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TPMtv: A Chat with John Barry

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Uploaded by on Aug 21, 2008

Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Saturday will be the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's initial formation over the Bahamas. When she washed over Mississippi and Louisiana six days later, on Aug. 29, 2005, she breached critical levees that were supposed to protect New Orleans. Hundreds drowned. At Netroots Nation in Austin TPMtv talked to author John Barry, a New Orleans resident who now serves on the Levee Board, about the current situation in New Orleans three years on and the reasons the rest of the country bears some responsibility for New Orleans becoming so vulnerable to storms.

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  • John Barry is a far left liberal! Just because he mentioned Limbaugh and McCain does not mean he has a bias for the right. I know him and he is no conservative.

  • shame that he has a political bias for the right. he shouldn't spew limbaugh/mccain rhetoric. "just the facts mam" as they used to say on dragnet.

  • Good Video....

  • They lose a football field of coastal wetland/vegetation an hour according to a NOVA special recently. The special blamely chiefly the the intercoastal waterway levies and earthen dams. Didn't know about the Dakota connection. Good story Veracifier.

  • Thanks for this. I'm going to have to go out and pick up Barry's book.

  • John M. Barry is great. I read "Rising Tide" in 2002 before moving to New Orleans and kept thinking of developments in that book as I evacuated from Katrina. In December 2005, when I moved back, I re-read "Rising Tide" to gain perspective and understanding. It's a hell of a book, and Barry is an authority on floods in the Mississippi delta by now. Thanks for the update, Veracifier!

  • I had no idea about the sediment issue he mentioned in regards to the Dakotas and the loss of coastline in New Orleans. Pretty interesting clip.

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