25,000 dead???

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A co-owner of Shelbyville-based Gowen-Smith Chapel has been deployed to Gulfport, Miss., to help with recovery since Hurricane Katrina, and his business partner here has described the grim task there.
"DMort is telling us to expect up to 40,000 bodies," Dan Buckner said, quoting officials with the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, a volunteer arm of Homeland Security.

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Wow. I hope they are WAY off.

Note: I wasn't calling you a liar, I just wanted to see where you had heard that figure.

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Lack of information can lead to crazy estimates. Early 9/11 estimates had casualties well over 10K.

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yeah, but those came down within a day. this is nearly two weeks since it hit and the counts/estimates seem to be increasing. The actual ordering of such a large number of body bags is likely more than wild speculation.

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And it is. Even if there is a 1% chance of being over 20K deaths, they'll bring at least that many bags, because if it just so happens that the number is that extreme, it's better to have the bags then get called incompetent for not having enough.