Hurricane Katrina - Two Years Later: In Their Own Words (part 3)
Hurricane Katrina - Two Years Later: In Their Own Words (part 3)
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2007
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Barry, John M. (2007) Hurricane Katrina - Two Years Later: In Their Own Words (part 3). Time.
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The most important thing that people need to understand about the New Orleans area is the interplay between geology and engineering, and their unintended consequences. This involves two issues: how the city became vulnerable and rising sea level. Nature did not make New Orleans vulnerable to hurricanes. Engineers did.