and so many years. and they re still, still the same. like it was yesterday. look it was yesterday. ten years later thashgs that s what so many ka tree that survivors will tell you it feels like. the memories still vivid. the pain still sharp. for so many, especially those who lost loved ones, it s like the storm never stopped. it s really hard to get an estimate. but i am sure it s 50% more than the than the official figure which is a round 1,800. john mudder study the effects of natural disasters at columbia university and says the official death toll from katrina is far too low. he thinks more than 3,500 people perished because of the storm. the reason it is hard to get a final number is because some
people were at first deemed missing like tonette jacks on while others died after being displaced by the storm. if you were trying to escape and you rolled your car and you died in a car accident the day before. that wouldn t have happened otherwise. and then, how many days afterwards do you, do you keep counting. and if you died because of the exacerbation of the existing condition, something you would have died of anyway. including some weeks later should you be counted. there is no uniform standard of this. john mudder made a list of every death related to katrina, using record from the state from media and asking any one out there who knows of a person missing or dead to send him in information which he then tries to verify. ten years later, and he is still compiling that list.
if you were trying to escape and you rolled your car and you died in a car accident the day before. that wouldn t have happened otherwise. and then, how many days afterwards do you, do you keep counting. and if you died because of the exacerbation of the existing condition, something you would have died of anyway. including some weeks later should you be counted. there is no uniform standard of this. john mudder made a list of every death related to katrina, using record from the state from media and asking any one out there who knows of a person missing or dead to send him in information which he then tries to verify. ten years later, and he is still compiling that list. still, counting the dead.
ten years later thashgs that s what so many ka tree that survivors will tell you it feels like. the memories still vivid. the pain still sharp. for so many, especially those who lost loved ones, it s like the storm never stopped. it s really hard to get an estimate. but i am sure it s 50% more than the than the official figure which is a round 1,800. john mudder study the effects of natural disasters at columbia university and says the official death toll from katrina is far too low. he thinks more than 3,500 people perished because of the storm. the reason it is hard to get a final number is because some people were at first deemed missing like tonette jacks on while others died after being displaced by the storm.