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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (683068)	11/4/2012 11:11:56 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1575154

Do you know how this compares against Hurricane Katrina? I sure don't, except that the death toll from Katrina was by Text-Enhance">above 1,000. In comparison, Sandy should have been a cakewalk for FEMA, especially with the memory of Katrina and all the time they had to prepare. So far there have been about 110 US deaths (over 40 in NYC alone) due to Sandy. I will estimate the cost to be around 35 Billion........less than half the cost of Katrina. What gets me is a lot of people did not take it seriously. Any area susceptible to damage from storm surge flooding had a wet dry run of the results when Irene came thru last year. My sister got about 3 inches of tidal water in her NJ home last year during Irene with just less than a record storm surge at the Battery. It was obvious and it was predicted that this (Sandy) storm surge would be a record and considerably worse than Irene. Any one who got even their feet wet in Irene flooding could anticipate SEVERAL (3-4) feet more tidal surge from Sandy. I told my sister to get out and take her car with her to higher ground. She advised a few neighbors to do the same. Of those only one did. The rest not only had serious flooding in their homes but lost their cars as well. Really dumb. The surge level at Battery Park topped 13.88 feet at 9:24 p.m. Monday, surpassing the 10.02 feet record water level set by Hurricane Donna in 1960 and just over 4 feet MORE (as predicted) than Irene just last year.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (683068)	11/4/2012 11:32:10 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575154

>> Do you know how this compares against Hurricane Katrina? I sure don't, except that the death toll from Katrina was above 1,000. 1,837, I believe. But I think Z's claim it is "being handled just fine" may be correct where he is, but clearly isn't in other areas. A week after the storm people were screaming for water and FEMA was SLAP OUT. You would think if they had nothing else, they would have had plenty of water.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (683068)	11/5/2012 10:13:23 AM
From: SilentZ	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575154

>Do you know how this compares against Hurricane Katrina? I sure don't, except that the death toll from Katrina was above 1,000. Nope. I'm no expert in hurricanes. But actually, my best friend is one of the country's foremost experts in the economic effects of hurricanes and has been studying the topic for almost a decade. I'll ask him. >In comparison, Sandy should have been a cakewalk for FEMA, especially with the memory of Katrina and all the time they had to prepare. Not really. What I do know is that the overall size of this hurricane was massive and covered an incredible amount of ground, and the fact that it hit the NY metro area (about 30 million people) among other areas and did that much infrastructure damage with what I think is comparably little loss of life, is kind of amazing to me. I did not expect things to get this close to normal in NY so soon. The first couple of days were really, really scary. -Z