Quote Originally Posted by Devastatin Dave
I heard this morning that this one will cost more than 911.
No big surprise there. 9/11 was confined to a couple of major structures. This took out one major and several smaller cities. Not to mention towns and houses across a huge swath extending well inland.

The financial hit for those who lost home/business etc. will be hard, but this could have been far worse. Had Katrina hit New Orleans as a Category 5 and not weakened and drifted East, many of the people now being evacuated would instead be dead. That was what I feared. Fortunately, the levies were not topped in that way, and instead there has been a more gradual filling of the basin.

I hope the final death toll will be less than 1,000. At this point it is anyone's guess.