New Orleans Was Once Above Sea Level

Abstract

Early one September morning in 1975, in a quiet Metairie subdivision west of Transcontinental Drive, a ranch house suddenly exploded in a fireball so powerful it damaged 20 neighboring buildings and broke windows a mile away. The house plus four adjacent homes were reduced to rubble, and 11 people were seriously injured.

Keywords

• civil engineering
• design
• engagement
• lower mississippi river
• planning / policy
• policy