Drowning New Orleans

 
 
 
 
 
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When I first heard that the levees along the 17th Street Canal in New Orleans had breached following Hurricane Katrina I was stunned. Four years earlier I had read articles like this one describing in detail why the city was living on borrowed time and what would probably happen in the event of a large hurricane. That the disaster was a result in part of the choices made by human beings only added to my astonishment.

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09/05/2009

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