The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist
by Ivor van Heerden, Mike Bryan
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Author: Ivor van Heerden, Mike BryanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-07-31
ISBN: 0143112139
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Summary: 5 Stars
I picked this book up in the Tulane bookstore where my daughter and I stopped the day we finished our assigned tasks for the week we were there to work on rebuilding. She "needed" a Tulane t-shirt and I browsed for something to read on the airplane home. I read it straight through on the way back to California.
The myths of Katrina persist. Some of our group still believe some of them. Even with the first hand experience and stories of those who were there. This book allows me to speak with authority about what went wrong... and what went right.
We are an arrogant bunch, we Americans. Our collective elevator attitude needs to come down a couple of floors. It's what put New Orleans at risk and drowned that city. It's what IS putting my city at risk (assessed by the Army Corps of Engineers to be at a higher risk than New Orleans before Katrina is probability of levee failure and in total devastation...happy, no?). It's what has put our economy and thus our basic survival at risk.
This book outlines how we got there in startling graphic detail.
And how all of that was known and purposely ignored well in advance of Katrina.
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Summary of The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist
The ultimate inside story of the Katrina tragedy?from the cofounder of the LSU Hurricane Center
After warning for years about the looming threat of catastrophic flooding in New Orleans, Ivor van Heerden was one of the highest-profile media experts during the Katrina disaster. Over the following eighteen months, he was even more prominent as he challenged the official version of those events and campaigned for an engineering plan that would protect all of southeastern Louisiana, once and for all. In The Storm, van Heerden lays out in full detail the stunning incompetence among the bureaucrats, the politicians, and the Army Corps of Engineers that culminated in the catastrophe that crippled, perhaps forever, a great American city.
After warning for years about the looming threat of catastrophic flooding in New Orleans, Ivor van Heerden was one of the highest-profile media experts during the Katrina disaster. Over the following eighteen months, he was even more prominent as he challenged the official version of those events and campaigned for an engineering plan that would protect all of southeastern Louisiana, once and for all. In The Storm, van Heerden lays out in full detail the stunning incompetence among the bureaucrats, the politicians, and the Army Corps of Engineers that culminated in the catastrophe that crippled, perhaps forever, a great American city.
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