--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- 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.
I think this may be from all over the area, not just New Orleans. ------------------------ 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/
