It would not surprise me to know there are bodies in trees, because we've already heard stories of people being rescued out of them. The article cited at Drudge, quotes a lady who was washed out of an apartment building, who says they were pushing cars away from them as they floated by. It's a fact that the water surge was at least 20 feet high in Biloxi-Gulfport area, so it's likely that some bodies are going to be found exactly as described. I doubt it will be thousands.
More likely, they will be found buried under all the debris, or farther inland, or worse, never found (as so many were not found after the great tsunami).
We're being given time to mentally prepare for what is to come.
"We're being given time to mentally prepare for what is to come."
This is something we had when the words CAT 5 were spoken, now we should be getting the latest actual news!
Don't forget that all the cemeteries will have bodies floating out of them, too. The sealed caskets literally float right up through the earth, because they're so much more buoyant than the soaked earth they lie in. Once they pop to the surface (and they literally pop up, it's the freakiest thing you've ever seen), they get knocked around, hit by debris, etc., and before long, the caskets come open.
When Albany, GA, got flooded in '94, they had dozens and dozens of bodies found in the trees. Most of them had been dead long before the floods, though.