[extropy-chat] katrina tales

[spike]

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.