User blog comment:Knowall/Irene/@comment-1442459-20110827190409/@comment-3990769-20110827210159

I hope it's not as bad as Hurricane Katrina was. During THAT hurricane, at least 1,836 people died in the actual hurricane and in the subsequent floods, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane; total property damage was estimated at $81 billion (2005 USD), nearly triple the damage wrought by Hurricane Andrew in 1992.