Posted on 09/21/2005 7:12:49 AM PDT by HHKrepublican
Katrina death toll in Louisiana rises to 801, according to state officials, bringing overall storm death toll to 1,035. Details soon.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Hmmm...still just shy of the 10,000 toll the media kept barking about.
Were they gloating when they said this?
Ray Nagin can distribute the leftover 24,199 body bags to the looters. Each bag can hold a plasma television, a nine-millimeter automatic, and three pairs of Air Jordans.
Wow, that's a lot less than the dems were wishing for...
I dont think you will hear the death count on Katrina like you did in the beginning because it would not reflect badly on Bush.
I'm sure those details will be "forthcoming soon".
Leni
Ray Nagin can distribute the leftover 24,199 body bags to the looters. Each bag can hold a plasma television, a nine-millimeter automatic, and three pairs of Air Jordans.
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I am dying of laughter after reading that. heh.
801 deaths. We need an exit plan and withdrawal timetable for New Orleans. NOW!!
Sorry, I don't want to appear to be a racist. Let me amend the above comment:
Each bag can hold a set of golf clubs, a tennis racquet, and three pairs of Rockport Dock-Siders.
And, what about the Chicago heat wave of 1996, under x42? More than 1,000 died and he never visited.
I don't recall the MSM keeping a tally then.
Bias?/sarc
But something politicans both local and national will weather. I thought at 10,000 the effects on American politics would be tectonic.
"801 deaths. We need an exit plan and withdrawal timetable for New Orleans. NOW!!"
Like minds...
OMG, that's even better.
What's missing in the numbers graphics is that the overwhelming number of deaths occurred in Louisana. Mississippi, which was hit just as hard by Katrina has a very low death toll, as does Alabama and Florida. The death toll in Texas from hurricane Rita will be quite low also. Why? The states of Texas, Florida, Mississippi and Alabama all have Republican governors who are proactive and understand what they are doing.
Louisana voters should be ashamed of themselves for electing that incompetent Governor Blanco and bumbling Mayor Ray Nagin. The blood and deaths of many innocent and unknowing Louisiana citizens runs, dripping from their filthy Democrat hands!!! I wonder when the people of Louisiana are going to throw these useless pieces of humanity to the wolves, along with idiot Senator Mary Landrieu.
Then you should have shown due respect and referred to Nagin by his honorific. That's MAYOR Chicken George.
CNN has also quit the continuous missing childing report on the side of the screen now that if has been determined that less than 50 children are still missing. How dissappointing for them.
Wait, it was supposed to be 40,000...
Funeral director deploys to hurricane region
Tuesday, September 6, 2005
By Clint Confehr
A co-owner of Shelbyville-based Gowen-Smith Chapel has been deployed to Gulfport, Miss., to help with recovery since Hurricane Katrina, and his business partner here has described the grim task there.
"DMort is telling us to expect up to 40,000 bodies," Dan Buckner said, quoting officials with the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, a volunteer arm of Homeland Security.
http://www.t-g.com/story/1116806.html
Were they gloating when they said this?
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Of course. Bad news for America is GOOD news to the left. And the Clinton News Network is a big part of that.
I imigine they will find a 200 more bodies bringing the total toll to 1,500. I hate to sound insensitive, but like one poster mentioned, the Chicago heat wave of 96 was just as bad. Considering NO was underwater, I say the vast majority of stragglers who didn't or couldn't have left the city were spared. My prayers are with all the displaced families and those that lost family members. It seems that a lot of the deaths were elderly people that really didn't have a place to evacuate. That is what is truly sad about this. In the age of databases and computers, we know we can locate and go to these people's homes first to get them out when we have 24-48 hours advanced warning of a natural disaster such as hurricanes.
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