Revisiting Katrina

[lsanderson]

By DANIEL M. GOLD
Published: September 23, 2010

By the time Hurricane Katrina passed to the east of New Orleans, it wasn’t a once-in-a-lifetime storm; the city probably experienced no more than Category 2 conditions. And many of the levees that failed weren’t breached, but simply gave way because they had been improperly built on ground vulnerable to seepage. More