How many dead in NO?

[Teaser]

I haven't seen a report on this for a few days. Last I heard it was around 250-350.

[SteppingRazor]

1. More than 800 so far, according to CNN this morning.

[Carolab]

2. Wow. That number jumped a lot in a few days. n/t

[Teaser]

3. in New Orleans or Katrina Total?

nt

[Charlie Brown]

5. Is that just NO, or the entire coastal area? n/t

[political_invader]

4. I heard last night over 700 nt

[Silverhair]

6. I am now thinking it will be much lower than originally projected.

The pre-Katrina studies were projecting 50K+ deaths. After Katrina, we heard numbers like 40K was told to a funeral director, 25K body bags, etc. I was one of those who posted the news reports of such high numbers.

I hope that these numbers we are seeing are truly representative of a much lower fatality total.

The greatly lower numbers will NOT be due to ANY gov't action at any level, but will be due to the people having a LOT more common sense than either side has given them credit for. The average person may not be so dumb after all.