Dr. Heerden said, "I understand that 80% of the people followed the order to evacuate. That means that there were 250,000 to 300,000 people who were left in New Orleans. According to our computer models, 1/3 of those have drowned."
If my figures are correct, that would mean that he estimates the dead in NO to number between 80,000 and 100,000.!!!! WOW!!! Can that be true???
I do not think that will be the case. I think the water rise was slower than his model, and occurred after the hurricane had passed. However, I do believe there were a large amount of people who ended up being trapped in thier attics and thier will be additional deaths due to disease. I belive the numbers will be in the thousands, which is still horrible. That is just for New Orleans.
There was a large loss of life along the gulf coast in MS and AL that we will not know about until they finally begin to release some hard numbers. That number could be just as large if not larger.