The Horror at St. Rita's Nursing Home

That is a picture of St. Rita's Nursing Home before Hurricane Katrina. It is the long building on the right side of the image. The nursing home is now the scene of unimaginable carnage because the Home's residents were not evacuated before the storm. Searchers are now uncovering a horrible tale as they begin the grim task of recovering bodies from the scene.

LGF has more.

No one knows for sure why officials of St. Rita’s, a privately owned nursing home, chose not to evacuate. On Wednesday, officials were still unsure of the number of people who died there, but previous estimates put the toll at 30 or more.

“This is the worst thing I’ve ever seen, and I drug bodies to the levee after Hurricane Betsy,” said 60-year-old Raymond Couture, one of the rescuers searching St. Rita’s this week.
This suburban parish a few miles from downtown New Orleans was hit hard by Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding. Officials have estimated that the parish’s death toll may reach 500.

Details of what happened at the facility are still sketchy, but the descriptions of what’s inside the single-story, football-field-size building horrify even hardened disaster veterans.

Sad to say, but this story is going to be repeated all throughout the Gulf Coast as rescuers get into the more remote areas and those areas that had been cut off by the storm.