Body found in eastern New Orleans, believed a Katrina victim (#1578)

[KamaAina]

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tpupdates/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tpupdates/archives/2006_07_31.html#167238

Skeletal remains believed those of a woman victim of Hurricane Katrina were found Monday in a house in eastern New Orleans 11 months after the storm hit, the Orleans Parish coroner’s office said.

The discovery was made about 5:30 p.m. after the Louisiana Family Assistance Center in Baton Rouge received information from the woman’s son that he believed she was still in her house. The assistance center received the information at some time in the past, chief coroner’s investigator John Gagliano said.

"At some time in the past"? Like when? Last fall? :grr:

It was the 28th Katrina body found in New Orleans since a federal mortuary service ceased operations and turned the collection of bodies over the coroner’s office in March, Gagliano said.

In May Louisiana’s Department of Health and Hospitals raised Louisiana’s Katrina death toll by 281, to a total of 1,577 after receiving more reports of out-of-state deaths.

Or in other words, about three-quarters of the total of U.S. troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. And Bush** thought New Orleanians would throw rose petals at his feet, too. :banghead:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. How many are still missing?

Nobody talks about that... :-(

[illumn8d]

6. As of March 5, 2006, 1,840 were listed as missing

--Snip--
Of the 1,840 people still cataloged Friday as missing from Louisiana, 30 were 5 or younger; 74 were 80 or older. Women comprised 910 of the total. The majority -- 1,422 people -- were from New Orleans. Of 1590 people whose race was known, 1,352 were African-American.

Trying to get the article from the paper itself gives you a blank page but Google's cache still has it here:

http://tinyurl.com/z5kke

This is the article Wikipedia cites, but there it states 705 are listed as missing, so I know know if that's a typo, or an updated figure.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. Thank you...

I'd like to know so I can send a letter to the WP. We're still hearing things about the aftermath; but it's unconscionable to me that we continue to simply ignore the number of people who have never been found.

[brer cat]

11. And I think nobody ever will because

if you add the number of reported dead and reported missing, it will exceed the lives we lost on 9/11. IMHO * will NEVER allow that number to be reached (publicly) on his watch.

[merh]

2. 11 months later.

What country are we in? :cry:

Another link to a newpaper with the article
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/15171603.htm

[uppityperson]

3. k&r for our own country

[Doremus]

4. The callousness and utter disdain this admin. has shown Katrina victims

is unconscionable.

That this issue hasn't hit the spotlight this campaign season says a lot, either about our collective sensibilities ... or about how really desperate the world situation has become. Either way it isn't pretty.

[itzamirakul]

5. There were a lot of children that had been displaced and were

missing for months after Katrina. No one has ever said if they have all been found and returned to their families. Has anyone heard anything?

[lynne]

7. She had a son and he placed a call about her "some time in the past"?

Where was the son these last 11 months?

[JVS]

8. Talk about a case of "You never call!"

Bad son!

[uppityperson]

9. sounds like the area was heavily flooded and destroyed

Maybe he evacuated and thought she evacuated, hadn't located her yet, maybe thought she died elsewhere or was already a found dead body, maybe lots of things. Maybe he had visited the house and didn't see her, as happened with another recently found body (house had had people in it a couple times). Hard to say, hard to say.

[pitohui]

13. you might not understand the situation

some family members called the coroner's office hundreds of times seeking for their family members

i doubt he placed "one call," but prob. there is one file and finally they got around to checking the address he gave them

[cobalt1999]

12. a great book, if anyone is interested...

"The Great Deluge" by Tulane historian Douglas Brinkley thegreatdeluge.net

Very well researched, amazing detail, much more than the media ever provided. Showed exactly where & when Governor Blanco, Mayor Nagin, FEMA Brown, Bush all made horrendous errors. Nobody comes out of this looking good, especially when the finger pointing started.

Also, showed how so many individuals took it upon themselves to save their neighbors, sometimes while city, state, and federal officials tried to stop them.

Highly recommend it for anyone who wants to truly understand this disaster.