Heard from an X Fema employee who was on the ground in NO after Katrina

[lonestarnot]

that there are about 10,000 bodies there, 800 in one location alone. Anybody verify this?

[annabanana]

1. there is a big black hole on this information

I recently heard (while walking past a tv last week, sorry) that there were still 4k people "missing" and unaccounted for. Family members are still searching far-flung "relocation camps" for relatives..

[lonestarnot]

4. This person told me that they will not even bother with identifying

thousands as all the records were also washed away.

[madeline_con]

2. I googled, but nothing definitive. Sorry. n/t

[Booster]

3. I find it amazing that they can keep this quiet. Why aren't Nagin

and Gov Blanco blasting this all over the air waves?

[lonestarnot]

6. Do not have a clue how they are keeping this quiet. Can they hide that

many bodies? and if so how? cordon off part of the city and warehouse?

[madeline_con]

8. There's no official total....

because so many are still missing, with relatives searching all over for them. No one can say positively, YET, whether a particular person perished or is still missing somewhere, except in the case of those who were identified.

With large numbers of the people being poor, they may never find each other, reach each other, etc.


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[Aimah]

9. That info wouldn't help them.

[Junkdrawer]

5. This thread says 7,100+ still missing...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=5293386

[lonestarnot]

7. I was a doubter until today.

[AmyDeLune]

10. My Mom remembers a local flood in which

the "official" death toll was 200 people. She talked to someone who worked at the city morgue and he said there were far more than 200 victims but since most of them were homeless and no one was looking for them, the city decided not to include them in the official body count. Doesn't sound like much has changed...*sigh*

[SheilaT]

11. One thing that's going to make it very difficult

to come up with a final, definitive number, is that so many people who left the city after the hurricane have decided not to go back. And in some cases families have been scattered and are having trouble locating each other.

I live in Kansas. I know a man who opened his home to Katrina refugees, and he got about twenty of them altogether. Including two infants who were delivered to him with absolutely no information other than their names. Except that when he went to change "Jason's" diaper, it was a "Jennifer". He spent five or six weeks contacting every agency and organization he could think of to try to track down the actual parents, and did eventually. Turns out, in the oddest of coincidences, "Jennifer" was that baby's real middle name. Happy ending to this story, but there may be other babies and very small children who will never be reunited with their parents, parents who'll never find their kids.

[RepublicanElephant]

12. sure explains why nagin ordered 25,000 body bags...

the mayor of new orleans knew what to expect.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. not surprsied one bit

and how you hide that many bodies? It is so damn easy it is not even funny...

[lonestarnot]

14. Well crap, isn't anybody watching for signs of the hiding? I wouldn't

think that this is as easy as you say.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. Oh yes it is

I have posted the tricks and the x fema employee pointed to one of them, they are not even going to do body identification. What do you think they are going to do? Look have been ot that dance in a developing world country... and it is actually pretty easy, especially when you disperse survivors to the four winds... we call them mass graves.