Teams removing 30 bodies found in nursing home

[paineinthearse]

Precurser of horrors to come?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/08/katrina.impact/index.html

Teams removing 30 bodies found in nursing home

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- In a grim indicator of what may lie ahead, authorities were removing the remains of more than 30 people from a flooded nursing home in a suburban New Orleans parish. The discovery at St. Rita's Nursing Home in lower St. Bernard Parish came as 25,000 body bags arrived at the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. Early Thursday, the official death toll along from Hurricane Katrina stood at 294, but that number is expected to rise dramatically.

Mortuary teams with refrigerated trucks began arriving Wednesday at the nursing home, where St. Bernard Parish Sheriff Jack Stevens said "30-plus" bodies were found. Between 40 and 50 other people were rescued from the facility, Stevens said. (See video on the gruesome discovery -- 2:02) The parish is east of New Orleans, where between 10,000 and 15,000 people are believed to remain in the flooded city, and thousands are feared dead.

Deputies reported that floodwaters had reached a height of eight feet in some parts of St. Bernard. The nursing home was still surrounded by about three feet of water on Wednesday, as authorities began removing bodies.

Throughout New Orleans and its surrounding parishes, National Guard troops were going house to house to search for survivors and recover the dead -- marking the houses they searched with an "X" to avoid duplication, said Brig. Gen. Michael Fleming, commander of a Florida unit dispatched to New Orleans. (See video of soldiers aiding recovery -- 3:16)

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[Skittles]

1. imagine the psychological damage that does

imagine being relatives of these old folk; gawd I just CAN'T STAND IT

[unrepuke]

2. 100 dead in a warehouse (?)

Sorry, I have no way to provide a link, but I've seen this one twice now on regular TV news; 100 people that were sent to a warehouse to await rescue all died waiting. Maybe a rumor? :shrug: I apologize if I'm spreading a B.S. story...

[LostinVA]

4. I've read that too.... I don't have a link, though n/t

[Megahurtz]

3. IMPEACH! NOW!!!

OMG this is so depressing.:cry:

[leftylady]

5. My Mother is 91 and in a Nursing Home

If this had happened to her I would be looking for revenge in a very big way. I just can't imagine all those helpless little old people just left to float.

I heard that the woman who made the decision not to leave made it before they knew the levee was going to go. Two hours later she tried to get help but the buses were gone. She died, too.

[PylesMalfunction]

6. Question

My boyfriend was listening to NPR this morning and the guy that headed up the body identification team for 9/11 was being interviewed. He said that 140 bodies were found in a nursing home. Normally, I would think he had made a mistake but I'm much more suspicious now. :(

[paineinthearse]

7. Is your question that the "body count" is being sanitized?

Played down? Ignored?

[PylesMalfunction]

8. Oops

I guess I really didn't ask my question, did I? :blush:

Did anyone else hear this interview?

[NYC]

9. Maybe it was a different nursing home,

but who can tell?