[seeker41]

My friend got off the island with pictures today and they are sick. Bodies everywhere! The numbers on the island are 4000+. Where is the national media....where is the outcry. By this time in Katrina there were telethons...and here nothing. The pictures have been sent to Nytimes, cnn, etc and nobody has posted about them. Mark my words tomorrow there will be headlines, and if not in the papers than in the blogs because this is a higher death count than Katrina and 9/11 combined. This is sick...and it is true. On the island they are telling them not to talk so as to give them time to notfy the families..but a national spotlight is needed. This is bigger then the DOWJones and wall street. This is huge.

This was just posted here http://www.khou.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27523&start=30

Have no idea if true

[CindyDawg]

I too hope it isn’t but if it is...what do they want? People decided to stay. Some died. We have laws against dragging people out of their homes. Besides notifying the next of kin..what is a telethon or the media going to be able to do to help.

[1066AD]

Well if there were indeed 20,000 that refused to evacuate then you'd expect some bodies.

On the island they are telling them not to talk so as to give them time to notfy the families..but a national spotlight is needed.

Why ? Seems decent to notify next of kin first.

[texasredtop]

While it may turn out to be true, I don’t buy it one little bit. You’d be surprised some of the cuckoos that post BS to stir everyone up. Sickos. How does someone find 4000 bodies? It doesn’t add up. Our friends that live on the island are returning from SATX tomorrow. Their neighbors are home and said their place is okay with just some superficial damage.

[jeffers]

seeker41 wrote:
My friend got off the island with pictures today and they are sick. Bodies everywhere! The
numbers on the island are 4000+. Where is the national media....where is the outcry. By this time
in Katrina there were telethons...and here nothing. The pictures have been sent to Nytimes, cnn,
etc and nobody has posted about them. Mark my words tomorrow there will be headlines, and if
not in the papers than in the blogs because this is a higher death count than Katrina and 9/11
combined. This is sick...and it is true. On the island they are telling them not to talk so as to give
them time to notfy the families..but a national spotlight is needed. This is bigger then the
DOWJones and wall street. This is huge.

This was just posted here http://www.khou.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27523&start=30

Have no idea if true

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Take that with a MAJOR grain of salt.

At the same time, don’t ignore it either.

Without confirmation, it is either a FALSE RUMOR, or else a TRUE FACT NOT CONFIRMED.

Until we know, it’s worth about as much as the stories of post Katrina cannabalism.

We don’t need any more of that.

Perusing aerial imagery grids of Galveston and Bolivar Peninsula, I’d say Galveston, even the west end, got off easy. Yeah, there’s damage, but it’s more like one home in ten missing big pieces, others apparantly intact, overall, with most of those close to the beach.

On Bolivar, it’s a LOT worse. I’d be a LOT more inclined to buy “thousands dead’ on Bolivar than Galveston, based on post storm imagery, which I consider to be hard data.

[shield]

Actually, there was a huge amount of bodies after Katrina in Mississippi...the search teams were pulling bodies out of trees and the bodies were every where. There were lots of refrigerated trucks that the bodies were put in. The reporters knew about it...but were told not to report it.

After Andrew & Charlie the same thing...we were never told the true number of the bodies found. This has become sop.

[NautiNurse]

This smells of internet hoax. "My friend" is the first signal. Calling for outcry is another sign of internet hoax. I don't recall telethons within 72 hours of Katrina either.

My vote: BS meter is in the red zone.

[davetex]

The souls that have passed deserve dignity, along with living family. Amen.