[extropy-chat] katrina tales

[Mike Lorrey]

This is in line with the exaggeration of Nagin about the whole episode,
where he predicted 10,000 dead in NOLA. The current death count from
the whole region (incl Mississippi) is a bit over 1000. Can you say
"pandering for federal funds" i.e. squeaky wheelism?

--- spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:

> 
> A blog is reporting that much of the horror reported
> in the storm aftermath in the dome were wildly
> exaggerated.  Who do we believe?  spike
> 
> New Orleans Times-Picyune:
> 
> Following days of internationally reported killings, rapes and gang
> violence
> inside the Dome, the doctor from FEMA - Beron doesn't remember his
> name -
> came prepared for a grisly scene: He brought a refrigerated
> 18-wheeler and
> three doctors to process bodies.
> 
> "I've got a report of 200 bodies in the Dome," Beron recalls the
> doctor
> saying.
> 
> The real total was six, Beron said.
> 
> Of those, four died of natural causes, one overdosed and another
> jumped to
> his death in an apparent suicide, said Beron, who personally oversaw
> the
> turning over of bodies from a Dome freezer, where they lay atop
> melting bags
> of ice. State health department officials in charge of body recovery
> put the
> official death count at the Dome at 10, but Beron said the other four
> bodies
> were found in the street near the Dome, not inside it. Both sources
> said no
> one had been killed inside.
> 
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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
Founder, Constitution Park Foundation:
http://constitutionpark.blogspot.com
Personal/political blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com

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