Natural History, November 1st, 2007
Hurricane Katrina exposed fatal flaws in the flood defenses of New Orleans. Those flaws remain.
If you live in Louisiana and don't know how to swim, now might be a good time to learn.
-Shea Penland, "Taming the River to Let In the Sea," Natural History, February 2005
Less than seven months before hurricanes Katrina and Rita brought indescribable devastation and heartache to the Gulf coast, I warned the readers of this magazine, in the words quoted above, of the inevitable path toward destruction that New Orleans seemed determined to take. Of course, my nearterm prescience was unintentional,...
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