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El Supremo

(20,365 posts)
Sat Aug 29, 2015, 07:45 PM Aug 2015

NBC Nightly News: "Katrina was the dealiest hurricane in US history."

Don't you just love the stupidity of the media these days? They don't even bother to check their facts when such statistics are so easy to find on the internet.

The 1900 Galveston hurricane was not only the deadliest (by far) hurricane but also the deadliest natural disaster.

http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/usdeadly.asp?MR=1

I don't believe anything on TV news anymore.

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NBC Nightly News: "Katrina was the dealiest hurricane in US history." (Original Post) El Supremo Aug 2015 OP
But that was WAY before the unpaid intern was born. Wilms Aug 2015 #1
Link to the dumbing of America: El Supremo Aug 2015 #2
Maybe they have real numbr of dead in the states hit malaise Aug 2015 #3
+ K & R Va Lefty Aug 2015 #4
I wonder. El Supremo Aug 2015 #5

malaise

(269,013 posts)
3. Maybe they have real numbr of dead in the states hit
Sat Aug 29, 2015, 08:42 PM
Aug 2015

by Katrina. The figure they gave us is bullshit.

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