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Originally Posted by kysirsoze
I'm guessing (hoping) that number is about as useful as when the woman said last night after more than an hour of this stuff that there was 1 confirmed death. With everyone evacuating in a difficult situation in which to communicate, I would expect a lot of people to go missing for a while.
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Yeah, I'd like to do a little media study at some point to see how the reported numbers change over time in a major disaster. It seems like they always start small, mushroom quickly into a large number, and then drop back down as everything settles down. I think on 9/11 there were discussions of 50,000 people, and then it immediately dropped to around 10,000 and hung there for a while, and then fell from there to the final number over the next couple of weeks. My numbers may not be right, but that's how I remember it.