"Not enough refigerated trucks to remove corpses"

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"Not enough refigerated trucks to remove corpses"

#1 Postby Windy » Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:20 pm

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/30/katrina.mississippi/index.html

In the small town of Bay St. Louis, search and rescue crews marked with red paint homes known to contain bodies, because there weren't enough refrigerated trucks to remove the corpses, according to CNN correspondent Gary Tuchman.
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#2 Postby Brent » Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:37 pm

It's really sad... because it was so preventable. If these people had just moved 10 to 20 miles inland they would have survived.
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