300 people still missing since Ike hit Texas (CNN.COM)

[DemoTex]

Alligators loom over submerged cars. Mountains of debris are embedded in the ground. Cows, trucks and the remnants of homes are sunk into the ocean. And unverified sightings of missing loved ones are still making the rounds.

More than 300 people are missing since Hurricane Ike hit the Texas coast last month, and the obstacles to finding them are frustrating family and friends who desperately want to know if their loved ones are dead or alive.

These family and friends want answers: Why are so many still missing? Why is the first organized search for bodies, to be held Thursday on the battered Bolivar Peninsular, taken so long?

Local and state authorities are conducting Thursday's search and have been working with the Laura Recovery Center, a missing persons organization. The center helped compile a list of missing people and police are using the information to go door-to-door looking for answers. (More ..)

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/02/ike.missing/index.html

The truth trickles out.

[malaise]

1. Very sad indeed

Two weeks after they have an organized search for human remains. How inhumane.

[Selatius]

2. You used to expect such incompetence in third world dictatorships.

Now, we have come to expect that kind of behavior in our own country. Soon, people will become desensitized to that fact.

[malaise]

4. Not true

Since Katrina, I expect this from Bushco.

[applegrove]

3. Please let it be people who evacuated and are just out of touch.