Reply #506: 9/16 Spike in Discovered Corpses as Workers Now Enter Hardest Hit Areas

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(And I assume they're still generally not even ENTERING most houses?)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1786959
Higher-than-expected death toll seen in clustered New Orleans corpses
http://http//www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/

By Michael Perlstein
Staff writer

Tentative optimism that New Orleans’ death toll from Katrina might be far lower than first projected has given way to somber reality over the past 36 hours as search and rescue squad turn up bodies by the dozen in the hardest hit areas of the city.

By mid-afternoon Friday, the black triangles used to designate human remains were multiplying on an emergency command center map. Federal Emergency Management Agency rescue squad liaison Charles Hood said a spike in discoveries Friday has started to take an emotional toll on rescue workers.

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“Parts of the city have become a target-rich environment for human remains,” Hood said. “We’re just now getting into the areas that experienced the most rapid inundation.”

Large chunks of the city, including parts of Gentilly, the Desire-Florida area and Upper 9th Ward, have revealed tell-tale signs that the two breaches of the London Avenue Canal led to a rapid rush of floodwater that caught scores of residents off-guard. The surprise factor was only worsened in that the fast-rising water, more than 12 feet in spots, came well after the storm had passed.

Why, why, why is this not on the homepage of the Times-Picayune's NOLA.Com?

For related information, see my post on "What Holocaust" on wetbankguide.blogspot.com. If they are under reporting the dead by as much as 90%, Nagin may not have been that far off.

The toll of the "officially dead" is 579.