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This is just one parish

http://news.yahoo.com/s/chitribts/20050906/ts_chicagotrib/22bodiesfoundtiedtogetherinvillage&printer=1

22 bodies found tied together in village By Tommy Tomlinson Knight Ridder/Tribune
Tue Sep 6, 9:40 AM ET


The 22 people died together.

Police believe they tried to escape the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina lashed to one another with a rope.

Rescuers found them last week in this village just east of New Orleans.

No one has identified them yet. No one has tried to figure out who they are or how they knew each other or how far they had come before a rescue crew found them wrapped around a pole.

Police here in St. Bernard Parish have to spend their time on the living. Nearly every building in this parish of 70,000 people was wiped out in the storm.

Rescuers have spent nearly every moment looking for survivors trapped in attics, stranded on balconies, stuck up in trees.

So Sheriff Jack Stephens can't provide a lot of details about deaths in the parish. What he has is numbers.

Thirty people died at St. Rita Nursing Home. Eleven died down at the hospital at Chalmette.

About 100 bodies have been found in the parish so far. Stephens said the final count could be five times that many.

Violet is on the east bank of the Mississippi River. The town caught the worst of the hurricane. You can tell people used to live here but you can't tell it was ever a town.

So many rescue teams from so many places have been through that Stephens isn't sure who found the bodies first. He remembers not hearing the news right at the beginning. At first he thought somebody had found the bodies and gathered them together with the rope to be picked up later.

But when a second crew went out again last Wednesday they found the victims tied together one by one.

Stephens said he and his deputies believe the victims connected themselves to one another so they could leave the floodwaters together.

The bodies were taken to a temporary morgue, awaiting efforts to identify them.

"I hope we can find out who they are," he says. "I don't know if we'll ever find out why."

Quoted: 2,000 initially from the storm. 25,000 from lack of ppl. keeping proper supplies.

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Not wanting to down play the situation, it does not look like the death toll in NO- LA is going to be that great. Hopfully God has spared many. I believe from what I've seen on FoX, CNN, and MSNBC and the local news maybe 3000 total for all three states LA, MS, and AL.? Thats just my guess & my .02cents
EDIT:thats just for the storm not for the upcoming deaths from being displaced & homeless, again IMHO

Quoted: This is just one parish http://news.yahoo.com/s/chitribts/20050906/ts_chicagotrib/22bodiesfoundtiedtogetherinvillage&printer=1 22 bodies found tied together in village By Tommy Tomlinson Knight Ridder/Tribune Tue Sep 6, 9:40 AM ET The 22 people died together. Police believe they tried to escape the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina lashed to one another with a rope. Rescuers found them last week in this village just east of New Orleans. No one has identified them yet. No one has tried to figure out who they are or how they knew each other or how far they had come before a rescue crew found them wrapped around a pole. Police here in St. Bernard Parish have to spend their time on the living. Nearly every building in this parish of 70,000 people was wiped out in the storm. Rescuers have spent nearly every moment looking for survivors trapped in attics, stranded on balconies, stuck up in trees. So Sheriff Jack Stephens can't provide a lot of details about deaths in the parish. What he has is numbers. Thirty people died at St. Rita Nursing Home. Eleven died down at the hospital at Chalmette. About 100 bodies have been found in the parish so far. Stephens said the final count could be five times that many. Violet is on the east bank of the Mississippi River. The town caught the worst of the hurricane. You can tell people used to live here but you can't tell it was ever a town. So many rescue teams from so many places have been through that Stephens isn't sure who found the bodies first. He remembers not hearing the news right at the beginning. At first he thought somebody had found the bodies and gathered them together with the rope to be picked up later. But when a second crew went out again last Wednesday they found the victims tied together one by one. Stephens said he and his deputies believe the victims connected themselves to one another so they could leave the floodwaters together. The bodies were taken to a temporary morgue, awaiting efforts to identify them. "I hope we can find out who they are," he says. "I don't know if we'll ever find out why."

160 give or take one or two x5+59 confirmed in La. plus the 5 I have seen in pics =apprx 864  

2500 is looking better and better

CNN reports truckloads of bodies are being brought to the center they have set up for identification of bodies.

Saw news footage of some caskets floating in the flood waters today. Partially confirming my suspicians that the flooding uncovered graves and a percentage of the floaters were dead prior to the hurracaine.

I think only a small number will fit into that category.

Official total as of 9-08-05 for entire disaster region...295.

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Fewer Bodies Than Expected Found in Sweeps


By ERIN McCLAM, AP

NEW ORLEANS (Sept. 9) - Alarming predictions of as many as 10,000 dead in New Orleans may have been greatly exaggerated, with authorities saying Friday that the first street-by-street sweep of the swamped city revealed far fewer corpses than feared.

