Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, eventually killing 1,836

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Hurricane Katrina: 'Brownie' Winced at Bush's 'Heck of a Job' Line - I had no clue so many had died...

[nosmokes]

1. I'll wager the total is a hella lot higher than that,

but that was the beauty of displacing everyone to distant cities and tearing down their homes (even if they were structurally sound) while they were gone. Makes it next to impossible to get any sort of accurate count of who's dead and who simply left...

[earth mom]

13. Yep, I bet the death toll was massive.

:cry:

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Probably more like ten times that many

I was in New Orleans 18 months ago and talked to a guy who said he had lived there all his life and everyone he knew could list several people they knew who just disappeared and never came back after Katrina. He had a couple cousins and an elderly aunt. They are just gone.

[RB TexLa]

3. And Americans didn't care then and don't care now.

[flvegan]

4. You should make that an OP.

That would be fun.

[Poboy]

8. Well,

I think Americans care. I think they care a lot. I know the people here cared a lot.
In fact, I'd like to thank all of you who still care. I appreciate all the efforts made in the past and continuing. Its more the government apparatus and higher-ups that don't seem to care, at least about the less fortunate.
Thats not unique to New Orleans though, and you people here are well aware of how our government doesn't give a shit in general these days, so I really can't expect much more.
This entire country is screwed, and any attention and concern you people here have shown to N.O. and the gulf coast then, and continue to show is very much appreciated.

[RB TexLa]

10. What attention and concern? They don't care if we live or die. Never have, never will.

[Hannah Bell]

5. george bush = murderer. he should be hauled into the hague for multiple

crimes against humanity, the worthless piece of shit.

[Poboy]

6. Photos-

Markings on the side of a house in Treme on Gov. Nicholls Street indicate it was checked Sept. 12, that it was not entered, and no bodies or pets were found after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.



Markings on the side of a house in Treme on Gov. Nicholls Street indicate it was checked Sept. 11, that it was not entered, and no dead and no animals were found.



Markings on the side of a house in Treme on Gov. Nicholls Street indicate it was checked Sept. 11, that it was not entered, no dead and no animals were found and that the ASPCA left food for loose animals in the neighborhood.



A Coast Guard H-65, in the foreground, and a Blackhawk helicopter fly past the St. Louis Cathedral.



These boats are called “Pogie Boats” because they are used to catch a small fish that are commonly called Pogies here in Louisiana; they are commonly known as menhaden elsewhere. They are owned by a company called Daybrook, formerly Daybrook Fisheries, which catches large volumes of menhaden and, as they say on their website, “produces and distributes menhaden fish meal and fish oil as an important source of omega-3 fatty acids, proteins and essential minerals for high quality feed formulations in Agriculture, Aquaculture and Petfood.” Ironically, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, the parent organization of Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper, was forced to sue Daybrook Fisheries a number of years ago for violating the discharge permits for their wastewater discharge into the the Mississippi River.
Notice the elevated home with the siding ripped off, the leaning telephone pole and the pile of boats behind the two pogie boats, all can be seen in the trailer.



On Aug. 30, 2005, Canal Street, in the heart of New Orleans, was covered by several feet of water.
(Chris Graythen/Getty Images)



On Sept. 7, 2005, rescue workers watched residents paddle a boat down a flooded street in the city’s Garden District.
(Mario Tama/Getty Images)



Rescuers set out in a boat along a flooded street seen from the overpass at I-10 and Highway 61 in New Orleans on Sept. 4, 2005. (Nicholas Kamm/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)



On Aug. 31, 2005, two men paddled past a bridge in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward.
(Mario Tama/Getty Images)

[Festivito]

7. Slowly retrieved bodies were forced to go to a slow morgue.

So, the reasons of death and the numbers of dead were all hidden by the march of time against a media bent on what is new.

You aren't supposed to know how many died.

[Clyde39]

9. Do those responsible have trouble sleeping at night?

Something tells me they do not.

[rainbow4321]

11. That number probably doesn't include

those who died after they left the NO area. I remember hearing about a woman who died after being on an evacuation bus. She died in another city from a blod clot..it was believed at the time that dehydration and sitting on the bus for endless hours caused the clot.
I wanna say the bus headed to TX and then made it's way to Oklahoma. Forget exactly, but the bus trip was really long.
At the time, it was briefly brought up that there was no way to keep an accurate count of deaths since the evacuees were spread across the country, if they were admitted to a local hospital it was hit or miss if they were give a diagnosis (cause of death) that was tied back to what they went thru in NO.

[RedCloud]

12. death total does not equal war, therefore they don't say.