How New Orleans plans to survive the next Katrina

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The Gulf city has become the poster child for building to withstand extreme weather, climate change and social or economic shocks — but there's a long way to go

On Tuesday, just shy of 10 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and unleashed a chain of events that would kill 1,800 people and cause an estimated $135 billion worth of damage, the...

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