Monday, September 22, 2008
Normal population on Bolivar Peninsula: about 30,000
Number of people who didn't evacuate for Ike: several hundred
Number of people rescued after Ike: approximately 60
Number of dead, according to the Galveston County Medical Examiner: Eight
Statewide reports of "total" number of dead range from 26 - 30
What happened to all the others? If there were "several hundred" - which I readily believe - who didn't leave Bolivar, and there are sixty confirmed rescues, and the Galveston medical examiner says they've got eight bodies - WHAT THE HELL?
Why isn't the media talking about this? Where are those other people? If you target "several hundred" and say that's maybe about 250, take away the 60 who were rescued, and the 8 bodies that are in Galveston, where the hell are those other 180 odd people? I haven't heard Not One Word.
Normally when lots of people die, the media is on it like white on rice. Swarming!! Pushing other reporters out of the way! Oh, the hyperbole that the media pukes up when there is a large loss of life!
So where is the media? Where is the body count?
Are they all just afraid to say what so many of us are thinking? That these people were just washed out to sea, their bodies never to be recovered? Because that's what most of the people I talk with think. We think they're just g o n e.
Number of people who didn't evacuate for Ike: several hundred
Number of people rescued after Ike: approximately 60
Number of dead, according to the Galveston County Medical Examiner: Eight
Statewide reports of "total" number of dead range from 26 - 30
What happened to all the others? If there were "several hundred" - which I readily believe - who didn't leave Bolivar, and there are sixty confirmed rescues, and the Galveston medical examiner says they've got eight bodies - WHAT THE HELL?
Why isn't the media talking about this? Where are those other people? If you target "several hundred" and say that's maybe about 250, take away the 60 who were rescued, and the 8 bodies that are in Galveston, where the hell are those other 180 odd people? I haven't heard Not One Word.
Normally when lots of people die, the media is on it like white on rice. Swarming!! Pushing other reporters out of the way! Oh, the hyperbole that the media pukes up when there is a large loss of life!
So where is the media? Where is the body count?
Are they all just afraid to say what so many of us are thinking? That these people were just washed out to sea, their bodies never to be recovered? Because that's what most of the people I talk with think. We think they're just g o n e.
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# posted by Carol : 7:44 PM
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Color me ignorant, but I've never heard of Bolivar Peninsula. I'm assuming it's by Texas? And if this many people are missing, but the news isn't saying anything... that's downright spooky!
It's amazing how our media covers only certain things, yet something like this, they overlook?
It's amazing how our media covers only certain things, yet something like this, they overlook?
Hey Jane - not ignorant. Expecting folks who aren't from here isn't realistic. People know Galveston - it's a barrier island. Bolivar is basically a barrier peninsula. It's really only a spit of land that slips down along the coast from farther east than Galveston - it is long, very narrow, and barely above sea level. I just read a news story (finally - it's been two weeks!) about the missing people. I'll post it tonight.
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