[wafflehouse]

i suppose you are correct.

"It was Asia's answer to Hurricane Katrina—though with a reported 100,000 killed, it was many times more deadly."

how do you suppose it could be 'many times more deadly'?

[Yardstick]

I would say that killing 100,000 versus killing 1000 or so qualifies as being many times more deadly (I can’t remember the official count after Katrina but I think that’s about right - in fact it may have been less than 1000). Or am I missing something here?