More Katrina aftershocks; Levee analysis delivers bad news for Californians
Ventura County-Star – 12/8/05
By John Krist, staff writer
When the levees protecting New Orleans failed catastrophically in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, flooding 85 percent of the city and killing about 1,000 people, the devastation also focused attention on the West Coast's own nightmare-in-waiting: the flood-prone Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, where a fragile network of earthen levees stands between California and disaster.