Katrina By The Numbers

[MrScorpio]

http://www.ifthisbetreason.com/

Raw Data Spill:

# of days we eyed Katrina before she reached the US Gulf Coast on 8/28: 7
# of days since hurricane Katrina slammed into the US Gulf Coast: 5
# of days before US federal government response: 4
# of months in hurricane season: 6
# in line of named tropical storms/hurricanes for Katrina: 11
# of current tropical storms/hurricanes in Atlantic basin: 13
# of tropical depressions formed in Atlantic basin: 14
Area covered by federal disaster declarations: 90,000 sq. miles
Wind speed of Katrina as she struck LA on Monday: 140 mph
# of Katrina’s hurricane category at landfall: 4
Combined length of NOLA hurricane levees: 350 miles
Size of gap in NOLA’s 17th Street Canal levee breach: 300 feet
Depth of water covering parts of NOLA: 20 feet
% of NOLA under water: 80%
# of days engineers and crews expect to need to dry out NOLA: 36-80
Height of wall of water to hit MS coast: 30 feet
% of Biloxi/Gulfport, MS buildings wiped away by storm surge: 90%
# of official deaths to date in MS: 126
# of official deaths to date in AL: 2
# of official deaths in FL: 11
# of deaths estimated in NOLA: up to 10,000
# of people listed on Nola.com’s Missing Persons Forum by late Thursday: >7,400.
# of corpses collected in St. Bernard Parish: 100
# of above corpses tethered together to keep from floating away: 25
# of federal public health specialists to be deployed throughout Gulf Coast region in an attempt to ward off a variety of food- and water-borne diseases: ~500
# of doses of tetanus vaccine sent to Mississippi by CDC: 8,000
# of Dept. of Wildlife & Fisheries boats used in St. Bernard search & rescue: 400
# of St. Bernard residents rescued: 10,000
# of people currently displaced: 1,000,000
# of American Red Cross (ARC) shelters in MS: 101
# of ARC shelters in LA: 90
# of ARC shelters in AL: 31
# of days military and local authorities have kept the ARC from entering NOLA: 5
# of meals the ARC is serving to evacuees outside of NOLA: 500,000/per day
# of people rescued by the Coast Guard from flooded areas and rooftops: 4,000
# of helicoptered-in victims that later died at NO Int’l Airport: ~100
# evacuated from the Superdome, shelters and highways: 50,000
# of people who’d gathered at the Superdome for evacuation: 60,000
# of Hyatt, Ritz-Carlton guests moved to head of Superdome’s evac line: 700
# of people remaining in Superdome stadium : 2,000
# of days FEMA head Michael Brown was unaware people had been evacuated to the Convention Center: 3
# of bodies strewn outside the Convention Center: at least 7
# of survivors still stranded in Convention Center : 15,-20,000
# of days for Army National Guard troops to arrive in downtown NOLA: 4
# of people transported out of NOLA on buses by Friday night: 1,000 per hour
# of deaths on overturned bus carrying evacuees to Dallas: 1
# of displaced students registered for public school classes in Lafayette, LA by Thurs.: 1,469
# of displaced students registered for classes in East Baton Rouge, LA in 4 hours: 300
# est. of Katrina evacuees in Houston hotels: 55,000
# of Katrina evacuees in Memphis: 10,000
# of empty acres on Bush’s ranch: 1600
% of 8-mi Twin Span bridge connecting NOLA with Slidell, LA collapsed into Lake Pontchartrain: 40%
# of destroyed miles on U.S. Highway 90 running along Gulf Coast between New Orleans and Pascagoula, MS: 100
% of 2,200 hotel rooms occupied by evacuees in Tuscaloosa, AL: near 100%
# of people in MS, LA, AL, and FL still without electricity: 2.3 million
# of local and out-of-state utility workers spreading out across southeastern LA: 6,000
# of residents in the city of NOLA: 460,000
# est. people trapped in NOLA alone: 80,000
# of tanker/other vessels held up at mi. 235 on Mississippi River until Friday: 90
# of people China moved out of the way of Typhoon Aere: 937,000
# of people Cuba moved out of the way of Hurricane Ivan: 1.3 million
# of people per hour dying in NOLA’s city hospitals: 8-10
# of NOLA hospital patients airlifted out of city yesterday: 438
# of people evacuated to safety on Chalmette Slip during the flood - 1,500
# of those evacuated above that died waiting for food and water - 100
# of trucks dispatched to NOLA: 1,300
Length of Friday’s military-led aid convoy: 8 miles
# of meals-ready-to-eat sent to the area: 17.1 million
# of meals served per day at the Biloxi, MS Salvation Army: 1,200
# of BellSouth Corp. Gulf Coast customers without service: 1.6 million
# of BellSouth Corp. Gulf Coast customers with restored service: 150,000
# of police radio channels being currently used in NOLA: 1
# of agencies using NOLA’s 1 open police radio channel: 20
# of satellite-based wireless phones sent to Gulf Coast: 10,000
# of satellite-based wireless phones in 3-state region pre-Katrina: few thousand
# of foreign nations offering to help US: nearly 60
$ Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered the Red Cross: $1,000,000
# of doctors Cuba’s President Fidel Castro offered to send: 1,100
# of tons of medicine Cuba’s Castro offered to send: 26
$ charitable contributions collected for the victims of 9/11: ~$1 billion
$ contributions to date from individuals, corporations, foundations: $400 million
# of television networks jointly broadcasting last night’s benefit concert: 6
$ donated to victims by WalMart: $17 million
$ donated to victims by GE: $6 million cash + $10 million in medical devices
$ donated to victims by Toyota: $5 million
$ donated to victims by Walt Disney Co. $2.5 million
# of months GM and Ford will delay car payment collection for victims: 3
# of projected payroll cuts this month due to Katrina aftermath: 500,000
# of years since US last saw 500,000 jobs cut in a month: 30 years
# of airlines who have begun evacuating residents of NOLA: 12
% daily jet fuel production is down: 13%
% jet fuel prices have increased this week: 19%
Fraction of nation’s oil produced by US Gulf Coast region: 1/3
% of Gulf Coast oil production shut down currently: 91%
# of possible barrels dumped in a major oil spill at mile marker 22 on the Mississippi River near Venice: 800,000 - 4 million
# of missing oil rigs in Gulf region: 30
# of offshore oil platforms knocked from their moorings: 28
# of oil rigs in gulf region: ~520
# barrels of oil in strategic reserve: 700 million
# barrels of oil released so far: 5 million
$ avg. price of gasoline a year ago: $1.86
$ avg. price of gasoline today: $3-$6 and up
Fraction of nation’s natural gas produced by US Gulf Coast region: 1/5
% of Gulf gas production shut down currently: 83%
Fraction of all grain produced in US that is exported out of the country: 1/4
% of US grain exports handled by US Gulf Coast region: 60%
# of top 12 US ports in the Gulf Coast region: 5
Ranking of the South Louisiana port by US cargo volume: #1
$ est. freight transport companies are losing due to closed ports: $3-4 million/day
% of LA’s oyster harvest lost: 2/3
# of years it could take for the LA oyster crop to return: 2-3
NOLA mortgage/real estate records feared lost dating back to: 1827
# est. LA attorneys who’ve lost offices, files and other documents critical to civil and criminal legal cases: 6,000 (a full 2/3)
$ tourists spent last year in NOLA: $5 billion
% of Louisiana’s tourism income coming from NOLA: 50%
# of exercises conducted simulating hurricane hitting NOLA in 2004: at least 1
# of articles in NOLA’s Times Picayune series predicting fall-out of ‘Big One’: 5
$ est. total economic losses caused by Katrina: - $100 billion
$ amount on the relief funding bill signed by Bush: $10.5 billion
$ est. insured damages for Hurricane Katrina: $50 billion
$ Hurricane Andrew’s total insured damages (after inflation): $43 billion
$ spent shoring up levees, building pumping stations past decade: $430 million
$ of crucial work still remaining, but underfunded due to Iraq War: $250 million
$ Army Corp of Engineers request for NOLA hurricane/flood programs in 2004: $105 million
$ amount the WH carved above request down to: $40 million
$ value of pork-filled highway bill: $286.4 billion
$ bill allocation to building Alaska bridge to uninhabited island: $231 million
$ federal money spent on emergency preparedness following 9/11: $8.6 billion
$ sent by Homeland Security to states to combat terrorism annually: $1.1 billion
$ sent by Homeland Security to states to combat natural disasters: $180 million
# of major disasters declared by the federal government since 1995: 562
# of terrorist attacks out of the above: 2
% of terrorism grant money that may be spent on national disasters: 0
$ 2005 FEMA budget: $5.038 billion
# of NOLA police officers: 1,700
# of National Guard (NG) members in LA: 11,700
# of NG troops in MS: 7,800
# of NG troops in AL: 2,000
# of NG troops in FL: 700
% of NG troops in Iraq: 30%
% of NG equipment in Iraq: 50%
# of additional NG forces to be sent by Pentagon: 30,000
# of regular Army soldiers that may be sent by Pentagon: 3,000
# of area military bases to be used for operations: 6
# of Swift-boat teams being sent to Gulf Coast region: 8
# of major disasters predicted by FEMA in 2001 that have already happened under Bush’s watch: 2 out of 3
% of those stuck in NOLA predicted to perish in above report: 10%
% of WH officials/Cabinet Members on vacation 3 days after Katrina hit: 95%
% of tolerance President Bush said looters would be treated with: 0
% of tolerance we should show the Treasury-raiding Bush administration: 0
# of deaths needed before the President orders all flags to half-staff: ?

[DemoTex]

1. Hyatt, Ritz-Carlton guests moved to head of Superdome’s evac line ..

Hadn't heard that one. Excellent compendium, Mr. Scorpio. Nominated.