Number of deceased victims; from LA state Dept of Health

[Be Brave]

Reported by local coroners. 423 deaths confirmed.

http://www.dhh.louisiana.gov/offices/news.asp?ID=145&Detail=631

Deceased Victims 9-13-05

September 13: Updated Number of Deceased Victims Resulting from Hurricane Katrina

* At this time, state officials, working in conjunction with coroners from local parishes have confirmed 423 deaths.

* These numbers have been reported to state officials by local coroners.

* A breakdown of these deaths is as follows:

342 are at the morgue in St. Gabriel

Parish Coroners:

East Baton Rouge – 39

Iberia Parish – 6

Jefferson Parish – 27

St. Charles – 3

St. Tammany Parish – 6.

[SmokingJacket]

1. I'm curious as to which ones are going to St Gabriel and

which aren't.

I see none from St Bernard, Plaquemines, Orleans, etc. Are all those going to St. Gabriel?

I'm shocked that at this point there are MORE in East Baton Rouge than in Jefferson... does that mean some of Jefferson's are in St Gabriel?

I'm sure it's just a mess, but these questions should be asked.

[Be Brave]

2. Yes, I imagine that the most badly affected areas will not have

the resources for the morgue, post-mortem, etc., so the deceased are sent to St. Gabriel.

[MissWaverly]

3. I heard Jefferson Parish had 152 but only counted 27

you are interpreting that dead bodies means dead bodies, but they
said they are only listing those that died as a direct result of
the hurricane, so if you died of thirst or from not taking meds that
you did not have, that would not count as part of the Hurricane totals.

[bobbieinok]

4. woman turned away from Astrodome, 30 hrs on bus, died in OK counted?

[Be Brave]

5. From the same link:

* Any death that is determined to have been caused as a result of Hurricane Katrina will be counted as a hurricane-related death. For example, this applies to people who drowned as well as people who required life-support but had it cut off and died as a result when power was lost during the storm.

[celestia671]

6. The worst thing is...

that alot of bodies may never be found. I've been told by a couple of folks from St. Bernard Parish about the possibility of alligators eating the corpses.

Unrelated to body counts, there has also been crude oil leaking into the water down there. Once we get thru the impact on human life, we'll be faced with one hell of an environmental disaster.

[Be Brave]

7. Agree, there will be long-term environmental damage on

Lake Pontchartrain and the Gulf Coast.

[celestia671]

8. Lake Pontchartrain

was a popular recreation site decades ago, but sewage pollution pretty much shut it down. Well, it was cleaned up enough for swimming until Katrina hit. Now, they're pumping all of the toxic water from NO into it, and the fish are just popping up on the water, dead. So sad!

[Be Brave]

11. I visit Baton Rouge and vicinity regularly, and one of the things I look

forward to when I'm there is having some crawfish. I just love it, and seafood in general. Now, sadly, I would be afraid of sampling any seafood when I'm in the area.

[porphyrian]

9. The operational word here is "confirmed."

Thousands are still considered "missing," even though they are likely dead.

[MissWaverly]

10. I also heard they are in no hurry to collect bodies

I heard FEMA is just doing a "gps" of the location as they pass by.

[MissWaverly]

12. go to Michael Moore's site

He's down there, they are distributing aid in Louisianna and in rural
areas affected by the hurricane, he says that there are dead bodies
everywhere and that they are the first aid to arrive when they go to
some areas after 2 weeks. (No Red Cross, no FEMA)

[Be Brave]

13. Yes, I think the same thing is happening in Mississippi. n/t

[MissWaverly]

17. Green J and Be Brave

I called the Young Turks and told them what you said, how you confirmed
what Michael Moore said, they said they would investigate and get
back to us on their show tomorrow night, they are on Sirius radio,
if you go THE YOUNG TURKS, you might be able to listen tomorrow night.

[WhollyHeretic]

14. Some friends of mine who run the local Food Not Bombs are down there

and they got to a town a couple of days ago and they were the first people to show up with supplies.

[MissWaverly]

15. God Bless, I can't believe it, thanks for confirming this

[WhollyHeretic]

16. I just posted an email I got from them here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4774024&mesg_id=4774024

[MissWaverly]

19. GreenJ, thanks for posting this

I sent your friend's e-mail to the Young Turks as Part II of the Question I asked tonight about parts of the disaster area not getting aid.

A big thank you from Miss Waverly


:bounce: :bounce:

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. Where is that nursing home

where 39 died?

[Be Brave]

20. I think that's in St. Bernard parish. The bodies would have been

sent to St. Gabriel morgue, I think.

[MissWaverly]

21. article on Daily Kos about hiding bodies

PETER TEDESCHI, CNN PRODUCER: Well Wolf, we were just Long Beach, Mississippi, west of Gulfport a few hours ago. And we're seeing barbed wire strewn across the entire length of the city about a half mile up from the Gulf of Mexico. So when it's completed, we will see about four and a half miles of rolling barbed wire by a half mile down to the water.

What security guards there are telling us is that they want to keep looters out. But what some military police told me privately was that they expect to find a lot of bodies in the area, that they're finding a debris field where very nice, middle to upper middle class homes once existed. And that they can't even get into the debris field in order to be able to find the bodies.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/14/214731/699