Ike causes caskets to float - Orange Texas

[Saphire]

Orange TX, Beaumont TX, Bridge City TX, Port Acres TX, Port Arthur TX, Sabine Pass TX.....where are the damage reports from these areas????? I understand they got the worst of things.



http://www.panews.com/homepage/local_story_258184724.html

[readmoreoften]

1. Good luck on that.

What? You're sick of seeing the same 140 pictures--80 of which were taken the evening before Ike actually hit. It's a blackout. Go to the forums on KHOU.com and read what locals are figuring out--putting together. That's what I've been doing. And I'm in Austin.

[Theres-a]

3. Spooky

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Most-Emailed-Photos/ss/1756/im:/080914/480/6c3d4a3e925249f682c30f0b2198677e

[iamthebandfanman]

6. wtf is up with photo 6

did you notice that?

[Theres-a]

8. whoa

Now I see it. Wtf,indeed.

[DemoTex]

2. "Sorrow floats."

John Irving

[carlyhippy]

4. that's too bad

how in the world are they going to figure out who goes where after the water recedes and they have to put these boxes back in the ground....above ground tombs like in the other near sea-level city cemetaries would have prevented this.

[Vickers]

7. When my dad was buried, they enclosed all his info in a little tube

that was then screwed into the casket...it looks just like one of the other screws.

This was in 2000, don't know how long they have been doing it, though.

[NoPasaran]

5. Here's a story about Bridge City

BRIDGE CITY — A wet, heavy stillness hung Sunday over Bridge City, a small bayou town in the southeast corner of Texas that is now in the bleary-eyed time between Hurricane Ike's landfall and the post-storm recovery.

Homes that had been almost completely underwater began to emerge as the waters receded. Search crews in trucks and small boats combed through neighborhoods strewn with tree limbs and the occasional small fish, rescuing a few dozen stragglers who weren't picked up Saturday. Searches had not begun for those who might have died.

A police blockade turned away returning residents at the main bridge into town, which spans Cow Bayou, a waterway that at one point swallowed much of the bridge and many of the homes on its banks.

City fire officials still weren't sure how many of the town's approximately 8,000 residents got over the bridge before the storm hit and guessed a good number still have not been evacuated.

more: http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/09/15/0915ikebridgecity.html

[XemaSab]

9. 20,000 bodies floating in the water?

They're all people who were already dead! :think: