![]() ![]() One thousand, eight hundred and 36 people will die in the storm and the ensuing flooding as numerous levees in the region’s antiquated system fail. 29, 2005, it will leave millions homeless. When it makes its second landfall on the Mississippi-Louisiana border Aug. Meanwhile, he’s been networking, exploring his new town, and spreading his gospel: an airport is a gateway to a community. The levee around the airport, we paid to have it armored and lifted nine feet above where it was,” he’ll explain. “I’m just a dumb engineer, but the levee didn’t look right. The tousled-haired, friendly director sometimes comments that “hurricanes are like mothers’ milk to me.”Īnd since taking the job in NOLA, the engineer-administrator has overseen the expenditure of a $300 million dollar improvement project to the airport, including protecting and elevation of its surrounding levee. In fact, meteorologists are forecasting that a hurricane is on the way, but Mario Rodriguez, deputy director of the Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans, is not worried. ![]() Bad weather is brewing for the Crescent City. New Orleans, Louisiana, late summer, 2005. ![]()
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