The great deluge : Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast / Douglas Brinkley.

By:

Brinkley, Douglas

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : William Morrow c2006.Edition: 1st edDescription: xix, 716 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:

0061124230
9780061124235

DDC classification:

976.3/35064 22

LOC classification:

HV636 2005.L8 B75 2006

Contents:

1. Ignore the inevitable : August 27 (Saturday) -- 2. Shouts and whispers : August 27 (Saturday) -- 3. Storm vs. shoreline : August 28 (Sunday) -- 4. The winds come to Louisiana : August 28-29 (Sunday-Monday) -- 5. What was the Mississippi Gulf Coast : August 29 (Monday) -- 6. The busted levee blues : August 29 (Monday) -- 7. "I've been FEMA-ed" : August 29 (Monday) -- 8. Water rising : August 30 (Tuesday) -- 9. City without answers : August 30 (Tuesday) -- 10. The smell of death : August 31 (Wednesday) -- 11. Blindness : August 31 (Wednesday) -- 12. The intense irrationality of a Thursday : September 1 (Thursday) -- 13. "It's our time now" : September 1 (Thursday) -- 14. The Friday shuffle and Saturday relief : September 2-3 (Friday-Saturday) -- 15. Getaway (or X marks the spot) : September 3 (Saturday) and beyond.

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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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