For those who lived through it the topic can be a hard one to digest. Many people can not only tell you what they were doing that day, but for the entire month after. It was sheer destruction and in The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina-- the Inside Story from one Louisiana Scientist Dr van Heerden dives into a highly controversial topic. While the book is filled with hard hitting truths and honesty, it is at times difficult to process at times. South African born Ivor van Heerden holds a doctorate degree in Marine Science he received from LSU in 1983. Twenty years later he will find himself back at Louisiana State University serving as the deputy director of the LSU Hurricane Center from July 1999 until April 2009.
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All told the University will spend roughly a million dollars between their lawyers and settlement of 435,000 dollars. In 2009 van Heerden was asked to stop responding to the media about his beliefs that the Corps of Engineers was responsible for the two thousand deaths and untold damage of Hurricane Katrina and the levees breaking. The book does a surprisingly good job of delivering scientific information for the masses to understand. Though you can get bogged down in some sections with trying to understand how the levee's work and how the ultimately failed. It possibly does the best job of explaining the catastrophe that was Hurricane …show more content…
No one would listen. In fact he was laughed out of rooms. It comes as no surprise that after the man made disaster as he would call it occurred he was out for vengeance. To a man like van Heerden who was worked all his life developing programs and working with hurricanes he saw this coming. The destruction that Katrina caused he will be quick to point out is not the worse the state of Louisiana will see. After all at land fall it was only a category three. That is two levels under the highest. So van Heerden is correct the worst is yet to
All told the University will spend roughly a million dollars between their lawyers and settlement of 435,000 dollars. In 2009 van Heerden was asked to stop responding to the media about his beliefs that the Corps of Engineers was responsible for the two thousand deaths and untold damage of Hurricane Katrina and the levees breaking. The book does a surprisingly good job of delivering scientific information for the masses to understand. Though you can get bogged down in some sections with trying to understand how the levee's work and how the ultimately failed. It possibly does the best job of explaining the catastrophe that was Hurricane …show more content…
No one would listen. In fact he was laughed out of rooms. It comes as no surprise that after the man made disaster as he would call it occurred he was out for vengeance. To a man like van Heerden who was worked all his life developing programs and working with hurricanes he saw this coming. The destruction that Katrina caused he will be quick to point out is not the worse the state of Louisiana will see. After all at land fall it was only a category three. That is two levels under the highest. So van Heerden is correct the worst is yet to