- Darren Robinson
I am pleased to have this book published by Booksurge. It was written to assist researchers and future historians who may be trying to learn how a major US city was wrecked by a major hurricane.
It also aims to help them obtain some kind of impression - beyond mere facts - of the participants in this event, be they people, buildings, attitudes, acts of nature, engineering failures, political and bureaucratic failures, or human nature.
Other books on the subject of Hurricane Katrina have taken the approach of a simple chronological narrative - this happened, then that happened, then something else happened. Other books are simply collections of "gee whiz" images - gee whiz, look at that big boat on the highway, gee whiz, look at the damaged casino, gee whiz, look at the flooding and misery.
I wanted to take a different approach, something perhaps more analytical and representative of the impact on a society, and from the point of view of that society, rather than, for argument's sake, the point of view of a meteorologist with a map and a timeline.
After all, most people are not really interested in clouds and windspeeds and air pressure. People are interested in how the monster called Hurricane Katrina knocked out New Orleans. And how people reacted. And who got blamed.
To achieve this I wrote many short chapters on many different aspects of the event. As a result it may sometimes be difficult for the reader to get a sense of the timeline for that chapter in relation to all the other chapters, but I feel that this is more than compensated for by the achievement of an overall historical record that captures the essence of the people and places who stood in the way of a mighty storm.
CHAPTER LISTING
CHAPTER 1 THE CITY
CHAPTER 2 THE SELA PROJECT
CHAPTER 3 THE WARNINGS
CHAPTER 4 OFFICIAL PREPARATIONS
CHAPTER 5 THE HURRICANE
CHAPTER 6 THE BLAME
CHAPTER 7 THE LOUISIANA WETLANDS
CHAPTER 8 THE OIL INDUSTRY
CHAPTER 9 THE EVACUATION
CHAPTER 10 RAY NAGIN
CHAPTER 11 THE SUPERDOME
CHAPTER 12 THOSE WHO STAYED BEHIND
CHAPTER 13 THE DEATH TOLL
CHAPTER 14 THE DAMAGE IN NEW ORLEANS
CHAPTER 15 THE DAMAGE ELSEWHERE
CHAPTER 16 THE GERMS
CHAPTER 17 CIVIL DISORDER
CHAPTER 18 THE GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER 19 THE INTERNATIONAL REACTION
CHAPTER 20 THE CELEBRITIES and THE CHARITIES
CHAPTER 21 KATRINA
CHAPTER 22 THE ASTRODOME
CHAPTER 23 THE NEW ORLEANS CONVENTION CENTER
CHAPTER 24 THE LOBBY GROUPS and RACE
CHAPTER 25 THE ANIMALS
CHAPTER 26 HAM RADIO
CHAPTER 27 THE FOLKS WHO WANT TO REBUILD
CHAPTER 28 THE END OF KATRINA
CHAPTER 29 RITA, OIL AND POLITICS
CHAPTER 30 FEMAVILLES and THE FUTURE
GENERAL INFO
- Paperback: 162 pages
- Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (November 30, 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN: 1419618512
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