The New York Times: Ivor van Heerden’s ‘Storm’ Draws Fire at L.S.U.
After Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Ivor van Heerden and his colleagues searched through homes in the city he calls the Cajun Atlantis, looking for battery-powered clocks.
In the face of horrifying destruction, Dr. van Heerden, the deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, knew that small things helped tell the big story. The moment that the clocks’ time stopped could show when the homes filled with water, data “vitally important to any good forensic study,” as he puts it in his new book, “The Storm: What Went Wrong During Hurricane Katrina — The Inside Story From One Louisiana Scientist,” published last week by Viking.
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