Flooding and Fatalities Due to Hurricane Katrina
Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 17:42
in Earth & Climate
A new study has found that 67% of the fatalities in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit in August 2005 resulted from direct impacts of the flooding that occurred when the levees collapsed.
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