[Knitting A Conundrum]

It is like impossible to get into some of these areas. There are NO cell towers working in some of those areas. No landlines, no power and impossible roads, bridges out and the authorities are trying their best to keep people out. And people expect accurate news this early? Even though they want to, it's very, very hard to get there.

Don't expect good news for several more days.

[George W. Bush]

It is like impossible to get into some of these areas. There are NO cell towers working in some of those areas. No landlines, no power and impossible roads, bridges out and the authorities are trying their best to keep people out. And people expect accurate news this early?

A lot of folks here are saying the same thing so I thought I'd respond to this line of thinking, though I'm not trying to pick on you personally.

If this is true, then exactly how did the person who called our poster and relate the facts on this thread manage to call him? Even if he has "an emergency cell phone" then it can't work without a tower, can it? And if any local cell towers were still working, then why don't we have a lot of these reports instead of this one lonely report of thousands of dead bodies in trees? Given the numbers of people who evacuated from the areas, any working cell towers would have plenty of traffic capacity for anyone who remains or for rescue workers.

And if these areas are so hard to reach, how are they bringing out the bodies (from the trees) "30 at a time". For that matter, why this magical number of 30? Is that how many fit in an Army truck? Or a shrimp boat?