Hmmm...
Irene "killed" 21. We'll discount 2 of those though, since they were the southern brand of idiots (Florida) and not the northern brand of idiots, like the guy who died canoeing in a flooded river. (not that everyone who died did so doing something foolish; of those 21, quite a few weren't due to negligence in any way.)
edit: on second thought, it seems that nearly half of the deaths are wrongly attributed to the storm after car accidents. Apparently, if you're driving too fast for road conditions, and hydroplane into a tree, it's not your fault, it's Irene's fault, according to whoever makes these statistics.
edit edit: deaths from NC and Virginia should get lumped into the South, which along with the surfers in Florida, make up the majority of deaths from Irene.
deaths in the North: fire, stranded in car in high water (foolish), electrocution while saving a child, falling into flooded creek (looking on after Irene had passed), 3 people outdoors killed by trees, and a driver crashed. So, a total of 6 people died as a result of going outside, and one of them was from simply losing control on a wet road, long before the real effects of Irene were present.
But, since Texashiker wants to use Ike as the rubric, 195 people died from Ike. Hmmmm... And, Irene affected many millions more people. Seems that the people up North are a lot better about heeding the advice of officials than the people down South. Over 1000 died in Katrina as a result of not evacuating when told to?