Were the entire families found only in homes or were entire families also washed up on the beach?
Now you're just being stupidly obtuse. You know the post doesn't infer any of that. And carping about semantics is just childish.
Listen you and a few others have some issues with how I wrote the original post out.
Put it into context, would you?
He said "We have been pulling bodies out of trees, people have drowned in their homes, there are thousands dead dude...thousands" we spoke about for about 5 minutes about where he was when the storm made landfall...he said 1.5 miles from the coast...we talked about his family what he had passed along to them how long he had cell service...if he was injured...how was he handling it..he then began to relay info to me in pieces.
He said the operation had been going on for 24-hours at that point, a lot of rescue operations but they were just seeing and pulling bodies out. Refrigeration trucks were going to be coming in...etc.
You have to keep mind that his phone signal was dropping in and out and he knows what I do for a living hence why he said not to use his name or he would lose his job. The rights of patients and the laws he has to abide by I assume...HIPPA I believe he reffered to.
I would in no way come onto this website and post some ficticious phone call in the middle of this chaotic situation. I would hope that you would think better and let the story unfold. I posted the story to give info to people on this site who were in the dark about these areas. Is it grim? Yes. Do I wish I could have written that everything was great? Absolutely.
If he had called me and said,"Man...I don't know how people survived here...we are not finding bodies or anything", I would have posted the same exact thing and left it at that.
But that is simply not the case. This is a paramedic and a former Army soldier...his word is gold to me.
What the guy said was that they are only marking the bodies, they are not attempting to remove them. I have heard from other sources that Pass Christian is basically gone, nothing standing. I know where the US 90 bridge is or was. If it went, God help the people near by. I know for a fact that one family that built their house about the high water mark of Camille had flooding up to the first floor of their house. They got into a small sailboat they had tied in the back yard.
I know the area there very well, I hope all of this is wrong, but every piece of information I have gotten so far matches. The surge was MUCH higher than Camille. Behind Bay St. Louis is the Jordon river and swamp extends about six or more miles behind that. Apparently the entire finger of where Bay St. Louis was covered in water. EVERYBODY AND EVERY STRUCTURE in Waveland, Bay St. Louis, and Pass Christian would be affected by a surge that high.