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More encouraging is the fact that Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco and the state legislature managed to pass mandatory building codes this year. Most states already have such codes. Florida has had a strict one in place since 2001, and structures built under it tend to be the ones left standing after a 120 m.p.h. wind rips through. We know that for every dollar spent on that kind of basic mitigation, society saves an average of $4, according to a 2005 report by the nonprofit National Institute of Building Sciences. Then there's Mississippi, which, believe it or not, still...
...world. The Netherlands has a system designed to protect populated areas against anything but a 1-in-10,000-years flood. Alternatively, the Corps could build 1-in-500-year protection for the city, but that would cost about $30 billion, says Ivor van Heerden, deputy director of Louisiana State University's Hurricane Center...
...major American city, as the government seemed to abandon its residents. The shock and outrage have haunted New Orleans, a famously nostalgic city that has always lived closely with the ghosts of its past. But today's challenge is to look forward, not back. Photographer Anthony Suau visited southeastern Louisiana five times over the past year to document the tribulations and occasional triumphs of a region struggling to rebuild. Meanwhile, new threats are always gathering off our shores, along our fault lines and across our plains. As Amanda Ripley writes in her investigation of America's curious and dangerous reluctance...
...First Communion, Reagan Cavignal, 7, and her father witness the demolition of their neighbors' house in St. Bernard Parish. The Cavignals live in a trailer beside their wrecked house. Their neighbors' house was torn down in May, a month before FEMA's offer of free home demolition expired. Louisiana's Road Home program allocated $7.5 billion for rebuilding, but none of the money has been dispersed to residents...
...Louisiana State University...