Comments on: 3 Weeks After Hurricane Ike, The Search For Bodies Finally Begins

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:52:01 +0000

It cost over $500 for gas alone to evacuate. What do you think it cost for food and for lodging. What about what people went home to. How about $7,000 worth of fence repairs. What about roof repairs? what about insurance dedutibles? And we don’t live on the coast. I have friends in Kentucky who had siding ripped off their home and windows blown out because of hurricane Ike and Kentucky is not on the coast. If people don’t live in the coastal towns who will run the refineries? Who will run the ports? Some people do not have the funds to evacuate twice only 6 days apart. Ike did more damages than Katrina did yet the people are not getting the help that the victims of Katrina got. The media is not even covering all the towns that were hurt. Galveston was not the only city that was hurt. Check the entire coast of Texas. The surge took out a lot of coastal towns and a lot of marinas. Insurance does not cover wind and surges. That is not considered flood damage.

By: Erin

Erin — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:54:41 +0000

AMEN SHERRY!!!

By: Sherry

Sherry — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:36:21 +0000

I can not believe what I am reading..NO Mercy and Not one once of Compassion for the Dear Families that are Searching for Love ones.. You must remember what Our Lord And Savior Jesus has Said What Mercy you show is the Mercy you will receive.. He also Has told us that When One of our Brothers and Sisters are in mourning that we too should mourn with them..GOD BLESS THE BROKENHEARTED… Turn to the True Answer JESUS CHRIST,HE WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU OR FORSAKE YOU…HE HEARS YOUR CRIES AND HE WILL HEAL YOUR HEARTS..JESUS LIVES!!!

By: totda

totda — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 04:47:57 +0000

I am truly sorry the world is full of the DUMB ASSES like(mike deborah bob bruce and jeff c)… these people need to be stuck in the middle of a storm like that with their families and be told to fend for themselves …Dont make any comments if you do not know the facts … it shows your stupidity!!!

By: heather

heather — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:38:14 +0000

hello everyone who is not from this area (ABOVE) you are very brave to make the comments you have made…being a nurse from this it saddens me to hear the remarks and inhumanity from all of yall…shame on you…many of the people from the area (esp. elderly) live on fixed incomes and if you stretch your brain to a couple of weeks before ike the was a manditory evac. for gustav and that took alot of the money that many of the people use to buy medications and food let alone evacuate again… the emergency management system failed in our area which left several people unable to leave ,stuck here…i pray that you people are just lead by ignorance rather than being cold hearted and hope you never experience anything lie this because people with your attitude would never make it….when you lay your head on your pillow tonite say a prayer for all the elderly and the people who “ignored” the manditory evac. and then say a pray for yourself that you become less of a shallow humanbeing

By: jeff c

jeff c — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:52:00 +0000

Acts of nature cannot be truly predicted or ignored! If something becomes MANDITORY a human must take heed, everyone seen the pictures, everybody new the RISKS! CARMA,MR.BADLUCK and MOTHER NATURE sometimes they get together and this is what you get! you don’t have to like it,you just have to know i’m right. You want to HELP, go be a volenteer, but be ready it’s going to be very harsh. IT JUST GOES TO SHOW “COMMON SENSE IS NOT TO COMMON”. WAKE UP PEOPLE!

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:10:27 +0000

Can someone explain to me why people live in areas prone to bad weather? Look at New Orleans! It was built below sea level and requires levees to prevent the area from being inundated during hurricanes and yet people are rebuilding in the same area! They have moved towns in the midwest due to flooding issues, so why can’t people in coastal areas figure the same thing out. Insurance companies need to start saying no and we’ll just let Mother Nature do what she wants just as she has since the planet was created…we’re never going to be able to stop her!

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:58:12 +0000

Why is that everyone always expects the government (local, state, federal) to always come to the rescue? There was a mandatory evacuation…if they didn’t leave then they got what was coming to them. If they did leave and didn’t take phone numbers to call family to let them know where they are then that’s their problem. Stop blaming the government for everything and start acting like adults and accept responsibility for your actions!

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:48:01 +0000

If you want to find these people so bad go for it. They ignored the evacuation so whatever happened to them is their own fault. Nobody else should risk getting chewed by a ‘gator to find their dead ass.

By: Sky Russell

Sky Russell — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:38:36 +0000

Do not trust the Government. I went through hurricane Andrew in Florida. The government hid the fact that over 500 migrant workers simply vanished. They told the families that “The workers must have left for another job.” They don’t look too hard for people, but they do let the media tell us that there isn’t that many people missing. If you’re missing someone–GO FIND THEM. If you wait for the officials, you may as well just have a service and bury the memory of them.