Post by Shadow on Sept 12, 2005 8:13:16 GMT -5
Much of New Orleans Will Be Drained by October, Officials Say
Washington Post
By Timothy Dwyer and Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, September 11, 2005; A11
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 10 -- Federal officials said Saturday that much of New Orleans will be drained by mid-October, nearly twice as fast as originally projected, as the obliterated city showed small but substantive signs of recovery.
Decaying bodies were being collected off the streets amid other signs of slow progress throughout the city, from the restoration of power in the central business district to the reconnection of a main rail link. Water levels slowly receded, exposing the tips of fences and sides of houses that only days earlier were submerged in Katrina's wake. Bulldozers pushed away mountains of debris, and crews removed abandoned cars and trucks.
Police Superintendent P. Edwin Compass III said order has been restored to the same streets where looting and violence were ubiquitous last week. The haunting process of finding, bagging and removing bodies intensified. Boatloads of workers combed through neighborhoods, with cadaver-sniffing dogs pointing the way.
A reporter watched two Federal Emergency Management Agency employees and a half-dozen private workers pick up corpses from a ramp to Interstate 10. One body had lain rotting for at least five days, its outline marked by the black stain of drained body fluids.
Washington Post
By Timothy Dwyer and Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, September 11, 2005; A11
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 10 -- Federal officials said Saturday that much of New Orleans will be drained by mid-October, nearly twice as fast as originally projected, as the obliterated city showed small but substantive signs of recovery.
Decaying bodies were being collected off the streets amid other signs of slow progress throughout the city, from the restoration of power in the central business district to the reconnection of a main rail link. Water levels slowly receded, exposing the tips of fences and sides of houses that only days earlier were submerged in Katrina's wake. Bulldozers pushed away mountains of debris, and crews removed abandoned cars and trucks.
Police Superintendent P. Edwin Compass III said order has been restored to the same streets where looting and violence were ubiquitous last week. The haunting process of finding, bagging and removing bodies intensified. Boatloads of workers combed through neighborhoods, with cadaver-sniffing dogs pointing the way.
A reporter watched two Federal Emergency Management Agency employees and a half-dozen private workers pick up corpses from a ramp to Interstate 10. One body had lain rotting for at least five days, its outline marked by the black stain of drained body fluids.
