A co-worker heard today that half the inhabitants of her parents' 'hood

[Deja Q]

(neighborhood) were killed in the flood.

All in the snap of your fingers; they tried to ride it out.

Tragic. :cry:

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

1. How terrible. It's just impossible to imagine the horror.

[KitchenWitch]

2. Oh fuck

that is TERRIBLE.

[Spangle]

3. Where?

What state? What town?

Man, this is so Sad.

[Deja Q]

4. Louisiana; I don't recall the city name, BUT

it was only a few miles in from the gulf coast.

Oh, she's certain the actual death toll is much higher than the 55 the MCM (mainstream cor-pirate media) had been telling us.

[xmas74]

5. They won't know the true toll for weeks.

Between those killed directly by the flood and are found, those who are never found(washed out), the medically fragile who are w/o power (monitors, diabetics, etc), the additional amount of mosquitos that will invade the area carrying who knows what, the unsanitary water, accidents and the list just goes on.
Actually, we won't know for months-possibly a year or two.

[Spangle]

7. The count only includes

"confirmed". Most of the time, that means that they KNOW who the person is.

Right now they are trying to help the living. They are ignoring the dead in order to save the living. They said they will go back and gather the dead. That is why LA don't have any totals.

[uppityperson]

6. 1 apartment building was destroyed, with 30 people in it.

:cry::cry::cry: I do not remember where, was just watching news and they interviewed a woman from it who got out.