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Katrina [sound recording] : after the flood / Gary Rivlin.

by Rivlin, Gary.

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Blackstone Audio, c2016.

COMPACT DISC 976.335 R625k

Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.

Hurricanes -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.

Disaster relief -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.

New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions.

9781504720199 (Book on CD)

Alternate title:

Hurricane Katrina [sound recording] : after the flood

After the flood [sound recording]

[sound recording] :

13 CDs (15 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 12 cm.

Read by Johnny Heller.

On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana. A decade later, journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm's immediate damage, the city of New Orleans's efforts to rebuild itself, and the storm's lasting effects not just on the area's geography and infrastructure - but on the psychic, racial, and social fabric of one of this nation's great cities. Much of New Orleans still sat under water the first time Gary Rivlin glimpsed the city after Hurricane Katrina as a staff reporter for The New York Times. Four out of every five houses had been flooded. The deluge had drowned almost every power substation and rendered unusable most of the city's water and sewer system. Six weeks after the storm, the city laid off half its workforce - precisely 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? Gary Rivlin is the author of Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty.

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Heller, Johnny.

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