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

by van Heerden, Ivor (Author); Bryan, Mike (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780143112136
• ISBN10: 0143112139
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-31
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Ivor van Heerden is head of the official Louisiana state investigation into the levee failures. He is associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at LSU.
Mike Bryan has written or collaborated on many books.

Table of Contents

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