Do they HAVE that much space in their cemeteries?

[cornermouse]

In the space of a week, 10,000 or more people died in just one city?

I just realized 10,000 or more dead bodies translates into 10,000 or more burial plots. Do they have that much space in the cemeteries?

[justiceischeap]

1. Mass Graves n/m

[expatriot]

2. Individual graves for all is not going to happen.

They will take DNA samples from each body for identification and then will put them in mass graves, they don't have the storage ability and they will want to get them in the ground to prevent disease.

[cornermouse]

3. Mass graves in the United States.

I never thought I'd see that here.

[expatriot]

12. There are plenty of mass graves in America.

There is this one field in south-east Iowa we went to on an anthropology field trip in high school where it first was used as a mass grave in the Civil War, they'd dump the dead Confederate prisoners of war off from teh steam boats taking them north and they'd bury them in mass graves. ANd then after the war when ever a town nearby would have a typhoid or cholera outbreak they'd bury the dead there. thousands and thousands of people were projected to be buries there.

[Piperay]

14. In CA the native Americans

were buried in mass graves at the missions.

[justiceischeap]

4. They don't bury people in the ground on NO

For instances just as this. This is why all the cemetaries are above ground. There was a flood in its' early days and bodies floated up out of the ground.

[KyndCulture]

8. WDSU was showing floating coffins on Saturday.

I'm certain some of the cemetaries and the crypts have been breeched and there are coffins and bodies that were already dead floating in that water.

You won't see that on CNN but there are thousands of above ground graves already there. I toured them, they aren't really marble, some are just porous concrete which certainly has broken down by now.


I would think that there will be some sort of mass grave.

[expatriot]

11. Well they won't bury them in NO then.

[geomon666]

5. It wouldn't surprise me if they piled and burned them.

They did that in Galveston and Key West.

[justiceischeap]

6. That would probably be the most

Sanitary way of disposal.

[ohio_liberal]

7. Yep

I think there will be cremations.

[Catch22Dem]

9. Incinerators

That's what I'd want if it was me.

[Ice4Clark]

10. Perhaps they could bulldoze down the Superdome and

place them there, since it was a cemetary for the poor before it became the Superdome and it was a hell hole for those trying to survive Katrina in those deplorable conditions. How can anyone ever walk in that dome again to enjoy themselves knowing what took place under that roof while our CIC was out living his life instead of saving Americans.

[Fescue4u]

13. Well everybody will be there eventually

SO they better have ALOT of spaces

[MadeinOhio]

15. No they can't even handle this. Its going to be moved outland.nt