Katrina By the Numbers Monday
It's been a week since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast. Let's take a look at some numbers from news reports yesterday and today...
$10,500,000,000 - Amount of Bush's first emergency relief bill for the hurricane-affected area
80 Days - Estimate by Army Corps Engineers to drain all parts of New Orleans
$404,000,000 - Estimate of American donations as of noon yesterday
2% - The maximum number of New Orleans residents who have not abandoned their city
470,000 - Number of customers without power as of Sunday morning
6,000,000 - Meals distributed to victims via relief agencies (Fox News on-air)
400,000 - The number of refugees housed in Louisiana and surrounding states
$500,000,000 - Amount The country of Kuwait has pleged in aid
17 - Number of states declared disaster areas because of Katrina (many, such as Utah, because of refugees)
$100,000,000,000 - Estimate of total monetary losses from Katrina
90,000 - Destruction area, in square miles affected by the storm (larger than Great Britain)
