--- In [email protected], "Cliff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a Guardian article that points out the very real possibility that > many (if not all) the reports of murders, rapes and armed gangs were > created by rumor and a press craving disaster in alll its flavors. I also find > it interesting that even the Mayor is claiming 10,000 dead, but so far > only a few hundred bodies have been found. The articles on bodies all > say things like, "Just wait until all the waters recede - then the bodies > will show up." But bodies float for days after death. They don't sink. >
Most people were rescued from rooftops, not water. Many couldn't get onto the roof from their attics. My projection from early on has been 10,000 to 100,000 dead. I seem to be in the ballpark: http://www.t-g.com/story/1116806.html 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. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
