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

    By Ivor van Heerden and Mike Bryan

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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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Group
    Release dateMay 18, 2006
    ISBN9781101201701
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    The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--the Inside Story from One Loui siana Scientist
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    Ivor van Heerden

    Ivor van Heerden was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is cofounder and deputy director of the LSU Hurricane Center and director of the Center for the Study of Public Health Impacts of Hurricanes. He is also associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at LSU. He holds a Ph.D. in marine sciences from LSU, where his research focused on the Atchafalaya River Delta; his ongoing research areas include disaster preparation and response, coastal geomorphology, environmental management, and habitat restoration. Mike Bryan has written or collaborated on many books, including Cal Ripken’s bestselling autobiographyThe Only Way I Know, Uneasy Rider, and The Afterword, a novel.

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    • 4/5
      I think he does a good job on the science and for that the book is to be commended. I write as a meteorologist and hydrologist but I learned some things about storm surge modeling and a LOT about the levees. He does an excellent job in laying out the terrain, canals and failed levee system that funneled water into the city. The Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) comes off beneath poorly in Van Heerden's analysis. Really the book probably deserves 4 stars but the reason i dropped another off was his incessant political bashing along with self-promotion. Very early you will learn how absolutely prescient the author was and how evil and incompetent the ACE and all Republicans are. Perhaps that is completely true, though somehow I doubt it. Clearly the response to Katrina was not very competent and the pre-storm engineering utterly inadequate. I sort of doubt FEMA under any administration would suddenly become a model of efficiency and the ACE is hardly a creature of either political party. Hopefully we won't have to find out how FEMA does in another huge event, oh wait we just did with Sandy. It did do better, some. But Sandy also hit the richest part of the U.S., not one of the poorest and nothing failed in Sandy comparable to the New Orleans levees. Anyway, this book was written so soon after the event that many of the proposals for what to do in terms of mitigating the next storm were still in the planning or even pre-planning stages. It would be interesting to see where it all stands today. Two other somewhat negative points: NO photos and the maps for the most part look hand-drawn (with no scale, a cardinal cartographic error) which is sort of neat at times but not very clear in other places. Still, a very good book covering a complex event.