The Storm
Subtitle: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist
Edition: Reprint edition
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: July 31, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780143112136
Subjects: Disaster Situation Planning; Natural Disasters; Social Science; History - U.S.; Nature; Nature/Ecology; Disasters & Disaster Relief; Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology; United States - 21st Century; United States - State & Local - South; Science / Meteorology; Weather
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.