Reply #11: Yet we KNOW that Gulfport is gone. GONE. [View All]

[aquart]

So was it 100% evacuated?

The way bodies end up in trees...they get washed out of destroyed houses and caught in branches of trees that are still standing. Sometimes they aren't even dead yet. But no one was able to get to them in time.

We DO know that some people WERE rescued after clinging to a tree for hours. During the tsunami, a number of survivors told similar stories.

So bodies in trees after an intense, high storm surge? Believable.

I wonder if Bush will stop saying 9/11 every two minutes now? Although 8/29 doesn't really have the same resonance.

The night of the tsunami, I remember going to sleep after seeing the initial CNN crawl speaking of maybe a few hundred dead. When I woke up, I asked about the body count and nobody knew what I was talking about. It was hours before numbers started coming out and even then they were unrealistically low.

I've been waiting for someone to get real about the death toll for Katrina.

It would help to remember that freepers are as vicious about phony info from members as we are. We may differ about the definition of "phony."