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Suburban sprawl and poor preparation worsened flood damage in Louisiana

  • Written by: Craig E. Colten, Carl O. Sauer Professor of Geography, Louisiana State University
imageU.S. Coast Guard personnel rescue stranded residents in Baton Rouge on August 14, 2016U.S. Department of Agriculture/Wikipedia, CC BY

This month’s extraordinary flooding in southeast Louisiana damaged some 40,000 homes, prompting more than 70,000 people to sign up for FEMA assistance. The proximate cause was a slow-moving storm system that...

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