Storm What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--The Inside Story from One Loui Siana Scientist

Name: Storm What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--The Inside Story from One Loui Siana Scientist
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ISBN: 9780143112136

ISBN-10: 0143112139

ISBN-13: 9780143112136

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Authors: Ivor van Heerden, Mike Bryan, Mike Bryan

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The ultimate inside story of the Katrina tragedyfrom 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,…

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List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/31/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.34" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Introduction: Disaster, Tragedy, Failure-and Hope



Storm Clouds



Leave, Please!



Laughed Out of the Room



Levees Lite



The Second-Worst-Case Scenario



Into the Breach



Is Anyone in Charge Here?



Wetlands Forever



The Score on the Corps



The Investigation



Now or Never


Afterword


Acknowledgments


References and Resources


Index