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Louisiana Loses Its Boot
Posted by When in Rome on 9/9/14 at 6:47 am41
LINK to article
It's a long read, but a good one. They did take some liberties in their portrayal, and I don't necessarily agree with all of their points. But I still think it's important to bring awareness of what is happening to our state.
Here are some excerpts and a couple of pictures:
There are also some cool maps of the Mississippi River paths over the years in the article. Here is one of them:
It's a long read, but a good one. They did take some liberties in their portrayal, and I don't necessarily agree with all of their points. But I still think it's important to bring awareness of what is happening to our state.
Here are some excerpts and a couple of pictures:
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The boot-shaped state isn’t shaped like a boot anymore. That’s why we revised its iconic outline to reflect the truth about a sinking, disappearing place.
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What would the map look like if wetlands appeared as water and only solid, “walkable” ground appeared as land? Using publicly available data, Galinski created a map on which areas that commonly appear as land on government issued maps—woody wetlands, emergent herbaceous wetlands and barren land—were re-categorized to appear as water:
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On our map, the real map, the boot appears as if it came out on the wrong side of a battle with a lawnmower’s blades. It loses a painful chunk off its heel in Cameron and Vermilion parishes. A gash cutting off the bird’s-foot delta, where the Mississippi empties into the Gulf of Mexico, from the center of the state is reason to consider amputation. Barataria Bay has joined forces with Bay Dosgris to take over Lake Salvador. Golden Meadow, Galliano, Montegut: They’re barely there, clinging to strands of earth as flimsy as dental floss. Lakes Maurepas, Pontchartrain, and Borgne form a contiguous mass flowing into the gulf.
Some people might criticize us for taking out the wetlands entirely, and there are places that do exist in real life—like Isle de Jean Charles—that aren’t on our boot (although they are visible, if barely, on the map we used to create the boot). Maps are approximate, as this story has made clear, even the big ones with lots of detail; symbols like the boot are even more so. Where ours errs, at least it errs on the side of the truth.
So, stop and compare the existing boot with ours. The two images are so significantly different that anyone who encountered the new map would have to squint and ask, What is going on here? Answer: a lot.
There are also some cool maps of the Mississippi River paths over the years in the article. Here is one of them:
re: Louisiana Loses Its BootPosted by BigHoss on 9/9/14 at 6:52 am to When in Rome
pretty cool to see like that,
sucks, but pretty cool
sad part is, the only way to save it is to get rid of the levees and let the river divert at the ORCS
sucks, but pretty cool
sad part is, the only way to save it is to get rid of the levees and let the river divert at the ORCS
re: Louisiana Loses Its BootPosted by Thib-a-doe Tiger on 9/9/14 at 6:58 am to When in Rome
Louisiana has had non-walkable swamp and marsh for hundreds if not thousands of years. Dis is silly
re: Louisiana Loses Its BootPosted by fr33manator on 9/9/14 at 6:58 am to When in Rome
Weren't many of those places already wetlands though?
What would happen to Florida's map if you took out the Everglades and other wetlands?
Being wetland (and a lot of Louisiana is below sea level) doesn't make it not worthy of being on the map.
What would happen to Florida's map if you took out the Everglades and other wetlands?
Being wetland (and a lot of Louisiana is below sea level) doesn't make it not worthy of being on the map.
re: Louisiana Loses Its BootPosted by When in Rome on 9/9/14 at 6:59 am to Thib-a-doe Tiger
That's why I bolded that part. I think they were over zealous in their portrayal, but there is still relevant and important information in the article that pertains to the loss of our wetlands (which is still occurring at a rapid pace).
re: Louisiana Loses Its BootPosted by fr33manator on 9/9/14 at 7:01 am to When in Rome
Other than blowing up the levees and opening the control structures, how do you replace the wetlands?
re: Louisiana Loses Its BootPosted by Coppertone on 9/9/14 at 7:04 am to fr33manator
Putting the Atchafalaya Basin as "open water" is silly.
re: Louisiana Loses Its BootPosted by WeeWee on 9/9/14 at 7:07 am to fr33manator
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Other than blowing up the levees and opening the control structures, how do you replace the wetlands?
ask the Dutch, they have been building new islands for the UAE, Singapore, and holland. It will be expensive but I am sure $10 beers in Tiger Stadium will cover the expenses.
re: Louisiana Loses Its BootPosted by When in Rome on 9/9/14 at 7:08 am to WeeWee
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I am sure $10 beers in Tiger Stadium will cover the expenses.
re: Louisiana Loses Its BootPosted by LSUTiger205 on 9/9/14 at 7:18 am to When in Rome
So long Concordia Parish
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re: Louisiana Loses Its BootPosted by TigerHam85 on 9/9/14 at 7:21 am to When in Rome
Global warning.
re: Louisiana Loses Its BootPosted by recruitnik on 9/9/14 at 7:21 am to WeeWee
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I am sure $10 beers in Tiger Stadium will cover the expenses.
Yeah, or we can be Americans and do it ourself. First we can get the oil companies to pay for their damages, then we can hire American engineers and laborers to fix their damages.
Novel idea, I know.
re: Louisiana Loses Its BootPosted by BigHoss on 9/9/14 at 7:23 am to recruitnik
AHAHAHAHAHAH
the corps of engineers has done WAY more damage than the oil commpanies
the corps of engineers has done WAY more damage than the oil commpanies
re: Louisiana Loses Its BootPosted by elprez00 on 9/9/14 at 7:23 am to When in Rome
While I agree that this is a problem, this map is not exactly accurate.
re: Louisiana Loses Its BootPosted by WeeWee on 9/9/14 at 7:25 am to recruitnik
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Yeah, or we can be Americans and do it ourself. First we can get the oil companies to pay for their damages, then we can hire American engineers and laborers to fix their damages.
I would rather hire the dutch and get the job done right vs another century of the corp of engineers freaking shite up.
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the corps of engineers has done WAY more damage than the oil commpanies
This. Remove the levees and watch the erosion start reversing itself with the next flood.
Good luck with removing the levees though. The presence of levees for generations has changed building habits, the vast majority of houses in floodplains now are now built resting flatly on their foundations instead of being raised (as they were pre-levees).
Do you have to remove all the levees or could you just cut strategic holes and dig channels to areas that you want to rebuild?
Either way it will be expensive and yes the oil and gas companies should pay some because they are partially responsible, but not near as much as the fed gubment.
Either way it will be expensive and yes the oil and gas companies should pay some because they are partially responsible, but not near as much as the fed gubment.
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