"No one is shifting anything. It is not a hugh leap to infer a death-toll of thousands in and area with reasonably good infrastructure and communications is a pretty good indicator things are even worse in the outlying areas."
Oh really? This story in the OP started out in Mississippi...now you and others are claiming I denied thousands of dead in New Orleans. WTF??? How is that not shifting the focus of the original story?
And it's funny how all the predicted zottings of my self and a couple of others...and the threatened banning by the Mods for daring to doubt the credibility of the original story haven't happened yet.
*shrugs*
No, that's not what we did. Though I will admit to writing my response poorly.
What I intended to say was when there are strong indicators an area with good infrastructure and communications has had a death-toll in the thousands, it is not a great leap to infer the more rural areas are harder hit.
That is why NO is being brought up to you. No one seriously doubts your ability to understand the inference without it being explained.