'Total devastation' in south Lafourche, where Hurricane Ida made landfall on Louisiana coast
Hurricane Ida made landfall near the mouth of Bayou Lafourche and ran up much of its length, destroying thousands of homes and businesses, flooding roads, snapping power lines and overturning shrimp boats.
Interesting article about the impact of Hurricane Ida where it made landfall, Lafourche Parish. I've been to this area many times, and the sad part is that it's not a rich part of the country, many of the people are commercial fisherman just getting by. The devastation will take many years to come back from, but these people have done it before. I still believe that restoring the wetlands would help slow down storms like this, something that should be done by fresh water diversions which is the way that mother nature intended. Hopefully more and more people in government will see this....
Read the full story here....
https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_c33c7002-0b62-11ec-813a-4b5e65502a81.html
I read that Bayou Lafourche was once a major leg of the Mississippi River but is now leveed off....
Yeah, and when they leveed it off, the wetlands started to die, thus the problem we have today.
Break open the levee, simple...?
People built to close to the water after it was leveed, they'd flood now. It's never easy, lol.