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Hurricane Katrina and the Ohio train derailment: Science, confusion, and human influence

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The Impact of Hurricane Betsy on New Orleans

The first levees were built just to protect New Orleans. After a hurricane Betsy in 1965, the city was sprawling yet post World War II suburban sprawl. The system was started in 1965 and it was not complete in 2005. If they had been finished, do you think there would have been less devastation or was this something that even the levees could not slow down?

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