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Default Irene - the lightweight of the year!

On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 05:39:31 -0700 (PDT), TopBassDog
wrote:

On Aug 30, 9:09*am, Richard Casady
wrote:
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:27:08 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

"Irene - the lightweight of the year"


Just be glad it was. But still... 9 dead from the storm.


If you assume people live to an average age of 75 and divide 350 000
000 by 75 and then by 365 you get a daily death rate of a bit more
than 12 000 per day.

Casady


True, but not all attributed to the storm.


Why would a calculated base rate be attributed to a storm. Did you
miss the 75 years part? To repeat: 12 000 die of all causes every day,
on average.

Casady