Homeland Security Mortuary Response team expects up to 40,000 bodies?

[MSgt213]

A co-owner of Shelbyville-based Gowen-Smith Chapel has been deployed to Gulfport, Miss., to help with recovery since Hurricane Katrina, and his business partner here has described the grim task there.

"DMort is telling us to expect up to 40,000 bodies," Dan Buckner said, quoting officials with the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, a volunteer arm of Homeland Security.

His partner, Dan Hicks, of Paducah, Ky., was deployed Monday. Buckner, of Dickson, is on standby. Their funeral home is one of several collection sites for donations to be taken to the Red Cross in Fayetteville on Wednesday for transfer to places in need.

The 40,000 estimate does "not include the number of disinterred remains that have been displaced from ... mausoleums," Buckner told the Times-Gazette Monday.

Since New Orleans is below sea level, in-ground burial is impossible.

http://www.t-g.com/story/1116806.html

[jarnocan]

1. so horrible

Katrina

here are some resources for those who beleive the lies and incompetance (or worse)warrant impeachment. Includes info on science/global warming, diversion and elimination of funding for vital projects, and the s l o w response.
http://www.impeachbush.tv/news/hurricane1.html or http://www.impeachbush.tv/ INFORMATION here specific to Katrina and why it involves impeachable offenses.

[daibhi]

2. Partisan Sites

IMHO partisan sites such as that are not valid media for substantiating your position.

[kodi]

3. Partisan? its a newspaper article from the Shelbyville-Times Gazette

3, 2, 1..

where is my alert button?

[nolabels]

5. n/t

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[Pepperbelly]

4. horrible but not surprising after what we've seen since this happened. nt

[Kenroy]

6. damn

some friends thought I was crazy when I said I thought the final toll would be 20,000.