What If Hurricane Ivan Had Not Missed New Orleans
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2274828 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shirley Laska (University of New Orleans, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 174-178 |
| Publication date | 2008-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0245 • E-ISSN: 1475-682X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1475-682x.2008.00232.x |
| OpenAlex | W2078762768 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
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
Archaeology · Atlantic hurricane · Bay · Climatology · Geography · Landfall · Meteorology · Shore · Storm · Storm surge · Tropical cyclone · Disaster Management and Resilience · Geology · History · Oceanography · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
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| Citations per year | 0.79 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |