MI-L email about GIS support for Katrina - perspective is everything

[Penfold, Robert]

Perspective is important.  Evidently more so outside the US.
 
 
Estimated death toll as of December 31, 2004 in South Asian Tsunami.
1. Indonesia: 79,940
2. Sri Lanka: 24,743
3. India (inc Andaman and Nicobar Is): 7,330
4. Thailand: 2,394 
5. Somalia: 120
6. Burma: 90
7. Maldives: 67
8. Malaysia: 65 
9. Tanzania: 10
10. Seychelles: 1
11. Bangladesh: 2
12. Kenya: 1
 
Confirmed death toll in September 11 attacks: 2,819
Confirmed US troops killed in Iraq: 1885
 
Estimated death toll in Katrina: 55-80.