[Dog Gone]

Are they searching inside the homes, or just counting the floaters in the streets?

[BushisTheMan]

They are searching inside the houses. After each house is searched, they are marked if they have a body inside or that it was searched and no one was found.

When the time comes to collect the bodies, most of the houses have already been identified.

They don't have enough refrigerator trucks or coroners yet to do identification. That time will come.

[snarkytart]

Are they searching inside the homes, or just counting the floaters in the streets?

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Hmm Good question. Either way I am sure the total will amount to a few of hundred at most, not thousands.


I bet if the dead have autopsy's performed all but a small handful will have died from the hurricane and not lack of food and water.

Again...all this hysteria was about what really?
The hurricane is an act of nature, a weather event no man can control.
The people were left a little too long without help and there is no denying that, but lets face it. If the people who were left in NO would have behaved themselves a little better this story would not have been what it is now.
When the looting and shooting and the people screaming at the TV cameras started..then I knew the country was in for the news version of the Jerry Springer show. JMO

[hummingbird]

Are they searching inside the homes, or just counting the floaters in the streets?

I'm wondering how they are calculating the number of anticipated dead. If they are going by inflated precinct counts, there are a number of "voters" who have been dead for years; those bodies will not show up, live or dead, which will lead to "fewer than expected." Those "bodies" only show on election day.

Also read somewhere on Free Republic that they were only counting bodies that were id'd; the unnamed, unknown were not a part of the official body count.

Sumtin' like that.