bodies in NO

My wife works with a woman whose brother is a life-flight
helicopter pilot. He was working in New Orleans and just got back
yesterday. He claims there are 17,000 bodies in body bags at the
airport--seen them with his own eyes, he says. Says that the
media isn't being allowed to see them.

I just report what I hear.

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Re: bodies in NO

Estimates from various news outlets have crept up and hit 20,000. After I
heard that number, they dropped back to well below 10,000. At least one
news outlet is in agreement with the figure you posted.

"sam grey" <> wrote in message
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>
>
> My wife works with a woman whose brother is a life-flight
> helicopter pilot. He was working in New Orleans and just got back
> yesterday. He claims there are 17,000 bodies in body bags at the
> airport--seen them with his own eyes, he says. Says that the
> media isn't being allowed to see them.
>
> I just report what I hear.
>
> --
>
> "Did you notice that [Candaq and Gardner] never miss one of my posts and I
> never read theirs, I have to wonder just who it is that's envious." -Ed,
> in
> news:<9cn26l$6di6$>.

Re: bodies in NO

The body bag count is for the estimated worst-case scenario..

Arne
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"funneemunnee" <> wrote in message
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> Estimates from various news outlets have crept up and hit 20,000. After I
> heard that number, they dropped back to well below 10,000. At least one
> news outlet is in agreement with the figure you posted.
>

Re: bodies in NO

sam grey <> wrote:

>My wife works with a woman whose brother is a life-flight
>helicopter pilot. He was working in New Orleans and just got back
>yesterday. He claims there are 17,000 bodies in body bags at the
>airport--seen them with his own eyes, he says.

And he counted them.... how?

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Re: bodies in NO

"Derek Lyons" <> wrote in message
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> sam grey <> wrote:
>
> >My wife works with a woman whose brother is a life-flight
> >helicopter pilot. He was working in New Orleans and just got back
> >yesterday. He claims there are 17,000 bodies in body bags at the
> >airport--seen them with his own eyes, he says.
>
> And he counted them.... how?
>
> D.
> --
> Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh.
>
> -Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings.
> Oct 5th, 2004 JDL

I'm sure this is going to be the next big controversy: counting the dead. A
city the size of New Orleans produces quite a few bodies on a good day.

Reuters lead story, today, is that the body count might not be as high as
people originally expected. They did say that there were 25,000 body bags
available.

-herb

Re: bodies in NO

"Derek Lyons" <> wrote in message
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> And he counted them.... how?

Divide the whole pile into 100 parts. Then count the bags in one of the
parts. If you count, say, 170 bags, multiply by 100 and you get 17,000.

Re: bodies in NO

Herb wrote:

> "Derek Lyons" <> wrote in message
> news:
>
>>sam grey <> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>My wife works with a woman whose brother is a life-flight
>>>helicopter pilot. He was working in New Orleans and just got back
>>>yesterday. He claims there are 17,000 bodies in body bags at the
>>>airport--seen them with his own eyes, he says.
>>
>>And he counted them.... how?
>>
>>D.
>>--
>>Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh.
>>
>>-Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings.
>>Oct 5th, 2004 JDL
>
>
> I'm sure this is going to be the next big controversy: counting the dead. A
> city the size of New Orleans produces quite a few bodies on a good day.
>
> Reuters lead story, today, is that the body count might not be as high as
> people originally expected. They did say that there were 25,000 body bags
> available.

One reason for this, is that alligators have apparently invaded the
swamp that used to be New Orleans, and are likely eating the smaller
bodies (children).


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Re: bodies in NO

"Steven L." <> wrote in message
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> One reason for this, is that alligators have apparently invaded the
> swamp that used to be New Orleans, and are likely eating the smaller
> bodies (children).

Eeew!

-herb

Re: bodies in NO

Herb wrote:

> "Steven L." <> wrote in message
> news:BLGUe.8296$
>
>
>>One reason for this, is that alligators have apparently invaded the
>>swamp that used to be New Orleans, and are likely eating the smaller
>>bodies (children).
>
>
> Eeew!

Yes, I saw at least one news report on this.



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