The storm
what went wrong and why during hurricane Katrina : the inside story from one Louisiana scientist
by Ivor van Heerden
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"The Storm is the ultimate inside story of the Katrina tragedy. Van Heerden knows why the levees failed to protect New Orleans. He knows why the abused wetlands surrounding the city could not protect the levees. He knew how many people would be unwilling—or unable—to evacuate and how many homes were likely to be destroyed. And he has seen politics trump science as officials at virtually all levels failed to plan for this completely predictable situation. He now unites this understanding with his firsthand, behind-the-scenes reporting, including the state's official investigation into the levee failures, which he led." - jacket
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The storm: what went wrong and why during hurricane Katrina : the inside story from one Louisiana scientist
2007, Penguin Books
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The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist
July 31, 2007, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist
May 18, 2006, Viking Adult
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The ultimate inside story of the Katrina tragedy—from the cofounder of the LSU Hurricane CenterAfter 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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