A title which has to be the most tasteless and tacky Monty Python reference of this hurricane season. Yeah, I know I’m supposed to be taking time off from hurricane blogging. So sue me. Only don’t, ok?
Amazingly, despite all the horrible predictions, we still have no bodies found on Bolivar. It’s been almost a week now. I’ve seen some contradictory net rumors from “friend of a friend” type sources, but not one eyewitness report. From KHOU:
GALVESTON, Texas — Search teams finished a second sweep of Bolivar Peninsula on Thursday and did not find any bodies, the Galveston County judge said. However, as the search of the devastated peninsula transitions from rescue to recovery, Judge Jim Yarbrough cautioned that those missing from Bolivar might never be seen again.
“There’s no question we are going to have some missing people (that) we are never going to find,” Yarbrough said Thursday night.
I’m having real problems believing we could be so lucky, that there has not been one body found yet*. The escapes we’ve heard of have been too close and harrowing for there to not be a number of deaths, if there were lots of people left. Estimates of the number of people who remained on Bolivar and Galveston must have been wildly incorrect.
*edit: we do have the report of someone dead here.
It really is amazing. I would have expected at least a few corpses to have been found floating in Galveston Bay.
This is third hand but I am told of a coast guard member that is saying that they are pulling bodies out of the bay on a daily basis and is suprised that it is not being reported in the media. I am also being told that many people on the Bolivar peninsula were overtaken by events. That Thursday evening many people got home form work and started packing up to leave Friday morning, but TXDOT stopped the ferry early Friday morning and that within an hour or so of the ferry stopping, the road through High Island flooded from the storm surge in seargent leaving them no way off the peninsula. I too am questioning the official body count.