The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist
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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.
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Great book!
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I had read several books about Katrina but this book finally gave me the best understanding of what went wrong. I still plan to keep reading the books that Katrina spawned. Buy this paperback for your library!
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Book review and Amazon Service
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The book (The Storm) is an excellent, well written and informative review of what went wrong in New Orleans following Katrina. Amazon's service in processing my order was excellent as usual!
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Unvarnished Truth
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I picked this book up in the Tulane bookstore where my daughter and I stopped the day we finished our assigned tasks for the week we were there to work on rebuilding. She "needed" a Tulane t-shirt and I browsed for something to read on the airplane home. I read it straight through on the way back to California.
The myths of Katrina persist. Some of our group still believe some of them. Even with the first hand experience and stories of those who were there. This book allows me to speak with authority about what went wrong... and what went right.
We are an arrogant bunch, we Americans. Our collective elevator attitude needs to come down a couple of floors. It's what put New Orleans at risk and drowned that city. It's what IS putting my city at risk (assessed by the Army Corps of Engineers to be at a higher risk than New Orleans before Katrina is probability of levee failure and in total devastation...happy, no?). It's what has put our economy and thus our basic survival at risk.
This book outlines how we got there in startling graphic detail.
And how all of that was known and purposely ignored well in advance of Katrina.
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shot across the bow!
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Ivor Van Heerden has written a passionate plea to save New Orleans. His concise, detailed summation of what went wrong and why during and after Katrina takes no prisoners and leaves no doubts as the where he stands. The man is a scientist and in clear and sometimes overwhelming detail he explains how the failure of the levees and failure of political will caused the devastation in New Orleans. And it will happen again. Katrina was NOT the storm touted as the "big one" that New Orleans has always feared that's still coming. A direct hit with a Cat 3 or above will wipe New Orleans off the map. Katrina should be a big wake-up call and hopefully the political willpower will be there to make the proper and ready defenses. Ivor Van Heerden has written a passionate plea to save the Crescent City a city that he clearly loves. N'awlins is a unique gem of an American city as anyone who has been there will attest to. Mr Van Heerden's passion for his city and his work make this a remarkable look at the problems New Orleans faces and hopefully we listen.
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The truth is told !
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Dare i say that this book was healing? We used to live in Lakeview- our home was smashed due to the "catastrophic" levee failures. I love the way Dr Van Heerden takes the reader on his personal journey in dealing with this horrible time in our lives. His conclusions and restoration proposals sound so complete; by-and-large, a recipe for the saving of the Louisiana coast. I really want to hear the evidence trying to disprove this very knowledgeable and passionate scientist. If you were affected by "the storm," read this book and pass it on to others. If you are a politician, an employee of the C.O.E or an engineer working on saving Louisiana, swallow the bitterness and embrace his ideas. If nothing else, write him a note and let him know how and why you disagree.
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