Y'all Notice This?

Has anyone else noticed that predicted death tolls in US disasters are most often grossly overstated; yet in other countries it's the opposite? They often start with a few thousand and it ends up being in the tens of thousands; or even in the case of the tsunami past 100,000? God bless building codes, even though they can be a huge pain in the ass from time to time.

p.s. Since AlJazeera stated that Hurricane Katrina was a punishment from Allah for the evils of America, what will they say about the massive death toll in the wake of the Pakistani earthquake? I mean, Pakistan is an Islamic country.