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To: combjelly who wrote (251357)	9/14/2005 9:30:05 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1574430

For the property loss, there's the precedent of previous hurricanes in Florida. As I recall, Bush was shoveing money left and right after the pre-election Florida hurricane to make all the Florida voters happy. I'm sure the property losers in Katrina will be using THAT as a standard for how THEY should be compensated. For his part, Bush has shown no hesitation to spend future administration's taxes "like a drunken sailor". It will no doubt pain him greatly to spend them on poor southern blacks instead of more wars and his oily buddies, but I'm sure he'll spend like Santa Claus.

To: combjelly who wrote (251357)	9/14/2005 11:50:40 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574430

"The deaths from Katrina are so far untabulated, but in New Orleans alone, 1.1 million people have been evacuated for at LEAST a month or two." Not only that, many of the houses in New Orleans and the surrounding area have been flooded, some for a long time. Those that aren't destroyed are probably tear down material. Now flood insurance is hard to come by, even essentially impossible. Since the damage was from flood and not wind, insurance won't pay... I am not sure how storm surge works into this. Tonite the mayor said that 180K New Orleanians will be back in New Orleans by the end of next week. ted