La. death toll now 279

The Times-Picayune ^ | September 12, 2005 | The Times-Picayune

[DaveTesla]

The state Department of Health and Hospitals said today Louisiana's death toll from Hurricane Katrina now stands at 279. That figure, which comes from statistics reported by local coroners to state officials, includes 242 bodies at the metrowide morgue at St. Gabriel, three bodies in St. Charles Parish, 25 bodies in Jefferson Parish, six bodies in St. Tammany Parish and three bodies in New Iberia Parish.

[DaveTesla]

Far from the 25,000 estimate so far.

[Paleo Conservative]

Only by a couple orders of magnitude.

[BurbankKarl]

Is this the hospital where they gave everyone morphine and left?

I havent seen that story in the US yet, but its in the UK papers

[Crazieman]

Last I heard, 279 LA, 218 MS, 7 FL

504 :(

[BurbankKarl]

The Warlord is silent....

Police Chief Eddie Compass declined to answer any questions, including whether officers received any calls for help from those inside the hospital after it was evacuated.

[DaveTesla]

Only thing posted on the hospital death toll:

45 bodies found at N.O. hospital

Bill Berry, a spokesman for the Houston-based Kenyon Company, which is
assisting with the recovery of bodies, said although the largest
numbers of bodies are being found in hospitals and nursing homes, the
death toll at Baptist is among the highest he has heard.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

I wonder what if anyone will get charged...

[AntiGuv]

There are 2 in Alabama.

[tophat9000]

Why am I starting to get the impression that what happen in NO was a local mob + press inducing panic

[BurbankKarl]

http://www.informationliberation.com/index.php?id=1202"

[Squantos]

Listened to a History Channel episode this afternoon where a lady that barely survived Hurricane Camille say that when ya get a warning that a Cat 5 is coming, the only thing you can do to survive it is to get in yer car and drive away from the coast as far as possible !

I have a feeling that MS is gonna be the high body count vs LA....

[latina4dubya]

the way the media was talking, i thought there'd be more than that from the Super Dome alone... praise God they seem to be wrong as usual...

[Daralundy]

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09_12.html#079140

Some more detailed information on the hospital deaths. That British story is lacking in concrete details, so it is hard to say.

[ozzymandus]

This can't be!! For 2 weeks, the MSM, RATS, and assorted race hustlers have been telling me over and over about "tens of thousands" dead! Who can I sue over this misinformation?

[DaveTesla]

The MSM will use anything to attack our culture, Nation,
and our way of life.
They saw this natural disaster as an opportunity.
and cared little for the real victims of the storm,
mostly the sick and the elderly.
A few buses and a civil force that was under leadership
and didn't run away could have lowered this number dramatically.

[DaveTesla]

Hard to say.
But not to be discounted.
Although there is no proof at the moment
I wouldn't be the least surprised.
The Marxist run educational system breeds this culture
into our medical practitioners.

[sweetjane]

"La. death toll now 279"

This is good news, right? In my book, it's very good news.

[Brad from Tennessee]

I live at least 400 miles north of New Orleans and that Monday night Katrina--by then a weakening tropical storm--hit us dead center, knocking down a lot of tree limbs, blocking some roads, and delivering about 4 inches of rain in 20 hours. On Thursday, I drove our church van with three others, hauling a 16-foot van full of donated supplies down to Thibodaux, LA where a FEMA evacuee shelter was set up on the Nicholls State University campus. We worked as volunteers for two days mostly unloading trucks. By Sunday the Nicholls shelter had accumulated a surplus of some emergency items so we loaded up our trailer with bottled water and baby items--diapers, baby formula, wipes and bay food and drove to Hattliesburg, MS where we unloaded at a Red Cross shelter and then returned to Tennessee. The highways around New Orleans and throughout the region were lined with piles of limbs, folliage and fallen trees. All these roadways had to be cleared by crews with chainsaws and frontloaders or trackhoes before traffic could move. I think this accounts for some of the initial problems. However, in Thibodaux I talked to some FEMA people who were at the New Orleans Superdome when the storm hit with mobile communications gear, medical equipment and supplies. When the levees broke they were ordered to drive their vehicles up onto elevated I-10 until it could be determined how high the water would rise. After the flood crested they were unable to return to the Superdome so they drove to Thibodaux and set up there. Within a short time there was a safety net of emergency services, including medicalservices in all the communities to the west of New Orleans with Baton Rouge the largest. All anyone had to do was make it out of New Orleans and they would encounter food, shelter, medical services and a communications net to try and locate family members. But getting out of New Orleans, and it many cases getting out of the attic was a problem that should have been solved by local first responders.

[DaveTesla]

Vs 25,000 body bags the race bating, Communism hustling
Main Stream Media prophet of doom was selling....

Praise GOD.

[Nathan Zachary]

Gee, that's down from some reports yesterday of 345. Seems to be less every day. I guess the media is disapointed that they don't have all these shock and awe pics to show us of bloated bodies littering the streets after the water is pumped out.