The Mind-Blowing Flaw That Flooded New Orleans

Based on a chapter from Disasters By Design: How Engineering Failures Shaped the Modern World by Grady Hillhouse, coming March 2, 2027, and available for preorder now. What happened in New Orleans in August 2005 wasn’t a natural disaster. A number of engineering errors made the hurricane far more...

25 min - Disasters & Survival - Practical Engineering

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