LSU hurricane expert on CNN just estimated 100,000 drowned

[Proud2BAmurkin]

Said approx 250,000 to 300,000 did not evacuate and their computer model whatever that is says approx 1/3 of those drowned.

[Lex]

1. Whaaaaaat?

OMG.

[SpiralHawk]

5. And Geroge Bush vacationed through the whole thing

OMG

[Francine Frensky]

44. And homeland security is botching the recovery effort

lots of miscommunication going on is the main problem I see, and the lack of preparation and organization...and it seems like no plan for the future for all these homeless people.

[yellowcanine]

52. No he didn't. He took a cake to John McCain and he played guitar

with a country music dude.

[Spazito]

54. Dont forget his #1 priority, he fund-raised for the repub party which

was the reason he went there in the first place.

[fooj]

2. OMG!

:cry:

[Stephanie]

3. That can't be true

please god don't let that be true

[cthrumatrix]

14. even if it were 10% of that number it would be "catastrophic"

[riverwalker]

4. OMG

my god

[crispini]

6. God, that's worse than I thought.

And I already thought it was pretty bad.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

7. oh my god.

please don't let that be true. please don't let that be true.

[Mass]

8. I dont know if these numbers are accurate, but

on Sunday, an expert had estimated there could be has high as 40 000 people killed in NO, given the fact that about 100,000 people had not evacuated from the town itself.

These numbers are frightening. I have sometimes the feeling that people do not see the size of the potential tragedy.

[me b zola]

28. size of the potential tragedy

I saw a woman yesterday in NO. She said she didn't have any insulin, she is a diabetic.

I saw a woman yesterday in Miss. who had a premie baby in her home with no power or water. She said the hospital would not take her baby in because she did not have insurence.


:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[Walt Starr]

9. WOAH!

Sorry, but I don't see it anywhere near that bad,

I could be wrong, though.

[Arkansas Democrat]

15. God, don't let this be true!

[KoKo]

10. It's possible if he's talking about the whole area Katrina hit...not just

New Orleans. Seems high...but how would we know who stayed in all the washed away homes or mobile homes..:shrug:

[Mass]

17. Sunday, the estimations were than 100,000 people remained in NO

I dont know if these numbers are accurate, but I am afraid that the real numbers are a lot higher than the officials tell us.

NO mayor said earlier the victims were in the thousands for NO alone.

[VolcanoJen]

27. The guy on CNN was referring to the entire area affected....

... by Katrina, the way I heard him. He said that they estimate 250,000 to 300,000 people in the entire affected area remained behind.

[Spazito]

11. I heard that too! I thought I was hearing wrong on the 1/3rd figure

that equates to around 76,000!

[wli]

12. URL to quotes, captured video, anything? n/t

[Ishoutandscream2]

13. Oh, God!!!

Oh my God!!

[tgnyc]

16. That's more thant the Asian tsunami. Sounds very high.

[nadinbrzezinski]

32. population density is higher

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

33. No it's not.

Tsunami killed over 220,000.

[achtung_circus]

38. Last count I saw on the tsunami

was 226,000 dead.

[dejaboutique]

18. is this true?

? please no

[Pithy Cherub]

19. The mayor has already started preparing people for

the horrific death toll. It is beyond belief that that many people are dead - I so want him to be wrong. This expert has been really close on all the other things concerning Katrina, but OMG, please let him be wrong on this one.

[Alamom]

20. As horrible and

heartbreaking as this sounds, he is probably close....or possibly more.
They will probably never know the exact number due to many people living in extremely remote areas.

[myrna minx]

21. Oh my god NO.

I hope this is a mistake. :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[Hissyspit]

22. Numbers will go up, people. He was quoting a computer model...

[VolcanoJen]

23. Just heard that, and I'm still shaking.

Wolf Blitzer, world's worst reporter, didn't even bother to follow up, ask him for clarification.

You know, like, "Excuse me, let's stop and back up for a moment. Did you just say that of the estimated 300,000 that stayed behind, one third have likely drowned? So, you're saying its reasonable to believe that 100,000 people have died?"

Way to follow up, Wolfie. You're in the situation room!!

[Binka]

31. Wolf Is A Fucking Excuse For A Human

Vapid, venal, STUPID, and just CRASS. This turd is the peak the fucking zenith of stupidity. Evolution has not caught up to Leslie.

Poor idiotic mouth puppet. What a gross tool. i hate this MF gas bag of shite.

[mom cat]

24. link?

[VolcanoJen]

29. It was a live interview on CNN, I believe he was with the Army Corps...

... of Engineers, a hurricane expert from one of the colleges consulting with the Army Corps. Interviewed by Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room."

