FEMA, La. outsource Katrina body count to firm implicated in body-dumping scandals

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Steeplerot

Lifer
Mar 29, 2004
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Save your frustration dm, the dudes sig says it all already... "I'm not a complete idiot... Some parts are still on backorder."
 

conjur

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Jun 7, 2001
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Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: conjur
A few related items.

First off:

Families Lose Loved Ones Again -- in a Bureaucratic Mire
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld...02,0,5171979.story?coll=la-home-nation


And, then there's this (might explain why the estimated death toll was lowered. Kind of hard to have higher death toll when they don't look for the bodies!:
Returning Home, a Handful Find Bodies; New Orleans Mayor Presses Effort to Reopen City
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/29/natio...lspecial/29death.html?pagewanted=print

I can confirm.

My neighbor across the street Father in Law came back to town over the weekend.

This is a big deal because his neighbors thought he was dead since there was a body on his roof. It's been there since Katrina hit.

They were mighty shocked when he pulled up. He went up on the roof and confirmed it was the mother of a neighbor down the street that stayed to ride out the storm.

A pole with a birdhouse confirms that the water was 21 feet high, over the roof of the house. He will be burning the house to the ground and will re-build with a new structure on 21 foot pilings.

There are fires all over the city as residents start to burn the houses down since there is still no sign of bull dozers or dump trucks.

We have to take matters in our own hands since there is NO help from our Country.

My Parish President, Kevin Davis threatened to go to Baton Rouge Saturday with every Deputy he has to take the FEMA trailers that we saw arrived there and just sitting empty.

There is at least 45,000 residents with unlivable homes that need them in their driveway while they re-build their houses.

Well, this morning, the trailers started arriving.
Um, better late than never? :confused:


Must be the new FEMA motto.
 

slyedog

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trailers still undelivered--sites have to be readied. gas,water,electricity and sewerage have to be installed. also roads have to be put in. these are 100 acre sites. this takes some time

plenty of rumors---neighbors father-in-law,,,,,,,,,,,,,hmmmmmmmm

fema hired this firm----no way. fema disagreed with them. so blanco up and hires them herself. so far, i have not heard one bad thing abt this firm. except from dmcowen. and then everyone knows him..........

there are some good things going on in the disaster area despite what the whack jobs think.
BTW- i am down here
 

bob4432

Lifer
Sep 6, 2003
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regardless of what is really going on, my thoughts are with those that have to live in that area. good luck.
 

OneOfTheseDays

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Jan 15, 2000
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Originally posted by: Condor
Originally posted by: bamacre
Originally posted by: Condor
She is a Politician! They always whore themselves out because they can't do anything on thier own.


Fixed.

No, having been a Democrat until something like 2001, I see a distinct difference between the two classes of politicians. Republicans may have issues, but stupidity isn't one of them.

hehe, i almost fell outta my chair after reading that. you really must be oblivious to the world to make a statement like that. in fact, stupidity, is probably the one word i would use to describe this current administration. so apparently starting a war on false premises and cooked up intelligence and plunging the nation into record deficits with no end in sight is not stupidity in Condor's world. wake up man.
 

judasmachine

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Sep 15, 2002
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i do have a problem with the fact that the company wasn't checked out first, desecration of corpses is almost unforgivable. i also have a problem with firms jacking up the price just cause they know the public dole is paying.
 

moshquerade

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Nov 1, 2001
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cripes conjur, warn me next time there is going to be a rigor mortis guy (?) hung up on a branch by his clothes with his body half dipped in water picture at your link.