Oh dear.
I hope that this is merely a generous estimate to avoid having rotting bodies pile up around mortuaries, but jesus fucking christ, these are the sorts of numbers nobody ever wants to see even as an estimate.
DMort is telling us to expect up to 40,000 bodies," Dan Buckner said, quoting officials with the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, a volunteer arm of Homeland Security.
Where are the mass resignations and/or firings? Why does any of the senior FEMA and DHH management still have a job? Oh, that's right, they've "done a fine job" and the B*sh junta doesn't want to worry about who killed who because it's supposed to be a happy occasion.
(via Echidne)