Lost in the mania of Wall Street and Elections ... 300 people still missing

[Fla Dem]

Why isn't this on the news. Almost a month after the storm and just now they begin searching for the missing. Another failure of this administration, and Texas' Republican Governor. Bet there are a lot of "Joe six-packs" among the missing. Where's the concern for them in Galveston.

300 people still missing since Ike hit Texas
updated 4:08 p.m. EDT, Thu October 2, 2008

(CNN) -- Alligators loom over submerged cars. Mountains of debris are embedded in the ground. The bodies of cows, trucks and the remnants of homes lie in and out of the water. And unverified sightings of missing loved ones make the rounds.

More than 300 people are missing since Hurricane Ike hit the Texas coast last month, and the obstacles to finding them are frustrating family and friends who desperately want to know if their loved ones are dead or alive.
These family and friends want answers: Why are so many still missing? Why has the first organized search for bodies, to be held Thursday on the battered Bolivar Peninsula, taken so long?

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As of Thursday morning, the number of missing hovered at 300, including 24 children. Laura Recovery Center volunteers, working with the Galveston Police Department and Galveston Emergency Management, have been fielding calls from family and friends of people missing since Ike hit September 12.
A majority of the missing come from the hardest-hit Texas towns of Crystal Beach, Port Bolivar, Gilchrist and Galveston.

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Traci Turner of San Diego, California, doesn't know where her sister Danielle Chapman is. The last time she spoke to her was right after Hurricane Gustav hit the Gulf Coast, about a week before Ike came ashore.
At that time, Chapman said she and her family, who were on the west end of Galveston Island, were all OK.
Chapman, 32, and her sons Joel, 15, and Addison, 12, lived in a home at the far west end of the island, past Jamaica Beach.



http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/02/ike.missing/index.html

[kickysnana]

1. Xpost "Going in tomorrow"

BDW1964 (19 posts) Fri Oct-03-08 04:49 AM

My search, rescue and recovery team finally got called up, after two weeks. We are going into Chambers County. For the first two weeks, the only SAR units in were the paid FEMA Urban SAR Task Forces. Hundreds of trained, equipped and experienced SAR technicians in Texas (all volunteers) were not activated by Texas or FEMA, even though local authorities were begging for help. I wish we could have been in to try and save people, but I am afraid this is going to be really ugly now.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3523112&mesg_id=3524274

[malaise]

3. So there was a grand FEMA coverup

as we noted.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

4. Please keep us posted and Thank you so much for what you do!

[Fla Dem]

7. My thoughts are with you and your team. This will be a very difficult ordeal.

Please post when you can to let us know how you are doing personally, as well as on the conditions you find. Thank you for what you are about to do. On the other hand, what a complete dereliction of duty by both state and federal officials.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Recommended - if an airliner w/ 300 souls went down...

...it would dominate the news cycle for a week, minimum.Why not the same focus here?:shrug:

[slipslidingaway]

5. Thanks K&R n/t

[marions ghost]

6. Hush hush

Murka can't take bad news...