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lindisfarne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-16-05 03:08 PM
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NO: Times-Picayune death toll (not sure where they get their number from)
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09_16.html#080196

The Times-Picayune has a bunch of stats at the webpage above, including a death toll. But I don't know where they're getting the numbers from (thus reliability is in question!)

DEATH TOLL
558
t 444 bodies at the metrowide morgue at St. Gabriel
t 53 bodies in East Baton Rouge Parish
t 27 bodies in Jefferson Parish
t 14 bodies in Terrebonne Parish
t 6 bodies in St. Tammany Parish
t 6 bodies in Iberia Parish
t 3 bodies in St. Charles Parish
t 3 bodies in Plaquemines Parish
t 2 bodies in Assumption Parish
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-16-05 03:09 PM
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1. Not to worry, the Funeralgate folks are on top of this.
They will manipulate the figures.
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-16-05 03:10 PM
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2. I have to wonder about the 3 in Plaq...the whole area was pretty much
wiped out. Can it have been properly searched & investigated yet?
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Freddie Stubbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-16-05 03:14 PM
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4. These are obviously not final numbers
As more bodies are found, the numbers will be adjusted.
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-16-05 03:51 PM
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11. Yes, that's why I was pondering over how much recovery has been done
down there. I can't remember any specific news reports from way down in the delta.
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-16-05 03:14 PM
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5. It's more likely that they haven't retrieved the bodies yet
They don't count until they are picked up and processed.
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tulsakatz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-16-05 03:19 PM
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6. I saw an article yesterday..........
........that said they have only searched about 20% of New Orleans so far. So they will probably find many more bodies......
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tx_dem41 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-16-05 03:21 PM
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9. I don't believe it has because much of it is still underwater. n/t
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geomon666 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-16-05 03:14 PM
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3. The don't list St. Bernard
Plus, they just started this week. Further, thousands are missing and probably most won't ever be found.
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tx_dem41 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-16-05 03:20 PM
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8. I'm also certain that the St. Bernard Parish numbers are included...
in the metrowide morgue numbers. I saw that earlier this week.
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tx_dem41 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-16-05 03:22 PM
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10. Also, almost all will be found (short of Plaquemines Parish)...
this is not the type of flooding where anyone was swept out to sea. The flooding was in a contained urban bowl.
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geomon666 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-16-05 08:31 PM
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15. Who said anything about being swept out to sea?
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Bernardo de La Paz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-16-05 03:19 PM
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7. 2000 Children still missing. Anything left of Republican Family Values?
No Child Left Behind except in New Orleans
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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-16-05 03:53 PM
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12. yes it's going v. slowly
it makes you think they must be billing by the hr
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-16-05 03:54 PM
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13. hmmm why is it that I am not buying it?
and will ask... what are they hiding? (bodies, but hey)
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-16-05 03:55 PM
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14. and with the 1500 more they found today
the official toll increases to 563
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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-16-05 09:01 PM
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16. FEMA finally started a block by block search in ON. today, so the
death rate I've read totaled 800 today, not including the block by block searches and all the bodies floating in the waters aren't all picked up.
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