California Reporter Gets Levees.org Seal of Approval

This week, a reporter for the Sacramento Bee in California received the Levees.org’s Seal of Approval for characterizing the metro New Orleans flooding in 2005 as caused by levee failure. Sean Cockerham resisted using fast easy Katrina ‘shorthand’ and refrained from giving all the credit for the catastrophe to Mother Nature. Writing about New Orleans […]

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Levees.org to Roll Out Virtual Mobile Tour

In collaboration with UNO, the Louisiana State Museum (LSM) and the New Orleans Public Library, Levees.org is proud to roll out a free mobile tour of the major levee breaches in New Orleans. Starting in Jackson Square at the LSM’s exhibit Living with Hurricanes, Katrina and Beyond, the virtual tour features the catastrophic breaches of […]

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John McQuaid carries Torch of Truth on the Great New Orleans Flood

In his recent article in Forbes Magazine, award winning author John McQuaid decried the all-too-common practice of blaming catastrophe on Mother Nature when the true culprit is human error. Japan parliamentary inquiry concludes Fukushima meltdown was a "man-made disaster." http://t.co/sGwEB0mU via @JimMacMillan — John McQuaid (@johnmcquaid) July 5, 2012 “This is quite convenient for those […]

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