116,000

I just can't wrap my brain around that number.

Iowa City and Coralville's population together is only about 77,000. To equal the tsunami deaths, both of those cities gone plus a lot more. Cedar Rapids has about 120,000 people living there. Think you'd be one of the lucky 4,000 to survive? I wouldn't take those odds.

It's just overwhelming to think that all at once, 116,000 people were suddenly gone from the world.