I saw it, too, and heard the same thing Proud2Be did.

[Alamom]

30. I heard the interview

and wrote down his estimate.

[mom cat]

40. Just so much sorrow...

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. hmm they are not going to try to hide bodies

sorry, my experience coming to the fore... the number is adecuate for initial effort, but I'd place the deaths at quite higher than that when all is said and done... oh and remember those numbers for I can bet they will try the old game

[lonestarnot]

26. Holy cow...Maybe not...going to wait and see before I get

tooooo depressed.

[ArkDem]

34. We have a saying in Information Technology,

"Garbage in, garbage out".

[Nikki Stone 1]

35. From WWLTV.Com:

1:20 P.M. - (AP) Mayor Ray Nagin says at least hundreds of people are dead -- maybe thousands -- in New Orleans. "We know there is a significant number of dead bodies in the water," and others dead in attics, Mayor Ray Nagin said. Asked how many, he said: "Minimum, hundreds. Most likely, thousands."

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html

[stopbush]

36. Tragic, but I've got to get on with my life. Now, watch this drive.

[RaleighNCDUer]

37. They know the Chimp is going to get the fallout for this,

so they are inflating the potential deaths, so when it winds up being only a thousand or so people will say, "that's not so bad, could have been worse".

[Francine Frensky]

41. Homeland security is running this thing; dontcha feel safe??

scary how poorly the whole thing is being run.

[GumboYaYa]

42. I don't think so,

this guy from LSU is not political. He is just scientist doing his job.

[SofaKingLiberal]

Time will tell

[nadinbrzezinski]

47. No they are not inflating anything

from doing disaster work I know they are not... what they are doing is NOT allowing for the death toll to be hidden.

[eyepaddle]

39. I wish I was surprised, I was encouraged by the scenes of the evac

but this sort of thing has been well predicted for quite some time. We used to talk about this in my geology classes--just the potpourri of calamities looming over Southern Louisiana.

This is devastating. Apocalyptic isn't really an overstatement in this case.

I'm a deist--bordering on atheism, but God help those people. It doesn't seem that the offical response is up to it. :cry:

[Tyranny_R_US]

43. God I hate CNN while FOX and MSNBC has been focusing on the victims...

CNN is still bitching about looting.

[VolcanoJen]

45. Should I turn on Fox?

I've seriously been glued to CNN, and the armchair moralizing of Jack Cafferty, Kyra Phillips and Rush Limbaugh's girlfriend is more than I can bear.

Things are better on Fox and MSNBC? I'll change the channel.

[Tyranny_R_US]

48. You should have been watching fox for the past hour...

Shep Smith reporting was excelent I believe he's the only one who has showed the true suffering.

[VolcanoJen]

49. I'm very sorry to have missed it.

I'm not a fan of Shep's, but it sounds like he got his shit together for this story.

Jeanne Meserve on CNN has been excellent, as well. They just finished a devastating interview with her, but sadly I had to sit through hours of moralizing and videos of looters first.

[crispini]

50. It sounds like Shep Smith

is very rapidly becoming part of the story he is covering.

[OneBlueSky]

46. I don't know about 100,000, but I've thought from the start . . .

that the loss of life would end up being in the thousands, if not the tens of thousands . . . just didn't want to be the first to say it . . .

[xultar]

51. I refuse to believe this.

:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

[meganmonkey]

53. Wow - I thought it would climb really high but I never thought

100,000.

I hope he/she is wrong but I fear he/she is right.

:cry:

[Terran]

55. Finding that hard to believe...

A *third* of the people exposed to the hurricane drowned? Why a third? Sounds arbitrary to me. God I hope it's not true.

[dsc]

56. It is probably a rounded number

I would imagine it comes from the percentage of the area of the city which is flooded coupled with the density of those areas.

[Don Claybrook]

57. Fuckface has spent almost half a trillion dollars on a war

that he says is due to September 11th.

By my count, that means he won't have any problem spending a few trillion dollars to bring New Orleans back.

Oh wait, he already cut their paltry budget several years in a row.

It is not remotely possible to begin to describe in any human language the depths of DISGUST I feel toward this man and his entire administration.

Someone please tell me that karma is real, and that it's coming for him one of these days.

[ultraist]

58. Oh...I hope that's not true.

I have heard rumors thought that they are not releasing numbers yet because they fear mass hysteria, increased rage & violence.

[in_cog_ni_to]

59. 100,000 ????????????!!!!!!! dead? OMG!

:cry:

[Flying Dream Blues]

60. I really hope and pray this is not true. nt

[BlueStateGirl]

61. What? Jesus Christ. I hope that's not true.

[deadparrot]

62. Oh my god.

Dear god, please don't let that be true.

:cry: