In Katrina's wake
Subtitle: the U.S. Coast Guard and the Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2005
By: Donald L. Canney ; foreword by James C. Bradford and Gene Allen Smith.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780813035109
Subjects: United States. -- Coast Guard -- History -- 21st century; Hurricanes -- Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- History -- 21st century; Hurricane Katrina, 2005; Hurricane Rita, 2005; Rescue work -- Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- History -- 21st century; Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- History -- 21st century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Round one : Katrina slams Florida; title: Round two : Katrina flattens the Gulf Coast; title: "There's thousands of them" : the afternoon of the storm; title: The maritime and environmental disaster; title: First responses : Mississippi and Alabama; title: Wet Tuesday in New Orleans; title: Wet Tuesday II : the air rescues intensify; title: Wednesday, August 31 : Operation Dunkirk, Zephyr Field, and Station New Orleans; title: August 31 : "The skies are orange"; title: September 1 : the watershed day; title: September 2 : the welcome and the unwelcome in New Orleans; title: September 3 : flying boats over New Orleans; title: September 4 : the tide peaks; title: September 5-15 : the tide recedes; title: Sector Mobile deals with the destruction; title: Restoring the Gulf Coast waterways; title: Hurricane Rita and a conclusion.