WWL-TV: Still 1,000 911 phone calls a day from people trapped

[gp]

in their attic, cellphone calls difficult to pinpoint

announced at 8pm NOPD press conference

http://www.wwltv.com

[SmokingJacket]

1. Damn, and that's just the people with working phones!!!!!

And who are well enough to use them .... :cry:

[wellstone_democrat]

2. 500 florida air boats....

get them in, use the coast guard and every boat on the Mississippi and knock on every roof in every neighborhood. Imagine how many phones are dead by now if 1000 are still calling.

my god. the inhumanity of it.

[H5N1]

3. Pinpoint the calls? Don't the callers know where they live?

[Zynx]

5. They might well not be in their own homes.

We've been seeing footage of dozens of people on top of single buildings.

[gp]

8. by now, most of the callers are probably too frail to talk

in a discerning manner.

[Zynx]

4. I'm almost surprised that many people are still alive in those conditions

Scares me what a backwards working ratio implies in terms of casualties there.

[alittlelark]

6. The link did not have the story (I missed it?)

[meisje]

7. Cell phones can be used as a GPS device - aren't the towers down???

[Emit]

9. Here's a place reporting similar details

http://www.nola.com/weblogs/nola/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_nolaview/archives/2005_09.html#076569

People still in need of rescue and accounts of their experiences. Devastating...