2023 Finalist, Colorado Book Awards, History/Biography Category This final volume in the award-winning Katrina Bookshelf series reflects upon the lessons of Hurricane Katrina and what they reveal about our society and current cultural climate. More than fifteen years later, Hurricane Katrina maintains a strong grip on the American imagination. The reason is not simply that Katrina was an event of enormous scale, although it certainly was by any measure one of the most damaging storms in American history. But, quite apart from its lethality and destructiveness, Katrina retains a place in living memory because it is one of the most telling disasters in our recent national experience, revealing important truths about our society and ourselves. The final volume in the award-winning Katrina Bookshelf series The Continuing Storm reflects upon what we have learned about Katrina and about America. Kai Erikson and Lori Peek expand our view of the disaster by assessing its ongoing impact on individual lives and across the wide-ranging geographies where displaced New Orleanians landed after the storm. Such an expanded view, the authors argue, is critical for understanding the human costs of catastrophe across time and space. Concluding with a broader examination of disasters in the years since Katrina―including COVID-19― The Continuing Storm is a sobering meditation on the duration of a catastrophe that continues to exact steep costs in human suffering. The Continuing Storm is a succinct volume about how racism, poverty, and other human-made injustices exacerbate natural disasters. ― Foreword Reviews Published On: 2022-04-19 [The Katrina Bookshelf] is the only series of writings that explores the multiple levels of a disaster and its extended aftermath over a nearly two-decade period. As such, the series provides a much needed understanding of the complexity of disaster response and recovery, of long-term toll disaster takes on people, families, and communities. The Continuing Storm serves as a series capstone of sorts, locating Katrina in both time and space while revisiting the chaos fostered by the immediate storm and flooding. The book also extensively reviews the impact of race and racism on Katrina response and recovery. ― Recovery Diva Published On: 2022-06-30 The authors have provided a wonderfully succinct account of Hurricane Katrina that clearly emphasizes the importance of viewing this disaster as an ongoing phenomenon...Erickson and Peek make important contributions to field of critical disaster studies, the study of disaster time frames, and the study of trauma that individuals who endure disasters experience. The Continuing Storm is recommended for those who teach undergraduate courses on environmental history and sociology, history and sociology of disasters, and the sociology of trauma. This book would also serve as a terrific introduction to Katrina for both academic and non-academic audiences. ― H-Environment Published On: 2022-09-07 Essential. ― CHOICE Published On: 2023-06-01 For the final installment of University of Texas Press’ Katrina Bookshelf collection, two of the most discerning voices in disaster sociology, Kai Erikson and Lori Peek, offer answers in a short and powerfully written new book, The Continuing Storm . . . In applying the insights beyond the specific case of Katrina, the book, therefore, concludes as powerfully as it begins, recognizing that most 'storms' have just begun. This excellent book is readable for a variety of audiences, thoroughly insightful, and represents the sociology of disaster at its finest. ― Social Forces Published On: 2023-08-12 This series is arguably the most comprehensive set of scholarly books on a single natural disaster ever published, and Erikson and Peek are two of the most experienced researchers of disasters...This work is incredibly valuable, particularly when taken as part of the whole series on Katrina, in providing detailed, often heavily data-driven, insight into the effects of not just a tragic natural disaster, but of the historical accumulation of decisions, policies, and institutions shaping inequality in the United States. ― American Studies Published On: 2024-05-04 Erikson and Peek provide an enlightening perspective on hazards and disasters that needs to be taken into account...[and] should have broad appeal and utility. ― International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters Published On: 2024-03-01 This is a wonderful book. It beautifully blends the clear-eyed analysis and elegant prose we expect from Kai Erikson with the state-of-the-art knowledge of disaster sociology that only Lori Peek can deliver. It’s precise, insightful, and powerful from beginning to end. -- Eric Klinenberg, New York University, author of Palaces for the People: How To Build a More Equal and United Society The Continuing Storm is a succinct volume about how racism, poverty, and other human-made injustices exacerbate natural disaster