Trouble outside the floodgates of New Orleans
Monday, September 24, 2012 - 08:03
in Mathematics & Economics
More than 200,000 people live just beyond the city's post-Katrina levee system. Hurricane Isaac emphasized just how vulnerable they are.NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Isaac may have proved a successful test for the 840,000 people inside the New Orleans hurricane protection system — 133 miles of levees, floodgates and walls that surround the city and portions of four parishes like a fortress. But the storm highlighted the vulnerability of more than 200,000 people just beyond the system.