That’s apparently the amount of money owed to Hurricane Katrina victims by God… though they’re suing the Army Corps of Engineers as a proxy defendant.
The quadrillion-dollar figure represents a fraction of the roughly 489,000 claims that residents and business owners filed against the federal government over damage from the failure of levees and flood walls following the Aug. 29, 2005, storm.
Officials said some residents may have grossly exaggerated their claims to send a message to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has accepted blame for poorly designing the failed levees.
To put the number into perspective, just $1 quadrillion would dwarf the U.S. gross domestic product and a stack of 1 quadrillion pennies would reach Saturn. It would’ve been cheaper to remove every upright structure in New Orleans by hand, brick by brick, and rebuild a city of gold in its place.
Imagine the number of school buses they’d be able to not utilize for evacuation next time with this kind of money.
