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Keyword: North America, Natural Disasters, Environment
Producer: Caroline Penry-Davey, Peter Chinn
Production: NOVA

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Storm that Drowned a City
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The NOVA team looks at what made Hurricane Katrina so deadly and analyzes how this event resulted in destruction on an unprecedented scale for the region. Storm that Drowned a City offers eyewitness testimony of what actually happened along with state-of-the-art graphic depictions of the calamity. The producers examine the question of whether storms like Katrina are increasing in frequency and becoming more powerful, and the program investigates why the city was so unprepared when the long-feared disaster struck. Also, a look to the future to ask the question: is there anything that can be done to restore New Orleans to a habitable and safer city?

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