Context and Background for New Orleans Flooding Katrina

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When Hurricane Martha Teichner looks back at the monumental 2005 hurricane -- the most costly natural disaster, in lives lost and property ... Based on a chapter from Disasters By Design: How Engineering Failures Shaped the Modern World by Grady Hillhouse, coming ...

This week marks 20 years since the most destructive storm in American history made landfall across the U.S. Gulf Coast.

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