TIDE 122 - New Orleans and Hurricanes

Hurricane Katrina - What Happened? Field Trip Guide

Independent Levee Investigation Team, Investigation of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 Final Report, July 31, 2006.

Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - (IPET) A difficult to navigate web site with important pre- and post - Katrina documents concerning Hurricane Katrina in the New Orleans area, including IPET Interim Report 2 and Draft Final Report.

The Katrina Myth- The Truth About a Thoroughly Unnatural Disaster - A you tube video produced by Levees.org

Last Chance - Times Picayune interactive graphic on coastal land loss in Louisiana,

National Hurricane Center

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (IPET) Risk and Reliability Report

Washing Away A prophetic 5 part series on the possible effect of hurricanes on New Orleans, published by the Times Picayune newspaper in June of 2002.

Weather Underground - Tropical Weather

Books about the Katrina Disaster

Brinkley, David, The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast . Harper Perennial (July 31, 2007), 768 pp.

Horne, Jed, Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City. Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition (July 15, 2008), 464 pp.*

McQuaid, John and Mark Schleifstein, Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms, Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition (August 16, 2006). 384 pp.*

Van Heerden, Ivor and Bryan, Mike, The Storm - What went wrong and why during Hurricane Katrina - The inside story form on Louisiana scientist. Viking Press, 2006, 308 pp.*

*highly recommended

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