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one should also remember, after the tsunami, there were a lot of bodies in the trees. anyone recall most of them were women because their hair was tangled in the trees?

Consider the storm surge was estimated to be 26' people would have to run up three flights of stairs to get away, fighting a current. Anyone remember the videos of those folks running up the stairs in that hotel and the camera shot of people on the ground being washed away? Even a healthy 200lb man whoops, 200 lb man, didn't want to anybody to read it as 2001 b man, is no match for that tidal force.

Consider the storm surge was estimated to be 26' people would have to run up three flights of stairs to get away, fighting a current.

I don't think this was really like that. On the worse side, there was howling wind outside that would make anything difficult. But the storm surge does not come in like a tsunami. It gradually comes in over several hours. The video makes the movement barely discernable, but there are waves that crash about. People have a way of surviving. Call me Polly Anna, but I think you will find the death toll in NO will be pretty low. But I do think the death toll in MS will be pretty bad (several hundred.) But, what the heck do I know. That is my current prediction.