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Citation |
Laska S. Sociol. Inq. 2008; 78(2): 174-178. |
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Copyright |
(Copyright © 2008, Alpha Kappa Delta, Publisher John Wiley and Sons) |
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Abstract |
Author's Note: As I was developing the hypothetical situation depicting a devastating hurricane striking New Orleans, Louisiana, the disaster waiting to happen threatened to become a reality: Hurricane Ivan, a Category 4 hurricane (140 mph winds) fluctuating to a Category 5 (up to 155 mph winds), was slowly moving directly toward New Orleans. Forecasters were predicting a one‐in‐four chance that Ivan would remain on this direct path and would be an "extreme storm" at landfall. In reality, the storm veered to the north and made landfall east of Mobile Bay, Alabama, causing devastation and destruction well into the central Gulf shoreline and throughout the Southeast and the mid‐Atlantic states. |