFH's crazy post up as a negative example of what the internet and blogosphere should be doing right now. Yes, indeed he does.
Hugh used to respect FR. He's come to see it as many of us have, as a haven for kooks (and bigots, I'll tos in).
Oh well.
To: JennysCool
Then just keep hitting the abuse button onme like you've been doing for the last two hours.
*yawn*.
997
posted on
08/31/2005 6:30:00 AM PDT
by
txradioguy
(In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng. K.I.A. 25 April 2005)
To: Rennes Templar
Yeah, sounds like it will take awhile. Electricity is reportedly out over 80 percent of Mississippi, and I imagine cell service and landlines are pretty much kaput, too. One poster upthread pointed out that many roads are still blocked with downed trees, so some smaller communities likely have not even been contacted at all yet.
998
posted on
08/31/2005 6:30:00 AM PDT
by
JennysCool
(Non-Y2K-Compliant)
To: cyborg
>>I'm guessing half the looters are now alligator and fireant food.<<
That's what I'm hoping for!
999
posted on
08/31/2005 6:30:02 AM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(The New World Odor is UN-American)
To: JennysCool
Then just keep hitting the abuse button on me like you've been doing for the last two hours.
*yawn*.
1,000
posted on
08/31/2005 6:30:07 AM PDT
by
txradioguy
(In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng. K.I.A. 25 April 2005)
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