in two thousand and five ivor was named director of the louisiana state university hurricane center. ouisiana chose him to lead its investigation into the levee failures during hurricane katrina. didn't take me very long to realize that there was one agency to blame and i was the corps of engineers for shoddy shoddy engineering. but after i've republished his official levee report his university contract was terminated. before. the levees along the mississippi river had schools before we cut out everything with oil and gas taxes and else we used to have very extensive cypress swamps all the way along the coast. cities like new orleans used to have almost thirty miles off a swamps ago you can knock the surge down and maybe as much as six feet within one mile of healthy cypress where. protecting the museum is coastline and its people in the future will require some difficult choices coastal erosion must face and they remain in cypress swamps and must be protected the mississippi river may have to be diverted again. we cannot say every single community we can build a wall of china across