Between all three states or all states where Hurricane now TD Katrina has visited?
And do we count the hospital patients that died at the Superdome and the people that might have had heart attacks fromthe stress of the hurricane?
I would be glad to hear an estimate for any geographic area you would like to postulate on.....i am not sure public numbers will ever break this down but I would exclude the secondary deaths you refer to.
I will go on record with the following:
My personal guess is that there is an absolute minimum of 2500 confirmed dead in LA MS AL, and if numbers for missing people whose residences were destroyed/completely flooded/damaged are released, I would say at least 1500 there too. I assume in NOLA they will find most if not all corpses, but in MS this is far from certain. I would not be surprised to see a number of cofirmed dead in the high 4 digits.