Fron Kos: Katrina by the Numbers

[baldguy]

Number of days since hurricane Katrina slammed into the US Gulf Coast: 5
Number of days before US federal government response: 4
Number of months in average hurricane season: 6
Number in line of named tropical storms/hurricanes for Katrina: 11Number Number of current tropical storms/hurricanes in Atlantic basin: 13
Number of tropical depressions formed in Atlantic basin: 15
Area covered by federal disaster declarations: 90,000 sq. miles
Wind speed of Katrina as she struck LA on Monday: 140 mph
Number of Kristina's hurricane category at landfall: 4
Combined length of NOLA hurricane levees: 350 miles
Size of gap in NOLA's 17th Street Canal levee breach: 300 feet
Depth of water covering parts of NOLA: 20 feet
Percent of NOLA under water: 80%
Number of days engineers and crews expect to need to dry out NOLA: 36-80

More:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/3/63040/95586

[chatterboy]

1. FEMA has numbers ...

... this many million MREs, that many tons of ice.

Oddly, they can't seem to estimate casualties.

[Theres-a]

2. Thank you

Yesterday I told someone there were 90,000 square miles affected by this and I was summarily dismissed as a crackpot.Am I correct,or did I misunderstand "Area covered by federal disaster declarations?"