from The Guardian: “America, now entering its hurricane season, was today urged to abandon the outmoded “patch and pray” system of levees – whose failure magnified the devastation of Hurricane Katrina – and borrow from the Dutch model of dykes and management.”
click the photo for the whole article:
I’m reading a book called “Zeitoun” by Dave Eggers about the experience of one family during Hurricane Katrina. Now doing some fun informational research and I found this informative post. Thank you.