WALTER MAESTRI
LAMBERT M. SURHONE, MIRIAM T. TIMPLEDON, SUSAN F. MARSEKEN
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Walter S. Maestri III has been the director of emergency management for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana-which contains several suburbs of New Orleans-since 1996.
After taking the position, Maestri became one of many academics and officials that promoted the idea that much of the region could become an uninhabitable floodscape following a major hurricane
In a 2002 interview for NOW with Bill Moyers and American RadioWorks, Maestri discussed a possible worst-case scenario: "A couple of days ago we actually had an exercise where we brought a fictitious Category Five hurricane [...] into the metropolitan area.
Well, when the exercise was completed it was evident that we were going to lose a lot of people.
We changed the name of the storm from Delaney to K-Y-A-G-B-kiss your ass goodbye-because anybody who was here as that Category Five storm came across was gone."
