Katrina : [videorecording] American Catastrophe /.

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Hands on history : Katrina : American Catastrophe

Summary: A special that interweaves the devastation of Hurricane Katrina with New Orleans history. Learn how the city, built precariously below sea level and between two bodies of water, came to be. What engineering feats made it survive for as long as it did, weathering other dire storms? Why did the various systems fail this time? How did so much of the nation's oil and gas repositories come to be in this environmentally fragile area? Was there anything that could have averted the disaster, given that the meterology predictions of Katrina's path were quite accurate? Hear stories of shame and heroism that etch this devastation into America's history forver. This special mixes news footage, personal video, historical archive and expert witness interviews into a compelling hour looking at this disaster from a technology and historical perspective.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Videos and DVDs	Australian Emergency Management Library	VIDEO	DVD 011 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		900163388

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A special that interweaves the devastation of Hurricane Katrina with New Orleans history. Learn how the city, built precariously below sea level and between two bodies of water, came to be. What engineering feats made it survive for as long as it did, weathering other dire storms? Why did the various systems fail this time? How did so much of the nation's oil and gas repositories come to be in this environmentally fragile area? Was there anything that could have averted the disaster, given that the meterology predictions of Katrina's path were quite accurate? Hear stories of shame and heroism that etch this devastation into America's history forver. This special mixes news footage, personal video, historical archive and expert witness interviews into a compelling hour looking at this disaster from a technology and historical perspective.

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