Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....... send winter away!!!
Ok.. today is the day I get to quit bragging about how nice it is here. It is 40 degrees and a cold rain at 11 am.. I was sitting last night watching the rain come down on my patio in shorts.. so it is officially miserable.
The parking lot of the Main building of the morgue is all made with white limestone gravel and shells, they grade it and roll it and grade and roll and it becomes just like concrete. "they assure me" it will not be horribly dusty in the summer but we will see.
I lament not being able to take the time to have seen Harry Potter or the forthcoming Lion Witch and Wardrobe. I will have an additional backlog of books and movies to have seen by the time I abandon the disaster next year.
Morgue Stats and urban legends. Something just under 1000 bodies recovered to the morgue, about 125 identified about 135 are tentatively identified, and just over 100 have been released. The most recent hateful urban legend is that FEMA is taking the bodies in but intend to keep them forever. The most southern and remote parishes are reluctant to release bodies for both religious and political reasons including this particular urban lgend. There are private estimates taht there are at least as many still out there as have been brought in. At least one mausoleum was discovered all barnacle encrusted... aparently washed out to sea by a previous hurricane and redeposited on land with Rita. Two of the Parishes had mass graves from a previous hurricane... unidentified bodies from the 40's .... that were disenterred and the location of them is undetermined..... I was working on a computer in the dental lab when a positive ID was made today.... a very odd mixture of happiness and sadness.... They had an antemortem "life" photo of a smiling 7 or 8 year or so old boy.. with stubby front teeth and a peculiar gold tooth on his right incisor...that matched photos exactly of postmortem photos of the remains of this little guy.... hard not to think of my son in that circumstance... that I am glad his mom will know where he is... my job is to keep the computers and files that allow these matches running and safe from lost or corruption.
The parking lot of the Main building of the morgue is all made with white limestone gravel and shells, they grade it and roll it and grade and roll and it becomes just like concrete. "they assure me" it will not be horribly dusty in the summer but we will see.
I lament not being able to take the time to have seen Harry Potter or the forthcoming Lion Witch and Wardrobe. I will have an additional backlog of books and movies to have seen by the time I abandon the disaster next year.
Morgue Stats and urban legends. Something just under 1000 bodies recovered to the morgue, about 125 identified about 135 are tentatively identified, and just over 100 have been released. The most recent hateful urban legend is that FEMA is taking the bodies in but intend to keep them forever. The most southern and remote parishes are reluctant to release bodies for both religious and political reasons including this particular urban lgend. There are private estimates taht there are at least as many still out there as have been brought in. At least one mausoleum was discovered all barnacle encrusted... aparently washed out to sea by a previous hurricane and redeposited on land with Rita. Two of the Parishes had mass graves from a previous hurricane... unidentified bodies from the 40's .... that were disenterred and the location of them is undetermined..... I was working on a computer in the dental lab when a positive ID was made today.... a very odd mixture of happiness and sadness.... They had an antemortem "life" photo of a smiling 7 or 8 year or so old boy.. with stubby front teeth and a peculiar gold tooth on his right incisor...that matched photos exactly of postmortem photos of the remains of this little guy.... hard not to think of my son in that circumstance... that I am glad his mom will know where he is... my job is to keep the computers and files that allow these matches running and safe from lost or corruption.
posted by Steve Morse- Adventures in Disasters at 8:22 PM
6 Comments:
You have a very big heart Steve. It takes a special person to do what you are doing. And i'm glad to call you friend.
Thanks for keeping us posted on how things are going for you. Thinking of you.
"Miserable"?? LOL Today, our high was a whopping (approx) 7 degrees. Tonight's low? -6 to -12 (yes, below zero). The good news is the 6-12 inches of snow didn't appear. Thinking of heading your way for a few months or so.
Seriously, thanks for keeping us posted on the happenings down there.
miserable from 40 deg? You don't know miserable until you walk to class in a 10 deg blizzard! By the time you get to class the snot on the end of your nose is frozen and your eyes are tearing from the pain! (Sandy's Daughter)
Stop your bitchin'! It was -6ยบ at my house last night! I know, it's the humidity! All southerns (old and new) use that excuse.
It hasn't been above 15 degree's the past two days here in Oklahoma. We even got about 1/8 of in of snow dust. Imagine that! Don't work to hard. I'm killing myself to get through December (new VP started) and then I'm taking a week on in January to recover.
Love you Daddy,
Fran.
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