In Attics and Rubble, More Bodies and Questions (you know where)

[donsu]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/11/us/nationalspecial/11body.html?th&emc=th

When August Blanchard returned to New Orleans from Pennsylvania in late December, his mother was still missing. Family members, scattered across the country, had been calling hospitals, the Red Cross and missing persons hot lines, hoping she had been rescued.

But Mr. Blanchard, 26, had a bad feeling. Twice, he drove past the pale green house on Reynes Street in the Lower Ninth Ward, where he and his mother, Charlene Blanchard, 45, had lived, yet he could not bring himself to enter.

It was not until Feb. 25 that one of Mr. Blanchard's uncles nudged the front door open with his foot and spied Ms. Blanchard's hand. Dressed in her nightgown and robe, she lay under a moldering sofa. With her was a red velvet bedspread that her daughter had given her and a huge teddy bear.
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the photos are powerful
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next time it could be your momma

drag them out of our White House

[Bunny]

1. It is an outrage and a national disgrace that we are still finding

bodies in New Orleans. We are a third world nation.

[babylonsister]

2. "next time it could be your momma"

Another case of how well DHS and FEMA are performing.

:cry: :cry: :cry:

[marmar]

3. The American tragedy...

This administration is responsible for more death....

:cry:

[jus_the_facts]

4. Got there in DEC. and it STILL took till Feb. to get the dead woman

...out of her house??? SHE WASN'T MISSING...SHE WAS AT HOME!!! :yoiks:

edited to add...of course the gov't should have done more...but this story only makes me wonder about the family as well...that is all.