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Part of the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is measured in the number of people killed by the storm. Thousands of people are still missing, and the agencies searching for them are not sure how high the death count will go. The red dots on this map [above] represents a missing person in the Greater New Orleans area. Two months ago, Sally Hoy, a hurricane evacuee from Kenner, began working for FEMA. Hoy is one of dozens of people working at the Find Family National Call Center, the group that's trying to locate all of Hurricane Katrina's missing persons. Hoy is...

See link for pdf file containing mortality rates for Louisiana on a Parish by Parish basis. Use this to compare Katrina related death count versus normal.

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. - The death toll from Hurricane Charley rose early Saturday, when a county official said there had a been "a number of fatalities" at a mobile home park and deputies were standing guard over stacks of bodies because the area was inaccessible to ambulances. Wayne Sallade, Charlotte County's director of emergency management, said early Saturday that there were "a number of fatalities" at the mobile home park, and that there were confirmed deaths in at least three other areas in the county. The eye of the worst hurricane to hit Florida in a dozen years passed directly...