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Controlling for other factors, Hurricane Katrina was a stronger category of a storm than Hurricane Irene and the coverage of Irene is so much more immediate and "positive" than that of Katrina. The government and organizations definitely learned a lesson from Katrina. But, there are still thousands of people in flooded areas without power. They estimate the cost to be in the billions. The death toll is about 50 so far. It is interesting that a storm that was about a category 1 has received so much coverage...and positive coverage. No stories of people looting, harming each other, or anything (that doesn't mean that it isn't happening); and there is even media coverage of couples getting married, having babies, and stuff. It must be nice to exude such positivity in the midst of (what many would consider) more than a minor inconvenience to their normal lives. And even if it was only a minor inconvenience to their normal lives...it must be nice for flooding and power outages to only be a minor inconvenience. They certainly can't say that Hurricane Irene wasn't a big deal, the local and national news are still covering it.
Yeaaaaaaaah...demographics matter.
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