That's what gives me a feeling of foreboding. Independent witness reports are coming in from survivors (see post 2621 above from GOP_Thug_Mom) that paint an ugly composite picture:
I wanted to let you know that I just talked to a woman here outside of Houston who's father picked her and her two children up from Gulfport, MS, after the hurricane. She told me that they had to keep their kids from looking outside because they didn't want them to see all of the dead bodies floating around in the water...There's no effort to try to minimize the death toll in NOLA, because it would be futile in the face of thousands of people getting out with stories of bodies in the water.
Also, NOLA is a bowl -- the drowned bodies are going to still be there when the waters subside. We will never know how many were washed out to sea in southern LA and MS on the storm surge.
Take a look at my post 2632. Those people only survived by wading thru the storm surge to some stable concrete. How many people in the houses around them didn't have the courage to try that and got washed out to sea?
The reporters are all hanging out together in dry sections of New Orleans hoping to get more pictures of looters or shots of black people yelling "racism".
It's amazing. This is the biggest natural disaster to ever hit the U.S. Many thousands are likely dead. The death toll is probably at least triple that of 9/11. It's a huge national tragedy. The devastated region covers an area the size of the U.K. All we see are pictures of looters in the French Quarter and people holed up in the Superdome. That's certainly part of the story but there's a huge story out there that the news media is just glossing over.
Several reports I've heard say they won't even find everyone that is missing because victims are buried under so much debris. or washed away. That number is likely not "thousands", of course, but this may be why they are reluctant to say much until they are able to reconcile the difference between the number of "missing" versus "found".