The Houston Chronicle is now reporting the same number I gave three days ago here, which was railed against by enough heartless people to give me the creeps.
Do people really not care about these poor dead and/or just missing for 2 weeks people?
Here's hoping not.
Here's a link to the database of the missing. (Thanks, i know)
A clip from the article:
Gail Ettenger made her last phone call at 10:10 p.m. She was trapped in her Bolivar Peninsula bungalow with her Great Dane, Reba. A drowning cat cried outside. Her Jeep bobbed in the seawater surging around her home.
Ettenger, 58, told her friend she was reading old love letters by flashlight. "I think I really screwed up this time," she said, according to Monroe Burks, Ettenger's neighbor who had evacuated to Houston.
That was Friday, Sept 12. On Wednesday — 12 days later — her nearly nude body was found face down by a huge debris pile in a remote mosquito-ridden marsh in Chambers County, about 10 miles inland from where her gray beach house once stood.
I guess I'll just add that the interest in this story from a Kossack's perspective--just in case the whole "human interest" angle isn't doing it for you---is the total media blackout.
Have you seen this story in your hometown paper? In the NY Times? On MSNBC, CNN, Fox, anywhere?
Yeah, me neither. Feel free to write them and ask for coverage.