As ken5050 said upthread, there is a near-complete communications breakdown in some areas. I think many folks in our media-driven age just can't get their heads around that -- no cell phone, no landline, no TV, no radio, no 'Net. Nothing at all to get the word out, or in. For some in the new century, that is just unimaginable.
That's the problem. You're exactly right. People are so brainwashed by 24/7 news and reality TV cameras everywhere that they can't imagaine that we don't know everything immediately. We know nothing here from Miss. especially because it's been wiped out.
Read between the lines people. Everywhere you hear reports about bodies it's not people COUNTING them and bringing them in! It's about pushing them aside, seeing them littered, tossed, clumped, piled, crushed. We are still in crisis rescue mode. Hell i don't think I've seen a single dead body on the news. Nobody has even bothered unless they get put in a position where they have to bring a certain body or bodies in because it makes logistical sense. This is all still completely unorganized.
Then you have a sober governor dropping terms like tsunami, Hiroshima and such. The only numbers are some Apt building that had 30 people. I bet they don't even know how many are there. Could only be 20, but 30 stuck because someone heard something and tossed it out. But the media acts like it's like the only people who died in the entire city because nobody will count all those other bodies for them to report as some official body count. The death toll in huge disasters is always underestimated early and this is huge. If you believe they've even counted even 20% of the bodies to come, I have a bridge in beautiful downtown New Orleans I'd love to sell you.
Hugh Hewitt is just trying to play the level-headed smart guy who rises about the riff-raff. Same MSM BS in blog format. Citizen reporting from a trusted source is worthless fear-mongering? Whatever. So we have a big blogger now crying about how this thread wasn't censored. Why? Because it didn't comply with MSB standards. Which now means you can only get news for your blog from nearly blind MSM sources who say it's a vast unknown of death and destruction out there. Well gee, what might that tell you Hugh? And he wrote a book on blogs? Pathetic.
We didn't even need this thread to know that we barely know anything about the total deaths. Just use common sense from there after seeing the Mississippi wasteland coastline.
..fled to Harrison County Police Dept. in Gulfport, Mississippi....
.. (he's retired policeman & his other daughter works there)....with his family--- daughter, son in law, and granddaughter....
..because they thought the facility substantial to protect them from the storm...
..and we haven't heard from them since.
I know lines are down....and communication nil....
..but he fled on Sunday, kinda at the last minute...
..and I hear the devastation is terrible in this area.
Just letting you know.
His name is Toby....a dear elderly gentleman.