NO: Times-Picayune death toll (not sure where they get their number from)

[lindisfarne]

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09_16.html#080196

The Times-Picayune has a bunch of stats at the webpage above, including a death toll. But I don't know where they're getting the numbers from (thus reliability is in question!)

DEATH TOLL
558
t 444 bodies at the metrowide morgue at St. Gabriel
t 53 bodies in East Baton Rouge Parish
t 27 bodies in Jefferson Parish
t 14 bodies in Terrebonne Parish
t 6 bodies in St. Tammany Parish
t 6 bodies in Iberia Parish
t 3 bodies in St. Charles Parish
t 3 bodies in Plaquemines Parish
t 2 bodies in Assumption Parish

[AtomicKitten]

1. Not to worry, the Funeralgate folks are on top of this.

They will manipulate the figures.

[karlrschneider]

2. I have to wonder about the 3 in Plaq...the whole area was pretty much

wiped out. Can it have been properly searched & investigated yet?

[Freddie Stubbs]

4. These are obviously not final numbers

As more bodies are found, the numbers will be adjusted.

[karlrschneider]

11. Yes, that's why I was pondering over how much recovery has been done

down there. I can't remember any specific news reports from way down in the delta.

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. It's more likely that they haven't retrieved the bodies yet

They don't count until they are picked up and processed.

[tulsakatz]

6. I saw an article yesterday..........

........that said they have only searched about 20% of New Orleans so far. So they will probably find many more bodies......

[tx_dem41]

9. I don't believe it has because much of it is still underwater. n/t

[geomon666]

3. The don't list St. Bernard

Plus, they just started this week. Further, thousands are missing and probably most won't ever be found.

[tx_dem41]

8. I'm also certain that the St. Bernard Parish numbers are included...

in the metrowide morgue numbers. I saw that earlier this week.

[tx_dem41]

10. Also, almost all will be found (short of Plaquemines Parish)...

this is not the type of flooding where anyone was swept out to sea. The flooding was in a contained urban bowl.

[geomon666]

15. Who said anything about being swept out to sea?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. 2000 Children still missing. Anything left of Republican Family Values?

No Child Left Behind except in New Orleans

[pitohui]

12. yes it's going v. slowly

it makes you think they must be billing by the hr

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. hmmm why is it that I am not buying it?

and will ask... what are they hiding? (bodies, but hey)

[leftofthedial]

14. and with the 1500 more they found today

the official toll increases to 563

[Imagevision]

16. FEMA finally started a block by block search in ON. today, so the

death rate I've read totaled 800 today, not including the block by block searches and all the bodies floating in the waters aren't all picked up.