
The Storm
What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--the Inside Story from One Loui siana Scientist
Penguin Random House Australia (Publisher)
Published on 31. July 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-14-311213-6 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Hawthorn
Australia
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 214 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
423 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-311213-6 (9780143112136)
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Ivor Van Heerden | Mike Bryan
The Storm
What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist
E-Book
05/2006
Penguin Books
€8.99
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Persons
Ivor Van Heerden and Mike Bryan