Mortitians told to expect 40,000 bodies

[TexanDem]

I've been thinking 10,000 probably going to be on the low side. I haven't heard this number in predictions in MSM yet. Amazing that the National Geographic article of 10/04 predicted 50,000 dead.

Geez!!


Funeral director deploys to hurricane region
Tuesday, September 6, 2005
By Clint Confehr


Funeral director deploys to hurricane region

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.

His partner, Dan Hicks, of Paducah, Ky., was deployed Monday. Buckner, of Dickson, is on standby. Their funeral home is one of several collection sites for donations to be taken to the Red Cross in Fayetteville on Wednesday for transfer to places in need.

The 40,000 estimate does "not include the number of disinterred remains that have been displaced from ... mausoleums," Buckner told the Times-Gazette Monday.
http://www.t-g.com/

[Kurovski]

1. Oh my god.

Just when I thought I'd taken it all in...

This is going to take a long time.

Edit: to nominate. We may as well start getting out the news the media is resisting. Oh my God.

How many died in the Galveston storm? Or the storm on the east coast in the--1930's was it?

[Kurovski]

2. 1900 Galveston storm estimated between 6,000 to 12,000 dead.

[Zynx]

4. The reason there's such a big range is so many left and never came back

to the island and they never located those people so there are presumptions as high as 12,000. Best I can figure is that the number for the Galveston storm is probably 9,000-10,000

[Kurovski]

3. *Kick*

[tabasco]

5. So NOW they act with a sense of urgency to prepare.

In the body collection phase. Too bad the neocons are too insipid and greedy to prepare during the LEVEE reinforcement phase.

The safety of the American People is not a priority for the corporate cabal. Corporate profits are job #1 for these criminals and they must be punished for their crimes.

[Is It Fascism Yet]

6. kick and recommended. N/T

[Silverhair]

7. I wonder if they could be using the Nat'l Geo article as their

source for the estimate? That would not surprise me. Nat'l Geo is probably in the right range.

[Kurovski]

8. Media still reporting # of dead "may be as high as 10,000"

Will they always say that no matter what?

Reporters might do better to get their info from those handling the bodies of the deceased.

[Kurovski]

9. *kick*

This appears to be a reliable source.

[TexanDem]

10. Feds will likely cover up the real body count

[Nothing Without Hope]

18. No doubt about it. They are blocking reporters from observing and

doing everything they can to seal off New Orleans, even though it has resulted in more deaths. CYA trumps saving lives with these monsters, which is no suprise. I actually do think they view the poor, especially dark-skinned poor, as vermin which ought to be cleared off valuable land anyway. Then it can be profitably redeveloped with lots more oil refineries, shipping infrastructure, and resorts for the idle rich.

[Kurovski]

11. *Kick*

[AuntiBush]

12. Every day since * robbed the highest land in our country

I thought, it can't get any worse. And here we are, at a pivotal moment. And now it's not daily, it's by the minute.

Sad. Sad, sad, disgustingly sad.

[bvar22]

13. New Bumper Sticker

George Bush* has now killed
5 times as many Americans
as Osama and Al Qaeda!

The Democratic Party is a BIG TENT, but there is NO ROOM for those who advance the agenda of THE RICH (Corporate Owners) at the EXPENSE of LABOR and the POOR.

[K8-EEE]

14. This Isn't Iraq, People Will Be LOOKING FOR The Missing

They can try and lowball it but the truth will come out.

[leftofthedial]

15. by the time the bushturdgang are done counting

it will be 1,275

I'd be surprised if it is as low as 40,000.

what an unspeakable tragedy.

And all the families are scattered everywhere, so they can't interfere with the "official" count.

[BrightKnight]

16. FEMA has 25k body bags in New Orleans.

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/katrina/stories/wfaa050907_mo_holdouts.36225273.html

[Nothing Without Hope]

19. Actually, the article says 25,000 in LOUISIANA, the whole state. n/t

(snip)

Across miles of ravaged neighborhoods of clapboard houses, grand estates and housing projects, workers struggled to find and count corpses sniffed out by cadaver dogs in the 90-degree heat. The mayor has said New Orleans' death toll could reach 10,000. Already, a temporary warehouse morgue in rural St. Gabriel that had been prepared to take 1,000 bodies was being readied to handle 5,000.

Bob Johannessen, spokesman for the state Department of Health and Hospitals, said the Federal Emergency Management Agency has 25,000 body bags on hand in Louisiana.

Asked if authorities expected as many as 25,000 bodies, he said: "We don't know what to expect."

(snip)

[Nothing Without Hope]

17. Here is the PERMALINK of the story. It's already off the home page of

the paper, which is the link in the OP.

http://www.t-g.com/story/1116806.html

[suegeo]

20. So what court of law will hear the case?

An international court? Maybe there is a court house in Nuremberg?

[intheflow]

21. I've been saying 50,000 since the beginning.

If the administration had had its act together and responded in a timely manner, I'll bet 10,000 more could have been saved.

:grr: :cry:

[stevietheman]

22. GENOCIDE! (we need to create a database of the Katrina missing/dead)

If we don't document the genocide by the names and numbers, Bush will have a greater chance of escaping this unscathed.

[Kurovski]

23. We should also keep in mind that there may be massive

overpayments to these companies, and that MAY be why they were told this figure. I wonder if they already have a contract for that number?