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Atlantic, The, June, 2006 by Matthew Quirk
June 1
Katrina, Round Two
Hurricane season starts today. Since Katrina revealed serious flaws in the country’s physical and bureaucratic disaster-preparedness systems, Gulf Coast states and the federal government have been racing against the seasonal clock to shore up both fronts. By today, the Army Corps of Engineers hopes to have restored to pre-Katrina strength 169 miles of the 350-mile levee system that protects New Orleans, which would in theory guard against a weak Category 3 hurricane. Independent scientific commissions are skeptical that the new levees will offer even that modest protection. Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency have pledged to overhaul their disaster bureaucracy and response plans and...
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