After Hurricane Harvey, how prepared is Australia?

Hurricane Harvey caused at least two deaths and several injuries in Texas, where the most powerful hurricane to hit the United States since 2005, became a tropical storm,  and could continue to cause “extremely severe” floods.

The hurricane revived the trauma of Hurricane Katrina in the United States, which in 2005 caused a humanitarian catastrophe with more than 1,800 deaths and the destruction of whole neighbourhoods of New Orleans.

Producers:

• Joanna Cabot

Speakers:

• Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
• Curtin University
• Dr Gary Middle
• Pr Kevin Walsh
• Professor of Meteorology
• University of Melbourne