Fatality reports & death toll thread

Just in ... CNN just reported that up to 30 are dead in a collapsed apartment building in Biloxi.
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Isn't that the same report mentioned earlier in this thread? Or is this ANOTHER 30 fatalities?

:( :( :(

I've got a sickening feeling about all this. I think we're only getting a taste of the Grim Reaper's wrath.

:cry:
 
CNN reporting officials estimate 1000-2000 dead in New Orleans from flooding!
 
CNN reporting officials estimate 1000-2000 dead in New Orleans from flooding!
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From what I've heard, this seems like a pretty reasonable estimate...we won't know for sure for days.
 
CNN reporting officials estimate 1000-2000 dead in New Orleans from flooding!
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You know, I have to say this...

This kind of nonsense these officials are spouting is really ticking me off. It may be true, it may not be. But I don't see the need in terrifying people more than they already are. Let's get HARD FACTS.

And I say this as a person who saw 2,800 people die at the World Trade Center with my own two eyes. People need to be more responsible when they put out info to the public. :roll: :x
 
Just to settle things down, and I hope everyone reads this. A lot of people who aren't members of this forum are coming here for information. They are worried about family member's lives and they are worried about their homes. Please try to be considerate and stick to the facts.
 
Just to settle things down, and I hope everyone reads this. A lot of people who aren't members of this forum are coming here for information. They are worried about family member's lives and they are worried about their homes. Please try to be considerate and stick to the facts.
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What Bill said.

We need to be responsible when relaying information. Never assume that reporters or officials are being responsible. Don't be too quick to repost what some reporter/anchor/official said. Think about it first.

The last thing we need here is sensationalism. It doesn't help anyone, and only causes anguish and terror.
 
Part of it may be to scare people from coming back to NO.... it could help save some lives by overestimating the causulties.

Aaron
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Well, if that's the psychology these folks are using, then they are idiots of the highest degree. I could use more colorful language, but I'd be banned from this board. That's how angry I am about this.

That kind of psychology is TOTALLY inexcusable. People have lost loved ones, homes-basically, everything they've had. There's NO reason for making them more terrified than they are. There are better ways of telling folks to stay away. :roll:

I just got back from the doctor's office with my mom, and I was watching CNN. The death toll has risen to 80. :(
 
That CNN interview just now was extremely disturbing. It will be a few days yet before we have an idea of the true death toll from this storm, but regardless of the number it is clearly a catastrophe. I don't see how people can think it was "over-hyped" when, as horrific as it is, it would have been an order of magnitude worse if not for a mere 15 mile, last minute deviation.

The water is still slowly rising, and people are still trapped in their attics.
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I can't imagine why some people even went as far as to criticze the NWS and even the NHC just 6 hours after landfall because it wasn't apparently clear that NO had been destroyed. Just because Katrina weakend a little bit didn't change anything and it is now clear most of what the strong wording in the KLIX message was right. Now we haven't even heard from the areas that would have been in the worse winds I.E. Plaquemines, Christian Pass and Waveland with 110kts-100 kts covering the whole eastern/NE side of the Eyewall.
 
I fear we're looking at a death toll from LA to AL in the hundreds. Officials fear hundreds are dead in Biloxi, MS. I fear we're going to find dozens, if not hundreds of dead in NO too. If the water continues to rise, the toll may rise.
 
I think the hundreds dead in Biloxi is only the tip of the iceberg. I doubt they have gotten out to perform even 1/3 of the searches yet.

The sad, likely reality is that the final death toll will be up into the thousands. Not only will the flooding issues be the immediate danger, but look at water contamination, heat exhaustion/stroke, heart attack, waterborne disease. I will keep those folks in my thoughts and prayers.
 
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