By ANNA M. TINSLEY
STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER
STAR-TELEGRAM ARCHIVES/RALPH LAUER
Americans who watched the horror of Hurricane Katrina play out on television -- cutting a swath of destruction across the Gulf Coast, forcing hundreds of thousands out of their homes and leading to more than 1,500 deaths -- opened their pocketbooks like never before.
They donated more than $4.2 billion to the relief effort, topping the previous high of $3 billion donated after 9-11, according to a group that spent nearly a year investigating how donations were spent.
'That's a massive outpouring of funding,' said Trent Stamp, executive director of Charity Navigator, the New Jersey-based nonprofit charity watchdog group. 'Americans wanted to help. Instead of driving to New Orleans or signing up for the National Guard, they wrote a check."
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