Yes Keitzman, it is shocking that people would care more about tradgedies that killed anywhere from 20 to two THOUSAND times as many people as the tornado in Greensburg. How self-centered and thoughtless of the "Hollywood types" to not take note of 10 dead and a town of 1,800 wiped off the map. If everyone had died in the town then the devastation could possibly begin to approach Katrina (although financially not even close).
I am all for the idea that every life counts, but his point is stupid. Yes, the larger the size of the tragedy the more people care. It has nothing to do with it being on the "east coast."
2004 Tsunami
U.S. Geological Survey initially recorded the toll as 283,100 killed, 14,100 missing, and 1,126,900 people displaced. Early news reports after the earthquake spoke of a toll in the hundreds, but the numbers rose steadily over the following week. However, more recent figures indicate that the actual casualties were 186,983 dead and 42,883 missing, for a total of 229,866, as more and more displaced survivors have been found and name duplications eliminated from the lists of victims. Measured in lives lost, this is one of the ten worst earthquakes in recorded history, as well as the single worst tsunami in history.
2005 Hurricane Katrina
At least 1,836 people lost their lives in Hurricane Katrina and in the subsequent floods, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane. The storm is estimated to have been responsible for $81.2 billion (2005 U.S. dollars) in damage, making it the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history
