More dead bodies being found by loved ones returning home to N.O.

On Anderson Cooper 360 right now.

the number of people who have died along the gulf coast hasn't been raised in so long, yet these stories keep coming out. Are we still up to 1100-1300?
May they rest in peace; I also feel for the loved ones who have had to make the discoveries.:cry:

Can you imagine the horror of coming home 3 months later and finding your dead family still in the house?

Today is 4 months to the day.

:mad:

nt

* and his crooks were more worried about the # of dead getting out then
taking care of the people. I figured it to be 10,000 min.
100,000 in NOLA as it was flooded
35,000 in Super Dome & Convention Center
5,900 taken off roofs by Coast Guard Choppers
10,000 by boats & wadding
5,000 to 10,000 dry in French Quarter
so at least 40,000 unaccounted for.

washed out into the Gulf when Katrina's waters receded.

They say they gathered all of the homeless before the storm and took them to shelters.

I don't see how they did.

If a lone person drowns in the storm and is washed to the sea, does anyone know that they are gone?

The Green story on 360 tore my heart out.

Impeachment or Hell? They're both too good for that SOB in our House.

There is nothing redeemable about that man (who daily breaks the 1st commandment by purporting to be a christian and doing god's work while he rapes and pillages our nation and abandons her citizens) or any of the members of his administration.

I saw an account of one discovery where the house was marked as having been checked, and as having no bodies in it, but the returning family found 2 or 3 dead people. Who knows how many houses have the same story. Maybe they're figuring that most of them won't be returned to. How many houses will end up being bulldozed with unrecorded dead bodies in them?

Christmas in New Orleans: Santa Drove a Bulldozer


Christmas in New Orleans

Santa Drove a Bulldozer

By SCOTT BOEHM

A thunderstorm engulfed the city this Christmas Eve morning, an apt--if ominous--metaphor for the city,s reconstruction nearly four months after Katrina came to town. A ghostly atmosphere haunts New Orleans, making Christmas seem more like Halloween gone wrong, than a celebration of brotherhood. Rubbish piles line abandoned city streets, hollowed out buildings resemble images of post-WWII Europe and military police patrol in the same Humvees that characterize the U.S. occupation in Iraq. Indeed, popular T-shirts sold on Bourbon Street call New Orleans "Baghdad on the Bayou."

Compounding the fact that hundreds of thousands of people remain scattered across the country and separated from each other without the ability to return home for Christmas, Greg Meffert, the city,s chief technology officer, announced on Friday that 2,500 homes have been scheduled to be demolished immediately. The majority of the homes to be bulldozed during this holiday season are located in the Lower 9th Ward, the part of the city most affected by Katrina when the levees of the Industrial Canal suddenly exploded, flooding the economically poor, black neighborhood.

Claiming that he has not heard of any complaints about these plans, which are to be put into effect immediately, Meffert fails to consider that displaced residents have not been informed of the crucial change in the status of their "red-tagged" homes. The Shaw Group of Baton Rouge, which won a no-bid contract from the government to oversee inspections of homes affected by the hurricanes, uses a color-coded system to tag homes for insurance and rebuilding purposes. Before the city had clearly stated to residents that red tags signified severe damage to a home"in lieu of yellow tags that indicate less serious damage. But now"without informing residents of the change"those red-tagged homes may be demolished before the ball drops in Times Square.

While FEMA possesses a database of contact information for most, if not all, New Orleans evacuees, no effort has been taken to inform affected residents that their homes are about to be demolished. If they were contacted, complaints would certainly be voiced, which appears to be what Mayor C. Ray Nagin, the city council, FEMA and Shaw Group want to avoid. Like Santa,s annual secret night run, this drastic and immutable move has been carried out under the cover of backroom maneuvering, rather than with transparency and accountability to the community. The result is that public opinion and the voice of citizens already traumatized by the hurricanes and the current diaspora are about to lose the most powerful symbol of their connection to this crumbling city without notice or recourse to stop the powerful Grinches running the city,s reconstruction.

http://www.counterpunch.org/boehm12262005.html


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

do people harmed have to endure? Shame on all America.