October 7, 2005
Lost (and Found) in the Flood
Sociologists rush to study what went wrong in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita -- but will policy makers listen?
In mid-September, John A. Barnshaw, a graduate student at the University of Delaware's Disaster Research Center, made his way to Houston and spent five days in the shelters in and around the Astrodome. He wanted to learn how families from New Orleans were making decisions about whether to return to their city.
It was not a pleasant week. Some of the 46
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