"Some of the catastrophic deaths that some people predicted may not have occurred," said Col. Terry Ebbert, the city's homeland security chief.

He declined to give a revised estimate. But he added: "Numbers so far are relatively minor as compared to the dire projections of 10,000."

 
The encouraging news came as authorities officially shifted most of their attention to counting and removing the dead after spending days cajoling, persuading and all but strong-arming the living into leaving the city because of the danger of fires and disease from the fetid floodwaters.

Ever since Hurricane Katrina struck Aug. 29, residents, rescuers and cadaver-sniffing dogs have found bodies floating in the waters, trapped in attics or left lying on broken highways. Some were dropped off at hospital doorsteps or left slumped in wheelchairs out in the open. Mayor Ray Nagin suggested last weekend that "it wouldn't be unreasonable to have 10,000" dead, and authorities ordered 25,000 body bags.

But soldiers who had been brought in over the past few days to help in the search were not seeing that kind of toll.

"There's nothing at all in the magnitude we anticipated," said Maj. Gen. Bill Caldwell, commander of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division.

Ebbert said the search for the dead will be done systematically, block-by-block, with dignity and with no news media allowed to follow along. "You can imagine sitting in Houston and watching somebody removed from your parents' property. We don't think that's proper," he said.

Over the past few days, police and soldiers trying to rescue the living marked houses where corpses were found, or noted their location with global positioning devices, so that the bodies could be collected later.

A dozen boats awaiting calls to retrieve bodies were lined up early Friday on an interstate ramp that was being used as a makeshift boat launch. Soldiers also hauled the last of the bodies out of the convention center, which became an increasingly violent and chaotic place before the evacuees were finally removed a week ago.
 
 

start sending the body bags back they will not be needed after all  :)

Quoted: 2,000 - 3,000 Maybe less Humans are tougher and more resilient than most realize. Some just aren't aware of how much they can survive until they are faced with it.

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Quoted: Fewer Bodies Than Expected Found in Sweeps By ERIN McCLAM, AP NEW ORLEANS (Sept. 9) - Alarming predictions of as many as 10,000 dead in New Orleans may have been greatly exaggerated, with authorities saying Friday that the first street-by-street sweep of the swamped city revealed far fewer corpses than feared. "Some of the catastrophic deaths that some people predicted may not have occurred," said Col. Terry Ebbert, the city's homeland security chief. He declined to give a revised estimate. But he added: "Numbers so far are relatively minor as compared to the dire projections of 10,000."

I bet the Democrats are bummed.

I was discussing this with a friend yesterday.

I believe that when those in authority and the news media saw the horrible damage from the storm and the flood, they wildly over-estimated the deaths that would occur.

Looks like instead of "over 10,000", there may only be a few hundred.

Still a tragedy for those that lost loved ones, but not nearly as bad as the Chicken-littles thought.

If it hit's 1000 I will be surprised. Anyway, it's an old trick to push fatality numbers to much more then where it finally ends up. It drums up sympathy and opens up the money coffers, both the Govt ones, and from citizens and companies. In almost every natural disaster you will see this. It's also caused by media speculation. The top heads must dance on the tabletops every time they can add a couple K to the death total. Sounds ghoulish but death sells on TV.

Seven to ten thousand in N.O. by the time all is said and done.

Search for Bodies Continues in Katrina's Wake


By Jason Webb, Reuters

NEW ORLEANS (Sept. 10) - The official death toll from Hurricane Katrina rose slowly on Saturday, boosting hopes that the calamity would claim far fewer lives than the 10,000 that had been feared.

As police and soldiers went through drowned and mostly abandoned New Orleans house-by-house, President George W. Bush again tried to invoke the spirit that united the nation after the Sept. 11 attacks.

The American Red Cross launched a drive to recruit 40,000 volunteers to care for survivors.

 
"Today, America is confronting another disaster that has caused destruction and loss of life. This time the devastation resulted not from the malice of evil men, but from the fury of water and wind," Bush said in his weekly radio address.

"America will overcome this ordeal, and we will be stronger for it," he said on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the New York and Washington attacks that killed some 2,700 people.

The Louisiana Dept. of Health and Hospitals raised the state's official hurricane death toll to 154 and 211 people were confirmed dead in Mississippi. There was no updated official figure from Alabama, which also sustained considerable damage in the Aug. 29 storm. Katrina killed seven in Florida.

Red Cross spokesman John Degnan said his organization had 36,000 volunteers in the field and had established 675 shelters across the United States. But more were needed.

"The goal is to recruit 40,000 new Red Cross volunteers to come and help in shelters and serve meals and help at help sites and help at delivery sites throughout the affected area," Degnan said.

365 dead

I have a question.
How many were MURDERED by thugs and looters in NOLA?