Louisiana's nameless dead remain in bureaucratic limbo

ZigSteenine

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Wed Oct-05-05 09:53 AM
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Louisiana's nameless dead remain in bureaucratic limbo

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Their age, sex, race and number are not evident, or how they died or where they were found. As for how they lived, it is difficult to find even a Web site paying tribute to individual victims. With 972 deaths confirmed and the search for bodies declared complete, Louisiana has released only 61 bodies and made the names of only 32 victims public.

In contrast, of the 221 dead in Mississippi, 196 have been identified, a state official said.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/10/05/MNG4NF2ODV1.DTL

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Lerkfish

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Wed Oct-05-05 09:57 AM
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1. there are actually at least 8,000 dead, according to LAT.

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RaleighNCDUer

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Wed Oct-05-05 10:04 AM
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2. Do we have any guess at the number of casualties?

The article specifically says 972 in LA, 221 in MS, and 53 in Houston - total of 1246. But I keep hearing that the total is less than a thousand.

Who's not telling us what? Know of any good source?

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ZigSteenine

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Wed Oct-05-05 03:56 PM
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3. The less than

Edited on Wed Oct-05-05 03:57 PM by ZigSteenine

1000 refers to New Orleans only. They reference this because of the original estimation of 10,000 by pols.

Lerkfish, got a link?

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