Time for Action-Time to save my parish Terrebonne

[cajungal]

HTV Owner Martin Folse is holding the Time for Action on channel 10 now. It is live from the Houma Civic Center. I regret not going. It is my parish. It looks like a large turnout. I am getting very emotional watching it on TV. I hope it brings national attention to save my parish Terrebonne from the wrath of the ever growing closer Gulf of Mexico. Because if nothing is done, Terrebonne Parish will be lost to to the Gulf. I was born a cajun and I will die a cajun. I could not imagine calling any other place home.

[conestogo_flood]

I think it is quite odd, that over the thousands of years there has been such favourable conditions to grow the land you live on from the Mississippi River and alike. It seems to be dissippearing so fast, I just don't understand how it had all that time, and it didn't dissappear so fast. Confusing, I know.

[PTrackerLA]

I think it is quite odd, that over the thousands of years there has been such favourable conditions to grow the land you live on from the Mississippi River and alike. It seems to be dissippearing so fast, I just don't understand how it had all that time, and it didn't dissappear so fast. Confusing, I know.

Most of it has to do with with all the levees on the Mississippi River preventing it from flooding and depositing precicious sediment into the marshes. Add all the oil drilling and canals that have been dug and the land is just disappearing.

[Downdraft]

Cajungal,
Of the people, by the people, for the people. We live in a world of special interests; big oil, government, millionaires sitting in Congress claiming to represent "all" the people. The truth is 95% of them never did a hard days work in their lives. It's time the people reclaimed what our founding fathers gave us as a birth right. Representative government only works when the people care who represents them. If the people of Louisana want to save what is their own then they and every other state need to look at who they send to government on ALL levels. I'm not a tree hugger nor am I some crazy screaming global warming. What I am is an American watching his country, his state, his county swallowed up by greedy developers, politicians more interested in tax dollars then tax payers and special interests that pander to greed, profit and intolerance. You want to save your parish start by electing people that care about it. Nature always restores balance if we don't let nature do it her own way, marshlands, barrier islands, rivers flowing as nature intended them to, then we are going to keep paying the price of disaster. I wish you well in your quest to save what is yours. I wish others shared your passion.

[Recurve]

I will support coastal restoration and rebuilding for local people and traditional fishing and agriculture and communities any way I can. The Gulf is the heart and the Mississippi River the spine of the USA.

It's going to be very difficult, but the possibilities are there. Some urban ground may have to give way for restoration of rural communities in environmentally sensitive area -- more of New Orleans and St. Bernard might have to flood to preserve Terrebonne and Plaquemines.

[chrisnnavarre]

You'd better unelect those in Congress first, they are starting to complain about parts of the Louisiana Reconstrution Proposal that include oyster bed restoration.

This after they already blew over 200 million dollars on two half empty cruise ships that Greece offered to us for free.

[Terry]

This thread belongs in the Hurricane Recovery Thread.

[curtadams]

Double benefit for controlled flooding:

1) Regeneration of marshes and eventually land
2) Reduction of the "dead zone" in the Gulf

Win-win for everybody.

[jasons2k]

You cajuns are a lot like us Texans. I have a lot of respect for you guys.

[cajungal]

Watched it on TV and it was a huge turn out. The governor was there. Lots of people pulling together. There is a coworker of mine whose trailor was ruint by both Katrina and Rita. And she is forced to stay there in a mold filled trailor with her roof caving in because she has no where else to go. I wish I could do something to help her. If I had my own place and not still living with my parents, I would take her in. If I had the money, I would help her find another place to live. I feel so bad for her having to live like that.