Reply #196: I thought I heard earlier that there were 1.2 million [View All]

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people living in NO, and that 1 million have evacuated. I hope the other 200,000, if this is true, are on VERY HIGH ground. They were talking "worst-case" scenarios, and somebody down there whose job it is to prepare for such disasters said casualties could hit, in such a worst-case scenario (I don't know if that's with 1.2 million staying or just the 200,000) but something like 40,000 casualties. Even best case, then, doesn't sound very good. God, please take care of these folk who have no way out, and will be staying for weeks in the Superdome, and elsewhere.

On edit: They are talking 6 months just to get the water out enough to where people could begin to return to rebuild--a process that could take an additional 4 months. GEEEZ.