"Don't forget the reporters claimed 20 or 30 thousand would be dead in the World Trade Center attack on 9/11."
Yes, and months and months later my friend who lived in New Orleans (thank goodness she lives in Maine now!) still thought that tens of thousands of people had died there. That miraculously dropping death toll just wasn't news outside of the NY area or the truly news addicted.
Wasn't the official death toll from Andrew in Florida something like only 26?