COE faces trillions in Katrina claims

[wilebill]

Katrina victims swamp corps with trillions in claims (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-01-06-katrina-claims_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip)

WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of people whose property was destroyed when Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed New Orleans' protective levees have filed claims demanding the government pay astronomical sums that would be enough money to make multimillionaires of everyone in Louisiana.

Just the top filings add up to so much money that the entire annual output of the nation's economy — $12 trillion — couldn't pay them off, according to the corps' listing. It is the first public accounting of the scale of damage demands the corps faces.

By comparison, the Louisiana Recovery Authority estimates that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 together caused about $100 billion in physical damage statewide. The federal government already dedicated more than $130 billion on recovery from the hurricanes.

One claim alone seeks $3 quadrillion in damages, almost all of it for personal injury. That's a 3 followed by 15 zeros — about 250 times the nation's gross domestic product. A resident of a section of New Orleans that includes the hard-hit Lower 9th Ward filed another claim for $6 trillion, double the annual federal budget.

Just the food in my freezer alone was worth 3 or 4 billion dollars. That deer meat was irreplaceable. That oak tree at the corner of the house was unique - there's no other tree on the planet exactly like it. I think that was worth 5 billion or so.

Any lawyers on the board? I smell a sweet claim.

[Conveyor Belt]

I know I'm emotionally damaged. I went through at least 4-5 hours with NO contact with the outside world. I thought maybe everyone was dead except for my family.

I think the oaks on my lot were great before the storm, but now they kind of look sad, and that makes me sad, and my sadness is worth at least 6 badrillion dollars.

I need to be happy, and I'm not and it's all the fault of the government.

[wilebill]

Thanks, CB, I forgot about the emotional distress thinking I was the last person left on earth. Add 2 squillion dollars to my claim.

[ComputerDude]

Do these people hope to be taken seriously, or is the expectation that they'll all be pointed at and laughed at?

[dollfus46]

Katrina victims swamp corps with trillions in claims (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-01-06-katrina-claims_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip)



Just the food in my freezer alone was worth 3 or 4 billion dollars. That deer meat was irreplaceable. That oak tree at the corner of the house was unique - there's no other tree on the planet exactly like it. I think that was worth 5 billion or so.

Any lawyers on the board? I smell a sweet claim.
As for people making such claims, they should just shoot the bastards Put a stop to that chit in a hurry.;)

[ComputerDude]

As for people making such claims, they should just shoot the bastards Put a stop to that chit in a hurry.;)I prefer the pointing and laughing. Public humiliation works well.

[dollfus46]

Thanks, CB, I forgot about the emotional distress thinking I was the last person left on earth. Add 2 squillion dollars to my claim.

2 squillion? Now there's some serious kronkytes.:laugh: Only rappers make that kind of money.

[Maggie-Doodle]

I wonder just how many of these folks actually owned the property they are wanting to claim as a loss? I have read in several articles that alot of people who were "only" renters were trying to get claims paid for the loss of the house when they were not the owners.

I suppose they think the government "owes" them a house...IMO, the folks need to sue the x-politicians for the money and not necessarily the fed. gov. The government has given LA many millions of dollars over the years to work on the levess and flood control. From what I have been told and read the politicians syphoned the money off for other projects AND their pockets and the tax payers are the ones left in dire straits!! I think alot (most) of the LA politicians just never thought that N.O. would actually flood as bad as it did again...they seemed to have forgotten when Hurricane Betsy came through.

[jojobeans1120]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,321246,00.html




"Of roughly 489,000 total claims, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it has received 247 for at least $1 billion apiece, including the one for $3 quadrillion."




3 quadrillion??? :laugh::laugh::laugh:

[mac]

I don't even know what a quadrillion looks like on paper. How many zeros is that? I would love to see the claim just to take a look at how they arrived at that number.

It's amazing to me the number of people who will try to milk the government for as much as possible regardless of whether they need it or are owed it. My husband's boss, who makes well into six figures and lost nothing, was on the phone trying to get money as soon as the storm cleared.

[nooskye]

3,000,000,000,000,000.00 ...

[jojobeans1120]

. My husband's boss, who makes well into six figures and lost nothing, was on the phone trying to get money as soon as the storm cleared.


A lot of those, in NOLA, had nothing to begin with! I find it really hard to believe that someone, who was already living off of the government, had priceless paintings, etc. in their project apartment! :kekeke:

[nooskye]

whats worse is that the government took everyone pretty much at their word without any follow up ... makes me wonder how much the total false claims would offset the amount sought in the lawsuits ... ??? ...

(srry ... didn't know there was duplicate threads :) )

[jojobeans1120]

(srry ... didn't know there was duplicate threads :) )


I didn't either. Must have missed this one. That's what I get for waking at 3 am, I suppose. :smt001

[aaron]

One quadrillion pennies would dwarf the empire state building. That's how much it is.

http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/seventeen.asp

[wilebill]

That's a bunch of pennies.

[aaron]

Someone said this morning that with that kind of money, maybe they could afford some frickin sharks with frickin laser beams on top of their head.

[wilebill]

Yeah, we're starting to talk about real money now.

[ComputerDude]

Someone said this morning that with that kind of money, maybe they could afford some frickin sharks with frickin laser beams on top of their head.

http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/2294/drevilorig5986c41sy9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Scarlett O'Hara]

Note to self................new goal, 1 squillion hubbucks, would settle for 1 quadillion!