Chambers County Gets Pounded by Ike (gearing up to search for bodies, cadaver dog will be searching)

[maddezmom]

Source: fOX26

Last Edited: Saturday, 20 Sep 2008, 1:43 AM CDT
HOUSTON -- While authorities in Chambers County gear up to search for possible bodies, some residents are searching for what's left of their lives.

The storm surge pushed everything from boats to houses from the Bolivar Peninsula into Chambers County.

Click here to see the full video story by FOX 26's Randy Wallace.

There was something else the huge surge pushed into the northern part of Galveston Bay and Trinity Bay-- survivors. That has Chambers County Sheriff Joe Larive wondering if those who didn't survive were washed up into his county.

Over the next few days, cadaver dogs will be searching through miles of debris the storm surge left behind on Oak Island, which according to the sheriff, is the hardest hit area of Chambers County.



Read more: http://www.myfoxhouston.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7473272&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1

[aquart]

1. Oh, so that's where they went. Maybe.

[uppityperson]

2. 3 cheers for cadaver dogs and their handlers. They are very much needed.

[fascisthunter]

3. Oh You Fetishests!

:sarcasm:

One question here... why did it take so long to start this?

[uppityperson]

4. They've been busy with survivors. Now that they are found/taken care of, more or less, time

to search for the dead. This is what happens in huge disasters. I'm glad they have cadaver dogs.

[fascisthunter]

5. Good Explanation... Thank You for the Reply

it makes sense to take care of the living first. I should have thought of that....

[maddezmom]

6. good explanation

I can't imagine doing this type of work, but I'm sure glad someone does it. People need to have closure as much as it's possible. :(

[Zhade]

7. What's the official number of dead so far?

I haven't seen any numbers, but I probably missed them.

[lastliberalintexas]

8. They are saying at least 50 so far

And "thousands" may be missing, though we don't really have a good figure for the missing yet. It's all Ike, all the time- but without any real information. Except, of course, that people are getting screwed again by FEMA. :(

[countryjake]

9. Is that the number today for Texas or the whole country?

Yesterday it was 61 died in Ike related deaths, in eleven states.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008179760_apikedeathsglance.html?syndication=rss

Saturday, September 20, 2008

By The Associated Press

Authorities have reported a total of 61 deaths in the U.S. as Ike moved from Texas northeastward across the U.S.:

Texas - 26, including three people found in their Houston home where they had been running a gas generator.

Louisiana - six, including two contractors who were electrocuted.

Tennessee - two, both golfers killed by a falling tree.

Arkansas - one, a man killed by a tree falling on a mobile home.

Ohio - six, including five by falling trees and one person electrocuted while working on a generator.

Indiana - seven, including a father and son killed helping children escape from a ditch.

Illinois - two, including an elderly man found in a flooded backyard.

Missouri - four, including a woman struck by a tree limb and an elderly man suspected of drowning in a flooded yard.

Kentucky - three, a 10-year-old boy struck by a tree limb, a woman exposed to carbon monoxide fumes from a generator and a utility worker electrocuted while restoring power in Louisville.

Pennsylvania - two, a 46-year-old man struck by tree limb while helping remove a large tree from a house, and a 43-year-old utility worker who was electrocuted when he stepped on a live wire while working to repair power lines.

Michigan - two, a 1-year-old boy apparently drowned in a stormwater-filled ditch near Auburn, Mich., and a 15-year-old killed when his all-terrain vehicle crashed into a hidden ravine created by storm water.

[orleans]

10. dog. singular. not plural. this could take awhile. n/t