A Hurricane Katrina victim is asking for a total of $3 quadrillion dollars from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
There have been 489,000 claims filed against the federal government over damage from the failure of levees and flood walls, following the Aug. 29, 2005 hurricane.
According to the Corps of Engineers, 247 of the claims were for at least $1 billion. The list includes a $77 billion claim by the city of New Orleans. Fourteen involve a wrongful death claim, and fifteen were filed by businesses, including several insurance companies.
There is little information about the person who filed the $3 quadrillion claim. It was filed in Baker, 93 miles northwest of New Orleans. Baker is far from the epicenter of Katrina's destruction, but the city has a trailer park, where hundreds of evacuees have lived since the storm.
Hurricane Katrina, which is blamed for more than 1,600 deaths in Louisiana and Mississippi, is considered the most destructive storm to ever hit the U.S. It caused at least $60 billion in insured losses and could cost Gulf Coast states up to $125 billion.
A quadrillion, which is rarely used as a quantity, is equivalent to one thousand trillion or one million million.
