Is there a media blackout in Galveston?!?

[Xenotime]

I heard on the radio of bodies in the streets but the nobody is allowed to report it. The RW host was playing it off like the person was an asshole.

This already has the making of another Katrina.

[Common Sense Party]

1. Would the mayor of the town allow citizens back during daylight

if there were bodies in the streets?

I kinda doubt it. Unless those parts of town are roped off.

[MichaelHarris]

2. Yes

the mayor ordered a clamp-down on the media, http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=f7ca46e6d82f0709

[liberalmuse]

3. Since the start.

And the rumors are getting pretty awful, of bodies in trees and in ditches. This is bullshit. There'd better not be any bodies just lying there.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. Sounds like a pretty goofy conspiracy theory to me.

:shrug:

[DemoTex]

5. Spinning my ham radio dial (HF): nothing.

AMATEUR HIGH-FREQUENCY EMERGENCY HURRICANE NETS
01984.0 LSB Virgin Islands (VI, Puerto Rico, Lesser Antilles)
03710.0 LSB Puerto Rico
03808.0 LSB Caribbean Wx (1030)
03815.0 LSB Antigua/Antilles Emergency and Weather
03815.0 LSB Interisland (continuous watch)
03818.0 LSB Antigua/Antilles
03845.0 LSB Gulf Coast West Hurricane
03862.5 LSB Mississippi Section Traffic
03865.0 LSB West Virginia Emergency
03872.5 LSB Mercury Amateur Radio Assoc (MARA) ad hoc hurricane info
net
03873.0 LSB West Gulf ARES Emergency (night)
03873.0 LSB Central Gulf Coast Hurricane
03873.0 LSB Louisiana ARES Emergency (night)
03873.0 LSB Mississippi ARES Emergency
03905.0 LSB Pacific ARES (Hawaii)
03905.0 LSB Delaware Emergency
03907.0 LSB Carolina Coast Emergency
03910.0 LSB Central Texas Emergency
03910.0 LSB Mississippi ARES
03910.0 LSB Louisiana Traffic
03910.0 LSB Virginia Emergency, Alpha (ARES/RACES)
03913.0 LSB New York State Emergency
03915.0 LSB South Carolina SSB NTS
03915.0 LSB Massachusetts/Rhode Island Emergency
03917.0 LSB Eastern Pennsylvania Emergency
03920.0 LSB Maryland Emergency
03923.0 LSB Mississippi ARES
03923.0 LSB North Carolina ARES Emergency (Tarheel)
03925.0 LSB Central Gulf Coast Hurricane
03925.0 LSB New York State Emergency
03925.0 LSB Louisiana Emergency (altn)
03925.0 LSB Southwest Traffic (altn)
03927.0 LSB North Carolina ARES (health & welfare)
03935.0 LSB Belize
03935.0 LSB Central Gulf Coast Hurricane
03935.0 LSB Louisiana ARES (health & welfare)
03935.0 LSB Texas ARES (health & welfare)
03935.0 LSB Mississippi ARES (health & welfare)
03935.0 LSB Alabama Emergency
03937.0 LSB Western Massachusetts ARES
03940.0 LSB Southern Florida Emergency
03943.0 LSB New Hampshire ARES Emergency (night)
03944.0 LSB West Gulf Emergency
03947.0 LSB Virginia Emergency, Bravo (health & welfare)
03950.0 LSB Hurricane Watch (Amateur-to-National Hurricane Center)
(altn)
03950.0 LSB Northern Florida Emergency
03955.0 LSB South Texas Emergency
03960.0 LSB North East Coast Hurricane
03965.0 LSB Alabama Emergency (altn)
03965.0 LSB Connecticut Emergency
03967.0 LSB Gulf Coast (outgoing traffic)
03970.0 LSB New Jersey ARES
03975.0 LSB Georgia ARES
03975.0 LSB Texas RACES (altn)
03980.0 LSB Southeast Virginia ARES
03987.5 LSB Arkansas ARES Emergency (night)
03987.5 LSB Mexican National
03990.5 LSB New Jersey RACES
03993.5 LSB New York State RACES
03993.5 LSB Gulf Coast (health & welfare)
03993.5 LSB Kentucky ARES/RACES
03993.5 LSB South Carolina ARES/RACES Emergency
03995.0 LSB Gulf Coast Wx
03995.0 LSB Western New York State Coordination
07055.0 LSB El Grupo Seguimiento de Huracanes (Spanish)
07060.0 LSB Mexican (emergency and health & welfare) (Spanish)
07070.0 LSB Manana (Baja California)
07090.0 LSB Central America Emergency
07110.0 LSB Cuba Emergency (day)
07145.0 LSB Bermuda
07165.0 LSB Antigua/Antilles Emergency and Weather
07165.0 LSB Interisland 40-meter (continuous watch)
07225.0 LSB Central Gulf Coast Hurricane
