Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Business Boom After Katrina



Yes, my title is sick, but I feel sick. The one business that will be doing well is the mortuary business:

A co-owner of Shelbyville-based Gowen-Smith Chapel has been deployed to Gulfport, Miss., to help with recovery since Hurricane Katrina, and his business partner here has described the grim task there.

"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.

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From Aladdinslamp on Eschaton threads.