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Astonishing Exclusive From Mississippi [hundreds if not thousands dead]
Paramedic Rescue Operation
| 8-31-05
| My Favorite Headache
Posted on 08/30/2005 10:10:45 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
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To: My Favorite Headache
I am very sorry to hear this. This is truly a massive human tragedy. Even those who got out are going to have their lives disrupted for years due to this hurricane.
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posted on
08/30/2005 10:17:18 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
To: My Favorite Headache
......and not one single peep from the media. How remote is this area where the bodies are being found?
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posted on
08/30/2005 10:17:20 PM PDT
by
Danette
("If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.")
To: Reagan Man
This is just in Miss and just in the region he is in...Gulf Port and surrounding areas...NOT including the Louisiana numbers....I am back in touch via cell...pulling more info...
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posted on
08/30/2005 10:17:51 PM PDT
by
My Favorite Headache
("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
To: My Favorite Headache
When I saw the helicopter video of the Biloxi area and all the destruction then heard that only 100 or so were dead, I assumed that most people left before landfall. I hope what your friend saw was isolated to his area and not widespread...
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posted on
08/30/2005 10:18:10 PM PDT
by
mikegi
To: My Favorite Headache
I'm saddened to hear this news, I remember early on in the storm the NWS (or some agency) had issued a statement that estimates of 40,000 to 50,000 dead could be a reality. Many poo-pooed that number as too high. I fear this may have come true...
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posted on
08/30/2005 10:18:14 PM PDT
by
seeker41
To: My Favorite Headache
May God be with them and their families.
Nam Vet
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posted on
08/30/2005 10:18:16 PM PDT
by
Nam Vet
(There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.)
To: My Favorite Headache; NautiNurse; Howlin
OMG... prayers for the dead and their families.
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posted on
08/30/2005 10:18:21 PM PDT
by
nutmeg
("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
To: My Favorite Headache
......and not one single peep from the media. How remote is this area where the bodies are being found?
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posted on
08/30/2005 10:18:28 PM PDT
by
Danette
("If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.")
To: My Favorite Headache
BTW, I hope that you and others can help your friend cope with what he'll be seeing over the upcoming days and weeks. It's got to be pretty tough dealing with that.
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posted on
08/30/2005 10:18:33 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
To: My Favorite Headache
How quickly we can be reminded of how much we take for granted.
To: Americanwolf
They said gulfport and biloxi were not at all expect something of this magnitude and the sudden turn just before landfall caught many off guard.
Sudden turn? It was a microscopic wobble. The storm ended up taking a track within a few miles of the NHC forecast tracks from 60 hours previous to landfall.
And the wobble was irrelevant as the storm surge extended for many miles east of this area. This area would have receieved the same surge without the wobble.
The entire area was under a hurricane watch and warning for an extended period of time. There was no reason for anyone to be caught off guard.
To: Danette
It's too late at night for a major news break; come morning, the news media will be all over this.
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posted on
08/30/2005 10:19:46 PM PDT
by
Ultra Sonic 007
(We DARE Defend Our Rights (Alabama State Motto))
To: My Favorite Headache
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posted on
08/30/2005 10:19:53 PM PDT
by
Gabz
(USSG Warning: portable sewing machines are known to cause broken ankles)
To: Danette
He spoke to me for all of 5-10 mins...named off the areas...said it is literally a war zone...like a bomb went off and killed everything in sight...the water came in nearly 2 miles....just took everything in its site.
Winds sustained at 145 at the time it all went to hell per-medic.Everything turned white.
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posted on
08/30/2005 10:19:54 PM PDT
by
My Favorite Headache
("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
To: My Favorite Headache
I think the numbered dead if accurate would be the highest death toll from a hurricane since the 1928 hurricane that hit Okeechobee in Florida. I am not sure of how many died in the Labor Day hurricane of 1935 but it may be close to that. The other very deadly storm was the 1902 ( I may be wrong on the date) Galveston storm.
The high death tolls are usually a result of flooding.
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posted on
08/30/2005 10:20:05 PM PDT
by
lastchance
(Hug your babies.)
To: mikegi
MSNBC quoted the state of Mississippi as saying they estimated only 1/3rd of the permanent residents of Biloxi evacuated before the storm.
To: My Favorite Headache
WOW, it looks like the Tsumami disaster. How terrible.
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posted on
08/30/2005 10:20:29 PM PDT
by
blasater1960
( Ishmaelites...Still a wild-ass of a people....)
To: Danette
"......and not one single peep from the media. How remote is this area where the bodies are being found?" What, and abandon that Mutha' Sheehan?
To: My Favorite Headache
I've never wanted to hear any information to be so wrong as this....but when that Mayor said this is America's tsunami...I guess he knew very well what he was talking about....
This is just getting worst by the minute...
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posted on
08/30/2005 10:20:51 PM PDT
by
Ronzo
To: My Favorite Headache
Oh, my God, how horrific. Much of the time we focused on NOLA only to find this utter loss of life a short distance away. Prayers on the way. How devastating.
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