07228.0 LSB Kentucky ARES/RACES
07230.0 LSB New York State Emergency
07230.0 LSB Southwest Traffic
07232.0 LSB North Carolina ARES Emergency (Tarheel) (altn)
07235.0 LSB Louisiana Emergency
07235.0 LSB Baja California
07235.0 LSB Central Gulf Coast Hurricane
07235.0 LSB West Virginia
07235.0 LSB Louisiana Emergency
07240.0 LSB American Red Cross US Gulf Coast Disaster
07240.0 LSB Texas Emergency
07240.0 LSB Virginia Emergency, Bravo (health & welfare) (altn)
07242.0 LSB Southern Florida ARES Emergency (altn)
07243.0 LSB Alabama Emergency
07243.0 LSB South Carolina Emergency
07245.0 LSB Southern Louisiana
07245.0 LSB New York State RACES
07247.5 LSB Northern Florida ARES Emergency (altn)
07248.0 LSB Texas RACES (pri)
07250.0 LSB Belize
07250.0 LSB Texas Emergency
07254.0 LSB Northern Florida Emergency
07260.0 LSB Arkansas ARES Emergency (day)
07260.0 LSB Gulf Coast West Hurricane
07260.0 LSB Virginia Emergency, Alpha (ARES/RACES) (altn)
07264.0 LSB Gulf Coast (health & welfare)
07265.0 LSB Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio (SATERN) (altn)
07268.0 LSB Bermuda
07268.0 LSB Waterway
07273.0 LSB New Hampshire ARES Emergency (day)
07273.0 LSB Texas ARES (altn)
07275.0 LSB Georgia ARES
07280.0 LSB NTS Region 5
07280.0 LSB Louisiana Emergency (altn)
07283.0 LSB Gulf Coast (outgoing only)
07285.0 LSB West Gulf ARES Emergency (day)
07285.0 LSB Louisiana ARES Emergency (day)
07285.0 LSB Mississippi ARES Emergency
07285.0 LSB Texas ARES Emergency (day)
07290.0 LSB Central Gulf Coast Hurricane
07290.0 LSB Gulf Coast Wx
07290.0 LSB Texas ARES (health & welfare)
07290.0 LSB Louisiana ARES (health & welfare) (day)
07290.0 LSB Texas ARES (health & welfare)
07290.0 LSB Mississippi ARES (health & welfare)
07290.0 LSB Hawaii Emergency
07290.0 LSB Traffic
14185.0 USB Caribbean Emergency
14200.0 USB (Please advise)
14215.0 USB Pacific Interisland
14222.0 USB Health & Welfare
14245.0 USB Health & Welfare
14265.0 USB Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio (SATERN) (health &
welfare)
14268.0 USB Amateur Radio Readiness Group
14275.0 USB Bermuda
14275.0 USB International Amateur Radio
14283.0 USB Caribus (health & welfare)
14300.0 USB Intercontinental Traffic
14300.0 USB Maritime Mobile Service
14303.0 USB International Assistance & Traffic
14313.0 USB Intercontinental Traffic (altn)
14313.0 USB Maritime Mobile Service (altn)
14316.0 USB Health & Welfare
14320.0 USB Health & Welfare
14325.0 USB Hurricane Watch (Amateur-to-National Hurricane Center)
14340.0 USB Louisiana (1900)
14340.0 USB Manana (1900)
14340.0 USB California-Hawaii
21310.0 USB Health & Welfare (Spanish)
21390.0 USB Inter-Americas (health & welfare)
21400.0 USB Transatlantic Maritime
28410.0 USB New Jersey ARES
28450.0 USB Health & Welfare (Spanish)

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Rec/rec.radio.amateur.policy/2008-09/msg00381.html

[cobalt1999]

6. Take off the tin foil hat and think for a minute.

The residents have already been allowed to look & leave. Are they censoring ALL residents?

The media has been there and even if the local government wanted to, they couldn't stop the media from cashing in on such a story. Remember to the media, sex & death means ratings and money.

Hundreds of emergency management personnel are also on the ground, are ALL first responders being censored by the local government?

Really, it's a stupid internet conspiracy theory. There are not "900 floating bodies" in the bay, never was.

[Th1onein]

7. They want the island EMPTIED, according to Yarbrough.

They are looking into pursuing legal actions against homeowners who sat out the storm, but still do not want to leave. They say it is a health hazard to stay there because there's no running water and no electricity.

I think they are full of shit, and I believe they are trying to move out the poor--another Katrina move.