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Also by Ivor van Heerden:

The Storm, August 2007
Paperback
The Storm, May 2006
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Also by Mike Bryan:

The Storm, August 2007
Paperback

THE STORM
By: Ivor van Heerden, Mike Bryan

What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist

Penguin
August 2007
On Sale: July 31, 2007
336 pages
ISBN: 0143112139
EAN: 9780143112136
Paperback
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Non-Fiction

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.

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