A few weeks back people were running around as is the sky had fallen.

There was too much talk on Mindsay and around the country about Hurricane Katrina being worse than September 11th. 

There were mentions of

10,000 or more dead.

Rapes & murders...

Racism.

Death and mayhem at the SuperDome

The Mayor of New Orleans was doing his best chicken Little.

The Press going ballistic...and the rest of us following suit.

So far, here's the numbers:

Still less than 1000 dead for all the states hit by Katrina AND Rita combined.

No rapes or murders at the SuperDome.  6 people died there but 4 were natural causes, 1 was a suicide, and

 there was 1 overdose.

At the Convention Center there was 1 murder. 

To put it another way...there were 4 murders discovered in the city after Katrina making it a "typical" week for the city of New Orleans.

All that speculation was wrong.