We'll return for your sister's body, the rescuers said.

[DoYouEverWonder]

Two months on she was still in the house

November 8, 2005

Nobody knows how long Deborah "Bodie" Fisher, 85, had been trapped in her home with the corpse of her younger sister, Delia "Sis" Holloway, 82, upstairs, and 2ft of flood water downstairs when help finally floated by on September 2.

It was five days after New Orleans's levees had broken. Bodie waded downstairs to tell the rescuers to leave her alone. "My sister is upstairs," she told them. "Let me die here with my sister." Then she slammed the door and went back in.

<snip>

Two months later two family friends, John Gaines and Stacey Martin, went to the house. Ms Martin used to clean for the women and Mr Gaines thought taking her to the house would give her some closure.

"I left Stacey alone to get her memories," Mr Gaines says. "She went upstairs and after a while she screamed, 'Sis is in here. Sis is in here.' I thought, 'Here we go. She's hallucinating.' So I went upstairs and sure enough, there was Sis."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/hurricanes2005/story/0,16546,1636599,00.html

I wonder how many more Sis's are yet to be found? Too bad BushCo & the M$M doesn't seem to give a damn.

[knowbody0]

1. there are 7,100 missing persons from Katrina

[nini]

4. do you happen to know what the 'official' death toll is?

I don't think I've heard anything lately.

[knowbody0]

6. the last I saw was under 1,500 n/t

[nini]

7. well if you don't count the bodies.. I'm sure it is

the bastards.




thanks

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. I found a link to someone who is trying to keep track

Friday, October 14, 2005
Katrina Death Toll Rises to 1,337

Update: The unofficial death toll for Hurricane Katrina is now 1,356 as of October 26. Please see my October 29 post, Katrina Death Toll Lowered to 1,356, for details.

The unofficial death toll for Hurricane Katrina increased to 1,337 on Friday, October 14, as 17 more bodies were found in Mississippi and Louisiana during the week.

In Louisiana, new bodies were found every day, with 14 new bodies total found during the week, rasising the state total to 1,035, with more to come, according to the coroner. After a long period when no new bodies were found, three new bodies were found in Mississippi, raising the total there to 224. State by state totals:


Louisiana: Fri., October 14: 1,035
Mississippi: Fri., October 14: 224
Florida: Fri., October 14: 28: 14
Alabama: Fri., October 14: 2
Georgia: Fri., October 14: 2
Ohio: Fri., September 23: 2
Kentucky: Fri., September 23: 1
Evacuees*: Tues. October 4: 57

Unofficial total: 1,337

http://robertlindsay.blogspot.com/2005/10/katrina-death-toll-rises-to-1337.html

[loudsue]

11. And you notice the MSM: Once again: Silence of the Lambs

Not a peep out of them. Bastards.

:kick::kick::kick:

[nini]

12. thanks for the link.. I'll keep an eye on this

:thumbsup:

[roguevalley]

2. Oh. My. God.

[nini]

3. SHAMEFUL... this is a disgrace of the largest kind

:grr:


There is NO excuse for this crap. But at least Brownie looked good on camera. :sarcasm:





:cry:

[WhiteTara]

5. and we saw his rolled up sleeves

surely that means something to the dead.

[nini]

8. well, it is hard work after all

I swear to God I am sooooo disgusted wtih those pigs.


I just don't get how anyone can still believe their crap.

[WhiteTara]

16. hard hard work

his transmitter told him so.
IMPEACH BUSH AND SEN THEM ALL TO THE HAGUE!
:grr::nuke::scream::bounce::rant::scream:
okay, I feel better.
Soon, we have to be rid of them soon.

[tanyev]

20. Fashion gods don't waste their beautiful minds thinking about dead bodies.

[uppityperson]

9. I have no adequate words.

Lots of thoughts but not the right words to adequately express my feelings about all this. And rage. Lots of rage.

[wanpete]

13. What a sad, pathetic story. And this is America.

[Gormy Cuss]

14. Why is this in a UK paper? Arrgh.

I am so sick of hearing about this stuff from the foreign press.

Such a terrible story. How the hell is it that the daughter didn't get an expedited transfer of her mother's body? Perhaps without the DNA testing someone doesn't get to bilk -er, bill the government?
What a bunch of heartless SOBs.


There is no excuse to make the daughter wait. None.

[DoYouEverWonder]

15. Here's a another one

November 04, 2005

Trapped in the attic of her flooded Lakeview home with little more than a box of chips and a water bottle, Althea Lala, 76, died not long after Hurricane Katrina struck on Aug. 29.

Mistakenly thinking the hale and feisty grandmother had been rescued, her family searched evacuation shelters across two states before learning that her body was at a special morgue in the town of St. Gabriel.

What happened next is a story of false hopes, faulty assurances and an exasperating series of delays before the morgue turned over Lala's body to her two daughters Thursday.

That was 66 days after the storm, 44 days after the body was removed from the house, a month after the morgue said Lala would soon be released, and 13 days after the state's supervisor at the morgue told the daughters they could immediately collect their mother's body.

"It's been a nightmare," said Jane Estopinal, one of Lala's daughters.

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-0/113108708346490.xml

At least this was published in the Times-Picayune. Of course, the M$M won't cover these stories.

[fooj]

17. This is so shameful...it sickens me.

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Peace.

[Nothing Without Hope]

18. Several other stories of people finding family members' bodies in

"searched" family homes have been published. I'm betting there are hundreds throughout the south. When they demolish buildings they've condemned. Many bodies will finally be buried.

[EuroObserver]

19. Thanks for posting. There was this somewhat related thread earlier:

We Americans are like recovering addicts after a four-year bender
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5283735#5293496

Recommended link: Section "New Orleans: Gentrification by Genocide" http://www.sfbayview.com/

[Oceansaway]

21. 'an angel to watch over all'

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