Cool time lapse of the Wax Lake/Atchafalaya Delta growth

The Mississippi River levees were the worst thing man could have done for our coast.

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The Mississippi River levees were the worst thing man could have done for our coast

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and it's going to be too late once they finally do something about it. That's the sad part.

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and it's going to be too late once they finally do something about it. That's the sad part.

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Not much they can do, and actually get away with. Before, without the levees, much of south LA would flood on a regular basis. If the government modifies the levee system now to save the coast, the floods will wipe out towns and end up costing the government hundreds of billions of dollars in lawsuits for damages "caused by them".

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The Mississippi River levees were the worst thing man could have done for our coast.

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1927 the last thing people cared about was the coast.

Dry Land was a little more important at the time.

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1927 the last thing people cared about was the coast.

Dry Land was a little more important at the time.

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who the hell downvotes this? he's not advocating putting up the levees. he's expaining the thought process behind their creation almost a century ago.

All I see is more places to fish being created.

Thanks Obama.

The guy at Tulane who is an expert on the Mississippi River(can't remember his name), says that the levees should be blown up from Belle Chase south to the Gulf.

Cant we just blow up the levees?