The Storm What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist Hardback - 2006
de Ivor van Heerden; Bryan, Mike.
The ultimate inside story: how bureaucracy, politics, and a disregard of science combined to cripple perhaps forever a great American city
As deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, Ivor van Heerden had for years been warning state and local officials about New Orleans's vulnerability to flooding. But like Cassandra's, his predictions were ignored until Hurricane Katrina hit on August 29, 2005. Suddenly, van Heerden found himself at the center of a media maelstrom. Stepping forward to challenge the official version of events, he revealed the truth about the city's shoddy levee construction.
Now, in The Storm, van Heerden shares up-to-the-minute reporting from his investigations and connects the dots among the Army Corps of Engineers, the bureaucrats, the politicians, and the chain of events both natural and human that culminated in catastrophe. An epic of cutting-edge science and systemic bureaucratic failure, The Storm is the first book from a major player in the Katrina disaster and a riveting narrative that brings expertise, passion, and a human viewpoint to America's greatest natural disaster.
Primera línea
By eight o'clock Monday night, August 29-almost fourteen hours after the landfall of Hurricane Katrina-even I was tempted to join in the back slapping at the state's Emergency Operations Center (EOC) in Baton Rouge.
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- Título The Storm What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist
- Autor Ivor van Heerden; Bryan, Mike.
- Encuadernación Hardback
- Edición First
- Páginas 308
- Idioma EN
- Editorial Viking Adult, New York
- Fecha de publicación May 18, 2006
- ISBN 9780670037810
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