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Parts of Post-Katrina New Orleans Are No Safer Today
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Six inches. After two years and more than a billion dollars spent by the Army Corps of Engineers to rebuild New Orleans’s hurricane protection system, that is how much the water level is likely to be reduced if a big 1-in-100 flood hits Leah Pratcher’s Gentilly neighborhood…. New Orleans was swamped by Hurricane Katrina; now it is awash in data, studied obsessively in homes all over town. And the simple message conveyed by that data is that while parts of the city are substantially safer, others have changed little. New Orleans remains a very risky place to live. (New York Times [1], Friday)
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[1] New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/us/nationalspecial/17protect.html?ref=todayspaper
[2] Nature Versus the Central Planners: http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=4328
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