The Storm
Subtitle: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: May 18, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780670037810
Subjects: Natural Disasters; Sociology; Hurricane Katrina, 2005; Disaster Relief Services; Hurricanes; Nature; Nature/Ecology; Disasters & Disaster Relief; Political Science / Economic Conditions; Disaster relief; Weather; Emergency management; Gulf States
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.