Don't forget the reporters claimed 20 or 30 thousand would be dead in the World Trade Center attack on 9/11. That figure turned out to be way off.
If I was speculating as to why they might only give out the worst case scenario numbers, I'd guess it could be when the real numbers come out, it makes the disaster not seem so bad. They want the American people to go back to sleep and never hold anyone in government accountable.
We've still seen so little of this... what we have seen is incredibly horrific. I mentioned what happened in Galveston last night on one of the hurricane threads and was quickly told I was wrong.. This looks like Galveston on a larger scale in my opinion. The before and after high resolution shots of the area show extreme physical changes to the landscape. This wall of water meant business, and no one who came in contact with it in a regular frame structure had much chance of living.
"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.
For the indonesian tsunami, initial reports were about 50k dead. I think the final number was about 500k.
Don't forget the reporters claimed 20 or 30 thousand would be dead in the World Trade Center attack on 9/11. That figure turned out to be way off.
WHAT?