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....
Thank you!
Too many vehicles in the driveways for many to have evacuated, imho.
Aug 31, 3:04 AM EDT
Crews Pass Dead to Reach Storm Survivors
By BRETT MARTEL
Associated Press Writer
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Rescuers along the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast pushed aside the dead to reach the living Tuesday in a race against time and rising waters, while New Orleans sank deeper into crisis and Louisiana's governor ordered storm refugees out of this drowning city
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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said hundreds, if not thousands, of people may still be stuck on roofs and in attics, and so rescue boats were bypassing the dead.
"We're not even dealing with dead bodies," Nagin said. "They're just pushing them on the side."
http://ap.wwltv.com/dynamic/stories/H/HURRICANE_KATRINA?SITE=WWL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=USHEADS.html&CTIME=2005-08-29-18-59-09
Oh yeah, it takes a real prophet to vaguely predict a hurricane between August and January.
Tell you what, give me latitude and longitude of the next hurricane's landfall, then we can talk about so-called prophecy.
-ccm
what an amazing generalization. /sarc
There would have been 20K+/- people left.
God Almighty.
"By the end of the year [2005], your country (UNITED STATES) will be ravaged by unseen forces."
gasp!
Don't forget the reporters claimed 20 or 30 thousand would be dead in the World Trade Center attack on 9/11. That figure turned out to be way off.
Either they are ALL correct in every detail, or they are witchcraft and shamanism and self-delusion.
-ccm
I see this is the thread for the Hell Fire and Damnation Crew, huh?
where is some of the help back to us from many countries when they have been in need ????I am afraid they only put out their hands for help and are not helping hands to others
Governor Barbour said that after an aerial tour of the Mississippi coast.
It chills me but I fear the obsession over New Orleans by the national press may have contributed to any problems due to folks not evacuating.
Good link, thanks.
This from the same link: "Across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, more than 1 million residents remained without electricity, some without clean drinking water. An untold number who heeded evacuation orders were displaced and 40,000 were in Red Cross shelters, with officials saying it could be weeks, if not months, before most will be able to return."
Refrigeration trucks on their way in the next 12 hours to start a base for body i.d.'s,body bag orders way up. The odd thing is he said he has seen absolutely no media where they have been going into.
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My husband talked with a trucker who said a friend of his who drives a "refrigeration truck" had taken ice to a staging location and was being paid by FEMA to wait there for orders. The thought had not occurred to me that his truck could be used for that purpose after the ice is dispensed.
The scope of this thing is almost incomprehensible, if your friend is right. Morgues in the surrounding areas will be very busy. Those bodies will have to be identified, then the burials and cremations, and all that that involves, plus the demands of restoring some sort of order and normalcy for the living. Overwhelming. God be with us.
Scroll down the page.
Also, have you e-mailed this to Drudge?
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