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Holding Back the Sea: The Struggle on the Gulf Coast to Save America

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Katrina’s arrival at the Gulf Coast used to be a very long time in coming. But it surely used to be assured. Since 1965, when Hurricane Betsy struck New Orleans, breached a levee, and flooded a part of the city, everyone used to be waiting and talking about when the Big One would strike and do much more damage. Katrina used to be that hurricane, predictedand imagined before she struck, but such a lot worse in her reality.

Holding Back the Sea is about the consequences of ignoring the warning signs that nature provides and the struggle to convince the remainder of the country that South Louisiana lay in the path of destruction. The signs were not subtle; there were Hurricanes Andrew in 1992, George and Mitch in 1998, and Ivan in 2004, among others. At one time or some other in their journeys north, they all threatened New Orleans. Some had headed right for the city before veering to the east and west, sparing the Big Easy and reinforcing the nickname. But the Big Easy ended — no less than in reputation — on August 29, 2005, when the Big One came ashore as Katrina.

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