Up to 40,000
Sep 6th, 2005 at 10:22 pm by Susie
A co-owner of Shelbyville-based Gowen-Smith Chapel has been deployed to Gulfport, Miss., to help with recovery since Hurricane Katrina, and his business partner here has described the grim task there.
“DMort is telling us to expect up to 40,000 bodies,” Dan Buckner said, quoting officials with the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, a volunteer arm of Homeland Security.His partner, Dan Hicks, of Paducah, Ky., was deployed Monday. Buckner, of Dickson, is on standby. Their funeral home is one of several collection sites for donations to be taken to the Red Cross in Fayetteville on Wednesday for transfer to places in need.
The 40,000 estimate does “not include the number of disinterred remains that have been displaced from … mausoleums,” Buckner told the Times-Gazette Monday.
[Via Josh.]
How will they spin the bodies….I think NOT
And to think that I originally thought it wouldn’t be as bad as Galveston.
Now it looks as if it might top Antietam as the bloodiest day in American history.
Hope I’m wrong yet again…
OT:
Two VERY telling pieces over at TPM.
1) Haz-mat trained and EMT trained volunteer firemen being used by FEMA to hand out fliers (after wasting a full day on community relations training).
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_09_04.php#006430
2. The New Orleans equivalent of “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_09_04.php#006437
I honestly don’t understand why there aren’t mobs storming the gates at the White House, ready to string these guys up. I really don’t.
Halliburton probably has the contract on manufacturing the body bags.
how about not even acknowledging them or letting them be photographed: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-photos7sep07,1,5455941.story?coll=la-headlines-nation