Grim signs of Katrina's staggering toll;25K body bags arrive in NOLA

[preciousdove]

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/09/08/katrina.missing/

Sep 9
...The Federal Emergency Management Agency ordered 25,000 body bags for the New Orleans area. They were delivered to the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, the agency charged with handling the remains....

FEMA's warehouse morgue in rural Saint Gabriel, about 70 miles from New Orleans, originally was set up to handle 1,000 bodies. Now, it's ready for 5,000.

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said he estimates as many as 10,000 people died in the city.

In Mississippi, where the official death toll climbed near 200, officials fear more than 1,000 people have died. Their remains will be examined at FEMA's morgue at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi....

[Radio_Lady]

1. They were downplaying these numbers all day on TV.

Someone is tinkering with something somewhere....

[preciousdove]

2. A post yesterday said FEMA "lost" NOLA welfare data n/t