Astonishing Exclusive From Mississippi [hundreds if not thousands dead]

Paramedic Rescue Operation | 8-31-05 | My Favorite Headache

[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....

[olde north church]

Government Believers, you are.

[B4Ranch]

>>A complete mandatory evacuation would have accomplished two tasks:

1) no looters; and

2) people not feeling the need to stay in their homes to protect against looters.<<

Martial law was not declared until after the storm went thru. That prevents "A complete mandatory evacuation".

[JennysCool]

ABC News White House Embellisher. But you knew that. :-)

[papertyger]

We are all independent people who think for ourselves and the more questions we ask the better informed we are. Koolaid drinkers--we are not.

Admirably put. Nevertheless, under the circumstances, twelve hours isn't nearly as long a time in a disaster area as it is in front of a computer.

Keeping quiet about high death tolls would be prudent at this point if for no other reason than avoiding outsiders looking for more information.

[Gone GF]

"Tass and Pravda in the USSR also blocked bad news. Sovietization of America is ongoing, and control of the news is part of it."

I love it -- if the media doesn't report the news bad enough, they've become Tass and Pravda. But if they were reporting thousands dead, others on FR would accuse them of hyping the story for ratings. Let's see, maybe if they reported a few hundred dead?. Then they wouldn't be Pravda or hyping it.

Unless you've done it before (I have, although not in something this large), you don't have the slightest idea what it's like trying to get good info in a disaster.

[txradioguy]

Go back and read my original post.

I impugned no one.

Return to your hand wringing and leave me alone.

If you are going to lie and misrepresent my original post on this thread then I have no use for you and your alleged broadcast "experience".

[danneskjold]

why are such an ass?

[thecabal]

Before I go to work, the last think I'll say is that this New Media Good - MSM Evil bleat is not really brilliant. When it had a technological monopoly, the MSM veered toward lazyness and bias, but there were always great traditional reporters. And the new media, including a poster on FR, is just as capable of mistakes and irresponsibility as the worst of the MSM.

So we have to take each report and reporter on its own merits, and IMHO, this report has no merit. But the proof, one way or another, will emerge within the next week,

Thank you for a reasoned, thoughtful post of disagreement. I don't necessarly have the same point of view in this case, but I very much respect a well thought out argument that doesn't resort to mudslinging. You are right that we have to avoid lumping all media into "bloggers good, MSM bad" categories. And I'm all for using individual discernment on news sources.

[George W. Bush]

GWB: "What do you mean? This thread is about thousands of people hanging dead in trees everywhere being recovered in batches of thirty."

You apparently can't read.

Once again, the actual report: "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."

You can pretend it says other things if you want but I'll stick with the actual text.

Hmmm... I wonder why we haven't had any follow-ups from our original poster anyway?

[txradioguy]

Why are you so gulliable?

[danneskjold]

never mind...I don't want to know why you are such an ass...

[txradioguy]

That's ok it's easily appearent why you're so gulliable.

[redgolum]

Dear Lord,

Christ have mercy,
Lord have mercy.

[flying Elvis]

Do any Freepers from Texas to Alabama have a spare generator they would sell or rent to my family? None of the Sears from Fort Worth to Jackson have any. I weathered the storm just south of Jackson and am in Fort Worth now. My brother in law will be out here in a few hours looking for a generator. My father in law has no power or water and needs a generator. Freepmail me at this name if you can help.

[Sender]

And I'm afraid the dying in New Orleans has only just begun.

I am reminded of the National Weather Service bulletin from the morning before the storm, which stated that "human suffering will be beyond comprehension" or something like that. Many scoffed at such language. It may yet prove accurate.

[B4Ranch]

"We're being given time to mentally prepare for what is to come."

This is something we had when the words CAT 5 were spoken, now we should be getting the latest actual news!

[danneskjold]

Why are you so gulliable?

I don't know...I guess when I hear the info directly from the hospital administrators, I tend to believe it...

Whatever...sorry to have offended you...

[jwpjr]

Thank you for a calm and succinct response to the original posting and to some of the vitriol that has followed that posting.

I find it difficult to believe that there are that many dead bodies in full view and none of them have been visible on all the footage that is coming from that area.

I know lots of paramedics, in fact was once Chief of Paramedics for one of the earliest and largest systems in the country. This is not the type message I would expect from a paramedic.

I am bothered by a lot of the live reporting coming from the people on the ground in the area. They talk of streets being impassable, but there is a steady stream of cars on the highway behind them. When they have their camera person pan the area you see other stand up reports being done showing the same area of destruction. When they talk about roof top rescues they seem to be showing the same footage over and over.

Like you, I am not casting dispersions on the people or the coverage. But much of the coverage I've seen so far is questionable.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

As callous as it may sound, the MSM will have a VERY hard time with a high death count because it would take attention away from the Iraq death count.

You are saying what I was thinking. That will make Nightline and This Week intoning the recently killed sound pretty silly.

Too bad it takes a tragedy to knock Silly Sheehan off the air.

[edcoil]

Of these 1,000 of bodies, how many came up from grave sites distupted?