Levee Exhibit Hall And Garden: Founder Rosenthal Featured By National Media On Hurricane Ida

Press release from Levee Exhibit Hall and Garden:

2021-09-06

Levees.org founder Sandy Rosenthal was featured by national media for her commentary on the New Orleans levee system and Hurricane Ida.

On Tuesday August 31, Rosenthal’s remarks were included in a story by the Washington Post’s senior editor Marc Fisher.

And on Wednesday, September 1, Rosenthal was interviewed by Julie Rose with Top of Mind, a national radio show which states on its website that the show is “smart, informative, unflinching conversations that go beyond mere headlines and sound bites.”

In both interviews, Rosenthal’s goal was focusing on the human cost of the current levee system in place when Hurricane Ida arrived, built by the Army Corps of Engineers.

The hurricane system in New Orleans that was in place when Hurricane Katrina’s moderate storm surge arrived sixteen years ago should have held. The storm surge exposed design flaws in the levees. New Orleans has a new system now, but at enormous human cost––1500+ lives.

For the Washington Post article, click here.

For the Julie Rose interview, click here.

This press release was produced by Levee Exhibit Hall and Garden. The views expressed here are the author’s own.