I Guess Hurricane Katrina Was Worse Than We Thought

At the end of August 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit, destroying New Orleans and a lot of the rest of the Gulf Coast. That very weekend Mrs. Poop and I got married and went on our little honeymoon to Hawaii, and although we watched a little bit of the news, I don't think either of us really understood just how bad the damage was. I don't think anyone did. I've seen estimates that Katrina did $100 billion of damage, maybe as high as $150 billion. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off!.
According to the claims filed by Katrina victims for assistance from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, here's a by the numbers recap of just how bad things were"

489,000 - total number of claims
3,014,170,389,176,410 - dollar value of claims
3 quadrillion - the above figure expressed more eloquently
a quadrillion - a one followed by 15 zeros, comes after trillions when counting from one
$13.2 trillion - an estimate of U.S. Gross Domestic Product in 2007
.4% - expressed in percentage terms the relationship between GDP and the cost of these claims
228 - number of years we'd have to spend every dollar of our GDP on reimbursing these victims, to finally pay them off
247 - number of claims by people, business and government agencies for over $1 billion
1 - asshole whose claim was for $3 quadrillion, skewing all these numbers
14.2 trillion - dollar value of all the claims excluding that one asshole, still bigger than U.S. GDP