60+ according to a pretty reliable Twitter account that posts their sources.
That's with consideration to the fact that not every body has been found and recovered, right?
This is just confirmed. Guarantee she killed way more.
I will update with a list of the best organizations to donate to, once they come down the wire, if it’ll be helpful to folks.
It's really horrific. My heart goes out to all those who are either suffering from or lost their lives due to this disaster, and I really hope they're not put through the wringer again in 2 weeks.
Not every body will be found and recovered. Expect a long list of "missing, presumed..."
thanks i will pass along to churches here and see what we can do. this is insane levels of damage and god knows these people wont receive half of the help they need from washington
Coast guard rescue swimmers are the most underappreciated members of the military and they're the ones with the biggest balls. Their motto is "so that others may live" and I have infinite respect for them.
Given the relative flatness of New Orleans, versus the mountainous terrain here... It's going to be worse. Katrina didn't have landslides.
The effects are far more widespread than Katrina (spread across several states rather than one metro area) and virtually no evacuation occurred until last minute, unlike Katrina where there was much more time, and the effects were more apparent. Nobody, outside of some counties in Florida, were ordered to evacuate until flooding had already begun. Nobody had really anticipated it, and everyone shrugged off the models as overestimating the rain significantly, although ultimately it underestimated it.
That's doesn't even just suck. This dude that's been doing this for 15 years now is out of a job and there's literally no way he can recover all of his work equipment. I mean, I'm grateful (and him moreso than me) that he's alive, but that's gotta sting quite a bit.
