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

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

by Ivor van Heerden, Mike Bryan
The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--the Inside Story from One Loui siana Scientist

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

by Ivor van Heerden, Mike Bryan

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781101201701
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 05/18/2006
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 642,836
File size: 1 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Ivor van Heerden was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is cofounder and deputy director of the LSU Hurricane Center and director of the Center for the Study of Public Health Impacts of Hurricanes. He is also associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at LSU. He holds a Ph.D. in marine sciences from LSU, where his research focused on the Atchafalaya River Delta; his ongoing research areas include disaster preparation and response, coastal geomorphology, environmental management, and habitat restoration.

Mike Bryan has written or collaborated on many books, including Cal Ripken’s bestselling autobiographyThe Only Way I Know, Uneasy Rider, and The Afterword, a novel.

Table of Contents


Introduction: Disaster, Tragedy, Failure-and Hope     1
Storm Clouds     13
Leave, Please!     33
Laughed Out of the Room     55
Levees Lite     73
The Second-Worst-Case Scenario     99
Into the Breach     109
Is Anyone in Charge Here?     137
Wetlands Forever     153
The Score on the Corps     187
The Investigation     211
Now or Never     250
Afterword     291
Acknowledgments     309
References and Resources     313
Index     315

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