Katrina Is Not The Most Deadly Disaster

I've heard a lot of people in the past days state incorrectly that hurricane Katrina is the "Worst Disaster" of all times. It is a terrible disaster without a doubt and we will not know for weeks just how deadly but to state that it is the worst disaster of all times is simply wrong at this point:

Facts

At this point we are way below the hysterical estimate that Mayor Ray Nagin gave of 10,000 and the MSM made their driver in the story. Here are the facts:

707 Total Dead

-- Louisiana: 474

-- Mississippi: 218

-- Florida: 11

-- Alabama: 2

-- Georgia: 2

If your interested in the facts, here are in fact the worst disasters in American history:



1. Galveston (Texas) Hurricane, 1900, estimated 8,000 deaths

2. Great Okeechobee Hurricane in Florida, 1928, estimated 2,500-plus

3. Johnstown, Pa., Flood, 1889, estimated 2,200-plus

4. Louisiana Hurricane, 1893, 2,000-plus

5. South Carolina-Georgia Hurricane, 1893, 1,000-2,000

6. Great New England Hurricane, 1938, 720

7. San Francisco Earthquake, 1906, 700

8. Georgia-South Carolina Hurricane, 1881, 700

9. Tri-State Tornado in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, 1925, 695

10. Labor Day Hurricane that hit the Florida Keys, 1935, 405

Katrina will probably come in at number 5 or 6 when all facts are know.................................