Reply #16: Some children must have drowned with one/both parent(s)

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- and it is the other parent or another relative that has listed both child and parent(s) missing.

Many, many families got separated - in the flood waters and during rescues.

The Love family was told that they had to choose whether to put their children on the helicopter or not -- the adults could not go. The family had been stuck on the roof for days and the parents made the decision to do what they thought would ensure that their children would live. They put their children on the copter and told 5-year-old Diamonte to look out after the little ones. Diamonte was found wandering in NOLA without supervision, 5 preschoolers walking/toddling after him. The parents had, in the meantime, been rescued and forced on transportation that took them out of state and were frantic to find their kids. Diamonte and the other children were fine - what about other unsupervised children that were separated from their families? It seems likely to me that other children who were separated from their families may not have made it.

What about parents that may have left their children in a location, with people who they thought would be able to keep their children safe, but then could not get back to them and found out that that something had gone wrong there?

One man was holding onto his wife in the flood waters and she told him to let her go - he could not hold her and she did not want them both to drown. A parent holding onto their child in the water might have lost their grip - that child is missing. Presumed dead and missing.