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Calling Katharine Mieszkowski "the author who predicted Katrina" as if that conveys any sort of authority is absurd. Millions predicted Katrina - including every resident of nola. It was well known that if it suffered a direct hit from a powerful hurricane the city would flood. As anyone who's ever spent any time there knows, this possibility was brought up with near compulsive regularity by any local expounding on the city to a visitor. And then you have all the journalists who were freaking out about the city flooding as katrina approached and all those engineering studies...
The whole interview reads like a discussion with a news junkie rather than any sort of expert. If I had taken notes on all the related articles I've read since katrina I'm pretty sure I could give you the same information without the ridiculous alarmist language - geographical time bombs etc - blah.
