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Content tagged with “disasters”
There are 4 item(s) tagged with “disasters” on this site.
Other tags used by these items: history, katrina, medicine, health, india, environment, business
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- Deane’s Library
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- Book Review
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- April 20, 2026
“This is a story of a New Orleans hospital during Hurricane Katrina. It lost power, was surrounded by water with backed-up sewers, and there weren’t enough boats or helicopters to evacuate everyone. Lots of people died. Maybe too many people. When the hospital lost power, all the ventilators shut…”
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- Deane’s Library
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- Book Review
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- July 1, 2022
“This is kind of a weird book, because the title makes you feel like it’s going to be a minute-by-minute discussion of the chemical disaster in Bhopal. But, it’s a 400-page book, and you don’t get to the disaster until about page 290. Seriously. It starts with a discussion of insects and pesticides,…”
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- Deane’s Library
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- Book Review
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- June 30, 2021
“This is the almost-definitive history of Hurricane Katrina. I say ‘almost,’ because it was written about a year after the 2005 hurricane, which means there’s probably some history since then that’s been missed. This is 700 pages of misery, basically. New Orleans didn’t stand a chance under the best…”
