total damages estimated between $5.5 and $6 billion

 52 deaths reported by the state medical examiner

 63,000 houses flooded

 7,300 houses destroyed

 86,954 people registered with FEMA for aid in the first five months after the storm

 more than 12,600 low-interest loans approved by the U.S. Small Business Administration

 12,830 claims, totaling $141 million, paid by FEMA in national flood insurance, even though fewer than 13 percent of homes in the affected areas were covered

 over $19 million raised from private sources for the Hurricane Floyd Relief Fund

 more than 30,000 hogs, 2.4 million chickens, and 700,000 turkeys counted among the agricultural losses

 235 Red Cross shelters, housing a population of almost 50,000, open at the peak of the crisis; more than 1.3 million hot meals served

 1,400 roads and highways closed because of high water

 between 50,000 and 75,000 cars damaged by floodwaters

 40 dams failed; another 61 damaged

 at least 50 hog lagoons and 24 municipal sewage plants submerged

 more than 1.5 million customers without electricity for some period of time

 more than 2,000 people rescued from flooded areas