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City adrift : New Orleans before and after Katrina / Jenni Bergal ... [and others] ; foreword by Dan Rather ; a Center for Public Integrity Investigation.
Van Pelt Library HV636 2005 .N4 C58 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
- Crisis management in government.
- Disaster relief.
- Disaster victims--Services for.
- Disaster victims.
- New Orleans (La.)--History--21st century.
- New Orleans (La.).
- Disaster victims--Services for--Louisiana--New Orleans.
- United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency.
- United States.
- Disaster relief--Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Crisis management in government--Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- Hurricane Katrina was a stunning example of complete civic breakdown. Beginning on August 29, 2005, the world watched in horror as every system that might have protected New Orleans failed. Levees and canals buckled, pouring more than 100 billion gallons of floodwater into the city. Botched communications crippled rescue operations. Buses that might have evacuated thousands never came. Hospitals lost power and patients lay suffering in darkness and stifling heat. At least 1,400 Louisianans died in Hurricane Katrina, more than half of them from New Orleans, and hundreds of thousands more were displaced. How could all of this have happened in twenty-first-century America? And could it all happen again? To answer these questions, the Center for Public Integrity commissioned seven seasoned journalists to travel to New Orleans and investigate the storms aftermath. In this book, they present their findings.
- Contents:
- The storm / Jenni Bergal
- The environment / Sara Shipley Hiles
- The levees / John McQuaid
- Emergency preparedness / Jim Morris
- Social services / Katy Reckdahl
- Health care / Jenni Bergal
- Politics / Curtis Wilkie
- Housing and insurance / Frank Koughan.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-156) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807132845
- 0807132845
- OCLC:
- 84837951
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