Ten Years After Hurricane Katrina Made Landfall In Southeast Louisianaâon August 29, 2005âjournalist Gary Rivlin Traces The Stormâs Immediate Damage, The City Of New Orleansâs Efforts To Rebuild Itself, And The Stormâs Lasting Effects Not Just On The Cityâs Geography And Infrastructureâbut On The Psychic, Racial, And Social Fabric Of One Of This Nationâs Great Cities. Much Of New Orleans Still Sat Under Water The First Time Gary Rivlin Glimpsed The City After Hurricane Katrina. Then A Staff Reporter For The New York Times, He Was Heading Into The City To Survey The Damage. The Interstate Was Eerily Empty. Soldiers In Uniform And Armed With Assault Rifles Stopped Him. Water Reached The Eaves Of Houses For As Far As The Eye Could See. Four Out Of Every Five Housesâeighty Percent Of The Cityâs Housing Stockâhad Been Flooded. Around That Same Proportion Of Schools And Businesses Were Wrecked. The Weight Of All That Water On The Streets Cracked Gas And Water And Sewer Pipes All Around Town And The Deluge Had Drowned Almost Every Power Substation And Rendered Unusable Most Of The Cityâs Water And Sewer System. People Living In Flooded Areas Of The City Could Not Be Expected To Pay Their Property Taxes For The Foreseeable Future. Nor Would All Those Boarded-up Businessesâ21,000 Of The Cityâs 22,000 Businesses Were Still Shuttered Six Months After The Stormâbe Contributing Their Share Of Sales Taxes And Other Fees To The Cityâs Coffers. Six Weeks After The Storm, The City Laid Off Half Its Workforceâprecisely When So Many People Were Turning To Its Government For Help. Meanwhile, Cynics Both In And Out Of The Beltway Were Questioning The Use Of Taxpayer Dollars To Rebuild A City That Sat Mostly Below Sea Level. How Could The City Possibly Come Back? This Book Traces The Stories Of New Orleanians Of All Stripesâpoliticians And Business Owners, Teachers And Bus Drivers, Poor And Wealthy, Black And Whiteâas They Confront The Aftermath Of One Of The Great Tragedies Of Our Age And Reconstruct, Change, And In Some Cases Abandon A City Thatâs The Soul Of This Nation.
Categories:
- Science & Math
- Earth Sciences
- Atmospheric Sciences
- Earth Sciences
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Author : Rivlin, Gary
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2015-08-11
Number Of Pages : 480
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 1451692226
ISBN-13 : 9781451692228
Item weight : 1.58 lb
Dimensions : 1.11 in x 6.57 in x 9.13 in
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