Interesting (and sad).
Someone upthread said that there were rumors of that after Andrew, but the numbers never came out.
If that is true, we'll never know.
It's interesting but I wouldn't know if it's true --- those stations always manage to find only immigrant hispanic communities to interview after some storm or other news stories and they may have some kind of agenda going on.
I don't know anything about Charlotte County or that area to know if there even are dumpy mobile home parks filled with illegals which is how it seemed in that news --- but if it's true, I could see how if they don't take normal precautions like tying down their trailers or evacuating like others might, there could be many more deaths -- just like you see in other countries with third world conditions. I still don't know why they wouldn't publish the real numbers though either way.