What About St. Bernard's Parish?

St. Bernard's Parish is an untold story because noone is telling it. It’s just to the southeast of New Orleans but it isn’t part of the City.
St. Bernard's Parish was closer to the storm’s strength than New Orleans. This is an economically depressed area with a population of 67,000. There were no estimates of how many people left before Katrina arrived. Let’s say 70 % (the historical percentage of a local population which leave behind their residences in the pathway of a severe hurricane) left before the storm. That leaves 20,000 remaining behind.
On Monday morning during the storm there was a report that there was widespread flooding in St. Bernard’s Parish due to the storm surge. Also there was a report that the local emergency services center at an armory was destroyed at the height of the storm.
On Tuesday overhead flights indicated that because of the storm surge a majority of the homes were not only flooded but completely moved from their foundations and destroyed. Two high schools, Chalmette and St.Bernard's which were being used by shelters for about 300 persons each were heavily damaged.
Senator Mary Landrieu getting off a helicopter Tuesday after overflying the region speaking of St. Bernard’s stated: “The whole Parish is gone…It’s completely gone.”
There were no more reports from this parish until Wednesday when a group of 15 people from there arrived by boat in New Orleans. On the boat was a Sheriff’s Deputy who would only say that the whole Parish was a catastrophic loss. The fifteen people on the boat survived because they were able to get onto the displaced roof of Chalmette High School….Everything else was under water.
Also on Wednesday, the Corps of Engineers confirmed reports of water an astounding 20 feet deep in St. Bernard's Parish.
Today there was finally a report that there were 3,000 survivors from St. Bernard's. 1,500 people who were rescued by boats and helicopters (these people are included in the crowd beneath an interstate overpass near New Orleans) and 1,500 who are still in St. Bernard's at local shelters. A high level parish clerk stated that there had as of yet been no contact with any Federal officials. The Clerk refused to talk about the number of deaths in the Parish.
No one is talking about the other _ _ , _ _ _ people who may not have evacuated before the storm.?..