Here's one, about just one county, where authorities expect fatalities in the "hundreds."
GULFPORT, MISS. - Stunned residents emerged from shelters and homes Tuesday to start assessing the massive damage left by Hurricane Katrina as rescuers pulled bodies from crushed homes and apartments near the coast.
The death toll in this hard-hit county rose to more than 100, but officials believe that number will rise. "There's so much rubble, we won't know for a while. But I fully expect the number to be in the hundreds," said Jason Green, assistant to the Harrison County coroner.
In an auxiliary morgue downtown, hearses unloaded bodies uncovered by search-and-rescue teams.
"Several families have brought in their dead," Green said.
County Supervisor Connie Rockco said it appears the heaviest loss of life was in east Biloxi, where an apartment building collapsed and killed 30 people.
"But there are fatalities from one end of the county to the other," Rockco said. - Houston Chronicle
I'm watching the news right now and not seeing any of this catyclismic end of the world destruction people are talking about on here.
Is it bad? Yes. No doubt about that.
But still nothing to verify the hand wringing...conspiracy hatching nuttiness that is going on in here.
The poster of this thread has long-proven his credibility in FR.
He has never posted lies or outrageous statements, claiming them to truth.
Law enforcement routinely hides information from the citizenry....they don't think people can handle truth....that it makes matters more panicy...I disagree with their doing that, but they do. I have no doubt that either the editors or journalists have had their arms twisted to not speak out about this yet, either by LE or their management.