2 (more) bodies found, believed Katrina victims

[funkybutt]

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tpupdates/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tpupdates/archives/2006_03_07.html#118964

Bodies of two possible Hurricane Katrina victims were found in New Orleans Tuesday, the Orleans Parish coroner’s office said.

The latest body was found about 4 p.m. in the back yard of a home in the 5400 block of North Prieur Street in the Lower 9th Ward. A man went to the Katrina-flooded residence to look for a friend who lived there and found the decomposed body in a pile of wooden debris, chief coroner’s investigator John Gagliano said.

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Gagliano said the discoveries bring to 10 the number of possible Katrina victims found in New Orleans since the middle of February. All but one were found by workers, friends or relatives as opposed to search teams, he said.


*why weren't these remains found by SEARCH TEAMS months ago?*

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As of late January, the state health department counted 1,080 Katrina bodies in Louisiana. A total of 1,103 bodies were found, most in the New Orleans area, but 23 were from bullets, knives, car crashes or other causes unrelated to the storm.

*are murders and accidents that happened as a result of the lack of infrastructure "unrelated to the storm"?*

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[babylonsister]

1. Sadly, we know there are a bunch more. Indeed, where ARE/WERE

the search teams? This is America????? Not mine.

[aquart]

2. How come they just NOW use dog teams????

[laheina]

3. Just because those people didn't drown

doesn't mean that their deaths weren't related to Katrina! They'll try *anything* to manipulate the body count--but their blood is still on Bush hands!!


Sorry, I'll stop yelling now.

[Mist]

4. I don't think FEMA was interested in an accurate body count or in finding

bodies. The * administration contracted body handling to a Texas co. that had improperly disposed of corpses on a regular basis. Apparently FEMA stopped journalists from accompanying searchers looking for bodies, and, IIRC, briefly tried to keep the actual numbers of bodies found "classified" info. After some journalists filed FOIA, they stopped that nonsense, but the fact remains that at no time was FEMA or the * admin. interested in accuracy re: body counts. Wikipedia has a number of good links it its Katrina entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. and how many are still "missing"?

No record of checks being cashed, apartments being rented, admissions to hospitals...etc.

over 2000. That puts the total well over 3000, more than were lost on 9/11. People need to get a clue, before I blow a gasket! :mad:

[DemFromMem]

6. Aren't there 1000+ people still missing?

Scary. I'm reading David McCullough's book on the Johnstown Flood. They were still finding bodies 15 years later. The breach of the South Fork Damn led to the horrendous disaster and the years of warnings about the risks to Johnstown sound awfully familiar. Last year I read Isaac's Storm about the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 (which killed 8,000 people). In that case, government incompetence at the US Weather Service is blamed for much of that disaster's death toll. We keep repeating our mistakes.

[fearnobush]

7. "400 people remained missing and presumed dead"

"An Army Corps of Engineers official said Saturday about 400 people remained missing and presumed dead in Orleans Parish."

I'm sure its really 400 X 3 or 4 and you get closer to the truth.

[Digit]

8. The two cases I have heard of, there were ZERO's on the home....

Indicating the homes had been checked. Call me skeptical, but it seems that SOME people ran around putting the numbers on the homes WITHOUT checking. Sloppy or criminal...you decide.

Edited for clarity.

[funkybutt]

9. 0s don't indicate an interior search

the overwhelming majority of the X spray paint markings say "EXT" meaning that they only did an exterior search of the home(like mine). So basically, there would have only been a number there if you were one of the lucky to be seen and rescued or if you had answered your door when they knocked. Our area wasn't searched until mid September. Several of my neighbors were rescued by boat...civilian, i think, b/c their homes don't have any markings indicating that a person was rescued from that home. This was very disturbing when we returned to our neighborhood to find elderly neighbors' cars still in their driveway....wondering if they were still inside (deceased). Thankfully this wasn't the case with my neighbors.

[M155Y_A1CH]

10. Kick

George Bush don't care about our people.
:kick: