HOLY COW....Louisiana's Geography after Katrina
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cajungal
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We have nothing protecting us anymore. We are more vunerable than ever to even the smallest of storms. Rita hit 200 miles to our west, yet everything south of the Intercoastal waterway in Houma was under water. Areas that never flooded before and always sat high and dry, were under water. It is scary. And Houma-Thibodaux was basically spared this hurricane season. If Katrina hit just 50 miles more to the west, we would look like the lower 9th ward right now. The surge would have swallowed the entire parishes of Terrebonne and Lafourche. One day we will get head on, it is just a matter of time. And it is a scary thought.
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It's really ignorant how Washington DC has ignored us for so long. When I was a kid in school, Louisiana and Hawaii were the only two states that were actually adding land. And I'm old, but not /that/ old. We lose a few football fields every day or something like that. The oil industry raped and pillaged the land as well. And there was no will to reconstruct barrier islands and coastal marshes with only lipservice and token money put out to shut people up. Senator Landrieu is the main fighter for getting us our fair share of offshore oil royalties which would be partially utilized to divert portions of the lower Mississippi River into channels where it could deposit silt as it used to when it fluctuated between the Atchafalaya and current tracks.
Nothing's probably going to change before the middle of the century, but it's a start. Our state probably has the most unique cultures in the country. But as with everything else, you never know what you've got til it's gone.
Steve
Nothing's probably going to change before the middle of the century, but it's a start. Our state probably has the most unique cultures in the country. But as with everything else, you never know what you've got til it's gone.
Steve
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Margie
90% of the Chandeleurs are gone from Katrina (a process that started with Ivan), and Katrina reduced heights there by up to 12 ft; there was significant erosion to the MS barrier islands as well. Ship island, which was originally split in two by Camille, took a lot of damage in particular from Katrina. Also Deer Island was hit hard, and western Dauphin Island was severely affected by both Ivan and Katrina.
One of the most remarkable things about that NASA satellite image, published days after the storm, was seeing the extreme amount of flooding in both the Pascagoula River basin and the Mobile Bay river tributaries.
There was an excellent presentation on this from USGS at IHC last week, essentially presenting a lot of material that is available on their web site.
At the time the image was taken, right after the storm, there had been no opportunity to pump out the ring levees in Plaquemines, a project that spanned months -- actually there was no way to even get down there, at that time.
http://www.msurbanforest.com/treetalk.html
One of the most remarkable things about that NASA satellite image, published days after the storm, was seeing the extreme amount of flooding in both the Pascagoula River basin and the Mobile Bay river tributaries.
There was an excellent presentation on this from USGS at IHC last week, essentially presenting a lot of material that is available on their web site.
At the time the image was taken, right after the storm, there had been no opportunity to pump out the ring levees in Plaquemines, a project that spanned months -- actually there was no way to even get down there, at that time.
http://www.msurbanforest.com/treetalk.html
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Clearly, Louisiana needs to enact some sort of requirement for oil companies to close off access canals after oil wells are no longer in use. What has really hurt Louisiana are these thousands of canals that criss cross our marshes... allowing saltwater intrusion and tidal erosion.
This satellite photo doesn't suprise me. You only need to take a short boat ride to see islands that once were there are now gone. It's pretty much wide open out there now. As a coast guard helicopter pilot said on WWL... you have no idea just how much we have lost until you fly over the coastal areas. He said it was truly shocking.
This satellite photo doesn't suprise me. You only need to take a short boat ride to see islands that once were there are now gone. It's pretty much wide open out there now. As a coast guard helicopter pilot said on WWL... you have no idea just how much we have lost until you fly over the coastal areas. He said it was truly shocking.
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cajungal
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go to http://www.Houma.today.com. They have an article printed yesterday March 31, 2006 about the huge amount of land lost during the 2005 Hurricane season. Make sure you enter the date at the very bottom of the page. It is very interesting.
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