Boston Globe reporter gets Levees.org “seal of approval”
Reporter Julian Benbow of the Boston Globe gets the Levees.org “seal of approval” for resisting harmful Katrina shorthand, for not saying inaccurately that Katrina flooded New Orleans. “…The storm hit Monday, the levees broke Tuesday….” Indeed, saying Katrina flooded New Orleans would be like saying traffic broke the I-35 bridge in Minneapolis. Both Katrina and […]
Levees.org launches book review series starting with Catastrophe in the Making
Levees.org today released its first in a series of book reviews on books that address the metro New Orleans flooding. The series debuts with “Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow” (Island Press, 2009). The opinions expressed below are those of Sandy Rosenthal on behalf of Levees.org. Authors William […]
Times Picayune food editor gets Levees.org seal of approval
Judy Walker, food editor for the New Orleans Times Picayune gets the Levees.org “seal of approval” for her characterization of the metro New Orleans flooding on August 29, 2005. In describing how a house behind hers flooded, Ms. Walker wrote, “…after the levees failed and four feet of water washed in and out of the […]
