DMORT LA didn't get a phone until Monday;Coronoer: bodies in homes.

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http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=globalNews&storyID=2005-10-06T231155Z_01_YUE683500_RTRUKOC_0_US-HURRICANES-DEATHS.xml

Families may find hurricane dead in New Orleans
Fri Oct 7, 2005 12:12 AM BST

"It looks like they are leaving the citizens to go into their homes and find their loved ones themselves," New Orleans' coroner Dr. Frank Minyard told reporters on Thursday....

...Dr. Louis Cataldie, the Louisiana medical examiner, said this pace was "horribly slow" and partly blamed poor communications with the family call center, where people have reported missing persons.

In fact, the makeshift New Orleans coroner's office near Baton Rouge just got a trailer with a phone hookup on Monday, more than a month after Katrina hit, Minyard said....

"We feel that we may have lost people into the river, into the marshes and into the Gulf. There's probably no way that we're going to be able to find those folks," Cataldie said.

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1. Wow.

Having citizens come home to discover their own loved ones rotting corpses? Where do our tax dollars go? Oh, wait... I remember where they go.

I'm speechless. Recommended.

[GetTheRightVote]

2. The sorrow just goes straight to your heart, those poor, poor people

It makes me cry inside out.

:kidk:

[Fovea]

3. This does not happen to the first world.

So we better just accept that ** has reduced America to 3rd world status.

[proReality]

4. It's not bad enough that they've lost everything or nearly

everything, now they're expected to experience the horror and trauma of finding dead loved ones.

I guess that's compassion?

[Digit]

5. Words fail me...this is too horrible....

I feel like I have just been hit in the gut.

[chalky]

6. I'm speechless. Just...speechless.

These poor families.

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