Fatality reports & death toll thread

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
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As someone in Pensacola, FL who stayed for Hurricane Ivan and didn't believe initial reports from our local officials, I say, I don't care what you saw at the WTC, if you haven't been through a devastating hurricane like this, you have no business to criticize folks down here. Devastation is devastation regardless of the cause.

There is damage from Ft Walton Beach, FL (that's well over two hundred miles from NO) all the way to Louisiana. Waters are still rising in NO. Cities in MS have been decimated. It is as bad, and probably much worse, than anyone can even imagine.

Angela in P'cola
 
A brief scroll on fox news said over 80 deaths now in Mississippi. Have no clue where they're getting it from but I haven't seen it again recently.

...Alex Lamers...
 
Have heard from several different sources on different channels that there are bodies floating around in the water, no doubt none of these have been counted yet...
 
Angela,

While we do sympathize with everybody whose suffering along the Gulf coast, I think you are completely missing Saul's point. He's only saying that the officials and the Media that relays the information should not throw numbers out to the public that are not facts. I have to agree with him. State the facts and let the average person decide how they want to interpret it. Personally, I think the death toll will be horrific, but I do not think that officials should say it will be in the thousands without the facts, knowing that for sure.
 
My fiances grandmother lives in Pascagoula, MS. Actually, about 3.5 miles inland just south of I-10 and Moss Point, MS. The surge reached 10 miles inland or 6.5 miles north of her location. There had to be a 35-40 ft surge somewhere. Her house was submerged 3 miles inland by water. Every pine tree is down in the yard, not to mention a shrimp boat is sitting in the drive way. The water is contaminated by dead goats that a goat herder just left to evacuate. I will post more information as soon as I recieve it....
 
I was watching a reporter interview an official with the CDC and he started to speculate about what sort of illness outbreaks there might be and will it be necessary to quarantine people, etc.... I have to say that questions like that are irresponsible. At the very best, they use scare tactics like that so frequently that people become desensitized to them. At the very least, people will see that and become more frenzied for their survival, creating panic and even looting to increase (as people steal to "survive").
 
Her house was submerged 3 miles inland by water. Every pine tree is down in the yard, not to mention a shrimp boat is sitting in the drive way.
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Wow! That is almost word-for-word my story from Betsy in Gulfport, 1965!

It is just almost unimaginable that a shrimp boat the size of three houses can end up 3 miles inland until you see it for yourself.
 
Her house was submerged 3 miles inland by water. Every pine tree is down in the yard, not to mention a shrimp boat is sitting in the drive way.
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Wow! That is almost word-for-word my story from Betsy in Gulfport, 1965!

It is just almost unimaginable that a shrimp boat the size of three houses can end up 3 miles inland until you see it for yourself.
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I will be trying to get to the area to take some photos sometime within the coming weeks. The area is uninhabitable and will be for several months. She lived near a wildlife reserve in SE Jackson county, MS.
 
Harrison County, MS Emergency Operations Manager has reported over 100 confirmed deaths in the Biloxi/Gulfport area.

Angela in P'cola
 
Angela,

While we do sympathize with everybody whose suffering along the Gulf coast, I think you are completely missing Saul's point. He's only saying that the officials and the Media that relays the information should not throw numbers out to the public that are not facts. I have to agree with him. State the facts and let the average person decide how they want to interpret it. Personally, I think the death toll will be horrific, but I do not think that officials should say it will be in the thousands without the facts, knowing that for sure.
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Thank you.

I wish people payed closer attention to what they read. :roll:
 
And just a little added factoid...

I have family in Florida and Puerto Rico. So, I'm more than well aware of the kind of damage that happens in hurricanes.
 
We had good 'ole Tropical Cyclone Floyd that whacked New Jersey and New York with massive flooding a few years ago..... Some of the worst flooding ever occurred along the Raritan River in Bound Brook, NJ and also into the Catskills.
 
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