Nothing personal taken.It wasn't meant to be a thread about rumors and speculation. Quite the opposite. What I was trying to convey was the real on the ground story from the area.
When you see firemen on Fox News deputizing people to pick bodies out of homes and rubble...to me..that puts the true face on just how bad and dire it is down there.
My intention was only to pass along the news and the great need for help there and what these medics and rescuers were going through.
The stories he told me last night (he is going back on Friday by the way for a week to Mississippi to help set up a triage unit and recover more dead) he was telling me about how nursing homes that were not evacuated inland had people who were dead but those that did survive were brought to high school gym's and that a lot of the inner city poor and drug addicts were in the shelters with no air no working bathrooms,people urinating in corners of the gym and all over the building,defecating wherever they felt like, and that the elderly were forced to sleep on hard wood stages in these schools.
People were not giving up their foam mattresses or ice or anything.
Total chaos and the stories only got worse.