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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... read more
First Sentence
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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- Ivor Ll Van Heerden (Author)
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