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Search for Bodies Ends in New Orleans
2005-10-04
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"...The toll Tuesday stood at 972..."
It seems that Mayor Nagin and the press will not reach their 10,000 goal. The Galveston 1900 hurricane killed at least 8,000, so the Global Warming doomsayers are looking a bit hysterical too.
Posted by:Clairt Ulalet9259

#12  According to Kanye West, the Feds took care of it because it was white.
Posted by: VAMark   2005-10-04 23:31  

#11  I wonder what happened to that Albino gator in the Audobon zoo.....
Posted by: Shipman   2005-10-04 19:39  

#10   Does that include the poor black folks ... hunted down, killed and eaten by government trained killer dolphins?
Dolphins didn't kill or eat anybody. It was the secret Alligator Predators squad the government has trained to go after Jihadis in the marshes of Iraq that escaped from their secret compound under the Superdome. But shhhhh ... it's a secret!
Posted by: Old Patriot   2005-10-04 17:45  

#9  .com---will the last cannibal left please raise his/her hand?
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2005-10-04 17:40  

#8  Cannibals ate the other 9,028.
Posted by: .com   2005-10-04 17:11  

#7  That she is legal and the DA can drop the charges? Now ask me about 19.
Posted by: Louis Louis   2005-10-04 16:40  

#6  but 9+7+2 = 18 and we all know the meaning of 18
Posted by: Frank G   2005-10-04 16:23  

#5  972? Does that include the poor black folks vaporized when Bush blew up the levees? Or hunted down, killed and eaten by government trained killer dolphins? Does it? No, sir! They'll never find them!
Posted by: Louis Farrahkan   2005-10-04 15:30  

#4  JFM, there was a piece earlier in relation to some evaluations by engineers at LSU that a) the storm surges _in the canals_ weren't large enough to overtop the seawalls (which were the parts that were breached); also, the seawalls that broke were all of relatively recent construction.

So either there's somthing wrong with the design themselves (possible) or the seawalls weren't built to spec (IMHO more possible).
Posted by: Phil Fraering   2005-10-04 15:06  

#3  If Katrina was that weak that means that the levies were not as solid as advertised or more extacly not as solid as the price they had been sold.
Posted by: JFM   2005-10-04 14:36  

#2  All that and Katrina may have been weaker than first thought.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-10-04 13:51  

#1  That's still 972 that could have been saved if mayor Nagin did not let the hundreds of available school and city transportation buses flood out. That's 972 that died as Nagin was fiddling while New Orleans flooded, crying that only Greyhound buses, not city transport, were good enough. That's 972 that died as the result of New Orleans politicians and well connected sqaundering and stealing the billions of federal tax dollars given for New Orleans flood control.
Posted by: ed   2005-10-04 13:41  

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