we need to do some rough math - FNC said 95,000 have been evacuated & didn't we think 100,000 to 125,000 stayed behind? are we looking at a 5,000 -30,000 death toll?
Yep easy....and you haven't factored in MS and Ala.
"are we looking at a 5,000 -30,000 death toll?"
Conflicting information: In anticipating a CAT 5 storm FEMA got 25,000 body bags ready. Then in the next breath I have to listen to them say on tv with a straight face, "No one could have reasonably guessed that New Orleans could be stricken with both broken levees and a hurricane."
Many many of my neighbors on the North Shore chose to live there because they feared buying a house in the bowl. We shook our heads at the thought of how many dead there would be if a hurricane struck. Hearing people from N.O acted shocked that so many will have died from levee breaks reminds me of people acting shocked that cigarette smoking caused lung cancer.
add the Miss Gulf Coast and it could be 10-50.