"From friends, relatives and neighbors, public records and folks unaccounted for. They'll canvass the survivors."Yeah Right!
You mean the public records that are under water?
The state capital, Baton Rouge, is not under water. The national capital, Washington, is not under water. And even the records that were housed in New Orleans were probably backed up.
It's the 20th Century, dude. Any moderately sophisticated data mining operation can scan driver's licenses, magazine subscriptions, utility bills and government assistance records to come up with a list of the residents of each neighborhood. People who were passing through can be tracked by their credit/debit card use and phone calls home. Assemble a list from those records, then scratch off anyone who turns up alive.
I don't think they (City, state officials)were doing any canvassing of the survivors.
You might want to look into a little something called verb tenses. They will canvass the survivors, I said. That doesn't mean they have. There wasn't a decent list of casualties for weeks after 9/11, or a comprehensive list for months.
There are on average 27.63 deaths each day in Orleans Parish.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1482547/posts
Not all of the 279 came from NO. It is the death toll for the entire state of LA.
Thats 27.63 * 14 = 386.82
This post was started to point the main stream media's
manipulation of facts.
But you seem convinced that that it was error with no malice.
Yeah RIGHT!
The data mining you suggest would take three to six months to complete.
Double that if the government ran it.
All civil records are paper and were not in EDP form.
In the basement of the Civil District Courthouse on Poydras Street, three blocks from the Superdome, water has lapped over 20% of the 60,000 leather-bound books of the New Orleans Notarial Archives. The books contain the records of all property transfers in the city that have occurred in the modern era.
"We don't have deeds in New Orleans," said Stephen P. Bruno, custodian of the archives. "Whatever our records say, that's who owns the property."
Do your homework before running your argumrnitive keyboard.