It may resemble Southeast Asia's tsunami more than 9-11 when the true death toll is admitted to. For now I guess they don't want to shock people more than they are but the truth is, they're not telling us except in very oblique ways what the true cost of this is in lost lives. Very soon though, many of those alive now will die as they succumb to heatstroke and other problems from lack of water and food. Eventually the unburied corpses will begin to smell and NO will be uninhabitable. Disease will be a real problem. This could start to happen in the next 24 hours.
It's the Galveston of this century.
I recently saw "Isaac's Storm" on The History Channel about the Galveston Hurricane, I wept openly at the story of the orphanage and the nuns who tied the children with rope hoping to save them. At the end, I took solace at the thought that at least today, with all of our technology we would never face that again. As we have learned today, I was sadly mistaken.