Any updates on number of reported death or damage?

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Any updates on number of reported death or damage?

#1 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:44 pm

What is the latest reports of damage amounts in dollars? Or death from hurricane Katrina.
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#2 Postby soonertwister » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:49 pm

Stop it now.
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#3 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:51 pm

Why? I went to know the latest.
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#4 Postby Talon402 » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:55 pm

soonertwister wrote:Stop it now.


Whoa, buddy,
a) He can ask if he wants
b) This IS a hurricane recovery and aftermath board.
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#5 Postby RichG » Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:00 pm

Folks, we need to ease up on people asking questions or stating their thoughts. As long as they aren't filing false news reports let them speak (or rather type).
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#6 Postby Josephine96 » Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:03 pm

Tensions are definitely high in here.. All he wants to know is what a lot of us want to know.. How many have sadly perished.. and what the $ damage estimates are..
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#7 Postby Talon402 » Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:12 pm

I heard an interesting tidbit earlier:

When you hear "insurance estimates" of $26 billion, what this really means is "wind damage or strutcture damage caused by wind" Many companies don't have policies for floods, and so damaged caused by flood is not included in the estimate.

So, in reality, you're looking at the $26 billion insurance figure, + whatever billions from flooding. (Like NOLA).

In reality, a real figure of $100 billion would not surprise me.
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Re: Any updates on number of reported death or damage?

#8 Postby milankovitch » Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:43 pm

Matt-hurricanewatcher wrote:What is the latest reports of damage amounts in dollars? Or death from hurricane Katrina.


wikipedia is adding them up

Not counting Orlean's 100-999 estimate, I think they're using Nagin's "at least hundereds" quote confirmed fatalities is 253.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina
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