Posted on 08/30/2005 10:10:45 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
It is with heavy heart I write this...
I have finally reconnected with my best friend who is a paramedic who was sent from Georgia 2 days ago to Gulf Port, Mississippi before the hurricane hit.
He just reached me within the last 10 mins via emergency cell phone to tell me he was alive.
Thousands of bodies have been discovered throughout Mississippi in Gulf Port, Waveland,Hancock County,Bay of St.Louis.
They are hanging in trees and they are pulling them out 30 at a time. Entire families found drowned in their homes and washing up on shore.
The stories he could tell me were brief. National Guard is on the scene and arresting anyone seen on the streets.
The numbers are staggering and what I have been told tonight will shake people to their foundation as the numbers will be coming out in the next 24-hours of just how many people have actually perished in these and 3 other beach communities.
More to follow....
I suggest Dashing Dasher or Motormouth...
best regards
Nothing personal, but I am now ignoring you.
rw he says the national guard has moved into a lot of the sections already...and they were just trying to get out of there before the camps and refugees came flooding in...as far as the media...he said he saw them coming out of the area, so it sounds like in a lot of the spots they had been working in, and please keep that fact in mind...where they were working in...had not been to yet.
Actually, he expresses his rationale very well. Maybe he picked a lousy example to make his point. That sort of mistake happens all the time.
But EveningStar made a good point - if the posting is unreliable gossip, then it's better to not provide a link to it. A more direct route to remove the post would be to contact Admin Mods here; and failing that, to pretend FR doesn't exist.
'It's a terrible shame that so many people have to perish in a natural disaster like this.There were a bunch of people that couldn't leave New Orleans because of the traffic, wasn't there?'
I'm not sure about that but I did hear that somewhere between 20% and 30% of people in these areas live below the poverty level. I also remember hearing that about that same percentage didn't own cars. Apparently they have (had) a rather well organized public transportation system. I'm sure that many who owned a car could not afford the gas to go, had no place to go to and/or could not afford to pay for a place to stay. It appears these people were poor before the hurricane hit, now they are destitute and homeless. My heart and prayers are with them.
Cherthoff on NOW!
Right, a heavy duty pickup. Or a heavy van, small straight bed. Still, I've hauled a ton in an old subaru station wagon in a pinch. You can haul higher than rated in emergencies.
And what would have happened if MFH's friend had signed up here to post, not that he could have being in the position he was in? MFH relaying his friend's observations was the next best thing.
Honestly, are you also dismissing the many, many other FReepers who have relayed info on all of these threads, in particular the ones who have posted things like "I just talked to my parents/in-laws/friends in Slidell/Biloxi/wherever"?
What Hewitt doesn't get is having it come from MFH MAKES it plausible for those of us with some FR-milage.
The before and after high resolution shots of the area show extreme physical changes to the landscape. This wall of water meant business, and no one who came in contact with it in a regular frame structure had much chance of living.
Is there a link you can share with us so we can see the comparrisons?
Thanks
Yellow Roses
I will look to see if I can find the interview.
If the same posting had been made by someone that had only been on FR for a week, the mods would have pulled it in about .000000000000000001 nanoseconds.
However I share the uncomfortability with it being second-hand information rather than a direct eyewitness report.
Mark.
Here is a sister's report from her brother who was dispatched to Gulfport 2 days ago.Just an update. We finally heard from Steve. He's tired & hungry. He didn't get to eat yesterday and hadn't eaten as of 6:00 this evening. He said there's no time as there's just so much to do. They were going to stop & eat within the hour. There are no hotels for them there, they're sleeping on the sidewalk. He said that he had tagged 40 bodies today. He seemed to think that the media was holding back on the death toll big time. I truly hope they have some sort of counseling for these search & rescue guys after this is all over with.
Tomorrow's mission for them is to go from basement to attic in every standing home, business, shed, etc. and pull out bodies
5,212 posted on 08/31/2005 10:35:52 AM PDT by freebird5850 ("Tell the truth, there's less to remember!")
http://ianlivingston.com/weather/images/2005/highres_before_small.jpg
http://ianlivingston.com/weather/images/2005/highres_after_small.jpg
"They never did find him..." But, did they find the guy who was holding his beer?
Sadly, what your friend told you is no surprise, reason why I have limited my tv viewing, not easy for the mind to take in.
Prayers for all involved.
People were warned to get out of Dodge. I'm talking about the able bodied MEN who needed to be rescued because they stayed. It was embarrassing to see able bodied men being hoisted off of roof tops. I'm sorry. I do not feel sorry for them. I'll save my sympathy for those who are frail, elderly or who have an excuse to need rescuing.
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