Then you have this, which seems overblown, but a completely different tale.
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Funeral director deploys to hurricane region
A co-owner of Shelbyville-based Gowen-Smith Chapel has been deployed to Gulfport, Miss., to help with recovery since Hurricane Katrina, and his business partner here has described the grim task there.
"DMort is telling us to expect up to 40,000 bodies," Dan Buckner said, quoting officials with the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, a volunteer arm of Homeland Security.
His partner, Dan Hicks, of Paducah, Ky., was deployed Monday. Buckner, of Dickson, is on standby. Their funeral home is one of several collection sites for donations to be taken to the Red Cross in Fayetteville on Wednesday for transfer to places in need.
The 40,000 estimate does "not include the number of disinterred remains that have been displaced from ... mausoleums," Buckner told the Times-Gazette Monday.
Since New Orleans is below sea level, in-ground burial is impossible.
More: http://www.t-g.com/story/1116806.html
""DMort is telling us to expect up to 40,000 bodies," Dan Buckner said, quoting officials with the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, a volunteer arm of Homeland Security."
The article you posted seems very legit.
I hope the numbers of 40k are way overestimated.
It also said 120 days to recover them all from attics and houses. So we wont know for awhile. I am assuming he is talking about NO.
I hope for the lowest death count possible, maybe Biloxi didnt lose as many as feared. That would be great.