Re: ITV News: the Daily Mail and the Sun rolled into one
- From: Steve Walton <sj_walton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:37:10 +0100
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:38:48 +0100, Tim Miller
<news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>They must love it when there's a big disaster - it lets them roll out
>all the cliches they store in the 'OH NO!' department.
>
>Hurricane Katrina was "the biggest tragedy the US has ever seen". How
>are they defining tragedy? It can't be in the number of people killed,
>since there have been more than 25 hurricanes in the US that killed more
>than 250 people, and Katrina's killed only[1] 100.
>
>Oh, no, it's in the amount of money that insurance companies will have
>to pay out. Because of course, that's what the tragedy is. But they
>can't even get that right. They stated that Hurricane Andrew in 1992
>caused £13billion of damage, while Hurricane Katrina has caused
>£16billion - not taking into account that the first number was at 1992
>prices. In 2005 dollars, Hurrican Andrew caused over $36billion, while
>Katrina is likely to have caused around $30billion of damage.
>
>Good research there.
>
>And then there was the obligatory comparison to 11th September 2001.
>Not, again, in terms of deaths and real tragedy, but in term sof the
>cost. Again measured in historical dollars.
>
>Stupid.
>
>Tim (tm)
>
>
>[1] I know that it's not overly sensitive to say 'only' here. I'm not
>deprecating these deaths in any way.
the real tradegy from US point of view ( and us unfortunately ) wil be
the price of Oil
US do "so much in the middle east" to keep oil prices stable and then
this happens
I'll bet al-quedea are sitting watching - thinking we know whihc side
god is on
--
Steve
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